An AT&T rep sent me some links to some AT&T Goodies… These goodies are part of a big 6 device launch from AT&T today. 

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Ok, CTIA kicks off tomorrow (well technically Wednesday, but..), but AT&T has jumped out front of the crowd by announcing 6 new phones today.

The Samsung Propel Pro is the one I has waiting on checking out. It’s a WinMo slider. It will be available in a couple weeks for 9.99 with contract. One of the hottest items all around the blogoshere has been the Nokia E71x. It’s a super thin phone with a full qwerty. To be honest, I am digging it’s Blackjackish looks!

Read more about each of these devices after the jump…

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Sorry Cnet, I just cut and pasted your title. There is not better way of putting it though. This is apparently going to be released and made available from iTunes on Tuesday at CTIA, but Cnet got some time with it a touch early.

Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday.

Make sure to head over to Cnet for some more screen shots and a little prerelease mini-review.

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Foxit’s PDF Reader is to me one of the best PDF Reader available in the market. Their freeware version loads a lot faster than Adobe’s Reader. Now they are releasing a eBook reader loaded with a version of their PDF Reader so I’m expecting to read really good comments about this device which is at the same time one of the cheapest readers in the market.

Foxit’s eSlick is still about the cheapest way to get an e-reader in front of your retinas. Granted, only the earliest of pre-orderers are seeing their units ship, and if you try to jump in now, you’ll be greeted with a note to not expect it for another fortnight or so. In fact, all three hues (black, grey and white) are currently sold out, with new batches expected to be ready by April 10th or so.

Via Engadget: Foxit’s eSlick e-reader ships out, gets photographed

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That’s a good question and one that Phone Arena has taken some time to speculate/formulate. Between the 4 scheduled events that have HTC in the title that I have setup for next week, I plan to hit the floor and mingle with some carrier PR folks, but what exactly is going to drop that is new and/or jaw dropping? One of the lingering issues that CTIA has suffered the last couple years is that it follows shortly behind MWC. That kind of makes it a choice for companies when they decided when to announce something. It seems many companies have been choosing the larger, earlier show, MWC. I sure hope that something hot is announced this year, if not, it’s Vegas… I have poker and roulette to fall back on.

Anyhow, Phone Arena is thinking that we may see something on Sprint’s rumored G2, maybe the Touch Diamond on Verizon, but the they are doubting that AT&T will show or announce the rumored Samsung BlackJack 3. We shall soon see. Phone Arena also warns that nothing they talk about is a sure thing…

Well, bear in mind this article is based on information that´s still being kept under wraps and we cannot entirely stand behind it, we will as likely as not see these phones, so heads up, you´ve been warned.

Mainly, I expect news on a ton of non winmo, no “smartphone” handsets. Tons of mobile service (which we don’t cover much) and software ideas. I will be using the Samsung Omnia and it’s 5 Mega Pixel camera to snap some photos for my Flickr feed. I decided not to post each one to the site automagicly like I did for CES. I got some complaints about spamming the RSS feed with them. Instead, I will just post them to this set on Flickr (CTIA 2009 – Las Vegas).

Head over to Phone Arena to check out “What is to be expected at the CTIA 2009“

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Filed under: Software, Windows Mobile

Details are starting to come into focus on some of the finer points of Windows Mobile 6.5′s launch later this year after February’s announcement at MWC, and if you had to boil the news down to just two words, they’d be “pretty” and “support.” As “pretty” goes, it’s been announced that Microsoft has partnered up with Design Museum London and the Council of Fashion Designers of America to offer designer themes for 6.5-based devices — colors, wallpaper, and the like — with the first designs coming from fashion dude Isaac Mizrahi. If that’s not good enough for ya, the company will be releasing a Theme Generator later this year that’ll let you customize colors of UI elements on your device, pair it up with wallpaper culled from your own photo collection, and send the batch straight to your phone.

Over to the “support” front, over 25 companies will be announcing their full support for the Windows Marketplace at CTIA this week, including EA Mobile, Facebook (pictured), Gameloft, MySpace, Namco, Pandora, and Sling Media. To help improve the Marketplace’s public image, Microsoft is tweaking some policies, too: developers will now be able to issue unlimited updates to their apps free of charge, and users will have up to 24 hours to “return” apps they don’t like (very cool). Notably, Facebook’s new app will be available in April, offering direct video uploads straight to your wall if you’re into that sort of thing (you know who you are).

Finally, Microsoft’s issued a clarification regarding upgrades from 6.1 to 6.5: devices that are already out in the marketplace with a minimum of 128MB of RAM and a 400MHz processor or better are theoretically capable of being upgraded — it’s all up to licensees to decide whether they want to go to the trouble of offering the upgrades to their customers. Let’s hope, shall we?

Microsoft announces Windows Marketplace partners, tweaked policies, designer WinMo 6.5 themes originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Peripherals, Others, EV-DO, CDMA, Misc

We can’t say there are an awful lot of folks out there looking for a single mobile broadband card that’ll play nice in both PC Card and ExpressCard slots, but for that niche that’s intently paying attention, have a look at this. The Sierra Wireless AirCard 402 is the company’s first to offer such 2-in-1 functionality, and it’s designed to operate on EV-DO Rev. A networks handling speeds of up to 3.1Mbps (downlink) / 1.8Mbps (uplink). Users can also bank on the company’s TRU-Locate GPS service to “quickly and accurately establish location for local searches and navigation.” There’s no mention of a price or release date, but it should be on hand for us to peer at during CTIA this week.

[Via ExpressCard-Info]

Sierra Wireless AirCard 402 plays PC Card and ExpressCard roles originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Verizon Wireless, Accessories

It’s not quite as sexy as the brushed aluminum version we saw back in December, but these leaked images showing a Verizon-branded Novatel MiFi 2200 personal hotspot are certainly enough to get the blood pumping. If you don’t recall the concept, the MiFi is a battery-powered EVDO router the size of a credit card that can provide network access over WiFi for up to four hours on a charge. There’s still a lot of details up in the air here, like how many devices can connect at once and the max data rate, but if this thing comes in anywhere close to its estimated 0 price tag we’d say a lot of those answers might not matter. Couple more pics at the read link.

Verizon MiFi 2200 EVDO hotspot leaks out, will sell like Canadian bananas originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Software, RIM, BlackBerry OS

We’ve been able to confirm that Verizon currently plans to release version 4.7.0.113 as its next official Storm firmware build — about time, considering that the last (and only) official upgrade came some four months ago while a countless flurry of interim builds have whizzed by on the interwebs. It gets better, though: we’ve also scored an official list of fixes and enhancements in 113, which we’ve broken down after the break. A word of warning: it’s a massive, massive list. Read on!

Continue reading Verizon counting on build 113 for its next Storm firmware release, changelog leaked

Verizon counting on build 113 for its next Storm firmware release, changelog leaked originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Software, EDGE, Apple, OS X

All those eagerly anticipating the DirecTV iPhone application, and all its remote scheduling, program browsing capability can download it right now from the App Store. All that’s required is iPhone software 2.2.1 or higher; anyone can pick it up to check out channel listings, but you’ll need a DirecTV subscription and DirecTV Plus DVR (models R15, R16, R22), DirecTV Plus HD DVR (models HR20, HR21, HR23) or TiVo Series 2 receivers with 6.4a software registered to DirecTV.com to take advantage of the remote scheduling over WiFi, EDGE or 3G. And did we mention that it’s free?

DirecTV iPhone app now available originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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