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T-Mobile Launches Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC Phone Edition
URL(s): www.t-mobile.com
Customers GET MORE with Full Color Wireless Internet Experience on Voice-enabled PDA
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug 1, 2002 - The promise of delivering customers a rich, wireless Internet experience on a mobile
device was delivered in living color today as T-Mobile USA, one of the nation's leading providers of wireless voice and data services, announced the
immediate availability of the T-Mobile branded Windows Powered Pocket PC Phone Edition for T-Mobile and VoiceStream customers exclusively.
Consistent with T-Mobile's GET MORE service offering, the highly anticipated voice-enabled PDA gives customers a true, full color Internet
experience on a mobile device, fully integrated with pocket versions of their favorite Microsoft software applications. The device is available
nationally today through T-Mobile and VoiceStream Wireless sales channels and can be used anywhere across T-Mobile's network -- the only
nationwide all digital GSM/GPRS high-speed wireless voice and data network in the county.
The T-Mobile brand debuted with the launch of service in California and Nevada in July and will transition the VoiceStream Wireless name to
T-Mobile over the next few months, offering service in 45 of the top 50 U.S. markets.
The combination of Microsoft's Pocket PC Phone Edition software and T-Mobile's all digital wireless network enables customers to wirelessly
access the Internet, secure corporate networks, e-mail, calendar and contacts from more than 8,000 cities across North America at speeds that
meet or exceed standard dial-up wired connections. The highly anticipated device, priced at $549.99 with a $50.00 rebate with activation of qualified
voice and data plans, is a fully integrated PDA and dual mode wireless phone. Customers can stay in touch and online with pocket versions of their
favorite Microsoft software applications including Internet Explorer, Outlook, MSN Messenger, Windows Media Player, Word and Excel.
The dual band phone functionality means customers can use their T-Mobile Pocket PC device and same phone number when traveling in more than
90 countries, with voice rates as low as 99 cents a minute through T-Mobile's WorldClass service.
"Our goal is to offer affordable, broad-scale wireless access to the information customers want and the applications they know through a broad
choice of intelligent devices," said Cole Brodman, senior vice president of systems and product development at T-Mobile USA. "The Pocket PC
Phone Edition is a premier addition to our line up of innovative voice and data solutions for consumers and businesses and is available today,
nationwide. With T-Mobile's high-speed wireless networks, customers can extend their familiar desktop experience beyond their home and office to
get more applications and more access to content in more places."
The T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition is packed with features and functionality, making it an ideal productivity tool for anyone who owns a
Windows desktop:
Wireless phone
Use it as a wireless phone that you can hold to your ear or use with the included hands-free headset. Even hold a conference call with a built in
speaker phone and take notes on the PDA during a phone call. Send two-way text messages to friends and family across the nation, no matter
which wireless device or service provider they use.
Internet access
Browse the Internet or your corporate intranet via Virtual Private Network (VPN) wherever you happen to be with a standards based HTML
browser.
Synch Your Outlook E-Mail
Sync your Outlook e-mail with your desktop PC, using the included Pocket PC cradle.
Wireless e-mail
Remotely access Internet and POP3 e-mail and attachments.
Microsoft platform and applications
Stay in touch and online with the extensible Windows platform and pocket versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, Windows Media
Player, Outlook and MSN Messenger to provide a PC in your hand. Use Microsoft Reader and Windows Media Player to read books and play
MP3s.
Organizer
Use the Pocket Outlook to access your contacts, calendar, task list and files.
Connected
Make voice and data calls and sync using the included Pocket PC cradle over a USB connection to your Windows desktop. Beam v-cards and
appointments to your friends using the IrDA port.
Expandable
Expand your capabilities by getting additional memory with the standard Secure Digital (SD/MMC) slot in a totally integrated Windows device that
fits in your pocket and offers ubiquitous coverage and high data speeds.
"Microsoft is very excited about making the Pocket PC Phone Edition available to customers of Windows with T-Mobile," said Juha Christensen,
corporate vice president of the mobility group at Microsoft. "T-Mobile shares our belief that software is important to provide more value to mobile
professionals and consumers. As a technology leading global carrier, operating a high-speed nationwide GSM/GPRS network, T-Mobile customers
using Pocket PC Phone Edition can access more content, and communicate with more people, in more places than ever before."
Starting today, the Pocket PC Phone Edition is available at more than 200 select T-Mobile and VoiceStream Wireless stores nationwide and online
at www.t-mobile.com. Additionally, the T-Mobile Pocket PC PE is available through the company's direct enterprise sales force, as well as
authorized T-Mobile and VoiceStream Wireless dealers.
About T-Mobile USA
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA is a member of the T-Mobile International group, the mobile telecommunications subsidiary of Deutsche
Telekom (NYSE:DT). Through its subsidiaries and other investments, Deutsche Telekom today serves more than 69 million wireless subscribers
worldwide, ranking it one of the top three wireless carriers globally. By the end of the year, T-Mobile will transition its current VoiceStream brand in
the U.S. to T-Mobile and market services in 45 of the top 50 U.S. markets. T-Mobile USA operates the largest GSM/GPRS voice and data
network in the country and also operates a Wi-Fi 802.11b wireless broadband, (WLAN) network in more than 650 public locations across the
country. T-Mobile is committed to providing the best value in wireless service through its "GET MORE" promise to provide customers with more
minutes, more features and more service than any other wireless provider. For more information, visit the company web site at
www.t-mobile.com
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