Verizon Wireless Offers Up the Blitz

August 25, 2008

Verizon Wireless’ latest mobile phone offering called Blitz, is a simple and basic text messaging phone with slide-out QWERTY keyboard. This candy bar-looking mobile phone is geared for mobile phone users who are both voracious texters and also those who simply want to stay in touch with their friends and family. The VW Blitz offers up an easy-way to do your mobile blogging, web browsing and SMS sending through its My Messaging Key. It features a bright, high-resolution screen with 1.3 megapixel camera, a speakerphone and a Stereo Bluetooth for hands-free calling. Here’s the complete details and specs of the Verizon Wireless Blitz mobile phone: 2.2-inch screen with up to 220×176 pixel display, music player capability for MP3 and WMA music formats, a dedicated music key, playlist manager, music sync from PC to phone, microSD memory port with up to 4GB support, a self-timer for the 1.3-megapixel camera, color effects such as normal, antique, black&white and negative. The Blitz phone also features Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Music with Rhapsody, Media Center for downloading games, ringtones and more, mobile web 2.0, mobile email, mobile web mail, mobile IM and chat facility, text-picture-voice messaging, VZ Navigator-capable, Chaperon Child feature and voice mail. It is also packed with the general mobile phone features such as various mobile tools (calculator, calendar, alarm clock), phonebook with up to 1000 entries, speed dialing and TTY/TDD capability.The Verizon Wireless Blitz will set you back around $69.99 with a two-year service contract if you order online.