As of this date, 1.5M customers have been added to Verizon. Incidentally, data revenue has increased by 45%. Verizon claims this to be the highest figure in the U.S. market. As a result, a total of 68.7 million subscribers uphold Verizon to the 2^nd place in subscriber base ranking.

And for the record, Verizon Wireless laid down its report of total quarterly revenue of US$12.1 billion, an 11.8% gain versus Q2 2007, and said that data revenue is up 45.3% from the same quarter in the prior year, coming in at $2.6 billion. According to the network, 70 billion text messages and 1.4 billion picture and video messages where exchanged by its users for the whole quarter –that is roughly 780 million messages per day, or about 9,000 messages per second on average. For your information…

Casio has just officially announced the birth of the new Casio G’zOne Boulder, a clamshell phone that is manufactured to endure the test of water, dirt, and shock. Features include: Push-to-Talk, 1.3 megapixel camera, and Bluetooth. There is so much room for storage in Casio G’zone Boulder, in fact its microSD card slot can accommodate up to 8 gigabytes of memory.

To complete its craggy look, the G’zone Boulder has a built-in compass and a very efficient flashlight polished by high-speed web conection and a GPS. The Casio G’zOne Boulder is available in black and silver or orange for $129.99 online, after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year service agreement.

“The sale of our AWS spectrum is just the first step in maximizing the value of our spectrum portfolio. We will continue to monetize our remaining spectrum assets in the U.S. and are working with Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank to achieve our spectrum sale objectives.” These are the words of Mr. Allen Salmasi, chief executive officer and president of NextWave Wireless.

The remaining U.S. spectrum assets of NextWave include 2.8 billion MHz-pops of 2.3 GHz WCS spectrum, 972 million MHz-pops of 2.5 GHz BRS/EBS spectrum, and 348 million MHz pops of AWS spectrum. Moreover, the company also has 5.9 billion MHz-pops of spectrum in Europe, Canada, and South America.

NextWave broadcasted last April 2008 that it had maintained Deutsche Bank and UBS Investment Bank to sell its U.S. spectrum assets. The company also maintained Canaccord Adams to vend its Canadian spectrum assets.

It was a big hit when Apple offered their ‘supposed to be innovative’ MobileMe service wherein the users are enable to synchronize their data, bookmarks, and an online photo gallery on their own Windows computers as well as on the Macintosh computers with their iPhones and iPod Touch hand-helds. But then again, this service is said to be still imperfect.

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With just a finger-flick, jump right to your phonebook, go directly to your client meeting via GPS directions, flip right through your voicemail messages. Do all of these with Samsung Instinct –where touchscreen technology is better than ever. With Samsung Instinct, you can leap, as fast basically just anywhere you want to go.

Samsung Instinct comes with loads of freebies including 2 GB microSD card, a microSD card adaptor, an extra Lithium Ion battery, a battery charging case, a 3.5 mm stereo headset, a charging USB cable and a stylus. Not to forget the free cell phone case especially designed for this brilliant gadget.

So if you need to check on your e-mail or if you are planning to download music while out with your friends in your favorite hangout, you better hurry and grab the latest Samsung Instinct.