World's First FasTap Phone the LG 6190

Fastap technology makes it far faster and easier for Canadians to send text, picture and e-mail messages, or enter e-mail addresses, phonebook contacts, Internet directory searches and other data directly into their wireless phones.

"With Canadians already sending millions of text messages every day, it's clear that consumer and business clients are hooked on the power of text. Thanks to its separate raised keys for every letter, the revolutionary Fastap keypad design makes texting faster and easier than ever," said Robert Blumenthal, Vice President of Products and Services for TELUS Mobility. "The standard phone keypad hadn't been improved in 50 years. With Fastap, it's now been upgraded to allow our clients to text at warp speed."

According to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, Canadians already send more than two million phone-to-phone text messages every day. Youth are particularly energetic texters. According to Ottawa-based market researcher The Yankee Group in Canada, teenagers average more than 50 messages a month, compared to 30 per month for young adults and 19 monthly for older adults.

Faster texting, e-mail and data
The Fastap keypad is the first that neatly integrates letter, number and punctuation keys around the standard numeric keypad on a mobile phone. The intuitive interface allows clients to compose messages at least twice as fast as with a standard keypad, eliminating the "triple tapping" often required to input a single letter. Fastap keypad technologies, developed and owned by Digit Wireless (digitwireless.com), are available on the Fastap LG 6190 exclusively from TELUS Mobility.

Clients can quickly send text messages, add text to picture messages, and input a variety of other data into their phones, such as phonebook entries or directory searches on the wireless Web. They can also send and receive e-mail from TELUS, Hotmail and other POP3 e-mail accounts.

The Fastap LG 6190 flip phone is also a 300k pixel digital camera phone with built-in flash, 4X digital zoom and access to TELUS Mobility's picture messaging service, It also features an integrated speakerphone and downloadable ringtones, images and games. The Fastap LG 6190 is available at an introductory price of $99.99 with a three-year contract until December 31, 2004.

About TELUS Mobility
TELUS Mobility provides its 3.75 million clients across Canada with a full suite of wireless voice, Internet and data services through its PCS and Mike digital wireless networks. For more, visit telusmobility.com.

 

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