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"On Friday, Verizon and AT&T both dropped the price of their unlimited voice plans. Yesterday was the first day that existing customers could switch to these new plans, and luckily BillShrink has put together a nice chart comparing the different U.S. mobile carriers side-by-side."

On the heels of the price drop announcement by AT&T, here is a nice comparison of the four major carriers plans, everything laid out on one chart so you can see what each company charges, side-by-side. The two largest companies (Verizon and AT&T) also charge the most. You can check out all the work BillShrink did on their site, and it should be noted this is assuming you want unlimited texting. I also see that there is no accounting for rollover minutes.

"Microsoft has good news for most Sidekick users: the company says it has recovered most of the data for T-Mobile Sidekick users who saw personal information accidentally wiped from their devices earlier this week."

This has to be good news for any sidekick owners out there. I like the way the backup is done with the iPhone, and if you aren't sure how they do it, check out the support article that details the process.

"Ever since the introduction of the iPhone 3G S last Monday, there has been a lot of discussion on the Internet about what might be powering this significantly faster and more responsive phone. Even before the phone had been launched, in fact, the Internet had been abuzz with rumors that the new iPhone would feature a processor running at 600MHz and will come equipped with 256MB of RAM."

And so the rumors were true in this regard. Not sure how secret this was supposed to be, but the specs are still up on the T-Mobile Netherlands website. For comparison, the current iPhone 3G has a 412 MHZ processor and 128MB Ram. For the full meal deal on specs, I suppose we will have to wait until someone tears apart an iPhone 3G S and lists the hardware and post some pictures like they usually do on these things.

"When a system update caused service failures and bugs in T-Mobile customers' unlocked iPhones, the users emailed T-Mobile to alert them to the issue. Even though T-Mobile doesn't offer the iPhone, they fixed the bugs and gave the users a service credit for the inconvenience."

You can say what you want about the guys in Magenta, but they know how to keep customers happy. They always have, and they always will. In fact, I'd hazard to say that they're one of the few companies who put customer service ahead of pretty much everything else, and that isn't just my opinion... JD Power has agreed for years.