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Motorola's VE240 music-centric cell phone will soon be arriving to Cricket and to Metro PCS. According to the source, the phone will be available from Cricket Communications in the Tulsa market tomorrow, and all Cricket Communications and MetroPCS markets in a couple of weeks.

Some of the features include:

• Music player;
• Stereo Bluetooth;
• Dedicated music key;
• MicroSD slot (up to 4GB);
• Speakerphone;
• USB 2.

ZTE USA annonunced new AWS-enabled music phone, the ZTE C79.

It is nice and sleek, clamshell designed, has a possibility to operate on AWS frequency bands.

ZTE C79 specs:

• CDMA dual band (800/1900 MHz), CDMA2000 1xRTT, AWS;
• External Display: 64K color, 96 x 64 Pixels;
• Internal Display: 262K TFT color, 176 x 220 Pixels;
• 1.

CDMA service provider MetroPCS announced that it the near future it will move to the 4G GSM/LTE network. The respective network is potentially able to speeds downlink speeds of up to 386Mbps, and upload speeds of nearly 86Mbps.

Earlier this year such major carriers like Verizon and Alltel also announced their CDMA to LTE upgrade plans, and AT&T will apparenltly follow their example.

Huawei in partnership with MetroPCS has entered the U.S. market with its new M318 entry-level mobile phone.

Don't expect much from this handset: it operates on CDMA network, has WAP browser and BREW client application, but lacks most of the usual features like camera and Bluetooth.

US cellular provider MetroPCS announced today it will implement EV-DO-based 3G network in seven of its markets, including three existing ones, that is Detroit, Dallas and Los Angeles, and four new ones, which are Boston, Las Vegas, New York and Philadelphia.

The wireless network in the first three will be upgraded from 1xRTT to EV-DO.

The CDMA provider MetroPCS has added today a new handset to its phone line-up, the Samsung r410.

The device has a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard for convenient text messaging, and comes with multiple messaging applications.

It supports 1xRTT data and features a VGA camera with multi-shot capability, Bluetooth and a speakerphone.