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it's Monday October 17 2011 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded wireless carriers will now warn you in real time if you're about to go over your monthly voice data and text limits the Federal Communications Commission has announced a new voluntary agreement with the four major carriers to help customers avoid bill shock when they go over minutes or travel internationally but better stay vigilant of your bill for now the warnings won't kick and fully for another year and a half when a man screws up he sends flowers when blackberry screws up it sends apps research emotion is given away a hundred dollars worth of app downloads to customers to say sorry for last week's service outages starting Wednesday free absolutely rolled out over four weeks and will be available for download until the end of the year the peace offering includes games like bejeweled bubble bash to texas holdem poker to and utility apps like photo editor ultimate vlingo plus and I speech translator pro in addition enterprise customers get a free month of technical support if you're sad about the dual touchscreen sprint kyocera echo no longer being on the market look on over to t-mobile who has just announced the LG double play a 4g android smartphone with dual touch screens with a split physical QWERTY keyboard the dual screens let users simultaneously check facebook email text or browse the web the top screen is 3.5 inches while the bottom display is just 2 inches the phone includes a high definition 720p video recorder a 5 megapixel camera and will be available for the holidays Samsung has been hit hard by apple and an overseas patent war but the company is still throwing punches in the latest battle Samsung is trying to stop the sale the iphone 4s iphone 4 and ipad 2 in australia and japan saying apple has violated samsung's wireless technology and user interface patents the months-long fight has not been going well for samsung last week in australian court cited with apple and barred the sale the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the country until a full case could be heard Samsung has also lost the right to sell the galaxy tab 10.1 in Germany and has to remake several galaxy smartphone models to sell in the Netherlands finally in more good news for Apple the company has sold 4 million iphone 4s models between Friday and Sunday that's more than double the iphone 4 units sold the first three days but of course the numbers are going to be larger this time around since it's available on three carriers apple's new operating system iOS 5 which came out last Wednesday has been downloaded by 25 million users and 20 million people have sent it for iCloud those your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey proceeded calm and you just been loaded