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So RIM said they couldn’t put together a blackberry Flip with a full QWERTY keyboard.  LG said, “We can.”

Take a look at the LG Lotus that will be available on the Sprint network.  It’s a flip phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and an odd square form factor. 

What else does it do outside of being a texting machine?  The Lotus comes with GPS navigation, music player (which works with the Sprint Music Store), Bluetooth, and a 2.0MP camera that also does video.  LG claims over 5 hours of talk time and the phone weighs in at 3.7 ounces.

You can pick one up in black or purple at $149.99 if you grab it alongside a ball and chain two year contract. 

Flashy product page: [LG Lotus]

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FROM APPLETELL - AT&T is dropping a whopping $275 million to buy out Wayport, an 11 year old wireless network provider that started out in hotel rooms and managed to branch its way into 10,000 McDonald’s locations worldwide.
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Not sure why they’re calling it a ‘widget’, but Sprint has this crazy dense web page that incorporates a ton of Flash, and is constantly polling other data sources on the Web to stay updated.

Why you’re wondering? Just to show off how speedy their mobile broadband cards are.

Here’s a screenshot. Make sure you’re plugged into a decent conn before you hit this link!

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Not sure why they’re calling it a ‘widget’, but Sprint has this crazy dense web page that incorporates a ton of Flash, and is constantly polling other data sources on the Web to stay updated.

Why you’re wondering? Just to show off how speedy their mobile broadband cards are.

Here’s a screenshot. Make sure you’re plugged into a decent conn before you hit this link!

Posted in Networking & Internet, Phones

FROM GAMERTELL - Starting at 8 a.m., Saturday, November 8, 2008, Wal-Mart will be selling the 80GB PS3 for $399 with a $100 gift card as an added bonus. Wal-Mart will have a minimum of 4 units per store…
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Ever since Google Android was first officially released, one question asked by many was which cell phone carrier would use it in their phones.  With the release of T-Mobile’s G1, we knew T-Mobile liked Android and gave it a shot.  From that, another question was developed, which other carriers would follow suit to T-Mobile.  At the Web 2.0 Summit, Ralph de La Vega, CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, was asked about Android being used in AT&T phones. 

Unfortunately for AT&T enthusiasts, AT&T will not be incorporating Google Android into their cell phones anytime soon.  He wants to see Google Android evolve more before they think about using it in their phones.  He also adds that they are looking at it as a possible new platform.  Lastly, he adds that he wants to see Google Android take on more non-Google Apps. 

From what I can infer, I think AT&T will be using Google Android at some point, but not in the immediate future.  Looks like AT&T is just waiting for Android to mature a bit before fully adopting the platform.

Read [SFGate]

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FROM APPLETELL - Mobile Crunch has some information straight from AT&T regarding the iphone’s current lack of tethering capabilities.
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by Laura June, posted Nov 8th 2008 at 12:02AM
Diebold just can’t seem to keep its nose clean these days. The nation’s largest manufacturer of ATMs admitted not too long ago what everybody already knew: that their e-voting machines were totally bunk. Apparently in the course of that investigation it emerged that the company also thought it would be a laugh to load the open source Ghostscript Postscript interpreter software into those faulty machines without releasing its changes or paying the proprietary usage license fee — leading Aritex, its developer, to file a lawsuit. It doesn’t really instill confidence any further to hear that our nation’s terrible electronic voting machines are running on stolen software, guys — and to be honest, we’re kinda starting to wish you’d get out of the ATM business, too.

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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Nov 7th 2008 at 9:57PM
If you had any lingering doubt that HTC’s US, GSM version of the Touch Pro (AKA the Fuze) was headed to AT&T in the near future, you can probably take a deep breath. Thanks to an eagle-eyed tipster, we’re now able to view HTC’s official page for the device, although it looks like they may not be done with all the coding, as an image of the Tilt is still being used as a placeholder. There’s no mention of release date, though we do learn that the device will sport AT&T’s Cellular Video and Mobile Music services, and a “unique AT&T defined 5 row slide out / slide away QWERTY keyboard,” which definitely means nothing at all. Hit the read link if you don’t believe us, but for goodness’ sake — you should see someone about that paranoia.

[Thanks, Wie]

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by Joshua Topolsky, posted Nov 7th 2008 at 9:57PM
If you had any lingering doubt that HTC’s US, GSM version of the Touch Pro (AKA the Fuze) was headed to AT&T in the near future, you can probably take a deep breath. Thanks to an eagle-eyed tipster, we’re now able to view HTC’s official page for the device, although it looks like they may not be done with all the coding, as an image of the Tilt is still being used as a placeholder. There’s no mention of release date, though we do learn that the device will sport AT&T’s Cellular Video and Mobile Music services, and a “unique AT&T defined 5 row slide out / slide away QWERTY keyboard,” which definitely means nothing at all. Hit the read link if you don’t believe us, but for goodness’ sake — you should see someone about that paranoia.

[Thanks, Wie]

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