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generally, at&t likes SE phones... they're one of the top selling brands. the k850i was yanked because someone decided that there was not enough market demand for a carrier-subsidized 5 mp phone... those that wanted it bought it unlocked already... and the rest didn't care enough.
another minus was that it was a bar phone. that was right about the time that at&t got into SLIDER RAGE... because the market was responding more favorably to slider phones than bar phones when looking for an alternative to a clamshell.

so i think because this IS a slider ... and because t-mo upped the ante with a pair of 5 mp phones (t-919 and motozine)... this will almost certainly make it to market...

... early next year.

there. those are my 2 cents.

some port numbers are blocked... on at&t... unfortunately believe it or not different ones are blocked at different NOC centers geographically... 554 might be blocked everywhere.. these days.. but i don't really know

i remember having problems getting Orb to stream over 554 so i just reconfigured Orb to use like 1044.. or something.. something in a different port range.

so if you have that option, try changing the port

Nah. Now that someone else "mentioned" it, I can confirm that this phone really is being tested in at&t labs.... with the full 8 mp camera. Scheduled for early Q1 release.

Having said that, the same was the case with the k850i, until upper management yanked it a week before scheduled release date. So I mean, nothing is ever certain in at&t land until you physically get your hands on one.

You guys remember the N80 and 6282 with US UMTS bands right? There's a few of those floating around too...

i'd love to have one. also i like the redesign!

dear engadget users: AS SOMEONE WHO HAS ACTUALLY USED SURFACE, allow me to put my 2 cents in.

i too was skeptical. but let me assure you this device is so freakin' revolutionary it's beyond description. seeing as how desktops are being phased out ( in lieu of powerful laptops and mobile devices ), this is beyond question the future of stationary computing.

the UI has a really awesome physics model where if you have an object and you touch it on its edge, it will move, and also very slightly rotate as well. you can flick things across. you can grab and stretch and zoom and move. the coolest application of this is the Maps application, as well as the photos and videos browser.

my other favorite part is the many group-based, team-based touch games that you play by touching areas of the screen. the lightbug game is simply amazing.

to me, there is no question that this is going to be the centerpiece of future livingrooms.

whoever said this is a glorified iphone has it backwards. actually surface has been in development since 2001, and theorized and described by microsoft research internally in the mid 90's. when Minority Report had that interface in it, it was actually based on surface prototypes and was designed with heavy consultation from microsoft. the reason it's taking so long is a. little bit of bureaucracy and b. a lot of hardware limitations that are just now being resolved.

it is not simply an LCD, it's a projector that projects from underneath on a special infrared-sensitive plastic material. that's how the multi-touch works; it senses heat. if you lay your whole palm down, that will be one big touch point. if you lay just one finger, that will be one tiny touch point. oh also, this thing uses some really intense graphics processing to render so many videos and 3d elements at such a high-res that smooth operation was just not available until very recently.

p.s. they also have a piano application - that needs some work :) it's not responsive enough.

hmm, no kidding, flash? ill give this a shot after i reinstall with the new beta hahah. thanks for the tip!

"Anyhoo, ACCESS has just taken the Technical Preview of its NetFront 3.4 release for Windows Mobile to the public with a couple"

that's a lie it's been out for months ;). i've had it for a month and a half!

Chris, let me assure you it is great. Very stable, more so than IE. It renders pages very accurately, but the old Beta I've been using did not support Flash. As with Opera 9, I can't wait to see if they will dare put that in.

With PagePilot, it tries to do a minimap feature to mimic Nokia Browser but it does not do it horizontally, only vertically.

Visual bookmarks is all hype and I did not find it very practical. It is only limited to 10 pages. Overall on the Beta version I had, the menu system had a TON of customization features better suited for power users.

Ajax support is also still limited.

Thankfully it supports multiple tabs and works with some authentication systems (like my University's) that pocket IE simply can't handle.

That's really all I can say. Mostly I just wanted to point out how this isn't new news haha.

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