BGR has posted a picture today of a white iPhone 4 prototype being tested with T-Mobile's 3G bands.

The site speculates that it may be an iPhone 4S developer prototype.

Those "4S" were given out to certain developers to test out new software on an iPhone with a dual-core A5 processor, which is expected to be added to the upcoming iPhone 5.

AT&T has proposed buying T-Mobile for $39 billion, but that deal is expected to take over one year to close, if it even does get through anti-trust regulators.

If the deal does go through, Apple would have little use for a T-Mobile 3G, but there may be many willing buyers if the phone is released soon.

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According to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook tablet may be selling much better than analysts had anticipated, with the company selling 50,000 on the first day, alone.

Checking in with 70 different retail store, including Best Buy and Staples, Abramsky says 11 percent of all stores sold out, while others had "light" sales.

Overall, the analyst says 50,000 were likely sold on launch day, April 19th.

While the numbers may be deceiving (because it is unclear how many models of each were available to begin with), it appears the 64GB model is selling the best, with 91 percent of stores claiming that particular version is sold out, compared to just 13 percent for the cheapest 16GB model.

Abramsky says he expects 500,000 to be shipped in the first fiscal quarter of availability.

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DroidLife has reported today that Motorola is set to launch two Tegra 3-powered smartphones at CES 2012, dubbed the Jet and Bullet.

The Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU is quad-core making the devices much more powerful than current devices, most of which sport single-core or dual-core processors.

Motorola's Bullet, will have a 4.3″ qHD screen, Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 16GB internal storage, an NFC chip, and a 12MP camera with a full redesigned sensor.

The Jet will have the same specs, but will include a full slide-out keyboard.

Both phones will have access to 4G LTE, although it is unclear whether they will be on AT&T or Verizon.

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