The 555 Blue is a QWERTY candybar handset with a 2.4-inch non-touch display and a dedicated Facebook button. Aside from those, there’s also a 2-megapixel camera with an LED flash, a microUSB port for charging, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a microSD slot that tin can be extended up to 16GB cards. Unfortunately, there won’t be any 3G, GPS, and WiFi. It will available “soon” in Europe.

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Over the next six months, Spencer and Sarah, 2 strangers selected from a cast call of thousands, volition appear in a high-profile integrated selling hunting expedition including subject television commercials, photographic print, and a series of digital webisodes chronicling the couple’s ascent to celebrity. Fans tin keep up with “Sparah” at www.facebook.com/virginmobilelive.

“Virgin Mobile’s unlimited Web and data plans are really taking off with citizenry using them to follow celebrities and pop acculturation,” said Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group Founder. “Virgin Mobile likes to spring people what they wish. And in this heart, I know they’ll manipulation all of their resources to create a legitimate famous person couple to ensure their customers never run out of something to tweet about.”

Sir Richard Branson himself will cameo in the hymn commercial message (a first for Virgin Mobile USA) which airs today.

“Sparah” will be equipped with a theater in the Hollywood Hills, a hairdresser and a publicist, all furnished by Virgin Mobile, to ensure they reflect all the housings of a real number famous person couple. As their fame grows, the twosome will be asked to participate in activities typical of A-list merchandise endorsers, including photo shoots, TV commercials, store openings, and appearances at touch events, such as Virgin Mobile’s annual FreeFest medicine festival.

“I’m so excited, I can’t believe what’s happening!” said Sarah Carroll, single half of “Sparah.”. “Spencer and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be a part of this. Everyone tells us we’re in for a wild drive. I’m not quite sure what that means, but I’m sure it’ll be a ton of fun!”

As part of their contract with Virgin Mobile, the couple is required to chronicle their journey across a server of sociable media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, and video recording blogs. Virgin Mobile customers ar encouraged to follow the couple on their Android–powered phones and unlimited plans that include unlimited Web, data, electronic messaging, and electronic mail starting at $25/calendar month.

Although there ar no specific prove weather condition the HTC devices that AT&T will offered could be the ChaCha and Salsa. But they did pointed out that the device will rich person similar features which are the Facebook dedicated buttons. According to an AT&T interpreter told Mobilized, “In the U.S., AT&ere;T and HTC are exclusively bringing this unique user experience to the market later this year,” he also added “It goes without expression this is part of our committal to have the industry’s best Android portfolio this year.”

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Motorola’s Motoblur has a tight mixer mesh desegregation. Updates to contacts, posts, messages, photos and more are streamed together and synced from sources including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail, and work and personal e-mail. MOTOBLUR automatically delivers these updates to the home blind in easy-to-sight streams so there is no motive to surface and close different mobile applications to hold up with the latest depicted object.

The additional hotspots volition enable AT&T Remote Access enterprise customers to connect to their corporate networks from more locations across Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, the The Netherlands, the UK and China. These locations include a diverseness of popular chocolate shops, bookstores, hotels, airports, restaurants and convention centers. The new China hotspots ar already activated, and the additional European hotspots volition be activated over the next 45 years.

“Our global enterprise customers wish to ensure that their employees always have highly-secure, reliable connectivity to their corporate applications and the internet wherever they ar – without the hassles of hunt down feather hotspots and credit card pay-as-you-go,” said S. Dale McHenry, vice prexy, AT&T Enterprise Networking. “Our extensive global Wi-Fi reporting, central corporate billing, and smarting laptop client software keeps their employees focused on doing business and eliminates the hassles of staying connected.”

The global Wi-Fi expansion comes on the heels of AT&T’s recent announcement that it handled nearly 15 1000000 Wi-Fi connections to its U.S. net during the second base stern of 2009 — a 41 percent increase over the first base quarter. With approximately 25.6 1000000 connections during the first one-half of 2009, AT&T Wi-Fi connections had already surpassed the 20 1000000 connections seen in all of 2008.

Additionally, AT&T announced new features that are planned for the AT&T Global Network Client — the remote access software that creates a gateway for Wi-Fi users to establish a highly-secure, virtual private network (VPN) joining to their corporate enterprises. The enhancements volition include:

* Support for Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest operating system, upon its liberation.

* Support for connecting to VPNs using IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) endpoints. IPv6 compatibility volition become increasingly important as IPv6 addresses are adopted by global internet companies, enterprises, and governing agencies.

* A single installing parcel for all supported languages (English, French, High German, Japanese, and Spanish people).

* Improved support for persons with certain visual disabilities.

AT&T expects to make the AT&T Global Network Client upgrades available in the quartern stern of 2009.

AT&T offers stage business customers a portfolio of Remote Access Services for connecting to corporate networks via Wi-Fi, cellular data, dial, and other joining points in more than 80 countries. This includes unlimited Wi-Fi approach monetary value plans for U.S.-based customers of AT&T Business Net, AT&T Network-based IP Remote Access (ANIRA) and AT&T Virtual Tunnel Services (AVTS). These services can be used anywhere within AT&T’s global footmark and plans ar available start as low as $ 10.00 per user, per month.

Consumers tin approach AT&T’s international hot spot locations with an AT&T Wi-Fi Premier plan for $19.99 a month. In summation to extensive international hotspot locations, AT&T offers customers access to the largest Wi-Fi net in the United States, with more than 20,000 domestic hotspots.

More information on AT&T Wi-Fi services is available at http://info.attbusiness.net/wifi. Also, for a full tilt of AT&T Wi-Fi locations available to enterprise users go to http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=13540.

*AT&T products and services ar provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

Available today, the Shark, which has been re-branded the Metro 3G for its launching in India, is superintendent-thin. Measuring in at only 11.9 millimeters thin, we tin only imagine that the device is light source as a feathering, too. At least, we’re hoping so. Of course of action, retention in the sociable networking trend, the Metro 3G gives you quick approach to sites like Facebook, Picasa, and MySpace. The display is a 2.2-inch QVGA, it obviously has 3G connectivity (hence the name), and it’s rocking a Digital Natural Sound Engine. It’s also got a stereo system FM radio with RDS, 3.2MP camera with smile shot, built-in Instant Messaging with Google Talk and AIM, and 100MB of built-in repositing. If that’s not enough for you, there’s also a MicroSD card slot.

As we mentioned above, the Metro 3G should be available starting now, so if you’re in India, you should checkout it out. Retailers should be selling the French telephone somewhere in the area of 8,250 INR (which is about $182). If you’re somewhere else where this Shark treads water and you’ve happened to choice one up, let us know how it deeds for you.

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