Update - May 24: The DVD player is currently available again from T-Mobile. Also, Sprint is currently offering a FREE Samsung yepp™ Digital Audio Player when you order a new Samsung phone and service online. You can view either of these offers by clicking on the link below. Read the latest information in our latest post.
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Today, April 30th only, order a new cell phone plan from T-Mobile and receive a certificate for a free DVD player. Every phone qualifies, including the Samsung E-105 which can be ordered free. This model also includes an in-car charger, hands-free earbud and $100 in mail in rebates. All this plus a certificate that can be redeemed for a portable DVD player.
If you prefer, you can choose a Sharp TM150 Video Phone. The built-in megapixel camera can capture still photos or up to 15 seconds of video. Multimedia messaging means you can send your pictures or videos to your friends and family, and inexpensive SD memory cards let you store unlimited images of up to 858x1154 resolution. This fully featured mobile phone can be ordered at no cost with your new T-Mobile service plan, plus you'll receive a $50 mail in rebate and the certificate for the free, ultra compact DVD player. Keep it for yourself, or give it away, your choice.
The Get More 600 plan offers 600 anytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends with free nationwide digital roaming for $39.99 per month. Need more minutes? No problem. There are plans with up to 5000 anytime minutes plus unlimited nights and weekends. Choose the one that best meets your needs. Add Unlimited Mobile to Mobile calling, text messaging, even Caller Tunes, which lets you choose the music your friends hear while they wait for you to answer.
Come to our online cell phone store, enter your zip code and then select T-Mobile as your carrier. Select the phone and service plan that you want, and place your order. It's as simple as that. Your phone will be sent to you activated in a few days. In fact, if you select 2nd Day Air or Next Day Air shipping, you can have your new cellphone in time for Mother's Day. Wouldn't Mom love a new camera phone? And remember, you can keep the ultra compact DVD player for yourself. Mom would want you to have it. You're such a good child.
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Accessorize Your Cell Phone
So, you got the cell phone you wanted and you're signed up for cellular service. But something's still missing. Hmmm. What could it be?
Did you remember too late that you're going to spend a lot of time traveling and could easily run out of battery power before you get back home to your cell phone charger? Or, would you like a comfortable headset so that you don't have to tuck that phone under your chin as you go barreling around corners in your SUV? Maybe you'd like to clip the phone on your belt so you can talk on a headset while shopping. Did you get a belt clip?
Oh, no. You got the phone but not the accessories you really need. Now what can you do? Fear not! What you need is a cell phone accessories store and we've just launched a great one. Actually it's a store within a store. You can get your cellphone and service with much better deals than you'll find in those cellular stores. Or, go directly to the cell phone accessories store and pick up just the extras you need at bargain prices.
Here are some examples. How about those car adaptors so you can charge your phone while you drive? We've got over a dozen different models so you can get one designed for your phone. That includes everything from a Motorola cell phone to a RIM Blackberry. Prices start at $11.95 for an adaptor designed to work with Sanyo phones. You may see it advertised elsewhere for $19.99. If you are going to be using your phone extensively in your car, and who doesn't, an even better deal may be the hands-free kit. These include a car power charger, cradle to hold the phone and a hands-free headset.
Hands Free headsets are available starting at $14.95 for a Samsung OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) model that has a one touch button built into the cord so you can answer and end calls without fumbling for your phone buttons. Motorola offers a desktop speakerphone that lets you have conference calls anywhere using your cell phone. Talk about the mobile office! Or how about a Bluetooth headset? No wires needed if you have a model of phone with Bluetooth communications built-in.
I'll bet you'd like a nice leather carrying case to protect your phone. There's an original LG leather case for $15.95 that is designed to allow you to charge your phone and use your handset while the phone is in the case. For the same price, you can get a Nokia leather case with a built-in belt clip. Or choose a microfiber carrying case if you prefer the look.
If you have a Nokia or Kyocera phone, we have covers available that let you change the look of your phone anytime you want. For just $14.95 you can get a set of seafoam blue, lilac lavender and lime green. Or, pick the set that includes candy red, gloss black and metallic blue.
Do you have a phone that works with your computer to synchronize schedules and contact information or download custom ringers? We've got data cables to make the connection. Even if a cable came with your phone, you might want another for work or to pack in the laptop bag for mobile use. The RIM Blackberry USB cable charger even charges your Blackberry while you're transferring data.
