Official releases from AT&T Wireless. Ogo is available nationally for $99 (after $30 mail-in rebate) at AT&T Wireless stores. Monthly services plans start at $17.99 per month and include access to one premium email/IM provider (AOL, MSN, or Yahoo!) and unlimited incoming and outgoing messages. Access to additional premium email/IM accounts costs $3 each, per month.

Introduced today and available exclusively from AT&T Wireless, Ogo is the first and only wireless messaging device to provide unlimited instant messaging and email from all three leading providers - AOL, MSN, and Yahoo! - plus text messaging, all in a sleek, simple-to-use device.

"With Ogo, we are creating an entirely new category and the next 'must have' device in the consumer electronics space," said Andre Dahan, president of AT&T Wireless Mobile Multimedia Services. "Unlike many of today's disappointing multi-purpose wireless devices, we created Ogo to do one thing - mobile messaging - extraordinarily well. Ogo doesn't pretend to be 'all things to all people,' and is not bogged down by hardly-used features or an out-of-reach price tag. Instead, Ogo offers the most desirable mobile applications, on a smartly-designed device that most people can afford."

In addition to its messaging applications and low price, Ogo's appealing design and patent-pending technology offers a variety of features to make mobile messaging fun and easy. Ogo's unique clamshell case opens to reveal a large, color screen and full keypad with "hot keys" to all major messaging functions. With the click of a button, Ogo-ers can read mail, compose messages, access IM contact lists, insert emoticons, and view all open messages at a glance. In addition, customers can get themselves up and running on Ogo by simply turning it on and following the on-screen activation wizard - bypassing the hassle of an in-store activation process.

Features:

• "Clamshell" design unfolds to display large, color screen and keypad;
• Full QWERTY keypad and 8-way navigation joystick pad;
• 4K color display;
• Compact size and weight: 11.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 2.5 cm (closed) and 4.8 ounces;
• Special "hot keys" for simple navigation - including a special "emoticon" button for inserting emoticons into IM chats and an "Ogo" button to view all active messages and chats on one screen for easy multitasking;
• Instant messaging on all three leading providers - enables users to view and conduct unlimited chat sessions with buddies on Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL?instant messaging services;
• E-mail on all three leading providers - send and receive unlimited email from Yahoo!, MSN and AOL?accounts;
• Text messaging or SMS (Short Message Service) - send and receive unlimited text domestic messages to and from standard wireless phones;
• Consolidated inbox - view all e-mail and text messages in a consolidated mailbox or sort by individual account;
• Special animated features - Assign unique sounds and visual animations to different IM friends/contacts so users hear a different sound when each IM contact comes on-line or sends a message;
• Access to e-mail from other select Internet Service Providers and POP3 accounts at no additional charge;

You can view the demo at

Demo