July 13, 2004 articles

Virgin Mobile inks deal with Comedy Central

Jul 13 2004 - 01:06 PM ET | Virgin Mobile
Virgin Mobile today announced a partnership with Comedy Central that will bring exclusive content to Virgin Mobile customers. Comedy Central will have branded games, screen savers, wallpapers, news alerts, voice greetings and more. Virgin Mobile has had a similar deal...

LG L1150 introduced on AT&T Wireless

Jul 13 2004 - 01:02 PM ET | AT&T Wireless, LG Mobile Phone
AT&T Wireless has announced the LG L1150. It's one of the first GSM camera phones from LG (the L1200 has a camera and recently launched on Cingular Wireless). Here are the specs: * Integrated VGA camera with digital zoom *...

Verizon gives $5B contract to Lucent

Jul 13 2004 - 12:51 PM ET | Data, Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless has awarded a $5 billion contract to networking giant Lucent. The money will be spent on, "Next-generation network expansion." The company also noted that the upgrades from Lucent will allow its 1xEV-DO high-speed data network to expand. Lucent...

NEC FOMA N900iL announced

Jul 13 2004 - 12:45 PM ET | DoCoMo
NTT DoCoMo has announced its newest FOMA compatible handset, the NEC N900iL. Besides the features of all 900i handsets, the N900iL has WiFi. bq. Under the PASSAGE DUPLE system, the N900iL may be used as a standard FOMA handset, as...

Samsung SPH-2300 announced

Jul 13 2004 - 12:40 PM ET | Samsung
Samsung has introduced the SPH-2300 for the Korean market. It's a 3 megapixel camera phone, with an optical zoom. Other features include a miniSD card slot and built in flash. Casio was the first company to make a 3 megapixel...