With more than 48 million subscribers, Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless cell phone company in the United States. The company is a joint venture between the domestic wireless divisions of SBC (NYSE: SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE: BLS) and as such, Cingular cell phone subscribers are assured of using only the nation's largest digital voice and data network.
Cingular Wireless offers a plethora of various products and services, including Digital Wireless Voice, Rollover, Cingular Nation Rate Plans, Voice Connect, and of course, the Cingular cell phones which in themselves come with a host of other features and services.
As a cell phone carrier, Cingular lets you choose the type of phone you want of all models and makes. Let's take the Samsung X427M Cingular cell phone, for example. This Cingular cell phone has an ultra cool, silver chassis that's just oozing with style and elegance. As with all Samsung cell phone models, the X427M Cingular cell phone comes with an individualistic clam-shell style which you can snap open every time you the answer the phone.
Do you like multimedia interactivity all in one, tiny box that slips right through your pocket? The X427M Cingular cell phone is Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) capable. So you can send, receive, and create multimedia messages complete with text, video, and audio to your friends and family.
Communication has never been better with the X427M Cingular cell phone. Are you all for instant messenger services? The Samsung X427M Cingular cell phone allows you to access your AOL Instant Messenger on your mobile. So you can chat and connect with all your online friends even while on the go and even without your computer.
The X427M Cingular cell phone is also data connect capable. It features 128 x 160 pixel, 65k color display screen, perfect for receiving all those colored MMS messages you're getting. This Cingular cell phone model also has a 40-tone polyphonic speaker so you can listen to great audio clips of the hippest, coolest music to hit the audio world.
Downloads, anyone? The X427M Cingular cell phone allows you to download supertone/music ring tones and graphics, games, and more. It also comes with a personal organizer where you can manage all your daily activities and plans for this week. The Cingular cell phone's personal organizer comes with a calendar, a calculator, and to-do lists.
Have a lot of friends or acquaintances? The X427M Cingular cell phone allows you to store up to 500 alphanumeric phone book entries. So gone is your problem of memory usage in your phone book. Now, you can store everyone's contact numbers without having to delete any old entries.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Cingular Cell Phones
Cellular Phones
Thousands and thousands of people in the United States and around the world are familiar with cellular phones. With gadgets such as cellular phones, you can stay connected with your friends and family and talk with anyone anywhere on the planet. And what's more, you can do all these from just about anywhere!
The cellular phones in the market these days have an incredible plethora of functions and gizmos. Every month or so, new functions are constantly being added to make your cell phones even more convenient to use. Truth be told, typical cellular phones nowadays can do just about anything. Depending on the cell phone model, here are some of the things you can do:
* Store contact information
* Make task or to-do lists
* Keep track of appointments and set reminders
* Use the built-in calculator for simple math
* Send or receive email
* Get information, such as news, entertainment, stock quotes from the Internet
* Play simple games
* Integrate other devices such as PDAs, MP3 players, and GPS receivers
All right, so now that we have enumerated some of the stuffs that cellular phones can do. But have you ever wondered how cellular phones work? What makes cellular phones different from regular phones?
To start with the basics, cellular phones are basically radio devices. Well, they are extremely sophisticated radio devices but radio nonetheless. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and wireless communication came to be with the invention of the first radio by Nikolia Tesla in the 1880s. It was perhaps only natural that these two great technologies would be used together to create the cell phone.
Before the age of cellular phones, people who needed the portability of mobile-communications devices installed radio telephones in their cards. This meant that the telephone would have to have a big transmitter that's powerful enough to transmit 40 to 50 miles. Now, for the mobile person where convenience is a must, that's not very appealing.
The genius of cellular phones is the division of a city into small cells. This allows extensive frequency reuse across a city so that millions of people can use cellular phones simultaneously. Typical cell phones in the United States can receive about 800 frequencies to use across the city. This is indeed a big step from the radio-telephone system where only about 25 channels are afforded per city. What the cell phone carrier does is to chop up the city into hundreds of cells, each measuring about 10 square miles. Because cellular phones and base stations use low-power transmitters, the same frequencies can be reused in non-adjacent cells. This allows more people to use cellular phones without choking the frequency pathway.
Cell Phone Plans
Shopping for just the right cell phone plan can be a daunting task. Don't let appearances fool you. If a cell phone plan appears too good to be true, then it probably is. That is why it is highly important for you, as a consumer, to be very vigilant when shopping for cell phone plans. Compare prices. Read the fine print. But most important of all, consider all the factors.
The Three Factors
The three most important things you need to consider when shopping for cell phone plans is: carrier coverage, equipment, and cell phone plan, of course.
Carrier coverage is mentioned first because it is, for all intents and purposes, the most relevant of all three factors. Consider having the most high-tech cell phone available in the market and the best cell phone plan imaginable but then later find out that your carrier does not provide coverage in you area. The irony would simply be too much.
So first thing's first then. Find out if the carrier covers your area and once you do, you can base all your later decisions on that one fact. The thing you need to remember about coverage is that it can be subjective. First, make a list of all the places that you are likely to use your cell phone � your home, office, your kid's school, the playground, favorite vacation spots, et cetera. Do you a travel a lot? Are there any special places that you frequent? Find out if your carrier provides coverage for those areas as well.
After coverage, we have two things to tackle when shopping for a cell phone plan. Which do you think is more important � the phone or the service plan? More often that not, it is best to choose the cell phone plan first before choosing the phone. Anyway, most cell phone plans these days come with free cell phone models so you're in a better position if you pick your cell phone plan first. Plus, a cell phone plan can cost you a lot of extra money each month whereas the equipment itself is a mere one-time decision. Therefore, it is simply no good to mince on the process of deciding which cell phone plan to take.
