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I usually blog about affiliate marketing, but every once in a while something related to business comes up that’s worth passing on. This is not a promo for any particular product or service and there is no compensation involved. This was intended to be a post at the Affiliate Trust Forum but was becoming a book, so here it lands…

Whenever I get mail from Qwest that doesn’t look like the regular bill, I just toss it because it’s usually a special offer or promo. I got another one a few days ago that I’m glad I opened. Had it not been in a large manila envelope, it would have suffered the demise of the others.

Turns out that Qwest is closing Qwest Wireless services and apparently becoming an agent of Verizon. I currently subscribe to Qwest business services that ties my cell service with my business landline service through what they call “one number”. So how will this impact the communications I’ve relied on for so many years? It’s not pretty! No more one number service that automatically routes calls for either the landline or cell number to the cell phone when it’s on, or either number to the landline when the cell phone is off. When unanswered our office voicemail system picks up the call. Not only this, but it’s goodbye trusty Motorola V710. This cell phone will become obsolete and worthless when the change is complete in September. I’ll salvage the micro SD card, but that’s it.

Next thought… hmm, perhaps now is my chance to catch up with technology (again!). My wife and I… well, let’s just say we’re behind the times. My youngest son, his girlfriend, and my daughter all have G-Phones. My older son has an I-Phone. Every time I’m with them something comes up that sends them scurrying to search Google using their phones. I sort of pat my Moto and watch longingly while they access the world at their fingertips.

So I began a qwest (sic) to see what I can do to catch up. And sorry, I just don’t use the phone enough to make the purchase price of an I or G phone worthwhile, along with their exorbitant monthly connection fees.

Enter the Samsung Omnia… it seems you hear so much about the I and G phones with their touch screens that you may not realize there are alternatives with similar features. Verizon offers a selection of touch screen phones. I spotted the Omnia and did a little research. There’s a good review with video at cnet reviews. This is a “smart phone” running MS Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional with Microsoft® office Word Mobile, Excel® Mobile, and PowerPoint® Mobile; Adobe® Reader® LE PDF viewer, and Opera™ Mobile browser. It’s Wi–Fi Capable, plays DivX movies, and includes 8GB of additional internal memory. Wow! And the good news, with the Qwest 25% discount and the rebate that comes with the phone, it’s costing me about $75.

So for you fulltime Internet marketers who desire mobile business and communications access, the Omnia may just fit the bill.

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