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Wanted: One Data Plan to Rule Them All

The big Mobile World Congress show hasn’t even really started yet and already we are swamped with news of new superphones, tablets and pads, all vying to become the next big thing in wireless. The problem is, no matter how cool, fast or fun each one is, no single device can perfectly answer the needs of all [...]

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iPhone 4 does video calls, HD video recording, and more

Apple released the eagerly awaited iPhone 4 today at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. The new iPhone is much thinner, has a 960-by-640 backlit LCD with pixel density of 326 pixels per inch, the highest-resolution phone screen. It is truly a beautiful device. The new applications that Apple demonstrated today are Facetime, their video [...]

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AT&T new wireless data plans impose data caps

Something tells me the iPhone is about to get another carrier other than AT&T to offer it in the US. Two things have happened lately: AT&T nearly doubled the early termination fee from $175 to $325 last month and today they announced no more unlimited data plans. Starting June 7, new subscribers to AT&T will [...]

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PC World survey shows AT&T with fastest download speeds

The second PC World 3G Wireless Performance test shows AT&T leading the other cellular carriers in download speeds. In contrast to AT&T’s poor performance last spring, this time around AT&T seems to have made noticeable improvements in its network across the 13 cities where Novarum conducted its tests: “AT&T’s network turned in download speeds that [...]

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Fake Steve Jobs takes on AT&T

Fake Steve Jobs (aka The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs) lets AT&T’s Randall Stephenson know exactly what he thinks about AT&T and its crappy network. Here is an excerpt: And now here we are. Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone, and that company hands it to you, and [...]

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AT&T admits network problems, releases iPhone app

AT&T has finally admitted to iPhone users that it has serious problems in New York City and San Francisco (oh, the pain of dropped calls), and released an iPhone app called Mark the Spot. The application lets users tell AT&T where and when they encountered network problems. See the screenshots below. AT&T also says that [...]

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Apple surpasses Nokia as most profitable handset vendor

Which would you rather be: the most profitable handset manufacturer or the one with the biggest market share? Apple has just passed Nokia as the most profitable handset maker in the world (according to Strategy Analytics) even though IDC reports that in Q3 2009, Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for smartphones was about 38 [...]

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Will AT&T network crash when it launches MMS on Friday?

AT&T is finally launching multimedia messaging service (MMS) on the iPhone tomorrow. That’s a welcome announcement for some iPhone users, but many fear that the added data traffic will cause even more breakdowns in the network. Customers of AT&T have been critical about the operator’s poor cellular service which has been suffering from the success [...]

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Users will pay more to experience AT&T’s 3G ‘upgrade’

There’s some creative license being taken by AT&T in its announcement of upgrades to its 3G cellular network today. While the lead paragraph in the company’s announcement claims its implementation of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) technology “will provide a considerable speed boost” to its existing network, buried down farther in the release is the [...]

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China Unicom discussing nationwide iPhone distribution with retailers

According to TMT China, China Unicom is now discussing nationwide iPhone distribution with several Chinese retailers. Meanwhile, Apple’s A1324 iPhone model, a special version of the iPhone for the Chinese market, which can support GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCMDA and  will be available from China Unicom, is close to obtaining the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s (MIIT) mandatory network [...]

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