And the biggie, a Treo 650 from Cingular courtesy of the folks at ImportGSM.com.
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Of course, the company's decision to drop the Cingular name from its vernacular still carries risks.
Runners-up include the RIM BlackBerry Pearl and the Cingular 3125 by HTC.
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In fact, that was the conversation in the boardroom with Cingular when we made this decision.
Reps from Cingular Wireless and Sprint Nextel declined to comment about possible YouTube deals.
Cingular, for instance, is the marriage of four separate operators and brings together three different mobile phone technologies.
Companies that operate the cell phone networks like Verizon and Cingular are offering mapping services, too.
We'd still prefer something like Cingular's FastForward cradle, which forwards calls in the opposite direction, from cellphone to landline.
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Finally, Cingular fails to drive network usage or over-the-air downloads with the ROKR.
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But a switch to Cingular didn't yield the results RadioShack had hoped for.
One analyst soothsaid a challenge for the embryonic service: Cingular is eons behind its competitors in launching the service.
In the short term, the merger helps Sprint Nextel catch up with Verizon and Cingular in the 3G stakes.
Cingular Wireless, the largest wireless company in the United States, may be of noble extraction--yet it has a complicated parentage.
Verizon, Cingular and Sprint have been offering video clips and TV service on some phones for more than a year.
Many direct-to-customer stores that Cingular opened a few years ago to compete with Verizon were set up close to RadioShack outlets.
Before starting the business, Allan Keiter did pricing work for UPS, Continental Airlines, and BellSouth Cellular (which is now part of Cingular).
What seemed like a good idea at the time has become unproductive overlap now that RadioShack sells Cingular phones and calling plans.
Cingular, the largest BlackBerry reseller, now sells nine phones with e-mail service.
These days, Cingular is synonymous with cellular, especially among the under-30 crowd.
Both companies use the same technologies in their networks and could hypothetically combine to take over the top market share spot from Cingular.
At Cingular Wireless, a national mobile operator, network call traffic surged to 400 percent of its normal level from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Although nothing was confirmed, Cingular made it sound as though users might be able to expect a specially bundled data plan for the iPhone.
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Granted, it relied on Cingular's painful EDGE network, but things are only marginally better on 3G or 4G as web apps have become more complex.
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The company is betting that it'll get more mileage with mobile phone consumers from its traditional sturdy image than from the fresh, youth-centered Cingular brand.
Sprint and Cingular probably have even fewer video-ready subscribers, he says.
If Google has phone aspirations, then Chairman Schmidt's seat on Apple's board gives him a peek into the operations of Apple's new phone partner, Cingular Wireless.
John Trostel uses his smart phone on Cingular's data network to monitor and control the servers he manages at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta.
Stranger still, however, Cingular apparently "evaluated and certified" the Junxion for use on their forthcoming HSDPA 3G data network, and is considering running with the thing.
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Yet here is little Rearden Commerce with a companywide deal with Motorola, as well as three- to five-year contracts with Warner Music, Cingular Wireless and Whirlpool Corp.
Some marketers, especially those at younger, cutting-edge boutiques, can't understand the decision, especially given the billions already spent on building up the Cingular name since its 2000 inception.
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