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It is became known from Verizon that they are going to release the first game show for their mobile phone subscribers.

“The Limbo Show” is how the show is called, offers “Limbo Auctions” the idea is that subscribers can win prizes for just a few dollars. The start is today and a 50 inch big screen HDTV is up waiting. The Limbo Show being part game show and part text messaging is available to all V-Cast subscribers.

Verizon Wireless and Cingular are still in retail battle about promotional efforts of popular handsets. Major carriers are trying to win customers with a mix of price and phone.

The matter is like this: AT&T Inc.’s Cingular division offering LG’s CU400, a W-CDMA phone, for free with a two-year contract, at the same time Verizon Wireless offering customers discounts on three Motorola phones.

According to the announcement of TiVo and Verizon Wireless they say about the availability of TiVo Mobile scheduling. This time it’s a downloadable application giving subscribers the possibility to use select mobile phones to schedule recordings on their TiVo Series2 or Series3 TiVo boxes. At the same time subscribers to the TiVo Mobile scheduling service get access to premium entertainment content that is updated daily.

Verizon Wireless presents the Novatel V740 ExpressCard.

It’s the first card which operates on Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) technology. Thus using Rev. A technology this card runs faster and more efficiently. Customers can now enjoy upload speeds that are eight to nine times faster. Customers of the Novatel V740 ExpressCard are able to experience average download speeds of 600 kbps to 1.

Verizon is going to fill its line with the new LG VX9400 and it will be the second Verizon phone providing the new VCast Mobile TV service. Its size is just 4.04"H x 1.93"W x 0.73"D and weighs 4.06oz. The VX9400 has a 262K Color QVGA display that can be rotated from Portrait to Landscape for Mobile TV viewing. The device features 1.3MP Camera (up to 1280x960 for pix, and 320x240 for vids), MP3/WMA Music Player, micro SD slot and Bluetooth Version 1.

The Palm Treo 700wx smartphone was launched and by Verizon Wireless today. The smartphone is still Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push Technology working in CDMA/EV-DO and featuring QWERTY, Touch display, and support for Bluetooth stereo headsets.

The Treo 700wx smartphone offers broadband-like speeds with wireless email and rich media functions.

Samsung SCH-U740 is available from Verizon Wireless. It is a slim messaging device with a dual-hinge. The design allows communicating vertically as well horizontally with QWERTY keyboard. With Wireless Sync, user can synchronize the SCH-U740 with a home or office PC to access to new email, calendar, contacts and task information.

If you open the flip vertically the SCH-U740 is a thin clamshell phone with a 1.

Verizon Wireless offers the iconic Chocolate by LG in Strawberry Pink as a good present for Valentine's Day. The new Strawberry Chocolate phone is in ultra-thin minimalist style. The color is glowing red, the device also features touch-sensitive keypad and silky-smooth slider design with a sweet Strawberry Pink finish.

This device combines characteristics of a phone, as well as of an mp3 player.

We would share with you some info about the hot new HTC Titan. The HTC Titan is the successor of the HTC Apache (XV6700 and PPC-6700) and is also the CDMA version of the TyTN (Cingular 8525) . Verizon and Sprint PCS are going to offer the HTC Titan. The device has EV-DO Rev. A, 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth v.2 and 256MB of internal memory, voice-commands key and WiFi-switch (On/Off), the internal antenna and more rounded design.

Verizon Wireless presented a few more EV-DO markets, as it has turned on EV-DO 3G data speeds in Alabama and Louisiana.

In Alabama the launch covers the Greater Tuscaloosa area and the University of Alabama, but soon there will be EV-DO launches in other parts of Alabama , including the Birmingham , Huntsville , Mobile and Montgomery areas.