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Rumors of a “Google Phone” have been flying around for several years. Especially after the Apple iPhone came out. These rumors have been increasing of recent with their release of Google Voice.

At an all-hands meeting on Friday, Google started to hand out phones with the newest version of Android on it to their employees. The hardware of the phone appears to be eerily similar to the HTC Passion, but it is speculated that the UI and OS are altered and designed by Google.

A couple of nights ago, an AT&T Wireless manager contacted me on twitter. Apparently, AT&T caught wind of my blog post where I talked about the issue I was having, and using their new social media initiative be proactive and reach out to me. When @ATTJason contacted me on twitter this evening, I was completely skeptical of this random twitter handle, and on defense, but I went to AT&T’s website and determined @ATTCustomerCare was a legitimate handle, which then references @ATTJason as legitimate. This seems to be one thing that AT&T needs to be careful with, and one of Twitter’s “Verified Account” badges would probably help out. With all of the phishing schemes out there it is important that AT&T presents itself well.

For the past two days I have been having some serious issues with my AT&T wireless connections for my iPhone. There appears to be a routing problem with the phone system’s network (potentially AT&T) that causes the wrong parties to be connected. The scenario is this: when I select Person A from my contacts and call them, I get connected with Person X.

On Sunday, I had an even better experience: I called my girlfriend, the phone rang and then I was connected to a random party who couldn’t hear me. Then the phone started to ring again and I was connected to a different random party whom did not speak english… this cycle continued on until I was connected to a total of 5 different people, all without me [...]

There are all types of people in the world. My girlfriend happens to be one of those people that does not check her voicemail. No matter how important the message may be, she will never hear it because she just doesn’t check it. Eventually, a month later she will call in and delete the messages, but until then… nothing. Of course, most people would rather receive a text message instead of having to listen to a message (except on occasion when you want to hear someone’s voice), its silent, quick, and can be done in circumstances such as a meeting.