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Samsung Access AT&T TV phone - hands on @ CTIA '08

Noah Kravitz
Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008
by Noah Kravitz, Senior Editor, Consumer Products and Services
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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.

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