A quick one here for all of the American business travelers out there. Want to earn a whole whack of Delta SkyMiles? Well, now you can earn 4,000 miles when you purchase a new BlackBerry on any new or extended wireless plan from Simplexity. Simplexity is an online retailer that offers cellphones and wireless devices…
Samsung A877 with AMOLED touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard coming to AT&T; Spotted in the wild
AT&T will be adding another QWERTY device to its portfolio in the coming weeks. It’s the Samsung A877, which aside from being the texters’ device of choice thanks the full slide-out keyboard, also comes with a 3.2-inch AMOLED WQVGA touchscreen, ensuring solid battery life and great colors. In addition, the stylish device also boasts a…
AT&T’s Vault Program Brings Hidden MTV Clips to Mobile
AT&T just launched a new initiative called the MTV Vault, which gives users access to MTV video content that had been locked up for years. 15 new clips are released every day, and as you can see from their web page, there are some pretty entertaining clips available. By chewing through some trivia, you can…
Nokia E71 Due on AT&T April 1st.
The Nokia E71, as rumoured, will finally be finding its way to AT&T next month according to a leaked retailer inventory. It’s an enterprise favourite, even among the BlackBerry faithful, and will find a home in many a pair of thumbs. Other handsets due to land on Big Blue include an appropriately blue Propel, a…
AT&T strike averted!
In a bit of good news for both AT&T Mobility and their 20,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) employees, AT&T has announced that the telecom giant’s wireless business and the employee union have come to terms on a tentative contract agreement. The agreement staves off the CWA’s threatened strike, keeping workers working and AT&T Mobility’s…
AT&T Fuze gets a firmware update, too
Just when we posted that generic (i.e. non-carrier specific) versions of the HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro are getting firmware updates, we’ve heard the AT&T Fuze (aka Touch Pro with AT&T’s 3G frequencies) will be getting the same treatment. Actually, we’re not quite sure it’s exactly the same update that will come for the…
MetroPCS planning LTE deployment with BlackBerry on tap?
While the major, national carriers are looking to deploy their 4G LTE networks in a couple years’ time, regional carrier MetroPCS has been quietly shoring up their own LTE roll-out plans. Today, we’re hearing that MetroPCS will be looking to deploy their own high-speed mobile broadband network in the second-half of 2010. With just 14…
AT&T Prepping a Trade-In Program For Launch This Summer?
Classify this one as rumor and speculation only please…But BGR has blogged about some new details they’ve received on a ‘Phone Trade-in’ program that AT&T is working on. The program would launch in the summer, probably around June. Here are the details as BGR has received them so far: The phone being traded in in…
FEMA taps AT&T and Verizon Wireless for emergency communications providers
It sure is good to see the federal-response agency nightmare we call the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) doing something to actually prepare for an emergency. You know, instead of waiting until an emergency hits and then scrambling to figure out how to get water to catastrophe victims. With the new Obama administration cleaning up…
President Obama looking to raise $4.8 billion with wireless spectrum fees
In a move that underscores the US’s need for radical economic policies and philosophical change (yes, we can), President Obama and his team of financial wizards are calling for fees on the airwaves used by wireless carriers in the US. The White House released a $3.9 trillion budget today, which includes provisions to levy fees…