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Cell Provider to Offer 'MySpace Phone'

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

February 16, 2006, 7:02 PM

Helio, a joint venture between Earthlink and SK Telecom, said on Thursday that it had reached a deal with popular social networking site MySpace to bring the service to two phones being offered by the carrier. Users would be able to read and post to the site at no charge, the company said. The phones, "Hero" and "Kickflip" would be feature large screens and cameras.

No launch date has been set for the service, and prices for the phones or plans were not announced. An "MVNO," or mobile virtual network operator, Helio would lease access from Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless networks in order to offer service. Logging more traffic than Google, MySpace has nearly 54 million users, and was purchased by media giant News Corp. for nearly $580 million.

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By Colonel Angus

edited Oct 2, 2006 - 12:28 PM

I'm Colonel Angus
This is an example

http://www.myspace.com/myspace_colonel_angus

(319) 228-2528
Drunk dialing is always welcome!

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By Devlin McGregor

edited Nov 28, 2007 - 3:10 AM

319-228-2528

The caller's name is Devlin McGregor

Website:
http://www.voy.com/207888/

Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/drunk_dialers_hotline

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By Devlin McGregor

edited Nov 28, 2007 - 3:08 AM

Maria Catalina Ibarra's number is (319) 228-2528

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By froogyfatman

edited Aug 3, 2006 - 4:55 PM

i want a myspace phone people or aa cricket if u have one email me at

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By creep420

edited Feb 20, 2006 - 6:09 PM

any decent wap-enabled phone can access myspace. Get the Opera Mini browser for your phone mini.opera.com and myspace is already set in the bookmarks. All the traffic is routed through opera's servers which adapts the pages and further compresses pictures for faster loads.

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By joeshmoe7

posted Feb 19, 2006 - 8:32 PM

I want my BetaNews phone.

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By forgie

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 3:43 PM

MySpace is run by monkeys. While its got some great concepts, the backend hosting and development of it is awful and is done by guys with a high school level of education. /rant

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By JoshvanHulst

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 4:16 AM

I have found so many friends on there that I used to know or love to keep in contact with. In addition, it's adicting to have your own profile and keeping it updated

- Josh

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By PC_Tool

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 9:14 AM

Cuz a real life is just so much work, right?

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By TheBeastH6

edited Feb 17, 2006 - 11:02 AM

In comparison to anything electronic and that sends text from machine to machine; yes. Nonetheless I am a proud MySpace abandoner for over a full year.

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By PC_Tool

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 11:59 AM

lmao..

At least you admit you can had a problem. ;P

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By TheBeastH6

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 4:07 PM

Life is like rehab for MySpace.

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By kompression

posted Feb 16, 2006 - 9:24 PM

54 million stupid people out there and the numbers keep getting bigger...

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By mjm01010101

posted Feb 16, 2006 - 8:43 PM

I don't understand the attraction of myspace, but then again I'm well out of high school. Why is this service so popular?

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By techie_G33k

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 10:28 AM

I use it just because I have friends that I would otherwise never be able to talk with. It's another for of E-mailing for me as I don't really do anything with my profile or Blogs, but just Message friends - that live way out of town.

Also I use it to find new music - which I have found plenty of it!

If nothing else turn it into a new way to listen to songs for free (download some even) and find new music!

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By PC_Tool

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 9:13 AM

It's a service that allows pervs to get back into high-school...or at least the girls going there.

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By OafyC

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 1:21 AM

I'm out of High School but only by a couple years. For me it has allowed me to get in touch with a lot of my friends that I had otherwise lost contact with for various reasons.

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By TomeOne

posted Feb 16, 2006 - 8:17 PM

Cellphones: providing stupid crap for stupid people.

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By athome

posted Feb 17, 2006 - 7:51 AM

It's like listening to music on your phone. :)

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By DJInsomniac

posted Feb 16, 2006 - 8:14 PM

Haha, I'm not going to lie. This is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard of, but you know it will sell more than like any other phone.

Good idea because it's going to get Helio rich as hell, but just so stupid.

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By pimpinsince

edited Mar 1, 2006 - 6:33 PM

why do people feel the need to negatively comment on things that don't interest or concern them? Do you people like be negative? Grow up and get a life please... don't get me wrong I'm not defending this monstrosity i actually came across it accidently.

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