Steve Ballmer: Kin ‘defocused activity from Windows Phone’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s not often you see four unreleased gadgets rather unceremoniously attached to a plank of wood on the sidewalk, but that’s exactly what Seattle Times blogger Brier Dudley spotted: four Dell Streaks all in a row. AT&T network technicians were apparently verifying performance of the devices on the company’s 3G network and also ensuring their ability to send accurate e-911 information. Among the four was a bright crimson model, but sadly the pink and orange versions we’re holding out for were not present on this particular piece of timber. We should be just a few weeks away from the Streak going fully public, at which point you can hopefully find something a little more suitable to attach yours to.

[Thanks, Kris Hill]

Quartet of Dell Streaks spotted in the wild in Seattle, testing for AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 10:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ready for a surreal way to start your day? Salt Lake City’s KSL News has a report out this morning detailing the baffling experience of AT&T subscribers trying to access emergency services in the city. Instead of being routed through to their local dispatcher, the urgent calls somehow found their way to Seattle’s 911 response center. Brought to the news team’s attention by one Tony Sams, this issue was originally thought to originate in his iPhone‘s GPS system, as he was being identified as being located in the Seattle area, but then his local police also tried dialing their own number only to find themselves chatting it up with their Emerald City colleagues. Until they figure this out, we’d recommend using your landlines — if you still have one of those antiques — or just yelling at passersby for help. Hit the source for the full video report and the 10-digit direct number for Salt Lake City general dispatch.

[Thanks, Ryan]

AT&T redirecting 911 calls from Salt Lake City to Seattle, working on a fix originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember those LTE trials that Verizon Wireless started up in Boston and Seattle back in August of last year? Good news, mobile surfers — the operator has today confirmed in a roundtable at CTIA that they’re both nearing their end, giving us hope that they’re gleaned the necessary information from them to start moving onto bigger and better things. Namely, more elaborate trials in more locales around the nation. As you might expect, Verizon Wireless is indeed gearing up to move into its next phase of commercial LTE testing, with Tony Melone (Senior VP / CTO) stating that ‘friendly user trials’ were slated to begin this summer. He declined to elaborate on the whos, whats and (most importantly) wheres, but there’s no doubt that these are likely the last hurdles before we see its 4G network go live in “one third” of the country. We’re told that those tests will be used to kick the tires on “commercial” gear, which is starkly different than the non-commercial kit that has been used in Beantown and the Emerald City. So far, the company’s seeing peak rates of around 40Mbps and 50Mbps (down), with average download rates hovering in the 5Mbps to 12Mbps range and upload speeds falling between 2Mbps and 5Mbps. Be sure to let us know if any undercover VZW engineers start installing weird antennas near your abode in the coming months, cool?

Verizon ‘wrapping up’ Boston and Seattle trials, ‘friendly user’ ones coming this summer originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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