Wait no longer. You can shop our cell phone accessories store right now. If you haven't picked a phone yet, don't pay for one until you shop our cell phone plans with free phones and money back. That's right. You get the phone free.
Did you remember too late that you're going to spend a lot of time traveling and could easily run out of battery power before you get back home to your cell phone charger? Or, would you like a comfortable headset so that you don't have to tuck that phone under your chin as you go barreling around corners in your SUV? Maybe you'd like to clip the phone on your belt so you can talk on a headset while shopping. Did you get a belt clip?
Oh, no. You got the phone but not the accessories you really need. Now what can you do? Fear not! What you need is a cell phone accessories store and we've just launched a great one. Actually it's a store within a store. You can get your cellphone and service with much better deals than you'll find in those cellular stores. Or, go directly to the cell phone accessories store and pick up just the extras you need at bargain prices.
Here are some examples. How about those car adaptors so you can charge your phone while you drive? We've got over a dozen different models so you can get one designed for your phone. That includes everything from a Motorola cell phone to a RIM Blackberry. Prices start at $11.95 for an adaptor designed to work with Sanyo phones. You may see it advertised elsewhere for $19.99. If you are going to be using your phone extensively in your car, and who doesn't, an even better deal may be the hands-free kit. These include a car power charger, cradle to hold the phone and a hands-free headset.
Hands Free headsets are available starting at $14.95 for a Samsung OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) model that has a one touch button built into the cord so you can answer and end calls without fumbling for your phone buttons. Motorola offers a desktop speakerphone that lets you have conference calls anywhere using your cell phone. Talk about the mobile office! Or how about a Bluetooth headset? No wires needed if you have a model of phone with Bluetooth communications built-in.
I'll bet you'd like a nice leather carrying case to protect your phone. There's an original LG leather case for $15.95 that is designed to allow you to charge your phone and use your handset while the phone is in the case. For the same price, you can get a Nokia leather case with a built-in belt clip. Or choose a microfiber carrying case if you prefer the look.
If you have a Nokia or Kyocera phone, we have covers available that let you change the look of your phone anytime you want. For just $14.95 you can get a set of seafoam blue, lilac lavender and lime green. Or, pick the set that includes candy red, gloss black and metallic blue.
Do you have a phone that works with your computer to synchronize schedules and contact information or download custom ringers? We've got data cables to make the connection. Even if a cable came with your phone, you might want another for work or to pack in the laptop bag for mobile use. The RIM Blackberry USB cable charger even charges your Blackberry while you're transferring data.
Wait no longer. You can shop our cell phone accessories store right now. If you haven't picked a phone yet, don't pay for one until you shop our cell phone plans with free phones and money back. That's right. You get the phone free.
Thursday, April 21, 2005
Don't Bet Your Life on VoIP
There they are, lined up on shelves at Best Buy and CompUSA, beckoning you to dump your old fashioned telephone service and buy one of these new, modern, high technology VoIP adaptors. How can you resist? The unlimited phone call rates are cheaper than you pay now, and you can call others on the same service for free. Don't forget that you'll also be seen as Internet savvy when you use your broadband connection to bypass the telephone system. Besides, there's so much media buzz about how Internet telephony is going to crush those stodgy regulated phone companies that the smart thing is to jump on the VoIP bandwagon now. Right? Don't bet on it. Whatever you do, don't bet your life on it.
Contrary to media buzz, VoIP or broadband phone is no ready replacement for traditional wireline phone service. Wireline is the phone service you grew up with. You plug a phone into a wall jack, pick up the handset and hear a dial-tone. Stodgy as it may seem, a hundred years of government regulation and technical refinement has gone into making wireline or landline telephone service something you can count on. For instance, what happens when you pick up your VoIP connected phone and dial 911? Does an emergency dispatcher send the authorities to your house even if you are in no shape to tell them what your problem is? Don't count on it. You might get help. You might get... nothing!
But, wait. Doesn't the government REQUIRE phone services to provide you with Enhanced 911 or E-911 emergency service? That's the kind where the system knows your location and provides it automatically to the emergency dispatcher. You bet it does if your service comes from a wireline or cellular telephone company. The problem is that VoIP isn't a regulated telephone service. In fact, the VoIP companies have fought tooth and nail to prevent being put into that category. If they were, they'd be subject to the same fees and taxes that apply to other phone companies, and a lot of their cost advantages would evaporate.
