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The Dell Venue hasn’t been the most exciting device to follow, but it’s actually a nice-looking device that could attract a few eyes sitting on store shelves. It’s a 4.1-inch WVGA AMOLED device with Android 2.2 that has sprinklings of Dell’s custom Stage UI throughout, an 8 megapixel camera, a sleek design. 

Elegantly designed, the Venue offers a vibrant, high-contrast 4.1-inch AM-OLED display with curved Corning Gorilla Glass that’s perfect for watching videos to performing business applications. Pre-loaded applications and the Dell Stage user interface make Venue perfect for entertainment. As with the Dell Streak 7, Venue offers access to thousands of Android Market widgets, games and applications.

The Streak 7 and the Venue smartphone are the latest in a series of distinctive Dell mobility solutions, including the Streak 5 ultimate pocket tablet, the Inspiron duo convertible tablet and the Venue Pro smartphone with its unique sliding vertical QWERTY keypad.

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At AT&T, the iPhone 4 costs $599 for 16GB and $699 for 32GB (that’s the unsubsidized price). At Verizon, buying the iPhone 4 at full retail costs $649 and $749. Verizon has not explained the reason for the extra $50 cost. 

The data plans cost $15 for 250MB or $25 for 2GB. Verizon Wireless has not yet announced what voice plan it will require with the iPhone. Moving on to data, Verizon has nixed its entry-level data plan of $15 and will be offering a $30 unlimited data option instead. That costs $20 more, pushing to total data cost to $50 per month. The fastest data speeds you’ll get with a Verizon iPhone will probably be in the 2Mbps to 2.7Mbps range, with average data speeds falling in the 1.4Mbps to 1.8Mbps range. To be fair, the iPhone’s performance on Verizon’s network is completely untested. Verizon’s has none so far. Verizon is smack in the middle of deploying a faster 4G network that the iPhone 4 currently can’t use. AT&T is pushing its network to faster speeds with LTE this summer. 

AT&T has quietly revised its data plans for iPhone users, allowing some to switch back to unlimited data. Verizon announced that it would be offering an unlimited data plan for new iPhone users, something AT&T got rid of last summer. This policy does not cover new AT&T customers who never had an unlimited plan.

On Tuesday, Verizon Chief Operating Officer Lowell McAdam told The Wall Street Journal that the company will offer iPhone buyers a US$30 unlimited data plan -- for now. Meanwhile, reports have surfaced that AT&T Wireless has let some subscribers to its limited iPhone plans return to its unlimited plan if they had subscribed to it previously.

iPhone owners on Verizon Wireless will have to subscribe to one of the carriers basic nationwide calling plans and get an unlimited data plan on top of that. AT&T offers iPhone owners on its network two plans. The DataPlus plan provides subscribers 200 MB of data for $15 a month. The DataPro plan costs $25 a month for 2 GB, and subscribers have to fork out $10 per additional GB of data.

AT&T and Verizon may further alter their plans as they battle to lure iPhone-craving wireless subscribers. Verizons McAdam reportedly sees the companys unlimited data plan as a lure to AT&T iPhone customers to switch. 

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It just might work: A super-powered Android phone that inserts like a game cartridge into a laptop, providing the CPU and the connectivity. What makes this price feel high is that rumors suggested the phone and laptop would each cost $149. AT&T will charge $199 for the phone, and charge an a la carte price of $499 for the laptop dock by itself. (Its basically the current $25 2GB data plan plus the $20 tethering fee, but now, when you get tethering, you get up to 4GB of data usage.)

If you were wondering whether or not the ZTE Grand X would cross the oceans to launch in the US, theres a good chance the mystery is over. An unusually detailed FCC filing has uncovered a V970T variant thats destined for T-Mobile USA, complete with the carrier branding, Wi-Fi calling and AWS-based 3G data to match. Other details of the Android 4.0 phone are lacking despite the presence of a manual, although the V970 edition weve seen elsewhere runs on a dual-core, 1GHz MediaTek MT6577 chip alongside the more familiar 4.3-inch screen and 5-megapixel rear camera. T-Mobiles release plan is about all thats left to ponder; knowing the entry-level components, though, any possible launch should come with a low price tag.

source: engadget