Going Incognito With SANYO and Sprint

If someone says you have to do your messaging incognito, just SANYO.

The new SANYO Incognito for Sprint is the text messaging phone you’ve been waiting for. It’s subtle on the outside and powerful on the inside. Remember the big black monolith in “2001: A Space Odyssey?” Well, this looks a little like that, except it’s pocket size. Keep it in your pocket and you won’t have to worry about any apes going loopy and throwing bones around. When you need it, the mirrored shell will glow to reveal a monochrome display and the buttons you need for dialing a phone call.



“OMG, it’s full of keys!”

OK, another homage to the Stanley Kubrick movie. But flip open your SANYO Incognito and you’ll find a full QWERTY keyboard with keys big enough to enable high speed messaging. You’ll also have a crisp 2.6 inch color display with 320 x 240 Pixel resolution. It’s almost like having a sub-netbook computer in your hand. Hopefully, not too smart of a computer. You don’t want to be texting along and hear a disembodied voice say, “I’m sorry Dave. I can’t let you send that.”

No way. That’s not going to happen... at least right now. You know some clever dude is going to develop a HAL 9000 app, but you won’t have to download it unless you want the cybernetic companionship.

Are you a social person? How about a social networking person? Good. The Incognito has your favorite apps, including Facebook, MySpace and Photobucket pre-installed. There’s a WAP 2.0 browser for surfing the Web and support for email, instant messaging, multimedia messaging and standard SMS text messaging. After all, you’ll need to make good use of all those keys.

Multimedia will get a workout, too. The SANYO incognito sports a media player that works with your music library and streaming media, including Sprint TV. The onboard digital camera has 2.0 Megapixels of resolution with multiple capture modes including night shot, multi-shot, color effects, zoom and more. You can capture video clips of any pesky simians and expose their evolutionary antics on YouTube.

Is Incognito the messaging phone you’ve waited eons to appear? Well, would you like to have one anyway, especially if you knew you could get it free online? No need to wait for any Moon or Jupiter missions. Get complete details and order your SANYO Incognito for Sprint PCS right now.

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Samsung Reclaim is Green and Free

Who says that going green will cost you a bundle? Not with this eco-friendly cell phone. It's the Samsung Reclaim M560 for Sprint. This is hot technology in a cool green wrapper.

The Samsung Reclaim is a capable messaging phone, configured as a slider with a full QWERTY keyboard. The color display measures 2.6 inches or 320 x 240 pixels and is capable of displaying over 262,000 colors. That melds nicely with the 2.0 Megapixel digital camera that takes pictures good enough to print and share. The camera also works as a camcorder to record sharable video clips.

The Reclaim offers fast 3G connectivity, where available, on Sprint’s PCS voice and data network so you can enjoy Sprint TV, the Sprint Music Store, Sprint Video and other streaming media. There is integrated aGPS support for Sprint Navigation that gives you turn by turn directions.

Messaging? You bet. This phone is ready for instant messaging, text messaging, Email that supports Microsoft Exchange (Outlook), multimedia picture and video messaging and even Web browsing.

Music? Of course. The built-in MP3 player lets you carry your tunes anywhere. Get more storage with an optional microSD memory card up to 32 GB. You can even wirelessly stream music to stereo Bluetooth enabled headsets.

So far this sounds like any of the latest high technology cell phones. So what’s the green angle?

The Samsung Reclaim is what its name implies. This phone was designed with recyclable bio-plastic materials created from plants. Both the phone and its charger meet Greenpeace International standards. There’s also a Sprint One Click Green Tile that provides you with daily green tips, strategies for sustainable living, a green glossary and more.

Just to go over the top, Sprint will donate $2 to the Nature Conservancy’s Adopt-an-Acre program that protects important and imperiled natural places around the world. so far Adopt-an-Acre has raised $22 million to protect 600,000 acres in South America, Asia, Central America, the Caribbean and Africa.

Oh, and did you happen to notice... It’s GREEN! (It’s also available in Ocean Blue)

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MiFi Hotspot Comes to Sprint

Wait! What's that slim silver box? Is that a cigarette case in your pocket? If so, how retro is that?

No? It's actually a WiFi hotspot? How avant-garde is THAT?

The silver case is actually the new Novatel MiFi 2200 Personal HotSpot for Sprint PC wireless service. A WiFi hotspot? Yes, indeed. OK, so where do you plug it in and where's the RJ-45 network connection?

You don't plug it in. It's wireless and portable. There's no power cube, no network cable, no stubby rubber antenna. All you see is a silver case that could be concealed in your palm or shirt pocket. There's a button on the front to activate it and LED indicators so you know the operational and battery status. But make no mistake about it, this is really a WiFi hotspot that performs as well or better than the ones you find in the coffee shop.

