Remember that rumor about how Walmart was going to be selling iPhones for $99 each? Well it turns out that was overstating the discount a little bit. While Walmart did discount the iPhone 3G, it was from $199 to $197. However, for a limited time anyway, AT&T is selling $99 dollar 8GB iPhone 3G's with two year service agreement... provided you don't have a problem with them being used.

When senator Herb Kohl, who happens to also be chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, noticed that SMS prices have doubled among the big four carriers the last three years, it set off a red flag that looks to be leading to public hearings on the issue. 

If you needed another reason to avoid buying your iPhone through AT&T... well I found another reason.

I guess it's a unique strategy to try to sell a cell phone with a person completely impossible to understand over the phone; but AT&T and Samsung figured if you want your handset identified as a texting phone, what better way to do it than Ozzy Osbourne?   

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I've always been a harsh critic of T-Mobile's Sidekicks, I think it's ripping kids off with an inferior product, but the just announced AT&T Quickfire looks like it could be giving the Sidekick line a run for it's money, both in terms of price on a messaging phone and features.

The day everyone's been waiting for has finally arrived - the much delayed is Blackberry Bold is finally being released today on AT&T's website.

(What did you think there was some other anticipated news story going on today?) 

With their profits reaching 3.2 billion dollars in the last quarter, and the rest of the economy in the toilet, this can be seen as nothing but an insanely greddy money grab on the part of AT&T.

I guess it's conventional wisdom that AT&T has to offer it's users some new phones besides just the IPhone, but how the arrived at the Samsung Epix is a mystery to me.

The Epix is the US' first cell phone to come with an optical mouse... though if there was anyone wishing a mouse was offered in the middle of a mobile phone, I've never talked to them. 

If you thought iPhone sales would slow in the wake of the T-Mobile G1 and a slew of new Blackberry products... not so much. Apple has just released it's sales figures for the last business quarter and during that period they've sold 6.9 million iPhones, more than the entire Blackberry line in the same period, and more than the 6.1 million combined first generation iPhones sold in the previous 5 quarters.