Verizon has announced that the Samsung Ativ Odyssey, a 4-inch budget Windows Phone 8 handset, will arrive on Verizon on January 24th for a price of $ 49.99 with a two-year contract and after a $ 50 mail-in rebate. The phone was supposed to release last December, but the release date slipped — still, it’s Samsung’s first Ativ phone in the United States. The Ativ Odyssey is a lower-end Windows Phone 8 device, with a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED screen, a 5-megapixel camera, and a 1.5GHz Qualcomm processor. The phone joins the HTC 8X ($ 99.99) and Nokia Lumia 822 ($ 49.99), becoming the third Windows Phone 8 device in Verizon’s lineup.
AT&T has slashed the price of the Nokia Lumia 900 in half. From this weekend onward you’ll be able to pick up the flagship Windows Phone for an upfront price of $ 49.99 on top of the two year contract. AT&T.com is still displaying the old price of $ 99.99, but it should be updated any time now. The price will also immediately apply in AT&T stores.
While the carrier has continued to support the device with new color variants and (admittedly late) firmware updates, we can’t wholeheartedly recommend you buy it now in light of Windows Phone 8′s impending arrival — the Lumia 900 will get Windows Phone 7.8, but it’s unclear how well that’ll hold up by the end of your contract. Still, the beautiful hardware is unlikely to go out of style any…
AT&T and Nokia went all-out for the launch of the Lumia 900 last month, but if you’re looking for another white, LTE-enabled Windows Phone with a 4-inch screen on AT&T, you’ll want to know that the Samsung Focus 2 is available now. AT&T is selling the phone for $ 49.99 with a two-year contract — a price that appears to undercut the Lumia 900, though if you look around it isn’t hard to find Nokia’s option for the same price or cheaper. If you’d rather purchase the device outright, it’ll cost you $ 399.99. We had a chance to play with the 11mm-thick Focus 2 at AT&T’s CTIA event a couple of weeks ago, so be sure to check that out if you can’t wait for our full review, which we’ll be posting soon.
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The long-rumored Samsung Mandel is finally official for AT&T as the Focus 2, an LTE-enabled Windows Phone for AT&T. Features include a 5-megapixel camera with 720p video capture, 4-inch Super AMOLED display, front-facing VGA cam for video calling, and (of course) LTE support — though at 10.98mm thick, it’s not exactly keeping pace with the thinner smartphones on the market. The Focus 2 joins Nokia’s Lumia 900 and HTC’s Titan II as AT&T’s LTE-capable Windows Phones, but this one is the cheapest upfront: it’ll launch for $ 49.99 on contract on the 20th of this month in “pure white.”
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From Engadget:
Whoa, we didn’t see this one coming: Verizon just slashed the cost of its 3G Mobile Hotspot feature for the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus all the way down to $0, effectively giving you a broadband modem for your laptop, iPod touch, and up to three other devices for $60 less per month than you’d pay with a MiFi that accomplishes exactly the same function (and $50 less than any… Read more »
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