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We mentioned Best Buy Mobile’s Free Phone Friday selection and promotion just before the month kicked off, and the mega retailer is naturally still at it. In case you totally missed the memo and you’re wondering what this deal is, Best Buy breaks it down on its Facebook page. This Friday, October 22nd, visit Best…
AT&T is really looking to beef up its network and is getting ready for LTE. Of course, before that happens, it still has a bit of work to do in terms of deploying HSPA+ and getting its promised 250 million pops covered before the year’s end. There are plenty of areas that still don’t see…
AT&T has posted one killer quarter thanks to the Apple iPhone. We already knew that Apple had strong numbers after getting news from its earnings call that it sold 14.1 million iPhones over the summer. Now AT&T is announcing that it activated 5.4 million iPhone smartphones during that time. These numbers are a record in…
AT&T Senior Vice President of Architecture and Planning Kris Rinne recently shed some light on the operator’s LTE plans at the “4G World” conference currently taking place in Chicago. First thing to note is that AT&T will be using both the 700 MHz frequency and AWS bands to deploy their next generation network. That’s a…
After all the hype and hoopla about Microsoft needing Windows Phone 7 to be a hit to stay relevant in the computing market of the future, we’ve finally been able to spend some good time with the premier launch devices. As the resident music fan, I was tasked with reviewing the speaker-toting HTC Surround for…
From the ashes of Windows Mobile, Microsoft and Samsung have given rise to the Windows Phone 7 operating system with the AT&T Samsung Focus as one of the first smartphones to feature the new eye-candy mobile OS. About as thin as an iPhone 4 and packed with powerful hardware, the Samsung Focus does Windows Phone…
Verizon was the only explicitly-named carrier partner for the launch of the Palm Pre 2 yesterday, but some digging around source code for U.S. and Canadian Palm sites, references to both AT&T and Rogers have been found. Funnily enough, the commented-out code says “The Palm Pre2 phone is available on the Rodger’s network,” so you…
Well, we knew that Verizon would be offering some tiered mobile data plans and it looks like the pricing information has leaked out. It appears that by the end of the month, you’ll be able to pay $15 for 150 MB of data or stick with the unlimited plan for $29.99 a month. This news…
Last week at the Windows Phone 7 launch, AT&T announced that they were going to launch their U-verse mobile TV service for Microsoft’s rebooted mobile platform, but that hardly means AT&T is leaving their other platform partners out in the cold. Today, they announced that the recently-launched BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 and a whole batch…
As expected, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 and Curve 3G 9300 have landed on AT&T. T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint have all had the Curve 9300 out for a little while now, but AT&T is the first in the U.S. to introduce the Pearl 9100. Together, the two flank upper and lower tiers; the Curve 9300…