Apple has one of the best gadgets coming out this year with its new IPhone which combines alot of different technologies into one, making a great mobile device that will no doubt hurt all current mobile carriers bottom lines this summer. The best feature is the touch screen technology that allows you to do everything with a push of the screen. I am a little worried about dirty hands and how it will affect the device after a couple of weeks but I plan on buying a IPhone as soon as it hits stores next month. One of the things I look forward to the most is watching YouTube videos on it.

I remember older stories where ads for cell phones had been so shunned by customers and the competition for cell phone users is so fierce, that the many attempts at using cell phone records for selling customer info or advertisements coming through via text messages or as interruptions on the screen for mobile applications were always thrown out of consumer demands. Today there is more news circulating about how much money could be earned, numbers in the range of $5 billion a year and such.

With that kind of money on the table it doesn’t surprise me that some cell phone companies are considering new ways to lure people into accepting online ads such as cheaper phone rates or discounts for types of phones or service. Certainly there will always be a market for cheaper phone service and perhaps many people would accept ads given a much lower bill, but I imagine there will become a stereo type with this type of service much like you have with Cricket phones and the quality that people sometimes complain about, I suppose there will be more nicknames to the slower service that would be forced upon end users who are stuck with the cheaper ad driven phones.

Of course there will always be some people trying to find shady ways to spill ads into already existing services, in fact just tonight I got a few text messages from a porn / sex chat spammer who has sending texts to my yahoo messenger account. At the time my messenger was set to away from my desk / I’m mobile so the porn spam was sent to my phone, Which made me pay the 10 cents for the text message and slowing down my life, costing me in several ways that were not necessarily promoted by the cell phone company itself.

I am still unsure about how many cellphone records have been released / bought or sold and what the morals and implications of these truly are, but there is BS there too. We all assumed our cell phone numbers were off limits to marketers, but it seems that was just a false mirage they wanted us to believe.

I look forward to the transition of At&t merging with buying out Cingular, I am hoping that we can get 24 customer support instead of the 9 -5 ish kind of waiting that I have had to deal with as a previous cingular customer. I have yet to need to call upon the service people since the buyout has gone through. So far I have not really seen any changes with cell phone reception or drop calls, but I have to wonder what the future holds.

Will the big corporate buyout ge us bette customer service or more red tape and headaches?

Wirefly offers great deals on every type of cellphone from every carrier imaginable. They have a great looking website that is very user friendly and a great sales team that helped me with every question I had when purchasing my new cellphone . At first I was not sure what plan to go with when buying my next cellphone, it was a toss up between the Cingular Wireless Plan and the Verizon Wireless Plan, and in the end I choose the Cingular Wireless Plan because most of my freinds I talk to these days use Cingular for thier wireless service and we can talk for free anytime because we are on the same network. So if your looking for a cellphone consider not just the cost per minute but who you are going to be talking to the most when your on the phone and see what service they have before signing a contract.

There are rumors going around that Alltell Wireless is for sale and is already in talks with several of it’s rivals. And although I could not track down any offical statement from any of it’s rivals the word on the street is Alltell is for sale.

“Although Alltel Wireless is only the nation’s fifth-largest mobile phone company when you consider the number of subscribers, they have done an excellent job catering to rural and low-population areas that are sometimes snubbed by the bigger names. Maybe that’s not enough. Alltel Wireless is apparently looking for a buyer and they have already had discussions with “all its larger rivals.”

As Alltel is CDMA-based, it would make the most sense for Alltel to team up with Sprint or Verizon, though a partnership, merger, or outright purchase is not out of the cards for T-Mobile or the former Cingular (AT&T) either. One of the major speed bumps to a potential deal, however, is that Alltel is worth too much: “the mobile carrier is valued at almost $22 billion, a number sure to rise if takeover talk persists.”

If Sprint-Nextel or Verizon Communications were to purchase Alltel, they would gain the country’s largest wireless network based on geographical footprint. This is a huge asset, naturally, and one that is worth considering.”