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Residents of the Big Apple will get a free Wi-Fi at 26 locations in 20 parks across the five boroughs, compliments of AT&T. The service is already available at Battery Bosque in Battery Park, the north-end playground in Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx, and around the recreation center at Thomas Jefferson Park in East…
One of the two upcoming Android Honeycomb tablets from Sony, the S1, has passed through the FCC. The 9.4 inch tablet looks to have all the bells and whistles we’ve come to expect from it, but this time around it’s toting AT&T bands and HSPA+ support. While having AT&T support within one of the models…
AT&T will be providing the 3G connectivity for the upcoming PlayStation Vita but will having cellular data be enough to help this portable gaming device overtake the onslaught of games on phones? Sony sure hopes so. As iOS takes a larger share, Sony and Nintendo are taking different approaches to the mobile gaming space. Nintendo…
Earlier this year the mobile industry stood in disbelief as they read the news of AT&T’s planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. If approved, it would mean that America would have just 1 operator using GSM technology, and their only real competitor would be Verizon Wireless, who offers remarkable quality of service, but is also…
If you’re still looking to get in the “dual-core game,” now may be the right time to push the button. AT&T is offering the Motorola Atrix for $99 on a contract. Despite an array of dual-core phones that have been announced in the past few months, the Atrix is still an awesome device, rocking 4G…
Those of you shedding a single tear for the death of the Sidekick may want to keep an eye out for a little number from Sharp headed to AT&T. Though there’s no model number attached, it’s got a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and will be running Android. Details are scarce, but it’s expected to have…
It looks like the Android slider spotted in AT&T’s roadmap the other day has gone official. The Pantech Crossover is an entry-level Android phone in a slider form factor, packing a full landscape QWERTY keyboard beneath its 3.1-inch touchscreen. The processor clocks in at a meager 600 Mhz, but it runs 2.2 Froyo, and has…
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 for AT&T is now being brought up to speed with Android 2.1 Eclair. Perhaps Xperia X10 owners had resigned themselves to an antiquated version of Android, with hopes of upgrading hardware being the only option if they really wanted a later version of the operating system. It must be exciting…
A smattering of smartphones bound for AT&T have leaked by way of a roadmap schedule recently. Among them are the BlackBerry Torch 2 9810, the HTC ChaCha (code-named lele), both launching in the second quarter, and a few new ones called the ZTE Alicanto Z990 and Samsung Habrok i857, which is due in the third…
Leap Wireless, one of America’s smaller operators with roughly 5.8 million subscribers, or just a tad more than the number of people living in Finland, has thrown their two cents about AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile out into the open. Doug Hutcheson, President and CEO of Leap and Cricket, says in a press release: “We oppose…