{"id":146677,"date":"2010-01-06T19:35:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=53562"},"modified":"2010-01-06T19:35:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:35:52","slug":"att-jumps-on-the-android-train-and-speeds-up-the-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/146677","title":{"rendered":"AT&T Jumps on the Android Train and Speeds up the Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I really thought that AT&T would bring Android MIDs –– with Dell’s help<\/a> — to the network, but I was wrong. Instead, AT&T will see no less than five Android voice handsets arrive by the end of June, although the Dell MID I expected is a full-fledged smartphone.<\/p>\n

This morning the carrier made the announcement<\/a>, along with some other updates. Motorola will provide a MOTOBLUR device in 2010, while an exclusive handset from HTC will also appear. Qualcomm’s BREW isn’t dying the slow, painful death I thought it might — it has new life in the “mid-range Quick Messaging Devices” that make up around 30% of handset sales for AT&T. BREW is getting standardized with a new SDK to help developers create apps more efficiently.<\/p>\n

Like the T-Mobile news of yesterday<\/a>, AT&T is plowing along with their own 7.2 Mbps HSPA network upgrades. In fact, the plans have accelerated with on software and backhaul improvement in six cities: Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami.\u00a0AT&T expects 25 of the top 30 markets to join in by mid-year.<\/p>\n

Not mentioned at the press event but related: Lenovo showed us their first smartbook — the SkyLight — and said that they expect the device to be sold with AT&T service. We’ll have a video of this device up shortly.<\/p>\n

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I really thought that AT&T would bring Android MIDs –– with Dell’s help — to the network, but I was wrong. Instead, AT&T will see no less than five Android voice handsets arrive by the end of June, although the Dell MID I expected is a full-fledged smartphone. This morning the carrier made the announcement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}