AT&T has decided to move on from some of their customer's cell phones. Apparently, the phones listed below do not work well with AT&T's GSM 850 coverage and rather than fix the problem, they are just moving on. If you own one of the cellphones listed below and live in the New York metropolitan area, Northern New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Las Vegas, or Seattle, there’s a good chance that AT&T doesn’t want you to use it much longer.

Engadget has a very detailed article about just what is going on over there at AT&T but the short of it is the following. If you use one of these phones, you will continue to have poor reception and AT&T is not going to fix the problem.

Here are the phones:

Motorola MPx200

Nokia 3650

Nokia 8390

Nokia N-Gage

RIM Blackberry 7210

Siemens SX56 (Pocket PC Phone)

Sony Ericsson T68

Sony Ericsson T68i

AT&T does have a replacement program but the phones they are replacing with are not all that hot. They are as follows:

Nokia 3100

Nokia 3200

Siemens C56

Sony Ericsson T226

For all the details about how this happened click the read more link below. It's a hairy situation that was totally avoidable, but AT&T's reputation for poor coverage is going to continue.