It has been known that Verizon will make a charge of $350 ETF for advanced devices, AT&T recently increased their early upgrade program from $75 to $200m, exclusive for smartphones. Quick messaging and basic phones are not included.

The following passage is from AT&T

“This change to our exception pricing is necessary to maintain our ability to provide customers with the best selection of devices and maintain our leadership in the Smartphone category.”

AT&T has launched several Pantech devices a while ago. We just got news that another Pantech phone will be offered by AT&T, it is called the Pantech Laser.

This is a feature-phone quick-messaging device, but not Android. It will work with a 3.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, a full QWERTY keyboard, and 3 megapixel camera. According to Pantech, the Laser is considered to be the “thinnest full sliding keyboard phone” on the market, for its 9.95 mm thickness. The Pantech Laser will be available starting from, cost is $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and 2-year agreement.

We have known something about the HTC Mondrian, now it shows again, to be different, the device has AT&T’s logo on it, which means, the HTC Mondrian will head to AT&T. see the picture below

It seems that this picture is different than what we have seen before. We guess AT&T may plan to introduce two HTC Windows Phone 7 devices, one is what the picture shows, the other is the old Mondrian leaked previously.

Nothing could be sure right now. remember October 11 when Microsoft should officially launch Windows Phone 7, so time for AT&T to present its first WP7 smartphones.

If you have BlackBerry and Windows Mobile handsets, this may be good news for you. AT&T has just announced its first carrier-provided two factor encryption service for calls on the AT&T network, which will be available for the phones I mentioned at the beginning. The service combines KoolSpan’s TrustChip and SRA International’s One Vault Voice.

Below is the press release

Ref: AT&T Motorola ES400, Sprint Motorola ES400, Motorola ES400 features

We have already known that Sprint will release the Motorola ES400S, which sports a 3-inch VGA touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera, 1 GB ROM, 256 MB RAM, Wi-Fi a/b/g, GPS, and a 1540 mAh battery. We just got news that AT&T has announced the Motorola ES400, saying this model will be provided for business customers. The ES400 will run the Windows Embedded Handheld. So far, the device price remains unknown, we are not sure when the handset will be available. Sprint will offer the ES400 for $499 on-contract.

The Nokia C3 is already available at Nokia USA’s online shop, it has also been released on Pay As You Go by AT&T. this device will cost $79.99 only in Wal-Mart stores. If you get the phone in Nokia USA, you will have to pay $129.

The Nokia C3 features include

• a QVGA landscape display
• full QWERTY keyboard
• 2MP camera
• stereo Bluetooth
• 3.5mm headset jack
• web browser
• FM radio
• MicroSD card support
• Wi-Fi

It seems that AT&T is so mad about Android, it just announced two new Motorola Android devices beside the Flipout, they are the Motorola Bravo and the Motorola Flipside. All the three handsets will run Android 2.1 and have MotoBlur at launch.

The Motorola Flipout will be on sale starting from October 17 at AT&T, it packs a 2.8 inch QVGA touchscreen display with a 5-row QWERTY keyboard, 3 MP camera and a 2GB card preloaded. Other features include 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi. It costs $79.99 on contract.

The Moto Bravo is also called Motorola MB520 Kobe / Diablo, it sports a 3.7 inch FWVGA multi-touch display with a resolution of 854 x 480, a 800MHz TI OMAP 3610 processor, 3MP camera, 2GB ROM, and a 2GB card preinstalled. The Bravo has 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi. You can get this device at AT&T “by this holiday period” at the price of  $129.99 on contract.

The Moto Flipside was known as Motorola Sage, equipped with a 3.1 inch HVGA touchscreen display, 4-row QWERTY keyboard, 3MP camera, and a 2GB card. It has 3G, Wi-Fi and GPS. the device will cost $99.99 on contract, you will see it debut at AT&T “by this holiday period.”

It is heard that AT&T no less than seven Android cellphones in its line-up by the end of this year. It is really COOL!

It has been reported Microsoft is going to have an event in in New York on Columbus Day, October 11, to unveil a lineup of smartphones using the revamped version of its mobile operating system. AT&T is planning to sell these handsets starting from early November. Will there be any significant announcement on the event? You will have to wait for one more week!

Remember the rumor that AT&T will launch the BlackBerry Curve 3G and the Blackberry Pearl 3G? the rumor gets confirmed.

It is said that AT&T will make the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100 debut on October 17, the Pearl 3G will be available for $149.99 on contract. About the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300, AT&T hasn’t exposed the date when we can get this device, just  “in time for the holidays.” The Curve 3G will be sold at the price of $99.99 on contract, cheaper than the Pearl 3G. T-Mobile has introduced the BlackBerry Curve 3G to the mass, offering a price of  $79.99 on contract. It is heard that the Curve 3G will get an update to BlackBerry OS 6, higher than the Pearl 3G with BlackBerry OS 5.

Great news—Apple iOS 4.2 beta 2 is now available for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad!! So AT&T iPhone, iPod touch, iPad users, it’s your time!

You can download Apple iOS 4.2 Beta 2 from Apple official site below:

http://developer.apple.com/

Get this Beta 2 run on your Apple devices and feel free to let us know do you like the taste or not, hope it’s great!:)