The iPhone 4S bolstered smartphone sales for AT&T as well as Apple. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired Fourth quarter 2011 saw smartphone sales take off in a big way, heavily influenced by the introduction of Apple’s iPhone 4S. In AT&T’s best quarterly smartphone performance ever, the carrier saw 9.4 million smartphone sales [...]
Withdraws FCC application The mega merger that could see US mobile phone networks AT&T and T-Mobile become one in the US, looks like it isn’t going to happen after all. Although both companies say that they are continuing to pursue the sale of Deutsche Telekom owned T-Mobile’s US wireless assets, [...]
AT&T provides the highest data speeds for iPhone 4S owners. Image: Metrico The iPhone 4S is available on three major carriers, leaving potential buyers to wonder whether AT&T, Verizon or Sprint is the better network choice. Pricing plans aside, carrier quality is a significant factor in anyone’s purchasing decision, and [...]
AT&T confirmed today that it will slim down its text-messaging service plans, offering customers either unlimited messages for a flat monthly fee, or a pay-per-text service. The company is eliminating its middle-of-the-road option, a plan that allots customers 1,000 text messages for $10 monthly. “The vast majority of our messaging [...]
Physical keyboard on board Sammy flagship phone How would you like your Samsung Galaxy S II with a physical QWERTY keyboard? That’s the option that will greet AT&T customers in the US, where pics of the physical-keyboard packing handset have been leaked. Although widely available in Europe and Asia, Statesiders [...]
runMobileCompatibilityScript(‘myExperience876670707001′, ‘anId’);brightcove.createExperiences(); Before the Gadget Lab crew dives into this week’s tech news, we raise our phones to celebrate the removal of Twitter’s god-awful QuickBar — that annoying black bar that appears at the top of your Twitter feed to show advertising and trending topics. It was so putrid [...]
The Motorola Atrix is one of two phones with disabled HSUPA. After Texas resident Keith Geissler noticed his new Motorola Atrix wasn’t offering the fast “4G” download and upload speeds that ATT promised, he filed a complaint to the Better Business Bureau, asking the wireless company to “uncap” his data [...]
The front and back of Apple's iPhone 4 are composed of glass. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com With some unauthorized hacks, you can share your smartphone’s internet connection with other devices, free of charge — and AT&T has had enough of that. On the iPhone, for example, the hack MyWi has been [...]
Now that AT&T is no longer the exclusive provider of the iPhone, the telecom company’s CEO has taken the opportunity to speak out against Apple and the App Store. In a keynote speech, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson at Mobile World Congress criticized the closed nature of the App Store, whose [...]
“Two is better than one” While AT&T and iPhone 4 newcomer Verizon seem set to continue their own war of words ahead of the handset’s launch onto a second US network on 10 February – it looks as if the chaps in Cupertino want everybody in the Apple family to [...]