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Wednesday September 13, 2006
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 At a Cingular-sponsored lunch at CTIA Wireless today, executives from the big orange carrier laid out a few of their plans for the rest of the year. The biggest news (other than the launch of the Cingular 3125 smartphone) was that Cingular will be getting a push-to-talk version of the new Blackberry Pearl (shown at right) in "four to eight weeks."
They also said we're going to see "quite a bit of improvement" in Cingular's high-speed phone options by the end of the year. Cingular's rollout of the high-speed HSDPA technology has seemed pretty glacial to me - though they now claim to have "87 cities," they still only cover about 20 metro areas; both Sprint and Verizon have much broader high-speed coverage. You'll also see more Wi-Fi devices and Windows Mobile devices in the "near future," Cingular reps said. Come on, guys, the future is now!
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October 24, 2006 7:43 PM
Yes I will be ordering this upgrade from my current cingular blackberry. However. If it were up to me in my corporation, and it's just one guy higher, I'd drop cingular. Why? They have great features. They have a nice network. Doesn't cover my house, vacation house, alternate vacation house. But still it's a great network. What's the super big time reason why I'd drop cingular? I can't stand the GSM crap my speakers, landline, alarmclock, monitor, fishtank, tv, stero, celing fan, you name it electronic; react when a GSM phone (cingular and nextel) are even remotly in proximity. This is moronic. Wi-Fi? Windows Mobile? Pearl? Lets fix what's broken first, add new second. How about we drop GSM like the sound plague it is. This would be huge earth shattering corporate news and would keep cingular from being the laughing stock they are; in the technical community. Ps. It's great to be on a 5 way conference call on my land line with a top customer to have BZZZZZEERRRREEEEEEEKBZZZZZ EEEP EEP EEEEP BZZZZZZZZ barge in on our convo.