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We were hoping for an epic slugfest between the CEOs of AT&T, Sprint and Verizon during the CTIA 2011 keynote but instead we got a few playful jabs and a whole lot of talk about collaboration, innovation and how amazing the wireless industry is. Unlike the previous CTIA keynote, the CEOs of the three largest…
We’re live at the CTIA show in San Diego and we’re about to hear the day one keynote and it should be a doozy, as the CEOs of AT&T, Sprint and Verizon will duke it out. We can consider this round two, as AT&T Wireless CEO Ralph de la Vega, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and…
AT&T once dominated the smartphone field with the iPhone, but now that Verizon and Sprint are in the running, the carrier can’t just rest on its laurels. So, AT&T has just announced five new Android smartphones, including the Motorola Atrix 2, successor to the relatively powerful Atrix from earlier this year. The Atrix 2 has…
We’re live from the CTIA Enterprise and Apps show in sunny San Diego and this was poised to be one of the best fall show yet before a major handset announcement was postponed. Fear not, loyal reader, as the mobile conference will still be jam-packed with interesting news and apps, so let’s take a look…
Things are working up nicely for AT&T and Apple with the carrier announcing hitting the 200,000 pre-orders milestone in the first 12 hours, making for their most successful iPhone launch ever. Here’s the statement issued by AT&T: AT&T has seen extraordinary demand for iPhone 4S with more than 200,000 preorders in the first 12 hours…
You’ve probably heard that Google’s and Samsung’s event has been cancelled/postponed and that we’ll have to wait for few more days to see the next Nexus smartphone officially announced. In the meantime, a GSM-based version of the device with HSPA-based 3G radio has been spotted at the FCC and is, as far as we can…
It’s not that often to see carriers slashing the prices of their phones. Quite the contrary, usually it’s the third-party retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Wirefly that try to compete by cutting their margins to get customers on board. In that sense, today’s deal is an exception with AT&T offering the HTC HD7S for a…
As mentioned during the launch announcement, iPhone 4S pre-orders are available for a number of countries today, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Though the iPhone 4S looks pretty much identical to the iPhone 4 launched last year, there are a few notable upgrades. The camera is now 8 megapixels, with…
AT&T launched a neat pack of mobile apps to help people who are blind or have low vision to use Android smartphones. The new AT&T Mobile Accessibility Lite is actually a custom version of the screen-access application, Mobile Accessibility (developed by Code Factory), and it’s a bundle of 11 different apps — including Phone, Contacts,…
Samsung has started rolling out Media Hub to select group of users, namely Galaxy S II owners on AT&T. Everyone who signs-up gets a complementary $25 voucher to grab some movies and TV shows. Then, once these are downloaded, there’s an option to beam the content to the big screen, if that big screen includes…