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AT&T Plans Five More Android Phones This Year, Led by Motorola Atrix 2

Although it is pleased as punch about its lineup of iPhones, AT&T is continuing to expand its array of Android models.

The company said on Monday that it is planning five more Google phones this year, led by the Motorola Atrix 2. The new Atrix, which will sell for $99 and hit stores on Oct. 16, features a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1080p video capture and a 4.3-inch screen. Like its predecessor, the new Atrix can connect to a screen and keyboard “laptop dock” and browse the Web using a desktop version of Firefox.

Other models include the keyboard-packing Samsung Captivate Glide, the dual-touchscreen Samsung DoubleTime and the Pantech Pocket. AT&T is also introducing a prepaid Android phone — the Avail — which also marks the first AT&T Android phone made by China’s ZTE.

Prices and exact availability for those products was not announced, though all are due later this year.

AT&T’s announcements come as the fall CTIA cellphone trade show kicks off in San Diego. Also this week, T-Mobile has announced two new tablets, while Verizon added a keyboard-equipped 4G LTE phone to its lineup.

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald