3G Wireless Messaging Fun Launched by Sprint

Sprint and Scan Mobile are launching messaging-based entertainment applications as part of the nationwide introduction of PCS Vision. These applications include: Flirting, Daily Poll, Matchmaker, Love Quiz, ??? Crush, Grenade!, Crystal Ball and Truth/Dare. These highly viral games are sure to spread quickly between Sprint Vision-enabled wireless customers.

PCS Vision enables customers to have a conversation without all the talking. PCS Vision makes wireless messaging services from Sprint an extension of the desktop experience with fully functioning Web-based PCS Mail, PCS Short Mail, Wireless Chat and Messaging Fun games by Scan Mobile. Customers can also use their Vision-enabled PCS Devices to take and receive pictures, check personal and corporate e-mail, play games with full-color graphics and polyphonic sounds and browse the Internet wirelessly with speeds comparable to a home computer's dial-up connection. The shift to providing clarity you can see and hear has revolutionized virtually every aspect of wireless service from Sprint to provide the introduction of applications, features and devices that no other wireless carrier in the nation can match.

"More and more people today depend on the online world as their link to entertainment and communication," said Chip Novick, vice president of consumer marketing for the PCS division of Sprint. "With PCS Vision, and the fun messaging applications offered through Scan Mobile, Sprint wireless customers are able to stay connected to what is happening now, clear across the country. This highly interactive new way to communicate will undoubtedly be showing up in hallways, on campuses, among old friends and perhaps some new friends nationwide."

"Sprint is the first mobile network operator in the U.S. to roll out messaging-based games and we are delighted to be the sole provider for this nationwide launch," said David Deutsch, vice president of Business Affairs for Scan Mobile Ltd. "We believe that the launch of 3G networks will spur the use of messaging-based entertainment, along with the other data services enabled by these new networks."

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Messaging Fun options can be accessed over the network on any Vision-enabled PCS Phone and include:
" Flirting: Flirting provides an interactive meeting place for flirtatious communication with friends or strangers.
" Daily Poll: It is always fun to find out what other people like. With Daily Poll users answer the Question of the Day and receive the results at the end of the poll.
" Matchmaker: Matchmaker matches users based on profiles and enables them to "meet" and flirt wirelessly and anonymously.
" Love Quiz: With Love Quiz, users can find out if they are well suited to their current mate, or find out what kind of person they would be compatible with, by answering questions and receiving a customized profile.
" ??? Crush: How do you tell someone you have a crush on them? Use ??? Crush to send an anonymous message, then the person can guess who sent it and if they get it right, respond back. It could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
" Crystal Ball: What does the future hold? Crystal Ball gives its predictions.
" Grenade!: Users receive grenades and have five minutes to pass them along in a game of wireless hot potato before they explode and get "virtually" blown up.
" Truth/Dare: Providing fodder for parties everywhere, Truth/Dare gives users the choice between baring their soul or doing something daring in front of others.