In the "we told you so"  department, the BlackBerry Q10 will be available from AT&T on Friday, June 21.

AT&T started taking preorders for the BlackBerry Q10 on June 5 $199.99 with a contract. It is one of the few smartphones around that come with a full QWERTY Keyboard. As an added incentive there is $100 off the purchase with a trade-in smartphone for a limited time.

This follows, an increase BlackBerry in stock prices on Friday,  after another positive report.

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LTE Advanced(LTE-A)  can be three or four times faster than current U.S. LTE and the a new Samsung Galaxy S 4 in Korea will support the spectrum and be coming to Korea in the coming weeks.  J.K. Shin Co-CEO told Reuters that it will be coming overseas and some are hoping it will land in the U.S. soon while Samsung tablet sales are tabulated.

Samsung now claims it is the first to launch a commercial advanced 4G smartphone.

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T-Mobile fast 4G and LTE speeds are coming to MetroPCS - customers in some metros along with a new Samsung Galaxy S III compatible with the refreshed network or you can bring your own compatible GSM phone (from AT&T).

T-Mobile expects the full takeover of MetroPCS by converting customers by 2015. Part of the plan is that when customers upgrade to offer bring your own or new devices that can take advantage of the shared resources.

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The world of thin smartphones is growing with the Huawei Ascend P6 6.18mm thin which is thinner than the 7.6mm thick iPhone 5. The Ascend P6 is expected to launched in Europe in the summer and other places throughout the year.

The Huaweiin Ascend P6 features a 4.7" LCD screen (1280x720) with glove touch, 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, 8GB of storage, and a microSD slot. It also has an 8MP camera with F/2.0 BSI lens with a 4cm macro.  The front camera is 5MP and sound is Dolby Digital Plus.

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There are new rumors circulating around the Moto X and Samsung Galaxy S 4 Special-Edition for Verizon Wireless.

Motorola X Great eXpectations?

Ah the Motorola X, once thought to the next Nexus packed with dream-like feature and a super cheap Nexus 4- like price.  The last we heard at D11 the Moto X was definitely coming with special features.  Leaks reveal some Meh-specs (mid-level) without out anything special...yet.

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Samsung now is advertising that the for free to one million Galaxy owners through an app it will give awy Jay Z's latest album "Magna Cara Holy Grail. A commerical just aired during the NBA finals.

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The top/best stories this week revolve around the major smartphone releases, profits, loses, leaks and speculations about BlackBerry, iPhone 5/iOS7, Samsung Galaxy S4 (new and old models),  HTC One and Nexus.

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Samsung announced the GALAXY S4 zoom  smartphone with advanced photography options and look.  The optical zoom lense makes it looks like a camera with smartphone back.

The Galaxy S zoom offers a 10x Optical Zoom, 16 Mega Pixel CMOS Sensor, Optical Image Stabilizer (OIS) and Xenon Flash while lowering some of the specs of the Samsung Galaxy S4.

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Called the "BlackBerry you always wished for" the BlackBerry Q10 could bring BlackBerry back into profits and with QWERTY appeal. It will be coming to AT&T, soon.

BlackBerry stock prices on Friday, increased after another positive report. Last week, Jeffries analyst Peter Misek reported that the BlackBerry Q10 was well-received by buyers, and sales should offset the slowing of Z10 sales.

Wells Fargo Analyst Maynard Um stated that the Q10 sales may enable BlackBerry to beat its expectation for the first quarter.

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iOS 7 was announced earlier this week, and there were some winners and losers of the update for iPhone 4, 4S, 5, iPad 2/later and iPad mini. We looked and the top first looks and reviews to discover the best and worst of the iOS 7.

Winners in iOS7

People with poor eye sight - the icons in iOS 7 are bigger and clearer before.  The screen is blue which is more pleasing to look at.

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It seems like the Samsung Galaxy S 4 and S 4 Active have been just released and now there are leaks as to what the fifth generation Samsung Galaxy will be like.

Video makers are creating a mock-ups of what they want to see the Galaxy S 5 such as an Exynos 6 processor, 16MP camera, higher capacity battery and more Samsung software.

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AT&T announced that all plans will have  a 24-month upgrade policy across all of AT&T’s wireless products.

The change of plans applies for all contracts that expire in March 2014 or later.

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