AT&T will now join the likes of US Cellular and Cricket to provide its mobile services in subways at Chicago. By permitting the carrier to function on the red and blue line subway will give the city’s Transit Authority an extra earning of at least $3.1 million during the tenure of the contract.

AT&T will be installing and testing the service over the next few months, after which the operation will be actually carried out.

Source: IntoMobile

US Cellular today announced the new Samsung Axle mobile phone. The Axle is a clamshell flip phone, which brings a VGA resolution camera, Bluetooth and voice dialing. Just about 95 grams in weight, the Samsung Axle includes dual color display and can give the user about 4 hours of talk time from a single battery charge.

US Cellular Samsung Axle

The Samsung Axle will cost $50 with a contract for new customers and for $40 after rebates for current US Cellular customers with a new contract extension.

US Cellular Samsung Axle

Source: MobileBurn

An interesting webpage has recently appeared on US Cellular’s web site detailing a previously unseen Samsung CDMA smartphone running Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. According to the page, the Samsung “Code” i220 sports EVDO data, a memory card slot accepting cards up to 32 GB, 2-megapixel camera, QWERTY keyboard, a “jogwheel with 4-way navigation”, and a large 1480 mAh battery.

FCC documents for the phone reveal a version with tri-band CDMA supporting AWS networks, indicating a potential release for carriers such as MetroPCS or Cricket.

Samsung i220

Source: PhoneScoop

The HTC Touch Pro is now slated for US Cellular. The native device has caught up with Sprint and Verizon in launching HTC’s VGA display-equipped landscape QWERTY slider, including a 3.2 megapixel cam, 288MB of RAM and 512MB of ROM, WiFi, and all the TouchFLO 3D capabilities you can ever handle for $249.95 on contract after mail-in rebate.

Of course, this is not exactly earth-shaking news, since there is already a later version of the Touch Pro that is creating waves in the market. But then something is always better than nothing, right, folks?

HTC Touch Pro

Source: EngadgetMobile