What's inside that slim silver case is a cellular transceiver that connects to the Sprint PCS data network. It runs the EVDO Rev 0 and Rev A mobile broadband protocols, with fallback to the slower 1xRTT if necessary. Peak download speed is 3. 1 Mbps. That's a LOT faster than what I've been seeing on the free restaurant WiFi services.

The other component inside the box is a WiFi transceiver that works with just about any Wi-Fi enabled device from laptop computer to gaming console to digital photo frame. Like any good hotspot this one reaches out 10 meters or 30 feet. You may not care about a 30 foot radius if you've got it in your shirt pocket, but your eager friends will. That's because this hotspot will support up to 5 simultaneous users. Be kind and share with family and friends. Or hog it to yourself. Security includes WPA2-PSK, WEB and SPI Firewall. That should keep the unworthy wretches from slowing down your connection and using up your 5 GB monthly bandwidth quota. Wretches, meaning those people who use to speak to you before you started bogarting your broadband.

Oh, there's one other important component inside your MiFi 2200. It's the 1150 mAh Li-ion battery. Like a cell phone or digital camera, this battery is both small and potent. You'll get up to 4 hours of continual usage for a single Wi-Fi client. Standby time is up to 40 hours. How do you recharge it? With the included wall charger or through a USB cable connected to your computer. That could be the same computer that makes use of the cellular broadband service provided by the MiFi. It's a symbiotic relationship.

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Do You Have The Instinct For Covert Ops?

Do you have what it takes to be secret agent? Do you know Jack? Jack Bauer, that is. You watch his moves on the Fox series "24". Don't you fantasize about being right in the action with that crew? Well, fantasies are good. What you need is access and a special phone, of course. That phone: The Samsung Instinct.

The Instinct phone from Samsung in special agent black (what else?) is one of a new generation of cell phones that give you more features than ever before. It starts with an extra large high resolution touchscreen color display. You'll have confidence that you are making the right selections because this screen provides tactile or haptic feedback in the form of a slight vibration when you press the screen or use the stylus.

A screen with the ability to display over 262,000 colors needs an equally powerful digital camera, don't you agree? The 2.0 Megapixel camera that is built into the Instinct has a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. That's good enough to print as well as send to your friends. With multimedia messaging you can take and receive both picture and video messages. Your videos are captured in QVGA resolution at 15 frames per second using the MPEG4 format. How long can you record? That's limited only by the amount of available memory. The expandable memory slot lets you load microSD cards to make sure you have enough.

The Instinct is also an Internet connected device. It operates on the Sprint EV-DO Rev A network, the really fast one, with downloads up to 3.1 Mbps. That's better than many DSL and Cable broadband services. What do you need this level of speed for? To watch Sprint TV, for one thing. You can also browse the Internet with full HTML support and the tactile user interface experience. Your QWERTY keyboard appears on-screen with virtual touch keys.

Any agent worth his or her salt needs voice communication, Internet access to download building plans and other documents, and navigation to avoid getting lost. The Samsung Instinct has built-in GPS to take advantage of Sprint Navigation Services, so you'll always know where you are in the action.

Now that you know about the Instinct, you've got to have one for yourself. Right? Well don't pay retail when with a little research you can get an excellent discount. Here's a clue: Learn more about the Samsung Instinct with Sprint PCS service and order yours online at this site at a price we won't share with any bad guys. Note: Evil doers, go buy your phone in a store.

Fans of the show "24" have a special Operation Instinct site available from Fox to download screen savers and get weekly sneak peeks beamed to your Sprint phone. There's also a training maneuvers game and a sweepstakes where you can win prizes related to the show.

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It's Pink Cell Phone Season Again

Valentine's Day is almost upon us, and with that the start of the pink cell phone season. From now until Mother's Day we witness the convergence of technology and pinkness, as mobile communications shows its feminine side. Would you like to put a little fashion flair in your hand or that of your significant other? What you need is a cell phone that is a vision in pink.

This year we're featuring the high-tech, high-touch Samsung Instinct Pink for Sprint PCS. Yes, this is normally an expensive luxury phone. But it can be yours at a huge discount when you order it with an Everything Plan or Talk/Message/Data Share Plan from Sprint PCS as your wireless service. Two women in the same family can even get TWO discounted Samsung Instinct Pinks when they order it with the appropriate family plan.

Samsung has taken the cellphone world by storm... but not BlackBerry Storm... with its tactile touchscreen technology built into advanced mobile phones like the Samsung Instinct. It's a phone. It's a music player. It's a Web browser. It's a head to head competitor to the Apple iPhone. Plus it's free and, oh, so very pink.

