Hasta La Gadget!

Are we looking at the best thing this side of a smartphone to grace AT&T? Quite possibly, and jilted Quickfire owners who miss the form factor should probably be taking note. Rumor has it that we’re looking at the Samsung A877 here, delivering some 3.2 inches of AMOLED glory at WQVGA resolution, a 3 megapixel cam with geotagging support, TouchWiz (naturally), GPS, HSDPA, and a landscape slide-out full QWERTY keyboard. Even better, PhoneDog’s tipster says it’ll be hitting just a couple weeks away on March 29, so we don’t have terribly long to wait. The Eternity just got a whole lot less interesting, eh?

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Samsung A877 with AMOLED touchscreen coming to AT&T this month? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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No question, you’ll totally score more for your old handset by listing it on eBay or Craigslist than turning it over to AT&T, but wouldn’t it be nice to have the option if you’re really in a bind? According to Boy Genius Report, the aforesaid carrier is mulling the idea of implementing a trade-in program that would allow existing subscribers to put a “used value” towards the purchase of a new phone. While none of this has yet to be confirmed, we’re told that any phone traded in must be less than two years old and in relatively good shape, and the new phone you’re after won’t have any subsidies attached; your trade-in value is the discount. Oh, and regardless of how awesome that shiny new whatever is, the maximum value of any trade is capped at $200. We’ll keep an ear to the ground for more, but we wouldn’t be shocked at all to see this go live sooner rather than later.

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Rumored AT&T trade-in program could provide easy alternative to eBay originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While waiting for a Caribbean cruise liner to set sail from the Port of Miami last November, a Chicago native with an AT&T wireless card and Slingbox decided to catch the Bears vs. Lions football game on his laptop. The end result? A $28,067.31 bill from for international data charges, despite the ship never leaving the harbor. Apparently the card was picking up a signal it shouldn’t have, and while the bill was eventually dropped to $290.65 after a considerable number of calls to customer service, let that be a warning to mobile users traveling on the fringe of international roaming areas — and in case you were wondering, the Bears ended up winning 27 to 23.

[Via The Register]

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Man charged $28,000 for using data card, Slingbox to watch football game originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pantech’s Matrix PRO is certainly an interesting update on the original Pantech Duo, and although we’re not super-intrigued by a handset that can’t be updated to Windows Mobile 6.5, we’re not going to let that get in the way of some unboxing good times — and they must be good, because PocketNow’s Brandon Miniman sounds delighted in this video. We won’t hold you back — it’s after the break.

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Pantech Matrix PRO unboxed on video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This thing’s been on quite a journey from concept to production, but here we are — finally, a true successor to Pantech’s quirky Duo on AT&T. The Matrix PRO features HSDPA (up from UMTS), integrated GPS with AT&T Navigator, Bluetooth, a 2 megapixel cam, Video Share support, and Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard, but the real draw lies in the device’s pair of sliders — one for QWERTY, one for digits. At nearly 23mm thick, it’s not the thinnest smartphone in the world — that honor supposedly belongs to the Nokia E55 — but where else are you going to get this many buttons on a single device? Pricing and availability are forthcoming.

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Pantech’s Matrix PRO slides two ways onto AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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