CUL8R Triple Tap: T-Mobile USA Makes Instant Messaging an Instant Hit With the Nokia 6800 Messaging Phone.BELLEVUE, Wash. -- T-Mobile Gives Customers More Communication Choices as the Only Carrier to Offer Devices That Boast Yahoo!(R) Messenger, MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). (R) Messenger and AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. (R) Instant Messenger AOL's instant messaging service. See AIM and instant messaging. (TM) Software Built-in Your date from last night prefers to chat using Yahoo!(R) Messenger. You stay in touch with your folks through MSN(R) Messenger. Your best friends use the AOL(R) Instant Messenger(TM) (AIM(R)) service. How can you keep them straight while on-the-go? It's easy with the new Nokia 6800 messaging phone from T-Mobile USA -- the first wireless phone from T-Mobile with software for all three IM providers built in. Regardless of your friends' and families' IM choice, the Nokia 6800 allows you to stay in touch with everyone who's important. Now available from T-Mobile, the Nokia 6800 messaging phone will catch everyone's eye as it folds open to reveal a unique QWERTY See QWERTY keyboard. (hardware) QWERTY - /kwer'tee/ (From the top left row of letter keys of most keyboards) Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or foreign-language keypad, making the IM experience as convenient as opening a clamshell wireless phone. And since it's T-Mobile, customers Get More(R) instant messages, and spend less time thumbing through a large wireless bill. "Everywhere you look it seems people are not only talking on their phone but blazing through messages with their thumbs," said John Clelland, senior vice president of segment marketing for T-Mobile USA, Inc. "As the only carrier to offer all three major IM services built-in to a device we are leading the way to new and better ways to communicate, whether it's through instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , email, picture messages or good old-fashioned voice calls." With the recently launched Nokia 6010 phone, T-Mobile offers customers even more communication choices with a second device to include all three IM providers built in. To learn more about the Nokia 6800 and Nokia 6010 messaging phones from T-Mobile visit a local T-Mobile retailer or www.t-mobile.com. In addition to staying connected to people, T-Mobile customers can have a little fun using IM for a chance to win great prizes. A T-Mobile promotion called IM2Win is in full swing. Using the built-in instant message function on the Nokia 6800 phone and other capable T-Mobile devices, T-Mobile customers can answer pop culture trivia questions for a chance to win Birdhouse skateboard decks, Haro Bikes Haro Bicycle Corporation, as it is now known, was founded in 1978 by Bob Haro. Bob got his start by producing numberplates for BMX bikes in his bedroom. Demand for these stylish plates quickly outgrew Bob's one man capacity. , and K2 Snowboards This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. or the grand prize -- a trip with three friends to the Winter X IX Games in Aspen/Snowmass, Colo. where they will have the opportunity to hang out with the T-Mobile Action Sports Team. The T-Mobile Action Sports Team consists of premier BMX BMX abbr. bicycle motocross BMX Noun 1. bicycle motocross: stunt riding over an obstacle course on a bicycle 2. riders Dave Mirra Dave Mirra (born April 4, 1974 in Chittenango, New York) is an American BMX athlete and business owner. Dave Mirra is known as BMX's most dominant athlete and arguably the most dominant extreme athlete of all-time. and Ryan Nyquist Ryan Nyquist (born March 6, 1979 in Los Gatos, California) is a professional BMX rider who has won numerous gold medals in the X Games Dirt Jumping & Bike Park events. He also was featured on MTV Cribs.
Please see www.t-mobile.com/IM2Win to play and for terms and conditions. T-Mobile customers are already proving how fun it is to play IM2Win. In less than one week, the average IM2Win player has answered an average of 80 trivia questions. About T-Mobile USA, Inc. Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is a member of the T-Mobile International group, the mobile telecommunications subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DT). T-Mobile operates the largest GSM/GPRS 1900 voice and data network in the country, reaching over 253 million people including roaming and other agreements. In addition, T-Mobile operates the largest carrier owned Wi-Fi wireless broadband network in the country, available in more than 4,700 public access locations including Starbucks coffeehouses, Borders Books and Music, FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Centers, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, airports and selected American Airlines Admirals Clubs, Delta Air Lines Crown Rooms, United Airlines Red Carpet Clubs and US Airways Clubs. Through its Get More(R) promise, T-Mobile provides customers with more minutes, more features and more service. For more information, visit the company web site at www.t-mobile.com. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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