Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III Selling on Amazon for $800

Think you’ll get a discount because it’s Amazon.com? Guess again.
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Frequent Traveler? Unlocked, Contract-Free iPhone 4S Now Available.

Apple promised to begin selling an unlocked, contract-free version of the iPhone 4S before the end of November and today it did just that. Untethered from a carrier, the latest iteration of the iPhone costs $649 to $849, depending on capacity, and works only on GSM networks like AT&T.

You Can Now Buy an Unlocked iPhone 4 (Though You Might Want to Think Twice)

For those who really want an iPhone 4 to run on T-Mobile, there is now an official method for doing so, though the phone can only run on an older, slower data network. The biggest use for the pricey, unlocked version of the phone is likely to be for frequent international travellers that wan’t the ability to easily pop in a new SIM card, rather than pay AT&T’s high international roaming and data rates.
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Palm Pre 2 Unlocked, Unleashed

Hewlett-Packard this morning began offering an unlocked GSM version of the Palm Pre 2 for sale. Priced at $449.99, the device runs webOS 2.0 and features a 1GHz processor and a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen, and is generally a nice incremental upgrade from the Pre Plus.

New iPad, Old Carrier: Apple Sticks With AT&T

A small groan rippled through the audience at the Apple event this morning as Steve Jobs announced that the device’s carrier will be AT&T — at least initially.

Maybe Googlers Eat Their Own Dog Food, but Will It Be Tasty to Anyone Else?

Leave it to Google to compare its most aggressive new product to date with one that often includes meat by-products, bone meal, brewer’s rice, corn syrup and–yum!–“dried animal digest.” But that’s exactly how the company chose to describe its new Nexus One smartphone in a blog post Saturday, noting that its employees would be “dogfooding” it. As in eat their own product! Get it? But will big wireless carriers and consumers like what Google plans to serve up?
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Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing iPhones

So those “missing” iPhones? They’re not missing at all. They’re unlocked. That’s the opinion of a number of analysts who this week are looking askance at Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi’s claim that about 1.45 million phones were “missing in action” at the end of 2007–built but not subscribed to AT&T.