Verizon wireless today announced partnership with Qualcomm, a world leading mobile chip manufacturer, to form a joint venture to provide machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communications and smart services offerings across a wide variety of market segments, including healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, distribution and consumer products.

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BlackBerry Tour, the latest BlackBerry’s PDA phone, will be available at Verizon Wireless stores starting on July 12. The selling price is $200 after rebates with new agreement. Those interested can pre-order the Tour online starting today.

Verizon Wireless today introduced HTC Ozone, a PDA phone with a full QWETY keyboard. The Ozone phone looks very alike to Palm Centro, a not so successful product for struggling Palm. The Ozone supports Verizon Wireless’ 3G network, and Wi-Fi network. It also has global roaming capabilities, allowing users to use it in other countries.

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I guess RIM doesn’t like BlackBerry Niagara, which was the name of BlackBerry 9630. RIM decided to name the new BlackBerry 9630 “BlackBerry Tour”, which is much better than Niagara. The BlackBerry Tour gets official release today, as RIM announced that the Tour phone will be available in this summer at Sprint and Verizon Wireless, and probably by Bell and Telus in Canada. The Tour phone will be available for $199 with a 2-yr contract agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate. Unlike the controversial BlackBerry Storm phone, which causes many die-hard BlackBerry users to hate BlackBerry products, the BlackBerry Tour doesn’t have a touchscreen.

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Verizon Wireless, US’s largest cell phone carrier by subscribers, launched two new phones today. They are Motorola Rival and CASIO EXILIM. The Motorola Rival looks very alike to LG enV, you could say that Motorola Rival is a clone of LG enV. The Rival phone features a full QWERTY keyboard that slide out from the side, and it is designed for quick and easy messaging just like what LG enV is designed for. The Rival has a 2.0-MP digital camera, 3.5″ headset, microSD memory slot, VCAST support, and GPS support.

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Samsung SCH-U750, also known as Samsung Alias 2, lands at Verizon Wireless today! As the name suggests, the Alias 2 is the upgraded version of once very popular messaging phone – Samsung Alias. The Alias 2 remains dual-hinge design, relying on e-ink keyboard (soft keys) for the keyboard buttons rather than hard keys. How the phone works is when the Alias 2 is opened like a traditional clamshell, the e-ink shows a regular numeric dialpad; when it is opened sideways, the e-ink turns into a full QWERTY keyboard.

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Today Verizon Wireless announced the availability of the CDM8975 flip style push-to-talk phone. The CDM8975 is available immediately for business customers. Developed by Personal Communications Devices, LLC, the CDM8975 supports Verizon Wireless’s Push to Talk service that uses Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) network.

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If you love BlackBerry PDA Phone, you are going to love this BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry’s first touch screen phone. The Storm phone is a strong rival of Apple iPhone, which both phones have their own edges. BlackBerry Storm, like its predecessors, is going to have state-of-the-art email solutions, GPS navigation system, MP3 music player, and Video Player. The only thing that user should be concerned is the Storm PDA doesn’t have physical QWERTY keyboard. Instead, the Storm features a virtual touchscreen keyboard, just like what Apple iPhone has. No matter what, please make sure you put the BlackBerry Storm release date in your calendar!

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BASKING RIDGE, NJ, NEWBURY, England, and WATERLOO, Ontario Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group (NYSE and LSE: VOD) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry Storm^TM will be available later this fall, exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

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Verizon Wireless and LG today added the cool looking LG Voyager Titanium phone into their portfolio of touch-screen phones. “Boasting the same stylish dual-screen design and features of its predecessor in black, the Voyager in Titanium has a lustrous titanium finish and also supports two of the hottest services from Verizon Wireless – V CAST Music with Rhapsody and Visual Voice Mail”

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BASKING RIDGE, NJ – Verizon Wireless released the Verizon Wireless Blitz phone targeting students. The phone is designed for the heaviest of texters, the Blitz comes complete with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and easy access to a dedicated My Messaging key.

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Verizon Wireless launch Casio G’zOne Boulder phone, a mid-spec, rugged phone in United States. This Casio phone withstands shock, water and dust environments. It looks like Verizon Wireless is going to stay away from Motorola’s rugged design phones, which consumers find at Nextel, before Nextel was bought over by Sprint.

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