Confirmed/1st look: AT&T 5700

AT&T will be soon releasing another entry level smart phone. The 5700 as AT&T will be calling it was first spotted by Phone News back in March when cleared by the FCC. Engadget slotted the release date to be Oct. 9, but obviously is not here. There is a slew of phones that will be hitting in time for the holidays, and i'd expect this to be one of them. Pricing will be 69.99 after a 2 year deal, making this the cheapest data device that AT&T will be carrying this season.

The specs seem pretty bland. The UTStarcom 5700 will have a 2.0 MP VGA Camera (Contrary to Phone News Report) , Micro SD expansion, and EDGE. Support for goodlink email is included, along with AT&T's mediocre mail program. I'm assuming non touch screen, but I haven't seen a confirmation yet. One thing that saddens me, Windows mobile 5 looks to be the OS, and no ability review/modify attachments.

So, my two cents worth... Yea, it's not 3G, but 3G is not everywhere, and may not be for a while. (Rumor is AT&T is holding off upgrading any more towers until HSUPA rolls out) And 3G has had it's share of creating reception issues in borderline areas. So I'm not too worried about EDGE, but Windows Mobile 5? Your kidding me right? Why not? I think that will be the one thing that will hold this handset back, because we all know AT&T won't provide an update for it. AT&T is making it very affordable to get into a data device now and props to that. Overall, for $70 a great buy... if it had WM6