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As an AT&T customer I know the frustrations of their less than ideal cell service. As I sit in the AS|D Labs office and type this post I am without service on my iPhone with its painfully expensive monthly bill. However, AT&T might have come up with a viable solution to fixing its service dilemma, through a product they are calling MicroCell. The MicroCell operates by plugging the unit into a DSL cable and it in theory creates your own personal cell tower. “The signal on the device can cover an area up to 5,000 square feet, and it gives access to up to 10 AT&T phones, four of which can connect to it simultaneously. The device can also be moved around to different locations.” Not to be skeptical, but we purchased similar devices for the office to improve service with no results, so I will be interested to see how effective the AT&T MicroCell will be. Oh and there is one little catch, right now the device is set to cost AT&T customers $150!

Nick Bilton writes on the NY Times Bits Blog:

Last December I wrote about some of the strange rituals iPhone users have adopted while trying to make phone calls on AT&T’s flaky cellular network. One idea I put forward was the creation of iPhone booths that would let iPhone customers know where there is a strong AT&T signal, to spare them having to walk around in circles saying “Can you hear me now?”

On Wednesday, at the C.T.I.A. wireless conference, AT&T might have finally answered some customers’ prayers with the national rollout of its 3G MicroCell device. The device has been available in limited cities for several months.

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The iPhone is so cool that you’d wait in line for three days to get the latest version, only to drop it and crack the screen within a week. Why not protect your investment with the iPhone case equivalent of Prez Obama’s armored Cadillac One? Check out Brooklyn’s own EXOvault’s line of hardcore protective metal cases and get rid of that cheap plastic case that is so 2009.

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With so many app’s available the few really great ones can get lost in the shuffle. To help showcase some of the best produced and designed iPhone app’s comes the app.itize.us website. As the site says “app.itize.us is a painstakingly curated presentation of the best of the best designed iPhone apps that are available via the app store (for free or paid). it is intentionally a very small hand picked selection compared to what is currently available via the app store (now upwards of 140k) due to the fact that its very difficult to find many of these apps since they are not part of any of the top rated/grossing lists.”

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I promise, this is all I will post on the iPad.

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