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Yahoo! Phone Coming To Cingular

Nov 7, 2005, 2:23 AM by (staff)

Yahoo! will soon sell their own branded cell phone using Cingular's network. The internet portal is not launching an MVNO, instead they will launch a co-branded phone by extending their relationship with Cingular's parent SBC, with which they already co-brand high speed internet service. SBC executives have revealed the Yahoo! handset will be a Nokia model with 1.3 Megapixel camera, memory card, and mp3 playback, however they did not specify the exact model.

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Shoota

Nov 7, 2005, 10:26 AM

hmm

Im more of a Google man myself.. 😕

muchdrama

Shoota said:
Im more of a google man myself.. 😕

Just wait...I'm sure "GooglePhone" is right around the corner. This is starting to get a little bit nuts.

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FONdude

Nov 7, 2005, 1:23 PM

And I'm excited about this because...???

Who derives value from this? Consumers? Cingular? Yahoo? Nokia? Investors? Maybe, a little bit for each. But, I don't see alot anywhere. Can there even be enough value to make this a worthwhile venture?

If I'm missing something, please share.

nih61185

yea that is kinda weird.. i know yahoo has some kinda deal with tivo.. maybe this will make tv on cell phones cheap?

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