The high definition touch screen display measures 240 x 432 pixels and offers a QWERTY keyboard through an on-screen virtual touch keyboard. Motion sensing technology will change the orientation of the screen from portrait to landscape automatically as you rotate the phone. The pictures you take will display in stunning definition using the built-in 2.0 Megapixel digital camera that also runs as a camcorder. Make movies if you want to. The video capture is limited only by the amount of available memory, which is expandable using plug-in microSD memory cards.

The Samsung Instinct Pink may look like a fashion accessory, but this phone is built for business as well as pleasure. Sprint's EVDO cellular broadband network offers download speeds up to 3.1 Mbps. That's fast enough to enjoy Sprint TV and streaming or downloadable Sprint Music. Search the Web at broadband speeds without having to constantly hunt for a WiFi hotspot. The Internet goes where you go. A full HTML Web Browser is built-in with support for the tactile user interface experience on the Instinct's touch screen. The email client will synchronize over the air, via Bluetooth or USB cable. Text messaging features 2-way threaded view. Multimedia messaging includes both pictures and video messages.

There's more, including built-in GPS to take advantage of Sprint Navigation services, Bluetooth for standard wireless phone headsets and music streaming to compatible wireless stereo headsets, voice driven menus, speakerphone, voice memo capability and more. It's a very high tech thing of beauty.

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Novatel's Brilliant Mobile In-Ovation

It looks like a USB memory drive, and it is. But look closer. Thumb drives don't have pop-up antennas. This one does. That's because the Novatel Ovation U727 is more than solid state memory. It's also a cellular broadband modem and a GPS receiver. Call it the "Swiss Army Knife" of mobile technology. Or call it the upgrade your notebook computer really needs. This Novatel product is three upgrades in one.

The primary function of this broadband card is to connect you to the data networks of either Sprint or Verizon. You'll need the version that is enabled for the carrier you want. Both feature downloads at the highest cellular speed currently available. That's EV-DO Rev A with downloads up to 3.1 Mbps and uploads to 1.8 Mbps. If the base station you are nearest isn't upgraded to Rev A yet, standard EV-DO Rev 0 will give you 2.4 Mbps download and 153 Kbps upload. Those are burst ratings. Your actual connection speed will probably be less.

Both of these cellular network data standards will allow you to roam free of the home office or WiFi hotspots. The original standard was meant to emulate a DSL connection for email and Web browsing. The new EV-DO Rev A speeds downloads a bit, but the big change is to the upload bandwidth. 153 Kbps is pretty marginal for things like video conferencing or file uploading. The 1.8 Mbps burst capability is more suited to real-time applications.

What happens if you are out in the boonies? If you can get cellular coverage at all, then you'll be able to at least access 1xRTT, the oldest CDMA cellular data standard and nearly universally installed in tower base stations. The performance is more like dial-up, around 50 Kbps. But at least you can stay connected way, way out there where coffee shops with WiFi are few and far between.

A feature of the Ovation U727 is that it connects to your PC via a USB port. The standard for cellular broadband cards has been the PCMCIA card slot. Those aren't universally available on notebook computers any more, but USB ports are truly ubiquitous. I imagine that the USB connection and memory stick form factor is what gave designers the idea to have this device do double duty as a removable solid state hard drive. To make use of this feature, you'll need to buy microSD card up to 4 GB maximum capacity. Plug in that little card like you would on a cell phone and you've got a thumb drive.

The third capability built into the Novatel Ovation U727 is a GPS receiver. Lots of of wireless productivity devices and common cell phones now include built-in GPS receivers. They were put there to aid location in emergency calls, but have been put into service as navigation systems and for mapping. Adding this card to your PC gives you the ability to use location-based services.

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Motorola RAZR V3m Stone Razor Phone

The Motorola RAZR "razor phone" series continues to be a highly popular phone series for both business and personal cellphone users. A recent addition is the V3m upgrade in an anodized stone gray finish. It has a classy look, classic RAZR lines, and a host of new technology.

The stone razor phone keeps the aircraft-grade aluminum shell, etched backlit keyboard, and half-inch profile. Technology improvements upgrade the displays to 262,000 colors on the main display and 4,000 colors on the external display. That matches well with the 1.3 Megapixel phone upgrade that still includes 4x digital zoom.

The "m" in V3m stands for multimedia. In the Stone RAZR, multimedia includes streaming features such as on-demand Sprint TV, NFL Mobile and the Sprint Music Store as add-on features. The camera will take short video clips as well as stills. A music player is included that supports MP3 songs and podcasts.

The technology that supports multimedia consists of expandable memory capacity using MicroSD / Transflash format cards if you need more than the built-in 30 MB. It also includes EV-DO cellular broadband capability for downloads up to 700 Kbps.

Of course, the legacy features of Bluetooth wireless headset support, speakerphone, email, SMS text messaging, multimedia messaging, instant messaging and mobile Web browsing are all included. It also looks and feels like a classic RAZR.

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