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The lineup includes a Motorola phone that features social-networking software and a Dell Mini 3 that Dell communications president Ron Garriques called "super-small and super thin", PC World reported Wednesday.

AT&T's Chief Executive Officer Ralph de la Vega said the company would also pick up "two smart phones from Palm."

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, de la Vega said the dumber phones were about to get smarter.

"All phones should have apps, not just smart phones", he said, referring to software for phones knows as "apps" -- short for applications.

AT&T is developing software for phones with full keyboards that have fewer features than smart phones, which are termed "quick-messaging" phones, de la Vega said.

Samsung is developing a "quick-messaging" phone with Qualcomm's operating system BREW MP, a system de la Vega said would be installed on all AT&T's "quick-messaging" phones in the future.

"By the end of next year about 90 percent of our mid-range phone sales will have the BREW MP", he said.

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