AT&T today announced it plans to sell seven new smartphones in the first half of this year, including two from Palm Inc and five Android handsets-one which is Dell's new smartphone. The company says it also plans to sell handsets from Motorola and HTC. AT&T is the last major wireless company to add Android-powered devices to its smartphone lineup.
"We hung back and watched the market very carefully," Jeff Bradley, senior vice president of devices at AT&T. "When we saw the demand [for Android devices] was there and the product was ready, we decided to bring it out."
AT&T did not reveal any specifics about the two Palm devices it will be taking on, but we're going to guess it will be the Palm Pixi and Palm Pre-the only two Palm phones running on webOS software. Naturally, this news makes us wonder if another carrier might be picking up the AT&T-exclusive iPhone. We'll just have to wait and see how this all plays out
