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Sprint and Best Buy are offering a Compaq Mini 110-series netbook for just $0.99, assuming you’re willing to sign up to 2-years of EVDO Rev.A data service from the carrier.  The netbook, The Mini 110c-1040DX, can be picked with either a CDMA EVDO Rev.A module for use with Verizon or Sprint, or an HSDPA module [...]

Sprint have thrown down the gauntlet to AT&T over which US carrier can stage a full commercial release of a 3G femtocell first.  According to Unstrung, Sprint’s VP of device and technology development Mathew Oommen has promised they will be first to launch a 3G femtocell this year, which will not only boost voice-call reception [...]

With over one million iPhone 3GS units sold in the first three days, there’s no shortage of opinion as to Apple’s successes in their latest smartphone.  We’ve covered the basics in our hands-on first-impressions piece; with a few more days of intensive use under our belt, has the iPhone 3GS proved its worth?
The iPhone 3GS’ [...]

AT&T have released the iPhone version of their Navigator PND program through the App Store [iTunes link], offering turn-by-turn directions on the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS.  The Telenav-developed app supports both verbal and on-screen guidance, speech recognition, traffic alerts and full 3D mapping.

AT&T’s femtocell system should launch nationally by the end of the year, according to one of the carrier’s senior executives.  Gordon Mansfield, AT&T’s executive director for radio access network delivery, has revealed that the UMTS femtocell – which has been in trials with around 200 users for the past few months – will initially take [...]

AT&T have announced the Motorola Karma QA1, an entry-level slider with full QWERTY keyboard and homescreen access to Facebook and MySpace.  Aimed, unsurprisingly, at teenagers and young adults, the Karma has a 2.5-inch 240 x 320 display, 3.6Mbps HSDPA, a microSD card slot and 2-megapixel camera with video recording functionality.
There’s also A-GPS, and AT&T load their Navigator [...]

The first new US iPhone 3GS users are picking up their handsets today, and SlashGear is among them.  We’ve been down at the Apple Store in NYC this morning, and have been eagerly playing with the new smartphone to see whether all the hype was worth it.  For the moment we’ll put aside any arguments [...]

We may not be seeing the same huge queues as we did for the original iPhone and iPhone 3G, but things are still busy this morning at Apple’s 5th Avenue store in New York City.  SlashGear headed down to meet with the crowd and soak up some of the iPhone 3G S excitement.

Full gallery after [...]

The AT&T tethering debacle continues, and after yesterday’s super-simple unofficial hack, now comes the first leak regarding possible pricing for the carrier’s official package.  According to an internal AT&T source, tethering for the iPhone 3G and 3G S will be offered at the end of July, priced at a whopping $55 per month.
The source also [...]

You might not have heard, but the Apple iPhone 3G S goes on sale tomorrow, and AT&T thought you might want to know exactly how things are being arranged come the morning.  The iPhone 3G S will be available from all 211 AT&T stores across the US, just in case you decided not to do the [...]