VoIP, which stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, is classified as an "information" service, not a "telephone" service. Well, that's what they tell the government. What they tell you is that you are getting a telephone service that's just as good as the one that comes from the phone company, only smarter and cheaper. One of the reasons it's cheaper is that you're not getting the same service.
Without regulation, there's no watchdog agency looking out for your interests. YOU have to be sure to buy a VoIP service that offers E-911 service for your location. YOU then have to register your address with the VoIP provider. If not, they have no idea where you are. A Houston couple didn't realize this before an armed robber shot them in their home and their teenage daughter tried to call 911 on their VoIP phone to no avail. The need for emergency service activation wasn't emphasized by the VoIP service. The low prices were.
So if you are going to add a VoIP phone to your home or office, be sure the service comes with E-911 capability and that you get it properly activated and that you update your address if you ever move. If you don't get E-911 capability, keep one line of regular landline phone service with a corded phone or always have a cell phone handy, and make sure everybody knows which phone to use in an emergency.
That's probably a good idea even if you have the VoIP with E-911 service. Why? Because when your DSL or cable Internet connection goes down you have no VoIP phone service at all. Also, if you lose power you have no phone service unless you have your broadband modem, router, telephone and VoIP adaptor on a backup power supply. You should also test your backup power supply regularly to be sure that it will work when you need it to. The simplest regular, corded phones get their power from the phone line, not the power line. More complex phones with cordless extensions or answering machines also need a battery backup, even with regular phone service. Cell phones run on batteries and the cell towers have diesel generators for backup during power failures.
Traditional phone service was set up to be a "lifeline" service. It is highly reliable, provides power and voice connections to the phone, and is automatically set up for enhanced emergency calls. VoIP technology may achieve the same status someday, even without regulation. But today it's "buyer beware." When you buy a VoIP adaptor and service you are buying a new technology that is still being developed and without regulatory oversight. Treat it as such.
If you would like to save money on traditional phone service, view our local and long distance bundled phone service offers and cell phone plans with free cell phones and money back. We also offer competitive long distance carriers that, with your current local phone service provider, may give you the lowest total monthly phone cost.
Yes, we also offer VoIP services that can be excellent second and third phone lines, but we don't recommend it as your only lifeline phone service.
Contrary to media buzz, VoIP or broadband phone is no ready replacement for traditional wireline phone service. Wireline is the phone service you grew up with. You plug a phone into a wall jack, pick up the handset and hear a dial-tone. Stodgy as it may seem, a hundred years of government regulation and technical refinement has gone into making wireline or landline telephone service something you can count on. For instance, what happens when you pick up your VoIP connected phone and dial 911? Does an emergency dispatcher send the authorities to your house even if you are in no shape to tell them what your problem is? Don't count on it. You might get help. You might get... nothing!
But, wait. Doesn't the government REQUIRE phone services to provide you with Enhanced 911 or E-911 emergency service? That's the kind where the system knows your location and provides it automatically to the emergency dispatcher. You bet it does if your service comes from a wireline or cellular telephone company. The problem is that VoIP isn't a regulated telephone service. In fact, the VoIP companies have fought tooth and nail to prevent being put into that category. If they were, they'd be subject to the same fees and taxes that apply to other phone companies, and a lot of their cost advantages would evaporate.
VoIP, which stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, is classified as an "information" service, not a "telephone" service. Well, that's what they tell the government. What they tell you is that you are getting a telephone service that's just as good as the one that comes from the phone company, only smarter and cheaper. One of the reasons it's cheaper is that you're not getting the same service.
Without regulation, there's no watchdog agency looking out for your interests. YOU have to be sure to buy a VoIP service that offers E-911 service for your location. YOU then have to register your address with the VoIP provider. If not, they have no idea where you are. A Houston couple didn't realize this before an armed robber shot them in their home and their teenage daughter tried to call 911 on their VoIP phone to no avail. The need for emergency service activation wasn't emphasized by the VoIP service. The low prices were.
