Motorola Backflip with a revolutionary design and top android operating system has been released by AT&T in US. The phone for which people were waiting anxiously has arrived with some undesirable baggage added by the official carrier AT&T.

AT&T in a press conference has announced that SlingPlayer 3G version is now approved and ready for iTunes. The exclusive iPhone carrier it seems to have got nervous with rumors of losing its iPhone exclusivity and in a bid to calm its critics has finally allowed the app over its 3G network.

Apple has finally allowed VoiP to its iPhone enabling users to make calls from anywhere that has the 3G signal. Apple recent update to its SDK reflects the change in the company’s changed policy on VoiP.

AT&T has announced its own reduced calling plan prices on Friday to fight Verizon’s already announced cheaper unlimited plan.

The iphone failed to bring promised services like tethering and microcell to its subscribers in 2009. Even fanboys are now finding it difficult to hold on to the iPhone in a market full of devices like Droids, Palm and now Nexus One.
The reasons that mostly contributed to the absence of tethering from iPhone in 2009 was the prospect of worsening AT&T’s existing network capacity.
In the case of 3G microcell the company started its test run only in September of …

Google Inc. is going to unveil Nexus One on Tuesday in a bid to control mobile surfers and the market dominated by iPhone. The Nexus One would be released in a press event at its Mountain View, California, headquarters today, January 5.
According to Charles Golvin, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Nexus One phone probably will be sold directly by the company as well as through a wireless carrier.
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A reports from Engadget and other tech …

According to a market analyst, Motorola is set to launch two new Android-based cell phones next week. Trip Chowdhry from Global Equities Research said in a research note that the company is planning to reveal the pair of phones at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The handsets, each one of them would be available on different networks: AT&T and Veizon. Chowdhry’s sources suggest AT&T model phone would have an OLED soft keyboard screen. It will supposedly employ the …

Leading telecom firm AT&T has urged the regulatory authorities to pull the plug of the older voice-based “circuit switched” telephone systems.
AT&T in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission dated December 21 said: “with each passing day, more and more communications services migrate to broadband and IP-based services, leaving the public switched telephone network (“PSTN”) and plain-old telephone service (“POTS”) as relics of a by-gone era.”–GigaOM reports. The AT&T filing spanned 32 pages and asked the FCC to remove …

Motorola Milestone is the first Android 2.0 GSM smartphone available in Europe and a few retailers in U.S.A. The Milestone is a quad band phone and can be used on any GSM network around the world.
According to UK online retailer eXpansys, the handset was sold out in a record time of 2.5 hours after it was listed as ’in stock’ on the website on December 10th. The craze for the Milestone was such that a week prior to the …

According to a recent survey by Consumer Reports, AT&T received the lowest customer satisfaction ranking in 19 out of 26 big cities, with its lowest ratings coming in the voice service and customer support categories.
DigitalDaily reports that AT&T scored low marks for several key indicators of customer satisfaction–including service availability, circuit capacity, dropped-call frequency and voice service–across 73 percent of the markets Consumer Reports surveyed. Overall, the carrier placed last in the 19 cities surveyed.
For iPhone users, these numbers …