Yahoo! News is reporting this morning that Cingular has started to charge existing customers $5 extra each month to users who are still using TDMA phones from AT&T and Cingular's old network.

The new fee, which will add $23.5 million per month to Cingular's bottom line, has been presented as a way to dedicate more money to develop their newer GSM network, but it's still a dirty way to treat your customers who no doubt have been very loyal considering they're on TDMA phones.

Cingular has started a new website this morning, and the main picture under the Personal section is the one above. Looks like your run-of-the-mill marketing picture until you realize that the phone hasn't been launched yet. If I were to guess, I would say it was a Sony-Ericsson of some kind, however no one can find any information online as to what it is.

Of course, we could just be speculating for nothing and it could just be a picture they pulled from some image bank and that phone isn't coming out on Cingular. Anyone know what it is?

All of you Cingular fans who have been waiting almost a year for HP's iPaq hw6900 PDA/phone/makes you breakfast device, the wait has almost ended. Cingular has announced that they will be launching the phone on October 31st.

The confirmed specs on the phone include: a 416MHz CPU, Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU2, Bluetooth with A2DP profile, 802.11g, a 1.3 megapixel camera, miniSD slot and 240 x 240 pixel screen. This thing isn't cheap though, priced at $359.99 with a 2 year contract.

Now that we're just four days away from the iPhone launch, we figured we would try to track down some little-known facts about the much-desired phone that Apple is launching this Friday at 6pm. That's 6pm local time, whereever you are, in case you didn't know.

1. "Visual Voicemail" - where most voicemail services require you to listen to voicemails in order, the iPhone displays voicemails as e-mails in your inbox - you can pick and choose which ones to listen to.

2. The iPhone's display is made of optical-quality glass, making it more or less scratchproof. All the better to protect that beautiful 3.5" 320x480 touchscreen.