The conflict with AT&T seems to be not enough for Verizon and the carrier is ready to open a second front against Sprint. If Apple didn’t like the 3G maps displayed in Verizon’s ads, Verizon doesn’t like Sprint’s “most dependable 3G network.” In fact it looks like Verizon is asking Sprint to remove that claim.

Verizon has been complaining to The national Adevertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus about Sprint’s ad tagline. Verizon backs everything up with a Nielsen survey that shows that its network drops fewer calls than Sprint. The board already asked Sprint to stop those ads but Sprint is saying that the survey in question didn’t tell the whole story.

Should we expect a new trial between Verizon and Sprint?

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The Pantech Impact that was announced at CTIA has now just become available from AT&T. It has a touch keypad with vibrating feedback on the outside, and a QWERTY keypad and landscape display on the inside. It also has a 2 Megapixel camera, USB mass storage, e-mail and messaging, a personal organizer, a music player, speakerphone, voice dialing, a full HTML browser, as well as 3G support.

You should be able to get the Impact for $99.99 with a two-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate. If you want it without the contract, its about $250. By the way, it is available in blue or pink.

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Just as expected, AT&T has launched the HP iPAQ Glisten which was formerly known as the Obsidian. The phone comes with an impressive AMOLED display, a full QWERTY keyboard, Windows Mobile 6.5, WiFi support, GPS, a 3.1-megapixel camera and support for worldwide 3G bands. In other words the phone can be used anywhere in the world so in case you travel a lot and need a professional smartphone then maybe you should give the Glisten a try.

The phone will be available from AT&T in the following weeks and it will cost $229.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a two-year contract. What do you think?

If you’ve watched TV recently you may have noticed Verizon directly targeting the iPhone in their latest round of DROID campaigning. Well, for a while it went unanswered but today Apple has shown off 2 new commercials that seem to set their sights directly on Verizon.

Of course the commercial only lets us know that the iPhone can use data while during on a phone call but at the end they say, “Can your phone and your network do that?”. Let’s see how Verizon responds.

Both commercials included after the break.

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This past Friday we let you know that Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X10 handset was rumored to go on sale, unlocked, for upwards of $850. Of course, if a carrier were to announce the XPERIA X10’s availability we would see that price decrease dramatically due to subsidizing.

Anyways, Phandroid has recently noticed that the device’s listing on Sony Ericsson’s website has let us know that it will have UMTS HSPA 800/850/1900/2100.  What does this mean? Well, that it’ll feature AT&T’s 3G, of course.

Now we’ll just have to wait until AT&T or Sony Ericsson make an official announcement.

In case you felt the need to purchase a netbook with built in AT&T 3G (aka willing to pay at least $35 a month for 200MB or $60 for 5GB) it was recently made known that the Samsung Go has hit the service.

The Samsung Go for AT&T will run you $199 after mail-in rebate and a 2 year contract as detailed above. Sure, you’ll get a 10-inch screen, Intel Atom processor, 160GB of HDD space, 1GB of RAM and a net book weighing under 3 pounds but the fact that it’s powered by Windows 7 Starter makes it less than enticing.

Then again, you can also opt for the Acer Aspire One with the same specs for the same price, also with Windows 7 Starter.

AT&T is apparently going to launch a smartbook soon. The device is made by Lenovo and it’s going to sport a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. There are no specs available at this point as the smartbook in question has been showcased by CEO Paul Jacobs during an investor meeting in New York. Neither Lenovo nor AT&T cared to comment on the device but we’re probably going to see the smartbook at CES 2010 in just under two months from now.

The question is do we really need smartbooks too? We have smartphones, there are plenty of netbooks to go around and let’s not forget that the tablets are coming. What do you say?

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By now you certainly know that AT&T has decided to sue Verizon Wireless after Big Red aired all those commercials from its “There’s a Map for That” campaign. AT&T is definitely pissed off as Verizon is making a mockery of AT&T’s 3G network. AT&T alleges that Verizon is falsely advertising the capabilities of their 3G networks and consumers get the impression that AT&T lacks any services in those areas on the maps where 3G connectivity is not available.

So what does AT&T do to defend itself? It brings its EDGE network in:

With both 3G and EDGE coverage, customers can access the Internet, send e-mail, surf the Web, stream music, download videos, send photos, text, talk and more. The only difference - with some data applications, 3G is faster than EDGE.

Sure AT&T’s EDGE network is definitely comparable with Verizon’s low-end EV-DO Rev. A network but that’s not really what AT&T should tell its customers right now. What they want to hear is that AT&T’s 3G network is going to get even better. Which means no more dropped calls, better coverage, and all the web surfing at 3G speeds they want. And while we’re at it, Verizon should also upgrade its 3G network to LTE as fast as possible.

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Walmart has announced another special holiday promo, this time for the Blackberry smartphones from all four major carriers (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless). For any purchase of Blackberry smartphones with a 2 year contract, customers will be getting a $100 Walmart Gift Card upon purchase which they can use on a later transaction.

The $100 Gift Card should be something handy to use especially for shoppers who are aching to get some breaks for their Holiday gift needs. This promo will be effective starting November 14 up to November 20. Among the phones covered by this promotional $100 Walmart Gift Card include:

• AT&T Curve 8310
• AT&T Bold 9000
• Sprint Curve 8330 (Red & Titanium colors)
• T-Mobile 8520 (Black, White, and Frost)
• T-Mobile Pearl 8120 (Emerald)
• Verizon Storm
• Verizon Storm II

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AT&T has just announced the USBConnect Lightning from Sierra Wireless, a USB stick that allows for 7.2Mbps downlink capability.

