The Kaiser is coming, and maybe sooner than we thought. An avid CrunchGear reader and commenter was in his local AT&T store and asked about the AT&T 8925 smartphone. The phone monkeys said that yes, the 8925 would be replacing the 8525 soon, either at the end of August or the beginning of September.

If you’ve been waiting to take the plunge on a Windows Mobile high-end smartphone, this is your window (heh). The phone’s feature-packed and sets the bar higher as far as the amount of crap you can pack into a handset.

But the big news from our awesome tipster is the name of the unit. In America, the Kaiser for AT&T will be known as “The Tilt.” Take a look, you’ll see why. Expect it in two versions, one with the cameras removed, as AT&T does for many of its business-focused phones.

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Looks like Google working with Taiwan’s High Tech Computer (HTC) Corp to steal iPhone’s crown from Apple. Google is choosing HTC because its track record with a large number of Microsoft Windows powered devices over the years, and their great spec’ed hardware. The Wall Street Journals reported that Google has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in this project and has courted US and European mobile operators to launch in Q1 2008. It’s really about time for open-source technology to own the market, talking about end-user freedom from a company that “does no evil”.

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