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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.

It seems as though HTC might have hit the nail on the head with their upcoming release of the new HTC Passion/Bravo. It also seems as though there is a bit of confusion from major technology blog sites Engadget and Gizmodo about the branding of the phone in the US. Engadget headlines their article, “HTC Bravo pictured more lucidly (Update: coming to US in January as HTC Passion)”, while Gizmodo’s article reads as “HTC’s Passion to be Known as Bravo in States”

Hmm… Sounds like someone got confused somewhere.

The awesome twitter client with stunning eye candy and a sleek UI has just released version 2.1, which adds support to the newly added twitter features (new retweet and lists ) and a few goodies (geotaging, UI tweeks, etc). Now to wait for the desktop client to be updated

Click the link to download the new version.

Oh, and keep reading for a full list of changes + screenshots.

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 [...]