I suppose that this device is just in time for AT&T’s 7.2Mbps upgrade, and it will be available on November 22nd for free after rebate on contract for service launches in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, and LA by the end of the year.

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Well, it seems that Apple is continuing the leap from selling the iPhone at just their own stores and AT&T locations to selling the device at a plethora of retailers.

The latest retailer to secure the iPhone for their inventory is RadioShack The Shack which will have the iPhone 3G and 3GS at Dallas-Forth Worth and New York City stores towards the end of this month.

So, if you want to pick up Apple’s flagship handset you now have another location to do so at.

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Before you read on please make note that this is only a rumor and has not been confirmed in any way shape or form — BGR brings us news that AT&T and Apple are pondering whether or not to launch an 8GB iPhone 3GS for $99 that would be presumably replace the current $99 iPhone 3G.

Like I said, there isn’t very much evidence to back this up but if this goes down it would reportedly be a move to combat the DROID handsets popping up on Verizon.

AT&T has just announced their intentions to launch a whole slew of new features on November 8th. The first is an all new voicemail-to-text service which will, of course, change your voicemails into text messages making it easier for you to catch that number or name.

Second of all AT&T is planning to launch their Nation with Canada plans which will allow you customers to make calls between Canada and the US with no long distance charges.

And last but not least they will be launching 3 new channels for their Mobile TV service which we have little to no details about. Luckily, they will be dropping the base cost of the service from $15 to $9.99 and the unlimited service from $30 to $24.99.

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Hot news for the two giants of the US that fight for a bigger share on the mobile telecommunications market, and I’m talking about AT&T and Verizon.

In this case it was AT&T that sued Verizon and the reason is pretty simple: a misleading advertising campaign, which is named “There’s a Map for that” and is actually a joke related to an AT&T campaign called “There’s an App for That”.

The misleading information is related to a map made by Verizon, in which shows that AT&T doesn’t have much network coverage. But the only detail they forgot to mention, is that they are only counting the 3G network and not EDGE network, and that’s why the AT&T map is full of blank spaces, which could lead to customers having bad ideas…

Remember the Aino cellphone that we mentioned a few months ago, on May? The good news is that Sony Ericsson announced that the device is now available for purchase, unlocked, with a price tag of $600.

The Aino is compatible with AT&T and in terms of technical features it boasts quad-band GSM/EDGE and tri-band UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100.

In case you forgot the specifications of the Aino, it comes with a 3-inch touchscreen, a 8.1-megapixel camera, GPS, and Sony Remote Play among other good details.

The Droid might be a Verizon Wireless exclusive phone in the USA but that doesn’t mean that Motorola shouldn’t sell in other markets too. After all the Droid is probably going to be one of the best Android phones around and I’m pretty sure that Motorola will want to cash in on all that hotness.

The FCC has revealed exactly such a version of the Droid that could be used all around the GSM world. What’s more interesting is that the GSM Droid has support for AT&T’s WCDMA 850 and 1900MHz bands which also happen to be used by carriers in Canada. Not that Verizon will share the Droid with AT&T any time soon! But Rogers, Bell and Telus will probably want to launch the phone in the following months or, dare we say, in the following weeks?

Will you buy the Droid next week from Verizon or are you waiting for a GSM version of it?

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AT&T is still riding on the iPhone wave and I don’t want to imagine what will happen when they will eventually lose the iPhone exclusivity deal. The company has reported another great quarter despite the recession which is still being felt in various other domains. From the 4.3 million handsets activated by AT&T last quarter 74% or 3.2 million were iPhones. 1.28 million of those 3.2 million iPhone customers were new AT&T customers. That says a lot about the popularity of Apple’s phone and we can expect a lot more people to go for the iPhone in the following months.

AT&T has reached 81.6 million subscribers right now and about 25% of those are playing with iPhones. I bet that the competition is really annoyed for not having said yes to Apple a long time ago when Cupertino was looking for a partner to start selling the iPhone.

On a different note, the more people are buying iPhones and 3G devices, the worse 3G service they’re going to get from AT&T. Any thoughts on the matter?

AT&T is a serious company and it will not stand being made fun of. Sure in this case being made fun of means actually losing a few million dollars. AT&T has filed a suit in San Francisco against LG, Samsung, Chunghua, AU Optronics and others claiming that they all conspired in order to raise cell phone LCD prices exactly when the carrier purchased 300 million handsets. That’s surely not nice and if AT&T were to win, we can expect the defendants to pay a lot of cash to the carrier. After all, it’s not the first time LCD price-fixers would pay for their wrong doings!

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In case you don’t want a new Android phone and you’re rather interested in a new Windows Mobile 6.5 phone then you should go to an AT&T store today. The HTC Tilt 2 is now available for sale. The Tilt 2 will be available for $349.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate and a new 2-year contract. The phone is just a little more expensive than the CLIQ but it does have some interesting features that can’t be ignored: WVGA touchscreen display, full slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3.2-megapixel camera and Microsoft latest mobile OS running in the background. So what do you say folks? Are you ready to purchase your first Windows Mobile 6.5 phone? Or would you rather wait a while longer until the HTC HD2 becomes available?

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It seems that Verizon is unhappy with the success of the iPhone on AT&T. So unhappy in fact that they have felt the need to start a new marketing campaign completely aimed at the handset.

As you can see from the above promotional material Verizon is asking customers “If the iDoesn’t what does?” and then tells them to tune in this weekend to find out “what does”. This is most likely an attempt by Verizon to show off their new handsets and compare them directly with the iPhone, focusing on the highly sought after device’s faults.

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