Starting Friday, March 27, Alltel’s MyCircle 10 and MyCircle 20 customers will be able to add an extra 5 numbers to their MyCircle calling plans at no extra cost. This expansion is valid in the 91 markets that are still operating as Alltel wireless. My Circle 15 starts at $60 per month and includes 900 [...]

Page Plus Cellular, a pre-paid provider of cellular services, will begin offering its customers Qualcomm’s BREW content and services. Page Plus expects to roll out BREW services to BREW-enabled phones by the summer of 2009, which will give customers access to content downloads, such as ringtones and games. Page Plus will use Qualcomm’s hosted BREW [...]

According to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, Sprint is looking to bring in some extra money by renting out the use of its excess capacity to consumer electronics makers. Sprint is in active talks with companies such as Garmin, SanDisk and Eastman Kodak, and will allow for the wireless delivery of information to [...]

Mozilla has officially released the first beta build of its Fennec browser for mobile devices. The newest version brings with it improvements in the responsiveness of the user interface as well as increased page-rendering speeds. Mozilla has made Fennec as finger-friendly as possible, and Fennec beta is much more stable and usable than previous versions, [...]

Two of Europe’s largest wireless network operators, Vodafone and Telefonica, have agreed to share their wireless networks in a handful of countries. The two companies believe by sharing network assets, they can reduce operating costs, reduce the environmental impact (fewer new towers), while still maintaining high levels of service for customers in those regions. The [...]

Today Leap Wireless announced that its Cricket service is now offering the Nokia 3606. The 3606, a flip phone first announced in the third quarter of 2008, is one of the first from Nokia to support the AWS band. It includes stereo Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera with LED flash, a microSD card slot for [...]

Reuters reports that Sony Ericsson has said it is going to focus harder on the U.S. market, and will bring its higher-end C905 Cybershot camera phone to the U.S. later this year. The C905, a slider with an 8 megapixel camera, was first announced in mid 2008. It has quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, making it compatible [...]

Microsoft recently confirmed that Windows Mobile 6.5 will have access to what Microsoft is calling Windows Mobile Widgets. The widgets will appear to function just as full applications do, and will have their own icons in Windows Mobile menus and access to web content. The widgets will be powered, in part, by the new Mobile [...]

Today Samsung launched a new movie download site for Samsung devices. The site will first be available on the Tocco Ultra Edition in the U.K., followed by other models in other European countries. No immediate plans to bring the store to the U.S. were announced. At launch, the site has over 10,000 movies and TV [...]

Documents seen on the FCC web site reveal information about a new device from LG that appears to be one of the first — if not the actual first — Long Term Evolution devices approved for use in the U.S. The device, which is not a phone, is not described in any way, other than [...]