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Tempted to just send a quick SMS saying you’re on the road to grab the milk? Don’t — or your recipient could receive a much more dire message, says a consortium of carriers including AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile. Along with more than 200 other organizations including the DOT, NHTSA and NTSB, the carriers have joined AT&T’s “It Can Wait” campaign, which began last August. The message will feature prominently at carrier stores, Best Buy, Goodyear and RadioShack locations, while insurer USAA is bringing the texting-while-driving simulator we saw earlier (in the video after the break) to more locations. In addition, HTC, Pantech and Samsung will preload AT&T’s DriveMode app (on select devices from the carrier) which impedes the practice, and you’ll soon notice ads warning against it across social media and Clear Channel broadcasters. In case none of that drives the point home, remember that piloting a two-ton vehicle with any distractions is a ridiculously bad idea — let alone one that takes your eyes completely off the road.

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We’ve gotten word of a new BlackBerry smartphone today, and we now also have some news about familiar one. Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile have all confirmed that they’ll soon be carrying the BlackBerry Q10, although some are being more specific with details than others. Verizon is saying that it will be available sometime in June (it has an exclusive on the white version), while Sprint will only go as far as to say “late summer,” with neither offering a price. T-Mobile will also be rolling out the phone sometime in June, and has confirmed that it will run $99.99 down with its new plan structure, or $579.99 if you want to buy it outright — that follows business registation for the device, which began last month. We’ve yet to hear anything more from AT&T, but it has already committed to the device and will presumably be launching it in roughly the same timeframe as well.

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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.

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It seems that patient subscribers over at Verizon Wireless will finally get their just desserts, as we have word from Verizon that the latest flagship smartphone from Samsung, the Galaxy S4, will finally be made available to the masses this […]

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If you didn’t get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we’ve opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought hints of changes to the Droid RAZR lineup, a peek at Sense with Android 4.2 and the arrival of the Lumia 520 to Canada. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore all that’s happening in the mobile world for this week of May 6th, 2013.

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