Cell Phone Events

We have tickets available to all 7 world series games between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Philadelphia Phillies. The AL champion Rays will be playing in their first world series, whereas the Phillies will be shooting for their second world series championship.

The series kicks off tonight from Tampa’s Tropicana Field.

The much anticipated Google Android powered G1 launched today in all markets currently live on T-Mobile’s 3G network. Google held a launch event at T-Mobile’s flagship store in San Francisco today, and Venturebeat recorded the video which features Google Android product manager Erick Tseng describing the G1 as well as applications for reading bar codes and over the air song identification.

As we noted in an earlier post, the G1 is available from T-Mobile at $179 with a new 2 year agreement.

PhoneEvents.com rocks on the G1!

Engadget has reported that AT&T is now selling the Samsung Epix at its’ retail stores for $99 on a 2-year contract. The Windows Mobile 6.1 phone features HSDPA speed, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 2 mega pixel camera, assisted GPS with AT&T navigator, video share support, 2.5 inch touchscreen, and an optical mouse.

Motorola just released the i776 flip phone on Sprint. The brushed metal and brown phone features GPS, Bluetooth, speakerphone, and an iDEN antenna. It is available for $79.99 with a new 2-year agreement on Sprint.

Motorola entered the scorching market for touchscreen smartphones with the introduction of the Krave ZN4 for Verizon Wireless. The touchscreen Krave ZN4 features a clear protective screen through which you can access videos, an mp3 music player, photos, and GPS. The drawback of the Krave ZN4 is that you must lift the screen to type messages! I’m sure Motorola will correct this feature misstep, as well as the missing Wifi in a future version of the Krave ZN4.

The Krave ZN4 works on Verizon’s 3G EVDO network, and retails for $149 with a 2-year contract.

Both New York and Hollywood saw blow out launch parties for the Android powered T-Mobile G1. The invite only events featured celebrities such as Mischa Barton, Rosario Dawson, and Anthony Anderson, who got a chance to try out the high powered G1.

The T-Mobile G1 provides users with a touch screen mobile Internet experience, integrated voice, email, IM, and mobile messaging communications. All of the functionality is wrapped in a compact handheld device that features a trackball and a slide out QWERTY keyboard.

T-Mobile is taking preorders now for November 12, 2008 delivery. Those who ordered before October 3rd will be receiving their G1 on Wednesday, October 22, 2008.

On the heels of sell outs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Janet Jackson continues her Rock Witchu tour accompanied by LL Cool J (photo courtesy of Live Nation who sponsors the Rock Witchu tour) who joined the tour with tremendous support from fans in Los Angeles. LL Cool J will accompany Ms. Jackson for the remainder of the Rock Witchu Tour. We have tickets for all remaining dates.

Metallica kicks of their north american tour supporting their latest album titled Death Magnetic. The 32 date tour will get underway November 21st at Jobing Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Tickets are available through PhoneEvents.com and m.PhoneEvents.com. The full tour itinerary is below, with dates subject to change.

Many of you saw media coverage of our Win Free Tickets promotion last week. We kicked off the promotion with news that we’ll give away two tickets, up to a $250 value, at random to registered users of PhoneEvents.com or m.PhoneEvents.com on your cell phone. The free ticket giveaway will continue every 60 days from November 2nd (when the first winner will be announced) onward. Good luck!

We just created a group on Flickr that is open to all. We encourage you to take as many photos and videos at events and share them with the entire Phone Events community. We especially encourage uploading photos and videos taken using your cell phone as these add a special “flair” of the moment of our trademarked “what’s happening now” mantra.

The Phone Events group on Flickr is found at http://www.flickr.com/groups/phoneevents.

We welcome and encourage your participation.

We just added address book importing support for MSN Hotmail. This means we now support importing from Yahoo Mail, Google GMail, and of course direct input. We’ll be adding support for AOL Mail soon.

PhoneEvents.com and m.PhoneEvents.com recently joined Twitter (http://twitter.com/phoneevents). We will provide updates on happenings in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and many other great cities. We’ll also publish news bursts on artists like Coldplay, Maroon 5, Madonna, and more. Of special note, we’ll let you know if we’ve got tickets to sold out events, even those at hot night clubs like San Francisco’s Ruby Skye, or Vegas’ Ghost Bar.

You can follow us on Twitter by adding Phoneevents or curtis [at] eventmobile [dot] net. Also to remember to look for our logo: