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AT&T had a surprising amount of news here at CES this year. Android, Palm, BREW, HTC, Samsung, LG, Pantech, Motorola... they had news all over the place.

The big news was Android smartphones coming to AT&T. They showed glimpses of Motorola and Dell Android devices, and mentioned that HTC would have one, too. The Motorola device will have Moto's Blur interface, but little else was revealed about the phones.

AT&T's first Android phones  

We expect to have hands-on with the Motorola device later today.

AT&T also announced that it will offer Palm webOS smartphones (yes, plural) this year.

AT&T will support both Android and Palm app stores, and also announced full support for Nokia's Ovi Store. AT&T is aiming to support all major app stores, with simple carrier billing and 70/30 revenue sharing for developers.

This is all great news, but not unexpected. The big surprise was AT&T's decision to adopt Qualcomm's BREW Mobile Platform. This is the same app platform Verizon has been using for its feature phones for years. It's a newer version of it, that will support new BREW apps, old BREW apps, and - importantly - be backward-compatible with the many Java apps AT&T currently offers.

Samsung, LG, and Pantech will all be offering BREW Mobile Platform phones for AT&T in the second quarter of 2010. HTC will eventually offer them as well, according to one slide. That's an interesting development, as HTC has previously focused only on smartphones running Windows Mobile and Android.

Later in the year, AT&T will offer a widget platform across all phone platforms. This is the result of AT&T's acquisition of Plusmo. Plusmo widgets are web-based apps that use XHTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript. Look for this on AT&T phones starting in the third quarter.

Below are some key slides from AT&T presentation to developers. There are some interesting stats in there about how they're upgrading their network to handle more data.

AT&T Slides  

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