WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Verizon is now selling the Samsung Rogue is a messaging phone with a  with a horizontal slide-out, four-row QWERTY keyboard. The Samsung Rogue has threaded messaging and one-touch access to popular social networking widgets, including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Photobucket.

The Samsung Rogue also features speech functions powered by Nuance to launch and control a variety of applications and services with voice commands as well as dictate text messages.

The Samsung Rogue can use the new flexible data priciing Rogue customers who want to check e-mail; surf the Web; and download applications, games or ringtones will be able to select either a 25 MB for $9.99 monthly access option or a 75 MB for $19.99 monthly access option to couple with their Nationwide plan.

Following are additional key features and specifications for the Samsung Rogue.

• Available in bronze/black color.
• 3.1-inch ultra-brilliant touchscreen
  • Widescreen WVGA AMOLED (Wide Video Graphics Array Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) responsive touch screen results in one of the brightest and clearest displays on a mobile phone in the United States
  • Slide out horizontally to reveal a four-row QWERTY keypad
• Full HTML Web browsing capabilities with one-touch access to social networking sites via shortcut widgets.
• Full messaging suite including SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, Mobile Email and Corporate Email.
• 3.0 megapixel camera with flash and video capture and on-device editing capabilities.
• Supports Verizon Wireless services including V CAST Music with Rhapsody, V CAST Video, and Visual Voice Mail.
• Media Center-capable - downloadable games, ringtones, wallpapers, location-based services, such as VZ Navigator(SM) and Chaperone.
• Pre-loaded games including "NEED FOR SPEED Undercover," "Resident Evil: Degeneration," and "Tetris and Dice".
• microSD card slot with support for up to 16 GB (card purchased separately)
• File Viewer can view Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe PDF documents stored on a memory card.

Customers who want to watch full-length TV shows plus news, sports, weather and live entertainment video clips can also add Verizon Wireless' new V CAST Video on Demand plan that gives customers access to unlimited basic video clips, ESPN MVP and unlimited megabytes for their V CAST Video usage for $10.00 monthly. The new V CAST Video on Demand plan replaces the $15.00 V CAST VPak. These changes will not impact existing customers.

The Samsung Rogue is available today for $99.99 after a $100.00 mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement.  If you use the Wireless and Mobile News' Verizon online coupon-link you will get the rebate instantly with an online purchase.