Wednesday, May 09, 2007

AT&T Updates the 8525 Hand-Held, With XM Radio

I supposed the Bridge Ratings study below should have included satellite radio, too!

AT&T updates the 8525, includes XM
via www.orbitcast.com, May 9th

In their ongoing rebranding effort, the Cingular 8525 smartphone now will be known as the... AT&T 8525. But the stellar namechange isn't the only news here, the 8525 is getting some added features, including XM Radio Mobile pre-loaded.
The AT&T 8525 still rocks many of the features that made it popular when it launched last year: like a sliding QWERTY keyboard, integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, a 2-megapixel camera and video recorder, WMP 10 Mobile and support for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0.
Now, the AT&T 8525 also comes with AT&T Push to Talk functionality as well as AT&T Mobile Music - which includes XM Satellite Radio - pre-installed.
AT&T Mobile Music lets you download full-track songs, music videos, ringtones, music news, and MusicID. AT&T 8525 users can also access music chat rooms, streaming over-the-air music and AT&T is the first U.S. carrier to offer subscription music to the handset from services like Yahoo! and eMusic...read more: here