How many times have you heard that the iPhone is going to China? How many times have we told you that Chinese carriers are just about to launch Apple’s hot phone? Well we’re just about to do it again and it looks like this time everything is for real.

China Unicom is the carrier that’s going to bring the iPhone to China and we have even prices to prove it. The iPhone will cost $733 without a contract but you’ll definitely want to get it for a subsidized price if you are one of China Unicom’s 141 million subscribers. Well that’s possible of course and you’ll be able to pay from $131 to $623 for the iPhone as long as you choose a new contract from $130 per month to $18 per month, respectively. And yes, if you do the math, getting a subsidized iPhone from China Unicom will be a whole lot cheaper than getting it from AT&T.

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We heard a few days that the Nuvifone G60 will be launched by AT&T at some point in the near future and now we hear an unsettling rumor regarding the price tag of this handset. It looks like Garmin’s and Asus’s phone will be available for $300 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a 2-year new contract. That’s a lot to ask for a phone that should have been here a long time ago. You surely remember that Garmin Asus has delayed its official launch countless times but in the mean times other phones have appeared and they’re a lot cooler and cheaper!

And if $300 sounds like a lot to pay then how about $550 for the nuvifone without a contract? We’ll be waiting for official confirmation before we can complain some more!

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Nokia Mural is an interesting clamshell phone which was initially announced for AT&T only to be pulled off the shelves later on. Apparently the Mural had some issues with AT&T’s 3G network and couldn’t connect to it. But fear not Mura fans (if there are any), AT&T has fixed the issue and the Mural is back on the streets. The phone still costs $50 with a new 2-year contract but it won’t surprise anyone if you decide to ignore it and get something else for just a few extra bucks. Or do you actually happen to love this particular Finnish creation?

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Talk about an unforeseen turn of events! It looks like none other than AT&T is asking the FCC to investigate Google Voice. AT&T has been rumored to be the muscle behind Apple’s decision to keep Google Voice out of the App Store and now the carrier is fighting back. AT&T claims that Google Voice is responsible for blocking calls which is contrary to federal call-blocking regulations. All calls have to be permitted, no matter who you’d want to call. Google Voice is responsible for blocking calls to “adult-chat lines and conference call services, which charge expensive access fees.” We can deal with blocked conference calls but no adult-chat connections? FCC certainly has to look into that. After all anyone should be able to call adult-chat lines whenever they please!

I wonder how many adult-chat lines / conference call services AT&T has tried before finding this anomaly in Google’s Google Voice service. So let’s see what the FCC will have to say about all this. After all the same commission punished AT&T when they were doing some call blocking of their own a couple of years ago so Google might have some explaining to do. Will be back with more details about the AT&T-Google-Apple “love” triangle in the following weeks as this soap opera is getting more and more interesting to follow.

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Don’t look so surprised by that number! Windows Mobile 6.5 is coming and it looks like there are quite a few phone makers ready to roll phone capable or running Microsoft’s newest OS. And while we’re definitely thrilled to see that concept tablet, the Courier already, we can’t say we’re similarly interested in Windows Mobile 6.5. The OS is clearly a transition platform from the old Windows Mobile 6 to the future Windows Mobile 7.

Nonetheless manufacturers out there are ready to launch Windows Mobile 6.5 phones! Those 30 new handsets capable of running Microsoft latest OS will be made by HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, Acer, Toshiba and HP. The phones will be released by the end of the year and we know a few carriers are definitely interested: AT&T, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, Softbank Mobile, SKT, Telestra and Telus.

Will you buy a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone?

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Well folks, what we told you earlier this month is finally happening; the iPhone is in fact getting MMS capabilities starting on Friday, September 25th. The reason we bring you this announcement is because AT&T has just sent out the above text message letting us know that they will be disabling the current method of viewing MMS messages to make way for the real thing.

Now here’s where everyone points and laughs at us iPhone owners because they’ve been able to send MMS for ages.

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This is definitely not a joke and the number is real. An AT&T customer decided to break the world record for sending SMS messages and he has apparently done so successfully. Using an iPhone 3GS he managed to send 662,258 SMS messages in one month. You do the math, and if you end up with about 15 texts/minute (that’s without sleeping), then you should be about right. Don’t you get bored sending all those messages? Do you have time to do anything else during the day? Or maybe all these messages are one-word texts in which case it sounds a little easier to be accomplished. Or should we assume it’s all fake?

But the best part comes now! AT&T printed the bill and sent it over to the guy. That’s 12,301 printed pages in three boxes. I bet some AT&T employees were at least a bit annoyed with this particular bill!

