Samsung Access AT&T TV phone - hands on @ CTIA '08
We wade through all the "Best in Show" awards at the Samsung booth to check out the new Access. It's a phone that supports AT&T's new mobile TV service and will be available in May. And it let me see Eddie House pick up a flagrant foul. Awesome.
Another Internet speed test pitting four 3G phones against one another. The takeaway? 3G coverage is lousy in Oakland. Or ... Noah has no idea what he's doing. Noah puts Instinct and iPhone 3G head-to-head in a Web and speed battle. First is a raw download speed test, and then a few Web page load tests. Who won? Watch the video and find out ... The big news with the new iPhone is price, 3G, and the App Store. Noah takes a look at Super Monkey Ball, Pandora, and Box Office in Part 2 of PhoneDog's look at the App Store. Two of the Summer's hottest touchscreen phones go head to head. LG Dare for Verizon vs Samsung Instinct for Sprint: Who reigns supreme? The big news with the new iPhone is price, 3G, and the App Store. Noah takes a look at installing Apps and checks out a few of them in Part 1 of PhoneDog's look at the App Store. One last Instinct video covering GPS, Visual Voicemail, and the Calendar. Overall it's a really solid phone. And at $129? Best value goin' for Sprint customers wanting a high-end device. Too bad there's no calendar synching, though. From the Emerging Technology Awards area at CTIA 2008 Las Vegas last week, Noah recorded Unlocked episode #4. This episode highlights the best phones of the show, other successful devices, and a rumored 3G iPhone coming soon.
Taking top honors for consumer handsets was the Samsung Instinct followed by the Nokia N96. AT&T made an impact with their new TV devices, the LG Vu & Samsung Access.
Hello MOTO. The new Motorola phone for AT&T is the Z9, a sliderphone with a jewel like finish houses integrated GPS, a music player, video share services, and much more. Check it out behind the scenes at CTIA '08.
It's like being in Vegas minus the unhealthy staying up too late, drinking too much, and losing money. Tour Samsung Mobile's CTIA booth with us. Hands-on with the new LG Vu. Considering all it does, it's super compact and light. Touchscreen, 3G data, AT&T TV. Get inside the LG briefing room and check it out.
I hit up the AT&T media and analyst luncheon today at CTIA, and even though I wound up in the entirely wrong building before finally making my way to the room (the smell of free barbecue guided me), I made it there in time to catch a demo of the Microsoft Surface multitouch kiosk that will be debuting in four AT&T stores on April 17. Very cool stuff, and you really should watch the video to get an idea of what this thing is capable of.
Meanwhile, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega... Today Doug and I hit the floor in earnest, touring the big booths: Samsung Mobile, LG, and Sony Ericsson, and also catching an AT&T media luncheon where CEO Ralph de la Vega basically confirmed that a 3G iPhone will be hitting his stores' shelves in the next few months. We sat in funny music pod chairs (every show seems to have a different company with music pod chairs), ate some good bbq, and ... of course ... saw lots and lots of phones.
We've posted eight videos from the show...
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