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Tour 9630 at Bell Canada and 8900 $199 at AT&T

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Well, the recently announced BlackBerry Curve 8900 on AT&T now has a price tag. The leaked shot has the phone priced at $299 before a $100 mail-in rebate, so you may want to start saving up those pennies. From another leaked image, another BlackBerry device, the Tour 9630 will be gracing ...

Tiered smartphone data pricing, good for carriers, bad for you.

Monday, May 11th, 2009

In a recent article by the WSJ, the iPhone's data usage is supposedly taking a heavy toll on AT&T's networks: "Now, new customers are harder to come by. The question is whether new data revenues the industry is banking on -- from Web-browsing and entertainment services -- will be as profitable, ...

Nokia e71x and Curve 8900 at AT&T

Monday, May 4th, 2009

AT&T customers rejoice, today the Nokia e71x has gone live and the BlackBerry Curve 8900 will be coming "early summer". Regardless of ambiguous launch dates that fall into an entire season, many are excited to finally see the e71x on sale in the U.S. The phone has suffered from a ...

AT&T to boost 3G Network Capacity for iPhone

Monday, April 27th, 2009

iPhone users and AT&T’s wireless customers will get to enjoy a year end bonanza, or so it seems. AT&T has on its cards a highly responsive and reliable network by doubling the capacity of its 3G network. Soon it expects to begin migrating to the faster HSDPA+ standard, offering speeds of ...

Locate Family Members with AT&T FamilyMap

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Remember the clock in Mrs. Wesley’s house in your favorite Harry Potter movie. I know of mothers who wanted a clock like that which shows the location of all family members. Now with  AT&T FamilyMap do just that. Keep tabs on children traveling alone and other family members via your ...

AT&T FamilyMap Service lets you pay for digital stalking

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Well, AT&T has announced their new FamilyMap service, letting you pay to spy on the other people on your contract (kids specifically). The privacy issues aside, it could provide an invaluable tool for locating lost or missing children in case of an emergency...  But regardless of AT&T's intentions, people are ...

AT&T fighting to keep iPhone exclusive until 2011

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Well, non AT&T customers prepare yourselves, it seems AT&T the exclusive carrier (in the U.S.) of the iPhone is in talks with Apple to keep exclusivity of the device for another year, which would keep the hottest selling device in solely AT&T's hands according to WSJ: "But AT&T's exclusive deal to ...

AT&T tightens up the reigns on subscribers, part 2

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Well, thankfully AT&T has already released another addendum to their terms of service. According the Wireless Week, AT&T apparently issued an apology and a retraction, but apparently that was for something else entirely. Because after combing it over, there is no retraction, just an addition that forbids something else. I ...

AT&T tightens up the reigns on subscribers

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

AT&T has released a revised terms of service, and regardless of who you are, you should find their restrictions fairly rediculous. You can see the full TOS here, new parts are in bold, but the big important changes are after the jump (I have highlighted in bold the particularly troublesome).

AT&T debuts ‘new’ Nokia phones

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

It's no secret that Nokia is a bit off the ball when it comes to the United States, odd considering Nokia's dominance throughout the rest of the world. And as usual, we here in the USA just get the reheated scraps of nearly a year ago. AT&T has announced a ...