Starting Sunday AT&T customers will be faced with a $36 fee for upgrading to a new device. This is a 100% increase from the current fee of $18! You ask yourself why, why would AT&T impose a 100% increase on a fee so outlandish that the majority of carriers wave? I say it’s to make up for the 4 billion dollar loss they took on the failed T-Mobile merger. They say it’s because:

A few days ago we reported Verizon would be offering “buy-one get-one” on Motorola DROID RAZRs as well as bringing back their double data promo this Friday. Well, it’s Friday, and sure enough, the deals are now live and part of Verizon’s Valentine’s Sale.

In case you hadn’t heard, the Motorola DROID 4 was released today. If you were considering picking up this device, you may want to look at Amazon Wireless before going to Verizon. Amazon is continually undercutting Verizon’s device prices and the DROID 4 is getting the same treatment.

Yesterday Bloomberg got a hold of a filing that shows our favorite company may be planning to open a stand-alone retail store at its European headquarters in Dublin. According to the local planning application, the store would be open to the public and sell unspecified “Google Merchandise.” Up until now, Google has only had their one merchandise store in California, but that one is closed to the public. Other than that, Google’s only other attempt at selling products in-store has been their Chromebook store inside of a London branch of Currys and PC World.

The guys over at phoneArena.com got their hands on quite a few pics of an unannounced HTC device running Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense 4.0. There’s no indication of a name for this device but the photos reveal quite a lot of other information. This mystery device appears to be a Verizon 4G LTE device as their logo can clearly be seen on the boot up screen. Other than that, specs of this device include: