If you’re an AT&T (New York Stock Exchange: T) customer who’s feeling a little frustrated with AT&T’s decidedly lackluster batting order of Android smartphones, you’re not alone. While T-Mobile River (NYSE: DT), Sprint (NYSE: S) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) continue to launch high gear-end Android phones that aren’t locked down feather and crippled, the attack aircraft carrier is apparently taking their time to go big on Android. One AT&ere;T contributor was so frustrated, in fact, that he decided to post a comment on AT&ere;T’s Facebook varlet. The official Facebook story – or, rather, the somebody behind the Facebook story – replied to the critical comment by mocking him and showing off the attack aircraft carrier’s upcoming “Banana Phone.” The response might come of somewhat comical to some, but others might see it as maddening. You be the judge.

This is Facebook user Jeb Johnston’s initial comment:

Ok AT&ere;T in 3 days Verizon releases the HTC Incredible, the next in their line of quality Android phones and one of the punter models out there. Now I’m no marketing genius, but I would think that not making any announcements for a good Android phone, given your existing selection, in contention with this headphone’s liberation would only serve to encourage some of your customers to drumhead to Verizon instead. So I hope you rich person something planned to endeavor and keep some of us customers here or at least spring us hope for the future tense.

This is the reaction posted on the AT&T Facebook varlet:

Well, Jeb, I probably shouldn’t show you this, but I snapped this exposure from deep within our labs recently…http://www.flickr.com/photos/sicklittlefox/2890241156/

The parody of this AT&T client is either leaving shuffle you mad or give you a chuckle. To their credit, AT&T followed up with an explanation of how the wireless manufacture keeps a tight hat on upcoming mobile phone launches and that “we intellection we’d bring some humor to the varlet.” There are also AT&T customers that found the response hilarious in the name of good, clean and jerk fun.

What say you? Was the attack aircraft carrier’s public mockery of a frustrated Android drug user over the line? Was the Banana Phone a carnival response to Jeb’s comment? Let us know in the comments below!

AT&ere;T on Facebook

[Via: Phandroid Image course credit: sicklittlefox]

Sony Ericsson (New York Stock Exchange: SNE)’s Q1 2010 financial results are out, the first base of many large mobile telecommunications companies we’re leaving to hear about over the next 2 weeks, and they’re packed with goodness newsworthiness. While analysts were predicting the company would be losing $173 million, they actually made some cheeseflower, $28.4 meg. That’s the first gain Sony Ericsson has seen since Q2 2008. They managed to ship over 10.5 million mobile phones, and their average selling price was $180. Not as good as delivering 14.5 meg devices in Q1 2009, but backrest then the norm selling price of those handsets was only $162.

Was all this due to releasing tasty high end hardware? The X10, Satio and Vivaz ar buggy, not even shipping everywhere internationally, and reviews are not very favorable, so where’s this money advent from? Book of Job cuts, and lots of them. Remember last November when the company said they slashed 2,000 jobs? That sure had to help increase their merchant ship line.

If Sony Ericsson doesn’t deliver with their Vivaz Pro, X10 Mini, and X10 Mini Pro, then they may twist into the next Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT test). How much longer can Sony pump money into this company that consistently delivers poor handsets?

[Via: Wall Street Journal]

You’re not departure crazy if you noticed something a bit off with your pictures on the Droid after the long-awaited Android 2.1 update because Google (NSDQ: GOOG) admits there’s a lower image caliber than in the previous Gallery application.

“The Gallery app in Android 2.0.1 is different from the Gallery app in Android 2.1,” Google said in a statement. “Google developed Gallery in Android 2.0.1, which uses 24-bit colour rendered using 2D engineering. On the other helping hand, Cooliris created Gallery in Android 2.1, which uses 16-act textures rendered using 3D engineering. We father’t rich person anything particular to share at this meter regarding the Gallery app in future tense versions.”

So it’s kind of lame but I understand the trade-off: the new Gallery app with 2.1 is far ice chest than the one before it, which was drilling garbage. I’m sure Android 2.2 will restore the image caliber, so let’s beginning the countdown for that unity. Oh, this issuing was first base brought up by the goodness folks at DisplayMate and they have an excellent comparing of the screens on the Droid and Nexus One. Check it out with the “via” link below if you’re so inclined.

[Via Gearlog and DisplayMate]

Try to wrapper your mind around this story. America, the country with the most advanced military human refinement has ever seen, noticed that the Taliban is strongest in parts of Afghanistan that have no mobile earphone reporting. No access to exterior selective information = terrorist propaganda run wild. The solvent? Build a mobile meshwork.