And now, we're down to the final factor in cell phone plan shopping. The equipment. Now, as mentioned earlier in the article, most carriers offer a full range of free phones for each service or cell phone plan they have. Thus, with your selected cell phone plan, you can have your pick of cell phones from the most inexpensive to the one with the fullest features.
Calling Plans
When speaking about calling plans, there are three fundamental, interrelated things to consider:
* Carrier coverage
* The phone
* The service or calling plans
Of course, the most important is your carrier's coverage. This is so because your calling plans won't do you much good if the phone won't work where you need it to work. However, the thing with coverage is that it is very subjective. The best solution therefore available for you is to ask friends or colleagues who use the carrier in areas where you are likely to use your cell phone.
The next important thing may be something to debate over. Which is more important � the phone or the calling plan? Often, it is best to choose your calling plan first, then the phone. If you're wondering why, just think how choosing the wrong calling plan could cost you extra money each month. Then think about the phone and how it is merely a one-time decision. Also, from a more practical viewpoint, most carriers these days, in an effort to entice more costumers offer a full range of free phones for each service or calling plan. Thus, with your calling plan, you can have your pick from the most inexpensive phone to the one with the fullest features. So unless you have your heart set on a specific, hot new phone, go for the plan first.
And this thus brings us to selecting your service or calling plan. There are many things to consider of course but they all boil down to "How and where will you use your phone each month?" When you have the answer to that question, then the decision process over your calling plan would be made a lot easier. If anything, the answer to that question will help you determine if you should pick a local, regional, or national coverage area. It would also tell you whether you should opt for special features such as an off-peak package, first incoming minute free, and/or free long distance.
Calling Plan Guidelines
The easiest way for you to find all the answers to the situations posed above would be to visit an unbiased website that will help you figure out all this. The estimates will be based on your estimated calling patterns and comparing them against the calling plans then for sale in the market. One example of these websites is MyRatePlan.com.
However, if you do not wish to estimate your usage through a third party or simply want to use some general guidelines, just keep these three in mind: calling area, off-peak packages, and contract.
AT&T Cell Phones
Here are a few of the benefits you will soon be enjoying along with your AT&T cell phone:
A Bigger Network Is Better
Cingular’s GSM service allows you, as an AT&T cell phone subscriber, access to the largest digital voice and data network in American. Called the ALLOVER Network, the new AT&T cell phone combined with Cingular’s GSM service gives you more signal bars in more places you can think of.
Cingular offers its Nation Plan for your AT&T cell phone. Now, you can get the only simple-to-understand, nationwide plan that allows you to roam the country without any added cost. You pay the same low rate but enjoy tons of benefits.
GSM is the global standard for wireless technology. So with Cingular’s GSM service, you can stay in touch around the world via your AT&T cell phone. GSM technology uses a really neat feature that allows you to move phone book entries conveniently. Called the SmartChip, this technology allows you to move your phone book from phone to phone without reprogramming.
Expanded Mobile to Mobile Calling Plan
Now that AT&T is part of the Cingular Wireless family, your mobile to mobile calling community has expanded. Now, you can connect with over 46 million AT&T cell phone and Cingular wireless customers, the largest mobile community in America.
Rollover Minutes
Cingular is the only company that offers Rollover. This service allows you to cary over your unused accumulated Anytime Minutes from month to month. So if you’re not a frequent Telecom user, you can save your unused anytime minutes and carry them over to the next month. You can carry over unused Anytime Minutes on your AT&T cell phone for up to 12 billing periods.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Camera Cell Phones
To be sure,
cell phones are really the hottest new mobile gadgets in the marketplace these
days. Never mind what sort of cell phone you have, whether it’s WAP-enabled,
Bluetooth, or Infrared-based. Most of the cell phones in the market anyway have
all these capabilities and more. Take a little experiment for one.
Try
standing on a crowded street corner where people are most likely to gather,
waiting for the stop light to change. Persuade someone, some friend you have to
call you on your mobile right about there. And you’ll notice that at least about
a dozen or so people in the crowd would reach for their pockets or purse to see
if their phone was ringing. Had enough proof?
There is no doubt that cell
phones have caught on like wildfire in the bushes. However, the popularity of
mobile phones is hardly surprising. After all, they do offer constant
communications from just about anywhere. But what does amaze some people is the
popularity of camera cell phones.
Today’s cell phones can be used to do
just about anything. So with just a touch of a button, you can instantly send
and receive e-mail, play games, send text messages, surf the Internet, and keep
track of appointments. And the best thing about all this is that you can do it
even while on the go. But is this why cell phones are practically selling like
hotcakes? Marketing analysts will agree. However, they would also say that it is
the ability to double as a digital camera that has people excitedly purchasing
new phones.
Camera cell phones were first introduced in Japan several
years ago. Camera cell phones immediately clicked in the Asian cell phone
market. However, it was not until two years ago that camera cell phones were
marketed in the US and became available to the masses. At first, they weren’t
that popular. But as soon as people began to see the extreme convenience
afforded by camera cell phones, the devices became so well liked that some have
predicted that they will be the most popular consumer device in history.
Industry analysts say that a huge number of camera cell phones were sold
last year. In fact, these camera cell phones comprised 12% of the total cell
phones in 2003 and they were steadfast in the belief that that number is growing
rapidly. According to research firm IDC, more than 80 million camera cell phones
have been sold worldwide.
It may seem to you that a camera cell phone
would be no different than having a cell phone and a camera. But if truth be
told having a camera in your mobile phone makes for an entirely different
experience. It means that you can have cameras with you constantly, that the
camera will be always ready to shoot a quick photo, and that the images can be
quickly and easily transferred to others.
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