After seemingly endless speculation, some intel leaked from AT&T sources appears to confirm that the iPhone 5 will be announced officially by Apple in September, with its subsequent release in early October.
Are you using your iPhone as a Wi-Fi hotspot using an unofficial tool without AT&T’s permission? According to a warning issued by the carrier, if you’re still using AT&T’s discontinued but still honored unlimited plan you might be thrown out of it by August 11th.
As Facebook continues its process of world domination, HTC has introduced a new phone with heavy Facebook integration. The Status, as it's now called (formerly HTC ChaCha), is a new AT&T phone with many Facebook oriented features, including a dedicated Facebook button, making sharing content on Facebook just a few seconds away.
According to sources at Apple Stores, employees are now able to unlock standard AT&T iPhone 4's at checkout, in case inventory for unlocked phones run low. Yes, that's right, Apple owns its own internal unlocking solution for the locked iPhones.
The success of the iPhone speaks for itself, spending just a mere five months on Verizon Wireless, it has already stolen the top most position among other handsets on the same network, according to a report from BTIG Research with AT&T sales telling a very similar story.
While some of the furore over dropped calls with an iPhone on AT&T seems to have calmed down somewhat over the last few months, it's fact that some, perhaps even many people still suffer from a flakey AT&T signal causing their iPhones to drop calls at an alarming rate. According to the carrier though, there's a relatively easy fix.
Still holding out hope that Apple is keeping the iPhone 5 under raps with an eye on releasing it in the usual June/July timeframe? If that's the case then we're afraid one AT&T customer services rep. might just have ruined your day after they claimed Apple has told them there will be no new iPhone. Yet.
Earlier rumors suggested that iPhone 5 will actually come with a global support which means it will have both GSM and CDMA radios. The rumor had its basis in the Qualcomm Gobi cellular/data chipset which was found included in the Verizon iPhone 4 when it was taken to pieces.
AT&T, the second largest mobile provider in the United States has announced they intend to purchase T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for a staggering $39 billion worth of cash and stock options.
Interesting goings-on over in AT&T land today, with the US carrier seemingly going after jailbreaking iPhone users.
