AT&T today announced plans to upgrade the nation’s fastest 3G network to deliver considerably faster mobile broadband speeds. The network upgrades are slated to begin later this year, with completion expected in 2011.

The upgrade to High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 technology is part of AT&T’s plan for continued investments to deliver the nation’s best mobile broadband experience – the ideal combination of speed, coverage and best device line-up. AT&T today has the nation’s fastest 3G network and has attracted more than twice the number of smartphone users than any other competitor.

With its network built on the 3G UMTS technology that is commonly deployed throughout the world, AT&T can boost the speed of its mobile broadband network and offer a wide variety of devices to take advantage of it well in advance of 2011-2012, when most industry observers expect 4G LTE networks and device availability to scale. AT&T plans to begin LTE trials in 2010, with deployment beginning in 2011.

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The good folks at Mobile-Stream was kind enough to give us five licenses for one of the coolest games that i played on my Nokia 5800.The Symbian S60v5 game is called “Dreamway” and you can win the full license by taking a photo of yourself and your phone (or another fun stuff that you have at home) in the old N-GAGE style “Side talking” (Example pics: pic #1 pic #2 pic #3) and post the pics at the comment field on this post. The contest will end at the end of this Sunday!

CONTEST RULES: To avoid people using google to find old “side talking” pictures, the winners needs to send me a “normal” picture of themselves after the end of the contest (dont worry, the pics will be deleted). Cheaters will be disqualified and banned from all other contest in the future here at Daily Mobile.

In Dreamway you will race miniature cars on various cartoony tracks. Fantastic worlds are waiting for you! You will get challenging courses beautifully rendered in a cartoon style, clever opponents, various weapons and bonuses. Crash! Boom! Bang!

Dreamway features

* 7 delightful racetracks, including Inventor’s Isles, Magma Floods, Ogre’s Castle, etc.;
* 3 difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard;
* 9 bonuses, including a machine-gun, a homing missile, spilled oil and an ion shield;
* 7 original cars of individual tech specs;
* Automatic gas (forward movement) setting to make smartphone gaming more convenient;
* Advanced options and tune ups;
* Record logbook, track statistics and enclyclopedia of bonuses;
* runs fullscreen on Nokia 5800, Nokia N97 and Samsung Omnia HD;
* UI is translated into English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, Finnish and Russian.

More info about Mobile-Streams S60v5 Games can be found here. More in game screenshots can be found after the break…

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OVI Mail got another update today (it was only a few weeks before the last update). OVI Mail is also now integrated with OVI.com. Get your free email address

Changelog for the update

• We’ve added two important features: Ovi Mail is now automatically checking for new messages, and you can mark messages as ‘read’ without opening them.
• We fixed a problem in Chrome and Safari (on Mac) where a message sometimes didn’t get sent as intended. Thanks for helping us track this down.
• We’re always improving the look and feel of Ovi Mail to make it more appealing and easy to use. Look out for changes in auto-complete, notifications and various improvements to the compose screen.
• Ovi Mail is now available in 3 additional languages: Italian, Vietnamese and Latin America Spanish. And we made improvements to the existing translations.

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Finland’s Nokia Corp. expects its new flagship N97 phone to generate significant sales and strengthen its brand when it reaches consumers next month, the handset maker’s Swedish country manager Johan Eidhagen said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires Monday.

“It will be incredibly important both for marketing and for generating sales,” he said.

Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, announced the N97 in December 2008 and will start selling the device on a number of markets including the Nordic countries in June. Eidhagen said the phone, which will cost around EUR550 before taxes and subsidies, is aimed at a relatively wide target group but gave no sales targets.

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Here are tons of pictures of the black  Sony Ericsson C901. You can also find some pictures taken with the 5Mp camera on the C901. The Sony Ericsson C901 is a candy-bar Cyber-shot camera phone with a 5-megapixel camera and Xenon flash for quality indoor photos. It features Face Detection, Smile Shutter, HSPA, stereo Bluetooth, memory slot and QVGA display.

Enjoy the pictures…

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Got a email from one of our readers that Daily Mobile was brought up by the G4 / Blog Watch staff in their “Best Smartphone Blogs” video. Check out the video after the break…

Olivia has done a little research and dug up some highly useful smartphone blogs out in the cold reaches of the interwebs. Which blogs, you might ask? We’re talking dailymobile.se, the iPhone blog, and Rim-Markable, the blog devoted to Blackberry fanatics.

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Here are a couple of pictures of a Nokia 8800 “BMW” edition clone.  You can find the phones specs after the break.

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Stay in tune is a powerful and flexible instrument turner for the iPhone. Stay in tune can tune all types of stringed and wind instruments using iPhones built-in microphone. Featuring a large and easy-to-see display, this application is a must for any musician. The application costs 4$ and you can buy it from here (iTunes link)

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