Cricket’s first gimmick for this class is everything but impressive. It’s the Samsung Stunt (R100), which the attack aircraft carrier is oblation for $99 sans any shortstop, medium and long term commitments.

We’re talk about a staple French telephone with slim designing and such “features” as 128×160 pixels colour blind, mobile vane, Bluetooth, electronic mail and voice commands. Additionally, the Stunt tin sing along the attack aircraft carrier’s Cricket Games & Apps and MyBackup services.

Cricket is not the first small carrier in the U.S. to offer the Samsung Stunt. Back in December 2009, MetroPCS has added the phone to its oblation.

And piece we’re at MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS), we distillery haven’t heard any newsworthiness regarding the potential drop amalgamation (or that’s acquisition) with Cricket (Leap Wireless), even though both companies rich person hired investment banks (Cricket got Emma Goldman Sachs and MetroPCS – JP Morgan) and the boilersuit feeling in the industry is that integration should proceeds berth. As soon as we hear something new on that movement, you’ll be the first to know…

The warm people over at BNAmericas had a probability to talking with Microsoft’s Latin American English Director of Mobile Communications, Doug Adam Smith, and managed to pulling some very interesting things from the man’s brain. Such as, when and if Windows Phone 7 would launch in Latin America. Steve Ballmer wasn’t kidding when he said the launch of Windows Phone 7 Series would be a global launch, because Smith confirmed that his region would be getting the updated mobile Operating System at the same meter as everyone else: this vacation time of year.

When it comes to marketshare, it’s looking like Microsoft’s only competitor in the region is Research In Motion with their BlackBerry devices. No surprisal there. Adam Smith stressed the fact that simply forgetting about Windows Mobile 6.5 is not the means to go. The company must put option a lot of effort in the Operating System, up until the launching of Windows Phone 7. Book of Numbers speak the loudest though, and Microsoft should be proud of the twenty-six contribution in Federative Republic of Brazil, and two dozen in Mexico, which was reported in an IDC paper shoemaker’s last calendar month. It’s goodness to see that even with ample anticipation for what’s to come, the current computer hardware and software system isn’t organism forgotten by the consumers, which, arguably, are the most important part.

[via WMPower User]

Bluetooth approach points are more efficient, as they operate as a Personal Area Network (PAN) and unlike Wi-Fi do not rich person the expensive and cumbersome process of connecting to the internet, in order to establish a link. The SafeCell App is unique in that file cabinet sizes ar so small, even a narrow banding satellite linkup tin accommodate the basic texting needs of every passenger. Plus, Bluetooth can transmit at up to 3 megabits per second base, which agency it tin accommodate any data or media requirement.

With ASiQ’s proprietary PAN designing, two approach points can cover a narrow body aircraft such as a Boeing 737 or Airbus 320. Up to 192 mobiles tin be logged on to an Access Point, which more than covers every passenger onboard the aircraft.

Ron believes Bluetooth has an enormous future tense, which is justified by the latest ABI inquiry.

First News Briefs for Dec 8, 2009 extract states “ABI Research reports that nearly 2 billion Bluetooth chipsets ar prognosis to ship in 2014 alone. More than one-half will be found in wireless handsets. In 2014, Bluetooth will be found in 70 percent of all handsets and 83 percentage of all netbooks.” Compare this to the fact that less than 10% of mobiles rich person Wi-Fi and it’s open to see wherefore Bluetooth is the topper solution.

When you consider that a SafeCell system will costs as little as $10k per aircraft, compared to GSM based systems costing around $500k per aircraft and a Wi-Fi system costing around $100K per aircraft for a US domestic help airline and up to $350k for an intentional airline, there is no comparing.

Several airlines have been following the progress of SafeCell which was patented in Jan this year and Ron expects to announce the first base installation of the new approach distributor point in the second quarter of 2010.

If you’re looking for an iPhone diligence to part photos across your social networks, you may want to give TweetPhoto a cast.

The internet site just got an overhaul – which prominently features photos of the Full House cast – and this new iPhone app makes it pretty simple to part pictures across Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, or Foursquare accounts. I downloaded the free people app TweetPhoto Pro and it looks pretty good: it has a clean and jerk port that makes it quick to scan your friends’ photo streams, as well as public or popular photos. Signing up is easy, and TechCrunch says we can expect versions for Android and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) soon enough.

While it’s not quite good enough for me to switch from TwitPic, you could do a draw worse than TweetPhoto. Give it a try at the link below and let us know what you think.

Get TweetPhoto Pro (Free) [iTunes App Store link]

[Via TechCrunch]

No wonder Daniel is super excited about Angry Birds. I’ve just checked it out to see what’s so special about it when it succeeded to reach half a million paid downloads in less than a month! And I love life it – it’s super addictive, at least for those who liked the Crazy Penguin Catapult biz. We’re talk about a very similar game which is even funnier.

The game is released under Chillingo’s Clickgamer brand and developed by Rovio Mobile, which is super satisfied (who wouldn’t) with the biz publishing company’s marketing — Angry Birds has garnered numerous awards and been publicized by celebrities such as DJ Chris Moyles and Olympic medallist Anja Pдrson.

The next stopover for Chillingo is to challenge Pocket Supreme Being and Flight Control, both of which rich person been downloaded for more than 2 million multiplication. Considering the fact that Angry Birds reached five hundred,000 downloads within 25 years (or so), it whitethorn end up as a serious contender for the round top spot in the AppStore… And before I net ball you go, we have a demo video to share. As usual, it follows after the jump. Enjoy!

Angry Birds ($0.99) [iTunes link]