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U.S. Cellular today announced that it is offering Nuance's Voice Mail to Text to its customers. U.S. Cellular customers that choose to use Voice Mail to Text will be able to read their voice mail messages via text message or email on their mobile phone rather than dial in to the voicemail system and listen to the messages directly. Customers can respond to voice mail messages via text or email if they wish, and the service makes it easier to search through old voice mails. Voice Mail to Text is being offered for free for 30 days, after which it will cost $2.99 per month.

AT&T has announced the Samsung Galaxy Note will be available on February 19th. However, you can get your hands-on earlier than that without have to line-up in front of AT&T stores. Best Buy is offering the Galaxy Note for pre-order starting on February 5th through Best Buy’s website or any retail store.

If you pre-order the device via Best Buy, you’ll get a free flip cover for free. Unfortunately, Best Buy didn’t mentioned any specific brand for the cover to be. However, they did mentioned that the cover value to be a $29.99.

When the device is launch, it would be the first Android smartphone sold with a stylus or “S-pen”, the largest and highest-resolution smartphone in the country, and also Samsung’s Super AMOLED display technology. It packed with a 1.4Ghz processor, 16GB of storage and an 8MP camera.

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Never ending changes on Motorola DROID 4 launched date might got on some people nerves. Last we heard the device will be available on February 9th for $200 with a two-years commitment. Now, another information has been released and it said the DROID 4 will be available on February 10th in Verizon Store locations nationwide.

As time passed since the first DROID appeared, it also quickly replaced by other device such as Evo phones and HTC’s myriad. However soon after it survived once again with the coming of the Droid Razr and Droid Razr Maxx. And now we got the Motorola DROID 4. There will be a big expectation from everybody on the forth generation of DROID.

[via SlashGear]

Samsung brings a mid-range Galaxy-class device to MetroPCS's network in the Attain 4G. This simpler smartphone packs some surprises, along with some disappointments.

Court documents reveal that Motorola is seeking 2.25% of Apple's iPhone sales in order to license the standards-essential patents that Motorola holds. That percentage amounts to about $15 per iPhone (unsubsidized iPhone 4S 16GB). Motorola and Apple are amidst a patent battle in German courts, and the document came to light as part of this week's proceedings in those cases. At issues is whether or not Motorola's terms represent a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) offer. Apple argues that the terms are not fair. Motorola has won two decisions against Apple, one in December and one on February 3. The first pertains to smartphone patents, while the second pertains to Apple's iCloud service and email syncing patents.