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We finally managed to get a hold of a Nokia Lumia 920 for 2 weeks! For those that don't know, this is Nokia's current flagship Windows Phone 8 device. Coming from a Lumia 900 running Windows Phone 7.8, I was pleasantly surprised. From the build quality, weight, size, and screen; the first few moments had me smiling.  I have used this phone exclusively, and you can read my thoughts after the jump!

The company formally called RIM is now just Blackberry. With that they announced their new BBOS 10 line including Z10 (shown) and Q10 Querty. With that Said, AT&T confirmed they will carry these soon-ish. Question is, are people really excited for this?

400 participants in 70 teams this weekend... 3 devs, 2 minutes to pitch, winner gets 30 Grand, 2nd gets 10Grand, looser 5... 1st pitch... Good times A hacked neko mimi... Calls filtered my your mood...   really neat. So if your angry, your phone will reject the call. 2nd pitch- HearHere Built on Windows Phone at the moment. Share your voice on social networks... It's also its own social network... Powered by your voice. 3rd pitch- Talk To You Now Txt to voice and vice versa.... In real time My vote went to Good Times Update: Good Times WON! 

Last years highlights, like Devlab, sphero, Watson speech API, and more... App resource optimizer getting full windows 8 support. New Speech API features...gaming, social, Chinese French, German, Italian, and Japanese. Advertising API. 80% rev goes to devs $100 gets deva the ability to have 1,000,000 API transactions. Alpha API program- gets devs directly with the API creators and more. Things like real time SMS translations,. Customer profile API... Shai Leib from Ask Ziggy...  In alpha... Entering just your phone number will enter all your customer info from AT&T. Webrtc- real time communications via browsers with no plugins. Mozilla and Chrome on board. Calling and video chats using the Call Management API. In Alpha, it gives you Google Voice type features ... Johns Wantz and Kyle Schei from Mya Number... Your 1 AT&T number using webrrc and you can call on your phone, tablet, connected car, web and more. Mya Number is demoing. If I decline a call, i...

Digital Life- 100% wireless home security... Controllable for smartphone/tablets. Allows for the user to add-on and upgrade themselves Mobile Payments- AT&T, T-mobile and Verizon working with ISIS mobile payment system.... To compete with Google Wallet. Already in test in Salt Lake City. Connected Car-  Maps, streaming music and rear seat entertainment... Video... Connected car controlling digital life security... Voice email, gps, Uverse, video calling, online ordering and payment via ISIS all from your car. Sent from my Windows Phone

Ralph De La Vega is on stage giving a quick rundown if the summit... LTE on AT&T is fastest claim by 3rd parties... Quotes on screen backing up the claim. Sent from my Windows Phone

Well, I managed to jump on the $.01 deal on all Windows Phone 7 devices AT&T had the day after Thanksgiving and used it for over a week. What a mostly wonderful week.

If you're a current AT&T customer, or planning to become one, then these deals are pretty amazing. Friday, November 25, 12:01 a.m. ET Touchscreen devices, including tablets, starting at unbelievably low prices Saturday, November 26, 12:01 a.m. ET All Windows 7 and select Android devices, for just $.01 Sunday, November 27, 12:01 a.m. ET BlackBerry 9860 for only $.01, HTC Red Inspire for $29.99 Monday, November 28, 12:01 a.m. ET A lineup of some of AT&T’s most popular smartphones—Motorola Atrix, Samsung Infuse, BlackBerry 9810, HTC Inspire and LG Thrill—all for only one cent! Take a look to see what phones will be on sale, exact pricing for each device will be available on the days mentioned above here .