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Just for today only, Amazon is handing out AT&T phones for a penny. This is not a joke! The only catch is that you have to sign a 2 year contract with AT&T. There are no activation fees and you can get the phones via free 2 day shipping.

Here are some of the phones up for grabs:

• Samsung Eternity a867
• Blackberry Curve 8900
• Samsung Impression a877
• LG Xenon GR500
• Blackberry Bold 9000
• Motorola Tundra
• And many more!

To view a complete list of phones, go here.

(Source) Crunch Gear

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We already knew about the pricing part and the fact that the HTC Pure is actually the Touch Diamond2 in AT&T garbs, but we lacked live pictures of the device.  HTCpedia now confirms the price as $149.99 (with a new contract and a $50 mail-in rebate) with a contract-free price of $349.99, and have a couple of pictures showing the Pure wrapped in snap-on and silicone cases.  The cases obscure most of its body but it is not that difficult to see a few tweaks in the design, like the rounded appearance of the upper and lower bezel, compared to Touch Diamond2’s straight-lined style. We still don’t have a release date for the HTC Pure, but keep coming back if you want to know.

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While AT&T is upgrading its 3G network to 7.2Mbps and while Rogers or T-Mobile are deploying 21Mbps HSPA+ networks, Huawei is working on something even bigger. It’s not LTE as you’d suspect is 56Mbps HSPA+ which should be available sometime next year in Beijing. The most interesting part is that Huawei is claiming that its partners will simply have to get a software upgrade in order to upgrade their networks. Could 56Mbps HSPA+ be that easy to deploy? That’s definitely a bold move from Huawei and its carrier partners should be very happy to hear such news. We’ll still want to see some more proof before we get too excited about such possibilities. Let’s see if other carriers, and I won’t name any names just yet, are going to be ready to offer similar theoretical speeds next year!

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It’s almost official folks! We told you that AT&T was thinking femtocell thoughts last week and apparently that MicroCell is real and AT&T customers will be able to get it soon. AT&T has even setup a special site for this network booster. MicroCell’s features and capabilities will be available to you for just $20 per month. It doesn’t seem that much but when you think of it, you shouldn’t pay extra for being able to get decent service from your chosen carrier. Maybe instead getting a femtocell from any of the Big Four you should consider a different carrier that will offer you decent coverage at home or at work without the need of a femtocell solution.

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AT&T has a few surprises for its subscribers. It looks like the company plans to launch brand new HTC and Garmin-Asus phones soon so we should definitely check them out.

AT&T will launch the HTC Touch Pro2 as the Tilt2 and the Touch Diamond2 as the Pure. The Tilt2 will cost $299.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a 2-year contract while the Pure will cost $199 under the same circumstances. In case you’re not planning a new AT&T agreement then you can purchase the phones for the full price of $499.99 and $399.99, respectively.

The Garmin-Asus phone coming from AT&T is none other than the nuvifone G60. Believe it or not the phone is going to be sold soon for $299.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and with a 2-year contract or for $549.99.

We don’t have any release dates just yet, which means you have plenty of time to think about your next AT&T phone.

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The FCC is still investigating the rejections of Google’s Google Voice application from the App Store. We’ve seen AT&T’s and Apple’s response related to Google Voice but the best part, Google’s letter to the FCC hasn’t been available to the public in its full version until now. The FCC decided to reveal the whole letter and you can check it out for yourself by following the link below.

So why has Apple rejected Google Voice? From the correspondence between Apple’s Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Shiller and Google’s Senior VP of Engineering & Research, Alan Eustace there only a conclusion to be drawn: it seems that the “application duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone” and that was an unwanted scenario. But wait a minute, didn’t Apple say they are still revising the app? Well it looks like Apple told Google that Google Voice has been rejected from the store. Did Apple lie in its response to the FCC?

We’ll see how this conflict develops in the future as there’s no clear conclusion about the future of Google Voice for iPhone so far.

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If you were dreaming about an AT&T femtocell solution then you might be in luck! It seems that the carrier will launch femtocells soon. A certain Microcell femtocell is about to be soft launched next week which means the official launch is imminent. The device will be available in Atlanta, San Antonio, Seattle and some markets in North Carolina so in case your area isn’t listed here you’ll have to wait some more until actually being able to boost that poor cell phone signal with an AT&T femtocell. Fortunately for you we’ll keep an eye on such devices so you won’t miss official availability dates and prices when the Microcell becomes officially official!