So if you are going to add a VoIP phone to your home or office, be sure the service comes with E-911 capability and that you get it properly activated and that you update your address if you ever move. If you don't get E-911 capability, keep one line of regular landline phone service with a corded phone or always have a cell phone handy, and make sure everybody knows which phone to use in an emergency.
That's probably a good idea even if you have the VoIP with E-911 service. Why? Because when your DSL or cable Internet connection goes down you have no VoIP phone service at all. Also, if you lose power you have no phone service unless you have your broadband modem, router, telephone and VoIP adaptor on a backup power supply. You should also test your backup power supply regularly to be sure that it will work when you need it to. The simplest regular, corded phones get their power from the phone line, not the power line. More complex phones with cordless extensions or answering machines also need a battery backup, even with regular phone service. Cell phones run on batteries and the cell towers have diesel generators for backup during power failures.
Traditional phone service was set up to be a "lifeline" service. It is highly reliable, provides power and voice connections to the phone, and is automatically set up for enhanced emergency calls. VoIP technology may achieve the same status someday, even without regulation. But today it's "buyer beware." When you buy a VoIP adaptor and service you are buying a new technology that is still being developed and without regulatory oversight. Treat it as such.
If you would like to save money on traditional phone service, view our local and long distance bundled phone service offers and cell phone plans with free cell phones and money back. We also offer competitive long distance carriers that, with your current local phone service provider, may give you the lowest total monthly phone cost.
Yes, we also offer VoIP services that can be excellent second and third phone lines, but we don't recommend it as your only lifeline phone service.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Baseball Addict's Paradise
It's springtime. Time for the fancies of young men and women to turn to ... baseball!
Oh, come on. It's still the national pastime. Most Americans like the sport of baseball. Many consider it a love affair. Some, the REAL baseball aficionados, are head over heels madly, deeply, insanely addicted to the game. And the problem is? Well, the REAL problem is too many games, too little access. If you want to really immerse yourself in the world of the majors, you need to watch the games you want with the teams you want regardless of where you happen to live.
Ah, technology to the rescue. Now the great "bird" in the sky has made arrangements for you to get your baseball fix to the tune of 1,500 games this season. Yeah, you can watch 1,500 Major League Baseball games for less than 10 cents a game. But you better get a move on. The season's started, and the fun waits for no one.
Here's what you do right now. Visit the special Dish Network offer page that we've created just for this occasion. See the spinning baseball? Notice that it says SEASON TICKETS in gold? That's your golden opportunity. Click on that baseball or the text link below the offer. Then enter the Dish Network current offers site and find the "Sports" link on that page. You'll be immediately taken to the sports packages. No need to drool over the basketball or soccer links. They're for another day. You want the link marked "MLB Extra Innings."
Mmmmm. How sweet it is. MLB Extra Innings gives you over 1,500 regular season major league baseball games for outside your home market. That's important. Your local station owns the rights to the games played in your town. So find out who's televising locally so you know when and where to watch those games. What MLB Extra Innings gives you is all the games that you couldn't otherwise see. These are games in addition to the ones they are televising on FOX, ESPN, ESPN2 and the regional sports networks. Now if there's a team you want to follow and you couldn't watch it before, you've got access.
Oh, yes, here's the other reason you want to hurry. MLB Extra Innings from Dish Network has a special early bird price of just $149 or 3 payments of $49.67 if you order before April 18. If you wait until after that, the prices goes up to $169. Save the $20 for hot dogs, popcorn, beer, whatever. And think how much more you can buy at the grocery store than the concession stand. This online offer is only for new Dish Network customers. If you already have service, talk directly with Dish Network customer service to upgrade your account. When you schedule your installation, make sure that you get the right programming packages for you. In addition to MLB Extra Innings you should have a look at the MultiSport Package and the 120 and 180 channel programming packages, movies and international programming. In fact, when you order new Dish Network service right now with the AT60 package, you'll receive the 180 channel package at no extra cost for the first 3 months, for as low as $31.99 per month! Wow, that's a lot of sports plus just about anything else you'd want to watch on TV, assuming you can fit it all in. Never again will you turn off the TV because "there's nothing on."
