AT&T roadmap leaks out

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Looking for your AT&T fix for the remainder of 2008? We’ve got you covered. The carrier has a number of exciting new handsets planned for the coming months, which should be good news for both the carrier and consumers. Everyone loves selection, right? Right. First up, AT&T is planning to release the BlackBerry Curve 8320 (yeah, we’re scratching our heads too), and the BlackBerry Bold by the end of Q3. On the Windows Mobile side of things, AT&T is planning to drop the Samsung BlackJack III, which should see Windows Mobile 6.1, a 528 MHz processor, 3MP camera, aGPS, and more. Look for a new Pantech Duo sporting Windows Mobile 6.1, GPS, HSDPA, and a 528MHz processor. They also alluded to an HTC Tilt replacement, tentatively dubbed the Tilt II, which should feature a Qualcomm 528 MHz processor, aGPS, HSDPA, 256MB ROM/ 128MB, and more. Touch Pro anyone? Expect to see all three of those by Q4 of this year. Excited yet? Yeah, we thought so, but why stop here. AT&T is also planning a slew of Windows Mobile 6.1 upgrades for existing handsets. The current Pantech Duo should see 6.1 by October, while the BlackJack II, Moto Q9h, and AT&T Tilt will get the royal treatment by July.

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  • Paul Kusiak

    no one should panic as im 99% sure this isn’t the entire roadmap. its jus pretty much what they want you to know and also doesn’t include non smartphones.

  • mike

    these schedules are never followed. get ready to be disappointed.
    exhibit a is june 25th non release of bb for rogers.

  • MO

    wow att u suck for delaying da effing bb bold i guess i’m switching to da Iphony…psyche! we gonna wait it out even if its 2010, for now i’m holding onto my curve. N boygenius keep up da good work homie!

  • Jack

    @The Outside & Dayne

    Keep believing what you read in the blogs. I’m holding an i907 and trust me, you’re wrong. It has a qwerty keyboard, 2mp camera, and looks like a blackjack 2 but with a touchscreen.

  • The Outside

    what the hell i907 is you holding? the i900 hasnt even been released yet. the REAL i907 is the at&t version of the samsung i900. now unless samsung downgraded the camera and added a qwerty keyboard and secretly released the i900 there’s no way you are telling the truth. maybe your holding a purple blacjack 2 that says “im actually the samsung i907″

  • Jack

    First, AT&T is testing the i907 now. So just because it’s not released, doesn’t mean that they aren’t in the field.

    Second, Have you actually read the FCC docs on the i907? Everyone is assuming that the i907 is the NA version of the i900. The truth is, Samsung switched it up this time and didn’t use the 7 for this AT&T device.

    I guess you’ll just have to wait and see. I right though…

  • Jeremy

    @ what Nancy Yo Said-
    I agree. Where are the non pda phones that are worth buying. AT&T really needs to change the way they do business because they think they can force a $30.00 feature on people. Look at the phone selection at Verizon and how profitable they are. I hate AT&T’s line up because they have the Curve, Blackjack and the two motos and that’s it for quality products. The 6555 is ok but just like the Sony 750, AT&T has ruined the phones with worthless junk. The Shine has a nice build but horrid reception. AT&T needs to get out of the way of the manufactures and stop trying to nickle and dime both the manufactures and the customers with crap products. The manufactures are forced to build at AT&T’s price point and ends up making a product that is very cheaply built which makes the customer suffer for it. I have see the mark up on phones and after the mark up and ‘discount’ for a two year renewal, the customer is only getting about a 50.00 ‘subsidy’ on the phone for signing a contract. When the iPhone was still in store it retailed for less than the V9, Z9, n75, VU, Access and within the same range as the Shine. WHY????????? If AT&T would go back to letting the manufactures make a good, quality handset and not dictate what the phone will and will not have and actually subsidize the cost, then every customer they have would be happier. We would also see more innovation. We would not be locked to sub-par features (Mobile Email—-WHICH DOESN’T EVEN SUPPORT GMAIL!!!), over priced services (wireless internet for the blackberry is 3.00 less than my DSL with less reliability and max connection speed of 150 Kb) and usability (the shortcut button on most phones is the MEdia Net launcher, which gets AT&T tons of money {unethically} by people pressing on accident.) The current form of AT&T will follow suit of AT&T of old by the very same methods. The company really needs to fire every decision maker in the company and start over. Get rid of all the ‘Old Telco’ guys and get back to putting money into the network at GET BACK TO BEING AN INNOVATIVE COMPANY… Please stop the communistic ways.

  • The Outside

    yeah. this i HAVE to see. after so many sites have comfirmed the samsung i907 to be the na version of the i900. sites like phonescoop, mobileburn, engadget but just gonna have to wait

  • boogalooboy

    Problem is all those sites “confirming” the i907 all leeched off the original BGR story. I read it here first and watched it spread and get reported by various other sites so I wouldnt put too much stock in what they say.

    As Jack said, the FCC docs seem to point to the i907 being a NA version of the i780 but this roadmap mentions another Samsung device so which one is that?

  • maikel

    No mention of other MobileTV compatible phones?

  • The Outside

    well shouldnt it be called the i788 like BGR reported before? why i907 which is so closely related to the i900? samsung, fcc, at&t whoever…please get this name game under control because im awfully confused

  • Peter

    Those wouldn’t come up under the smartphone roadmap; they would just be regular non-smartphones.

  • Jordan

    The “Tilt 2″ can not be the Touch Pro, can it? According to this it’s only 256/128 but all the specs I’ve read say it’s 512/228. I’m not buying this thing if it has the same amount of RAM as my Tilt. Forget that noise. Especially if it has to run Touchflo 3D. That’s going to dog on 128 RAM.

    And no mention of the Diamond? Xpera? An Android phone? Omnia? This is a pretty weak list. I’m disappointed.

  • CLShortFuse

    for some of you, this wasn’t obvious, but the Tilt 2 will have a QWERTY keyboard. I mean, if it didn’t, what exactly would be tilting?

  • Riley Freeman

    This roadmap has already been confirmed to be fake.

    There is not HTC device with 128mb of ram in development the touch pro itself is 288mb of ram. htc would not go backward. and HTC reps have confirmed info is not valid

  • http://www.darkfiberla.com Dan

    im getting the e71 regardless of whether or not at&t sells it.

  • H.N.I.C.

    Nice! i just dont care for the jack up in price for the service plans attached to the iphone.

  • Blueshockeynut

    Guys and gals, just keep one thing in mind here, dont take this leak to seriously, a roadmap that goes out this far is bound to have standard “generic” info that is never the same when the product is released anyways, I agree with most comments, that there is just way too much missing here that has not been accounted for, look at the similarities in all the settings, very generic across the board, again, dont read to much into it and hopefully we will all be shocked and surprised when some more devices come out.

  • Mike

    Yo Jeremy if u want BULLSHIT I mean affordable phones go to tmobile. Att arguably has the best phone selection.

  • YR

    The HTC Tilt II is not the Touch Pro. It’s basically a faster Tilt.

  • Geoff

    So as time keeps passing by, the silence from AT&T on the Nokia E71 is deafening. Are we to assume that the E71 is NOT coming to AT&T? By the way, I played with one in the Chicago Nokia store this past weekend. It was better than I expected, absolutely gorgeous phone!

  • Therms

    Tilt WM 6.1 Rom in July? FAIL

  • Ben

    AT&T must be doing something right, their customer base and profits are up again this quarter, they may not be pleasing you but they are pleasing far more people per captia than Verizon

  • John

    Any further word on when the Tilt II will hit the street?

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