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Beginning today, Verizon Wireless offers a pink version of the BlackBerry Curve. In can be ordered online or in VZW stores and will be in stores on August 15. The feminine color comes at no extra price and is available for $99.99 after a $70 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Verizon also reminds it offers the smaller Pearl for $20 less.

 

 

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Ten days ago, Verizon Wireless published the first official information on its Visual Voice Mail (VVM) service. It seems that it was a leak that wasn’t meant to be seen by the public, and shortly after that the carrier took down its page.

Today, big Red published a new press release about the Visual Voice Mail. The big news is that it is not free as reported previously but confirms earlier rumors: it will cost $2.99 a line per month plus airtime or megabyte charges and messaging fees. The LG Voyager really is the first phone to offer it, after a free software update at any VZW store, but ... Read more »

 

 

Samsung announced its new simple QWERTY phone, the Messager SCH-R450. It is the successor of the R410 and has similar form-factor, improved features and larger dimensions. It is side-sliding, revealing the full hardware keyboard. On its front are a 2.1” 176x220 pixels display and a numeric keypad. Messager is designed as an easy to use phone for text messages, email and instant messengers. It features 1.3-megapixel camera (the R410 had 0.3MP one), Stereo Bluetooth and headset jack, microSD slot for memory and support for CDMA AWS band. MetroPCS is the first carrier to offer it, at $199, but Cricket will follow, judging by the Cricket manual Samsung has on its site.

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The first mention of the new Sanyo Katana Eclipse model was in a Sprint roadmap a month ago. Later in the same month, FCC approved the phone confirming its existence, but it is still not officially announced. However, Sanyo put a nice gallery on its own site, revealing the beauty of the fifth Katana phone in silver color. There is no new information on its specifications so take a look at the pictures and at its preliminary specifications.

source: Sanyo via PhoneNews

 

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In an interview for Wall Street Journal, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has said that more than 60 million programs have been downloaded from the App Store since its launch a month ago. Although most of them were free, Apple sold an average of a million applications a day, which equals to $30 million in sales over the month. Although this is $9 million of gains for Apple, who just hosts the apps, Mr. Jobs says that the company’s hopes for profit rely on future sales of iPhone and iPod Touch devices.