TS2R Wireless News: Indie Muve Music, Free VZW Workshops & Tablet Top Gift

TS2R Wireless News.jpgTS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:

Full news stories today include Sprint iPhone 4S issues, the Samsung Transform Ultra, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Motorola updates,  Droid Pro/Droid 2 Global update and HTC's Rezound (Vigor) NYC event.

Here's the news that is too short to report:

  • Cricket Wireless announced that its Muve Music service has signed an agreement with the global Independent rights agency Merlin to bring its members catalog of more than two million songs to the first wireless music service designed specifically for the phone.
  • Verizon Wireless is making sure smartphone customers – new and experienced – don't have to look far for answers to any and all questions with free Wireless Workshops, available at participating Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online.
  • Consumers plan to spend on average $246 on electronics gifts, an increase of six percent from last year according to CEA. . Tablet computers trail only clothes as the most wanted gifts overall.
  • Between 2010 and 2015, the global installed base of smartphones will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33 percent. The tablet market will move even faster, achieving a CAGR of 81 percent during the same period reported the Yankee Group. 44 percent of consumers have either never heard of 4G or don’t understand what it means.