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Breaking

AT&T Palm Pre Plus unboxing!

By: |Apr 2nd, 2010 at 11:01AM
Filed Under: Breaking, EDGE, Exclusives, Favorites, Featured, GPRS, GSM, Handsets, HSDPA, Palm, UMTS, Unboxing, WebOS
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Like you thought we wouldn’t get our hands on it first… We’ve just scored some awesome unboxing photos of the AT&T Palm Pre Plus, and well, it’s a Palm Pre Plus on AT&T. Our connect says it’s identical to the Verizon Wireless unit as far as they can tell, and they like the fact that AT&T’s Address Book backup service is built in to Synergy. But we’re guessing not too many people use that or consider it a big selling point. We’re still waiting on a re...

Exclusives

Apple iPad application walkthrough

By: |Mar 28th, 2010 at 02:23PM
Filed Under: Apple, Exclusives, Favorites, Featured, Gaming, iPhone OS / iPod OS
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One of our trusty sources just shot us over a plethora of Apple iPad application screenshots. Everything from the iPad version of Twitterrific, to Flight Control, to Flick Fishing, to Reuters Pro — we’ve got it in here. Let us know what you think… but oh man, these look absolutely delicious. We also have a couple shots of the iTunes store for iPad, and you can browse apps using CoverFlow from your iPad.Click on over to our Apple iPad application walkthrough gallery!Thanks, Andy W.!

Exclusives

Starting tomorrow, Verizon Palm devices to go mail-in-rebateless?

By: |Mar 4th, 2010 at 05:09PM
Filed Under: Exclusives, Favorites, Handsets, Palm, Verizon, WebOS, Whisper
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One of our Verizon Wireless connects just handed us some pretty interesting info: starting tomorrow, Palm devices on Verizon Wireless will not require a mail-in-rebate. (more…)

Breaking

Details on RIM’s new BlackBerry slider?

By: |Feb 26th, 2010 at 08:19AM
Filed Under: BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Breaking, Exclusives, Favorites, Featured, Handsets, HSPA, RIM, UMTS
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This isn’t confirmed, but with RIM rumored to be exploring sliding-QWERTY devices for a pretty long time, one of our BlackBerry connects dropped some info on us and we wanted it to share it. Here’s what we know: (more…)

Breaking

AT&T picking up HTC Desire, Sprint grabbing HTC Hero2

By: |Feb 23rd, 2010 at 02:17PM
Filed Under: Android, AT&T, Breaking, Exclusives, Favorites, Featured, Handsets, HSDPA, HTC, Rumors, Sprint
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We’ve just been hit up by a source close to HTC, and let’s just say the Android invasion (of high quality Android devices, at least) has only just started. One of our connects let us know that while Google will be looking to sell an AT&T 3G-compatible Nexus One directly through their web store (just like we previously reported), the actual AT&T unit will be the HTC Desire. It will also apparently go to market on AT&T shelves as the HTC Desire as well. This will give AT&T users HT...

Exclusives

AT&T HTC Pure getting reallocated due to slow sales?

By: |Feb 22nd, 2010 at 11:29AM
Filed Under: AT&T, Exclusives, Favorites, Handsets, HSDPA, HTC, Windows Mobile
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We just received a heads up that the above document is being circulated within AT&T locations, and in short, it seems as if the HTC Pure isn’t selling so well. We have been told that the reallocation of stock from corporate store locations to the Device Management group definitely means something is up, though without any quality-related issues with the return, we can only assume it’s due to the unit’s less-than-stellar sales performance. One of our other AT&T connects confirmed this...

Exclusives

Sony Ericsson X10 definitely hitting AT&T

By: |Feb 16th, 2010 at 10:09AM
Filed Under: Android, AT&T, Exclusives, Favorites, Handsets, Sony Ericsson, Whisper
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We’ve just been told from an AT&T source of ours that the Sony Ericsson X10 is 100% coming to AT&T, and pretty soon. (more…)

Whispers

Android 2.1 coming to Motorola CLIQ in March?

One of our Motorola connects just hit us up with some Android info, and it should get people excited.

Exclusives

BlackBerry Curve 8910 actually not meant for just Asian markets?

By: |Jan 31st, 2010 at 12:02PM
Filed Under: BlackBerry, BlackBerry OS, Exclusives, Handsets, RIM, T-Mobile, Whisper
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We haven’t confirmed this yet, but one of our connects just let us know that the BlackBerry Curve 8900 might be seeing a status change pretty soon. (more…)

Exclusives

Yeah, AT&T is requiring messaging plans with feature phones

By: |Jan 29th, 2010 at 08:21AM
Filed Under: AT&T, Exclusives, Favorites, Handsets, LG, Motorola, Pantech, Samsung
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After we whispered that AT&T might be requiring messaging plans when you purchase select feature phones, we were hit up by a flood of connects. Long story short, it’s true, and here’s the break down:Phones that require a messaging plan at time of purchase include: Pantech Reveal, Pantech Impact, Motorola Karma, Samsung Flight, Samsung Impression, Samsung Magnet, Samsung Solstice, Samsung Mythic, Samsung Propel, LG Xenon, LG Neon, and the LG Vu.It looks like the minimum monthly cost when buying...

Exclusives

AT&T to start requiring messaging plans with some phones?

By: |Jan 28th, 2010 at 04:42PM
Filed Under: AT&T, Exclusives, Featured, Handsets, Whisper
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Oh no… one of our close AT&T connects informed us that AT&T might be following in Verizon’s footsteps and requiring a mandatory feature plan with some feature phones. (more…)

Breaking

HTC Supersonic get its screen shot?

By: |Jan 23rd, 2010 at 09:54AM
Filed Under: Android, Breaking, Exclusives, Favorites, HTC
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We received this photo from a new tipster and are posting it for informational purposes as we haven’t confirmed if it’s the real deal or not. (more…)

Breaking

AT&T prepping network to handle “unannounced” devices?

By: |Jan 20th, 2010 at 02:41PM
Filed Under: AT&T, Breaking, Exclusives, Networks, Whisper
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We’ve been told by one of our connects that AT&T has apparently been meeting individually with regional executives to inform them of some changes to the AT&T network. (more…)

Breaking

T-Mobile responds to Verizon’s lower pricing by lowering smartphone prices

By: |Jan 15th, 2010 at 11:31AM
Filed Under: Breaking, Exclusives, Favorites, Featured, T-Mobile, Whisper
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One of our connects just hit us up with some awesome info — T-Mobile’s responding to Verizon’s lower pricing. Here’s what we’ve got: (more…)