By the way, you DO want to be able to pause the games to take a break or rewind the action to do your own instant replays, right? No problem. Sign up with the online special running right now and you'll get up to 4 rooms of satellite TV equipment professionally installed by authorized Dish Network installers, including digital video recorders (DVR). Believe me, once you've had DVR you'll come to despise any TV without it. If you want to DVR your local stations, make sure you get the local networks package appropriate to your location. Local stations are available in about 240 markets. If you don't need 4 rooms with DVR and you have a high definition TV, you might also consider getting an HDTV receiver. Yes, that's part of the package. This is expensive high tech hardware if you had to buy it, but you don't. It comes with your service. The installer will make sure it all gets put in right and that you know how to run it.
So, time to stop talking and start ordering. Visit our special Dish Network MLB Extra Innings page now. If it's all too overwhelming, there's also a toll free phone number and some discount codes on that page. A friendly customer service person will be happy to help you pick exactly what you need and get you the best package deal.
See you again after October. Enjoy!
Oh, come on. It's still the national pastime. Most Americans like the sport of baseball. Many consider it a love affair. Some, the REAL baseball aficionados, are head over heels madly, deeply, insanely addicted to the game. And the problem is? Well, the REAL problem is too many games, too little access. If you want to really immerse yourself in the world of the majors, you need to watch the games you want with the teams you want regardless of where you happen to live.
Ah, technology to the rescue. Now the great "bird" in the sky has made arrangements for you to get your baseball fix to the tune of 1,500 games this season. Yeah, you can watch 1,500 Major League Baseball games for less than 10 cents a game. But you better get a move on. The season's started, and the fun waits for no one.
Here's what you do right now. Visit the special Dish Network offer page that we've created just for this occasion. See the spinning baseball? Notice that it says SEASON TICKETS in gold? That's your golden opportunity. Click on that baseball or the text link below the offer. Then enter the Dish Network current offers site and find the "Sports" link on that page. You'll be immediately taken to the sports packages. No need to drool over the basketball or soccer links. They're for another day. You want the link marked "MLB Extra Innings."
Mmmmm. How sweet it is. MLB Extra Innings gives you over 1,500 regular season major league baseball games for outside your home market. That's important. Your local station owns the rights to the games played in your town. So find out who's televising locally so you know when and where to watch those games. What MLB Extra Innings gives you is all the games that you couldn't otherwise see. These are games in addition to the ones they are televising on FOX, ESPN, ESPN2 and the regional sports networks. Now if there's a team you want to follow and you couldn't watch it before, you've got access.
Oh, yes, here's the other reason you want to hurry. MLB Extra Innings from Dish Network has a special early bird price of just $149 or 3 payments of $49.67 if you order before April 18. If you wait until after that, the prices goes up to $169. Save the $20 for hot dogs, popcorn, beer, whatever. And think how much more you can buy at the grocery store than the concession stand. This online offer is only for new Dish Network customers. If you already have service, talk directly with Dish Network customer service to upgrade your account. When you schedule your installation, make sure that you get the right programming packages for you. In addition to MLB Extra Innings you should have a look at the MultiSport Package and the 120 and 180 channel programming packages, movies and international programming. In fact, when you order new Dish Network service right now with the AT60 package, you'll receive the 180 channel package at no extra cost for the first 3 months, for as low as $31.99 per month! Wow, that's a lot of sports plus just about anything else you'd want to watch on TV, assuming you can fit it all in. Never again will you turn off the TV because "there's nothing on."
By the way, you DO want to be able to pause the games to take a break or rewind the action to do your own instant replays, right? No problem. Sign up with the online special running right now and you'll get up to 4 rooms of satellite TV equipment professionally installed by authorized Dish Network installers, including digital video recorders (DVR). Believe me, once you've had DVR you'll come to despise any TV without it. If you want to DVR your local stations, make sure you get the local networks package appropriate to your location. Local stations are available in about 240 markets. If you don't need 4 rooms with DVR and you have a high definition TV, you might also consider getting an HDTV receiver. Yes, that's part of the package. This is expensive high tech hardware if you had to buy it, but you don't. It comes with your service. The installer will make sure it all gets put in right and that you know how to run it.
So, time to stop talking and start ordering. Visit our special Dish Network MLB Extra Innings page now. If it's all too overwhelming, there's also a toll free phone number and some discount codes on that page. A friendly customer service person will be happy to help you pick exactly what you need and get you the best package deal.
See you again after October. Enjoy!
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