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If you were waiting for the Samsung Captivate for AT&T to drop in price, your wishes have been answered. The Galaxy S phone is now available for a single cent on Amazon, with a two-year contract attached, of course. Yeah, we know, a lot of smartphones can be found for about a penny online, but…
Another day, another Windows Phone 7 handset spotted in the wild and headed for AT&T. Today, we have a silver-trimmed, landscape slider from HTC with the rather bland internal designation of T8788. Looks can be deceiving though as underneath that smooth sliding hinge is not a beautiful HTC keyboard but a speaker for those Zune…
SCVNGR and AT&T are teaming up to use geo-location gaming to promote the recently-introduced Samsung Galaxy S Android phone, the Captivate. If you’re not familiar with SCVNGR, you should check out its apps on the iPhone or Android because it offers a fun take on the check-in craze that is taking off. Techcrunch has the…
Dell has just launched their second Android smartphone on AT&T, the Aero, which we’ve seen here and there over the last couple of months and been dubious about seeing live. The unique aspect ratio will either hurt the app market, or appeal to videophiles, and the slightly differentiated key layout definitely give the Dell Aero…
LG has another Windows Phone 7 handset up its sleeve in the form of a QWERTY slider headed to AT&T. The LG GW910 was previously spotted back in March as the Panther and has received more than one hands-on preview. Though the GW910 received FCC approval in February, the normally private FCC documents (photos and manuals)…
AT&T confirmed that it has completed the sale of Centennial Wireless assets to Verizon Wireless. Under the terms of this agreement, Verizon will cough up $235 million to acquire approximately 117,000 subscribers within Louisiana and Mississippi. The divested assets purchased by Big Red encompass six service areas including Lafayette, La., LA-5 (Beauregard), LA-6 (Iberville), LA-7…
Owners of the Samsung Galaxy S and its variants including the Captivate and the Vibrant take note. The folks on xda-developers discovered much to their surprise that unlock codes for the Android handset are stored covertly on handset. Rather than on some remote server under lock and key, the unlock code is stored in a…
AT&T users take note as the Motorla MB520 Kobe may be one of the next Android handsets to hit Big Blue, potentially taking second place behind the Samsung Captivate. Flying under the radar until now, this previously unknown Motorola handset has been making the rounds of various certification organizations including the WiFi Alliance and the UPnP…
LG’s foray into the Windows Phone 7 platform was spotted in the wild this week. This side QWERTY slider features a plastic matte body and a combination of hard and touch buttons for phone control and navigation. Despite everyone’s fear that all Windows Phone handsets will be identical due to Microsoft’s strict control over the…
Spotted and shaped in recent FCC documents, the Samsung Cetus i917 has broken cover and revealed its glossy, black form to the world. The rounded handset features 850/1900MHz 3G connectivity and is said to be heading to AT&T with Windows Phone 7 on board. Not surprisingly, the rumored hardware of the Samsung Cetus resembles its kissing…