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Kyocera Rise Coming Soon!

Check out the Kyocera Rise which is coming soon.  This CDMA qwerty keyboard phone is rumored to be released later this month on Sprint and Virgin Mobile.  It'll have a 1500 mAh Li-lon battery and will run the Android(tm) 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) using a 1GHz (QUALCOMM Snapdragon processor).  It has a 3.5" capacitive touchscreen and a 3.2 MP camera and video camcorder.

AT&T switching to shared wireless data plans.

AT&T is following Verizon's move to shared wireless data plans.  AT&T will let customers keep their old plans for now.  No word if that will change in the future.  Take a look here at AT&T and see if you will switch.

Another Prepaid iPhone 4S Coming Soon!

Virgin Mobile will begin offering prepaid iPhone 4s beginning June 29th.  The plans will be $30-$50 per month.  Visit Virgin Mobile's site to register or get more details on their prepaid plans.

AT&T Data-Only Plans

AT&T reports data-only plans coming within next two years.  Follow link to Businessweek to read more comments from Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T.

Prepaid Iphone 4S

Cell phone carrier Cricket to offer prepaid Iphone 4S beginning June 22nd.   Details from Associated Press HERE

To register with Cricket to receive more information, click HERE

AT&T: Samsung Galaxy Appeal

AT&T has announced, beginning June 5, GoPhone customers will be able to purchase the Android-based Samsung Galaxy Appeal through Walmart.  Beginning July 15, other outlets will also offer this phone.

Per AT&Ts news release, the Samsung Galaxy Appeal is the first smartphone offered with the GoPhone service that features a sliding QWERTY keyboard, making this a good phone for messaging/email.  The Appeal's OS is Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and includes a 3 mega-pixel rear-facing camera with a 3X zoom.

Data plans for GoPhone customers are affordable:  1GB $25/month, 200MB $15/month, 50MB $5/month.

For more information on the Samsung Galaxy Appeal or AT&T's GoPhone service, follow this link.