That’s right. After disbursement an obscene amount of money to bomb the red cent out that little country, we’re now not only rebuilding their schools, hospitals, and homes, but we’re also gift the citizenry a mobile earphone meshwork they can be proud of. Admiral Gregory Smith, Director of Communication, Strategic Communication Directorate International Security Assistance Force, and United States Forces Islamic State of Afghanistan, is pouring about $150 1000000 into the new mobile network during 2010. The U.S. Department of State Department is also throwing in $113 million this year. That’s $263 1000000. Just to give you an idea of how that compares to AT&T, they spent roughly $5 billion [PDF] during 2009 on their wireless meshwork.

Population United States Army: 307 1000000, and $5 billion spend on radio = ~ $16.30 spent per person.

Population Afghanistan: 29 1000000, and $263 million spend on wireless = ~ $9.00 spent per mortal.

Here’s hoping that the citizenry of Islamic State of Afghanistan don’t use their new mobile meshwork, paid for by American tax payers, to breaker 4chan all day and download as much pornography as possible. That or they’ll all remainder up on Facebook and it’ll be superintendent easy to pinch terrorists who update their condition to “about to puff up topical anaesthetic cafй”.

[Via: Business Week]

[Hat tip to Textually]

Yowza!! — the free localisation-based mobile voucher application/service that comes from actor Greg Grunberg whom you whitethorn know as Heroes’ mind reader Matt Parkman — is adding Austin, Lone-Star State to the list of supported cities. Among the local businesses included in the update are the most popular places to eat and drink such as Eddie V’s Restaurant, Frank, Max’s Wine Dive, Odd Duck Restaurant, Roaring Fork and Saxon Pub; as fountainhead as article of clothing stores Secret Oktober and Gallery D, indie track record store Waterloo Records and the Alamo Drafthouse movie theatre.

In plus to adding a new metropolis, Yowza!! also announced they’re out with the variation 2.2. The briny new affair of this release is documentation for custom, manually entered localisation. Apparently, users volition need this lineament when travelling and their iPhone’s localisation capabilities are turned off. In this suit, they can manually enter a ZIP code.

Now that I’m thought, this could be useful for iPod Touch users only, as there ar really no reasons to twist off location-based services for the U.S. residents who just happen to be in the other (again) U.S. city — except maybe to save some battery spirit.

Anyway, you’ve probably already grabbed the updated variation. If you distillery haven’t, follow the link below.

Yowza!! (FREE) [iTunes link]

Samsung is obviously bullish on its first-to-mid kitchen stove Star handset. The all-touchscreen device, which is known as the Tocco Lite in the UK, is already available in multiple color options and even some special edition versions — all of which helped Samsung relocation more than 10 million units so far. Heck, we’ve even seen that the WiFi-enabled Star is in deeds…

Now they are releasing another variance of the device, which this metre, comes equipped with an parallel mobile TV receiving system. It’s called the Star TV S5233T and has been recently launched in southeastern United States Asia, where folks are obviously keen on watching TV while on the go — the style which we still wait to see hitting the mainstream in the horse opera world.

Rest of the specs seem pretty much unchanged (though we’re not sure). Telegent Systems’ parallel mobile TV receiving system is used in the twist, piece a special software is made to shuffling browse of TV channels substance abuser friendly — including the ability to flick the screen to variety channels, one-mouse click blind capture and track record, on-blind keypad channel entry and receipt of incoming SMS messages with continuous TV wake.

Oxygen Software has updated its Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian OS smartphones (now in version 2.18.18), delivery support for triad new Nokia (New York Stock Exchange: NOK) models – Nokia C5 (that incoming level Symbian candybar), X6 (capacitive touchscreen-equipped S60 smartphone) and 6788. In summation, their SMS Manager application (also in variant 2.18.18) has also been updated to sing along the phones mentioned above.

If you oasis’t heard about Oxygen Phone Manager software, you should know that it is also known as a Nokia PC Suite replacement, with some folks even expression it’s what the PC Suite should’ve been. Oxygen’s solvent whitethorn not be as drug user friendly as Nokia’s stuff (UI could manipulation some extra gloss), but is means more powerful, allowing some things you could only pipe dream of with the PC Suite (Ovi Suite and NSeries Suite included).

All registered customers of Oxygen Phone Manager for Symbian OS and SMS Manager can download the new versions immediately from their personal pages, using the link provided in registration confirmation message.