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Go ahead and add this to the growing list of Windows phones that will be released on October 6th.  AT&Ters eagerly waiting for the Touch Pro2 should breathe a sigh of relief as BGR now has it on good authority that the device, called the Tilt 2 on AT&T, will be out the door on that much anticipated 6th day of October.  Yes, it is a bit late, seeing that the Pro2 is already available on Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint, but then AT&T subscribers will at least have Windows Mobile 6.5 out of the box, a kick in the teeth for the customers on other networks who will have to upgrade their devices to 6.5.

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It’s been a while since we heard of ITG’s xpPhone in fact, the last we heard of it was back at Computex. Well, the device seems to have graduated from the drawing board and is now dangerously close to hitting Vodafone, Orange and AT&T.

As you can see, the device packs quite a punch with its 4.8-inch touchscreen display, video conferencing and 3G compatibility. One major thing to make note of is the fact that its primary operating system is Microsoft’s beloved Windows XP.

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) ITG has yet to mention a price so when you actually go to pre-order the xpPhone, you won’t have to pay anything.

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Tags: 3G, At&T, Cell Phones, Computex, microsoft, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Orange, touchscreen, Vodafone, Windows XP, xpphone

Motorola’s first Android phone, the Cliq, is not the hottest Android phone available out there but it’s certainly one of the hottest Motorola phones ever created. The phone will be available this fall from T-Mobile but Moto will not stop here. The manufacturer will be launching a lot more Android phones in the near future so you’d better get used to that MOTOBLUR social networking interface quick. And in case you assumed T-Mobile will be the designated carrier for future Motorola Android phones then you were totally wrong. According to Sanjay Jha, Moto’s CEO, the company is in talks with “all large operators in the US” which means that your favorite carrier is going to get a Motorola Android phone in the near future. So far we know that the Sholes is headed to Verizon Wireless but we assume Sprint and AT&T are also going to be interested in getting some Moto Android action.

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Just earlier this month we notified you of the impending AT&T release for the Nokia Mural. Well, it seems that before the device even got a chance to take off, AT&T is halting all sales.

Unfortunately, this delay is until further notice (which could mean forever) due to the production model of the device unable to work over AT&T’s 3G network. As for the stock that’s already out there, BGR reports that retailers have been ordered to send the phone back to headquarters for a software update.

Those of you discouraged about this news need not be as there are countless 3G clamshell alternatives out there.

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If you happen to live in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, LA or Miami and you happen to be one of AT&T’s paying subscribers then you should be happy to know that AT&T is getting ready to bring your full HSPA 7.2Mbps to your neighborhood. You should expect the service to be available by the end of the year but unfortunately that “theoretical” 7.2Mbps speed will not be available any time soon. You’ll have to simply get used to “real-world downlink and uplink speeds” which will be “less than the theoretical peak and will vary based on a number of factors, including location, device, and overall traffic on the local wireless network at a given time.” By 2011 AT&T will about 90% of its current 3G network footprint will get HSPA 7.2 and maybe by that time we’ll actually be able to take advantage of the full download and upload speed.

In the mean time AT&T will also work on a bunch of other projects meant to enhance your whole wireless experience:

An initiative to substantially expand the wireless spectrum serving 3G customers in hundreds of markets across the country, using high-quality 850 MHz spectrum. This additional spectrum expands overall network capacity and improves in-building reception. Deployments of this 850 MHz spectrum are about 90 percent complete today, with local roll-outs recently completed in New York, Atlanta and Houston.

Addition of about 2,000 new cell sites to our network in 2009, expanding service to new cities and improving coverage in other areas.

Enabling widespread access to our Wi-Fi network – the largest in the country with more than 20,000 hotspots in all 50 states – to qualifying customers, allowing them to take advantage of the best available AT&T mobile broadband connection.

Preparation for field trials of 4G LTE wireless networks next year, with deployment planned to follow in 2011. This schedule aligns with industry expectations of when a wide variety of compatible 4G wireless devices will be available.

So what do you say? How’s your AT&T experience?

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I bet you were probably waiting for a while now for AT&T to finally introduce some sort of an unlimited calling plan like Verizon’s Friends & Family or T-Mobile’s myFaves. Well AT&T has finally launched it. If you have an individual Nation plan of $59.99 or higher then you’ll be able to get the “A-List with Rollover” and start calling five domestic phone numbers for free whenever you want to.

In case you own a FamilyTalk plan of at least $89.99 then you’ll be able to get up to ten numbers to talk to for free. The A-List will be available starting with September 20 so you have plenty of time to decide which numbers to select.

via AT&T

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