Today AT&T announced the "intrinsically safe" Airo Wireless A25is rugged phone. AT&T says it's the first rugged device on its network to support its suite of business mobile applications. The Windows Mobile 6.1 device is targeted at "potentially explosive environments," such as chemical manufacturing and petrochemical industry sites, as well as military applications. The phone meets MIL-SPEC 810 F/G standards, sports a 2.8 inch touchscreen display, a QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, push-to-talk ... Read More

AT&T is putting out a lot of cell phones, and one of them is the Nokia 2330. This one isn’t the iPhone, as it is simply a candy bar phone that isn’t too advanced. The Nokia 2330 has a VGA camera, an FM radio, Bluetooth, speakerphone, personal organizer, as well as a WAP browser. It is availble for free with a service contract. AT&T is putting out a lot of cell phones, ... Read More

Google’s semi-secret Nexus One handset has been more or less exhaustively leaked at this point, with very few cats left to let out of the bag. The only two major points left were the tech specs and the release date – and now, even those have made their way out. Our friends over at Engadget just had a chat with someone who could spill the beans – and spill they did. ... Read More

AT&T has officially announced the LG eXpo (also known as LG Monaco and LG IQ), presented as the United States’ first phone to feature a 1GHz CPU, as well as the first to have an optional integrated pico projector. The eXpo is actually not a simple phone, but a smartphone that runs Windows Mobile 6.5 and features a WVGA touchscreen display, full QWERTY keyboard, HSDPA, GPS, 5MP camera and MicroSD card ... Read More

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 ... Read More

First announced by AT&T at the beginning of October, the Pantech Impact will be available starting this Sunday (22 November). The Impact is a weird messaging phone, featuring a “high-gloss faceplate” with haptic-enabled keys, and a full QWERTY keyboard. The handset also has two displays: a small external one and a larger internal one. Other features include 3G, GPS, music player, AT&T HTML mobile browser, photo camera, video recording, and easy access ... Read More

Following the official announcement that Nokia N900 starts shipping in Europe last week, Nokia today went ahead and confirmed Nokia N900 availability in the USA starting from today. The N900 is not getting a subsidized deal with some of the major carriers but it will instead be sold independently SIM-free. As our specs testify, the Nokia N900 comes with full quad-band GSM support and 1700/2100/900 UMTS/HSDPA support no matter what region ... Read More

Appeared in some leaked photos back in the summer, the LG Shine II has just been officially announced by LG USA and AT&T. Like the older, original LG Shine, the new Shine II comes to make a “fashionably smart statement with its glossy exterior and versatile utility.” The phone’s features include a 2.2 inch display, AT&T Navigator, “music player with customizable equalizer, music recognition and ringtone creator”, Java 2.0 support and a ... Read More

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. AT&T has just announced the USBConnect Lightning from Sierra ... Read More

Another week, another truckload of Samsung devices dumped onto the shelves. This week’s Samsung shipment brings two new TouchWiz-based touchscreen handsets: the Mythic, and the Flight. Before we dive into the specs, we gotta give Samsung some grief for the names. Not because they’re bad – in fact, I really, really like both of these names. So much that I wonder why the hell Samsung is giving them to two random ... Read More