Pantech P8000 does Android, could definitely be AT&T bound
Though Pantech takes a back seat to Samsung and LG year after year, Korea's third-largest phone maker still does a good bit of business with North American carriers -- and its partnership with AT&T goes way back (remember the tiny C300 clamshell for Cingular?).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: att, bluetooth, engadget-mobile, entry, korea, pantech, phone, result, rumor, samsung, seat, way-considering
Nokia X7 preps for its unauthorized preview
After seeing the Symbian-based Nokia X7 leak into the wilds with its quartet of speakers a few weeks ago, you just knew that it was only a matter of time until Eldar Murtazin got his hands on the device for a preview. Last time he did this he burned the then unannounced Nokia N8 to the ground
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, backside, break, burned-the-then, leak, nokia, nokiax7, quartet, symbian, time
ASUS E600 WP7 smartphone stops by the FCC, possibly destined for AT&T
ASUS was definitely one of the early players to get all excited about Windows Phone 7 , yet as the OS release came and went all we were left with was a couple of blurrycam shots and a little video of a four-inch slab from the company.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: actually-never, att, e600, entry, fcc, four-inch, four-inch-slab, retail-release, slab, windows-phone, windowsphone7, wp7
Samsung ships 3M Galaxy S devices in the US, becomes top Android supplier in the country
You know what happens when you manage to launch essentially the same high-end smartphone on every national carrier in the US plus the top regional? Well, this happens: Samsung has just proudly announced that it's pushed some three million Galaxy S models in the US -- sold as the Fascinate , Captivate , Epic 4G , Vibrant , and Mesmerize on Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular, respectively -- which gave it 32.1 percent of the US Android market in the third quarter according to Gartner, enough to vault it to the number one position
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: att, captivate, galaxy, mesmerize, mobile, motorola, plus-the-top, the-country, us cellular, uscellular, verizon-wireless
Sony Ericsson faults ‘especially rigorous’ firmware testing in US for X10′s Eclair update delay on AT&T
We think this is a veiled way of passing the buck to AT&T -- but whatever it is, Sony Ericsson USA has extended an old, crusty, TimeScape-enabled olive branch to Xperia X10 owners in the States by attempting to explain what's going on with the Eclair update 'round these parts. Basically, the company says that getting an update out in the US is way harder than it is elsewhere because of "the technical requirements that must be met" over which Sony Ericsson has "no control." The blame is levied on an "especially rigorous" testing cycle that can (and presumably, often does) take several months, which is why they've thus far refused to offer guidance on when the update will be released.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: att, buck, eclair, entry, offer-guidance, our-warranty, sony-ericsson, sonyericsson, states, technical, update, update-delay, upgrade, x10
Jabra Stone2 is out this week — but AT&T and Verizon are carrying different versions
In the off chance that you have your fingers on the pulse of the Bluetooth headset industry, you know darn well that Jabra's curiously-designed Stone2 went on sale this week .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, bluetooth, carry-the-units, entry, headset, jabra, result, store-or-vice, verizon-wireless, went-on-sale
Qualcomm talking to AT&T, other carriers over MediaFLO spectrum sale?
Seems Qualcomm wasn't kidding when it said selling off MediaFLO's spectrum was a possibility now that it's cutting off direct-to-consumer mobile TV services. BusinessWeek is reporting that the company has sat down recently with "several carriers" -- though only AT&T is being called out by name -- presumably with the goal of fleshing out just how much dinero it could land for offing the spectrum MediaFLO uses to deliver programming. Qualcomm paid close to $700 million for the spectrum over the course of the last decade, and it lies in the 700MHz block -- a block both AT&T and Verizon will be using extensively as they build out their next-gen networks -- so it stands to reason they'd both love to buy in, likely at a healthy premium over what Qualcomm originally paid.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, businessweek, carriers, flo tv, healthy-premium, mediaflo, other-carriers, services, spectrum, spectrum-over
AT&T: 80 percent of network now upgraded to HSPA+
AT&T promised that it would be expanding its HSPA+ rollout this year, and it's now finally touting some actual results.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, data, entry, expanding-its, hspa, johndonovan, Mobile Data, mobile data use, performance, three-thousan, traffic-growth
AT&T starts selling Novatel MiFi at long last: November 21st for $50
AT&T's finally taking a cue from its mobile hotspot-equipped archrivals at Verizon and Sprint, launching a branded version of Novatel Wireless' MiFi 2372 this Sunday, November 21st, for $49.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate. The device is a little more advanced that the one you're used to using on American CDMA networks, featuring an integrated microSD slot that can be shared among connected devices and support for built-in, browser-based widgets that can take advantage of the unit's AGPS for providing weather, local search, and so on
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, branded-version, breaking-news, breakingnews, Downlink, entry, finally-taking, mifi, mifi 2372, mifi2372, novatel, starts-selling, sunday
Galaxy Tab coming to AT&T November 21st for $650, US Cellular on the 19th for $399 / $599
So, AT&T, it's true : you're charging $50 more for the Galaxy Tab than everyone else in the States off-contract. That's a pretty gutsy sense of entitlement, though you're bundling $50 in Samsung Media Hub credit -- and, of course, no other Tab has access to AT&T's $15 and $25 pay-as-you-go data plans at 250MB and 2GB, respectively. Pick your poison, we suppose.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: att, breaking-news, breakingnews, entry, plans-at-250mb, price-schedule, pricing-on-uscc, samsung, samsung-media, states, telling-the-tab, us cellular, uscc, uscellular