Being the exclusive U.S. provider for Apple’s iPhone means that wireless carrier AT&T won’t have to worry about a competing version of the device for rival cellular networks for at least half a decade.
That’s the word from USA Today’s Leslie Caule…
Apple’s much heralded iPhone device may be made available as a prepaid handset, according to data recently culled from wireless carrier AT&T’s internal account database.
The BoyGeniusReport, now synonymous with leaking in-house data on AT&T’s reta…
Filed under: Handsets, ATT-Cingular, Apple
iPhone’s going prepaid, really? Even though we already know AT&T intends to ask for a two-year contract to get hooked up? Considering the often dreary stable of devices holding down the prepaid fort on most major carriers, this was about the last thing we expected, but alas — the Boy Genius appears to have tracked down documentation indicating that the iPhone has a date with prepaid destiny. Whether pricing will remain the same for prepaid accounts or whether it’ll launch simultaneously with postpaid is unknown — doubtful, we think — but at any rate, it seems now that it won’t take a contract to nab one of these things (just a fistful of cash and a little luck, depending on how scarce these things end up being for the next few months).
A tenth and presumably final update to Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system is reported to have hit the widespread testing phase, placing within its cross-hairs nearly all of the system’s most vital components.
As revealed by both AppleIns…
Apple has released a new game for video iPods crafter after the hit TV show Lost. Meanwhile, Apple documents confirm that some of the company’s LCD displays indeed employ software dithering to achieve the illusion of millions of colors. And Apple is …
Filed under: ATT-Cingular, Apple
There are carrier exclusivity agreements, and there are carrier exclusivity agreements — and Apple’s iPhone deal must have been pretty sweet for Cupertino to guarantee their new hotness to AT&T and AT&T alone for five friggin years. USA Today reports the supposed half-decade deal precludes Apple from developing a CDMA handset in that time (duh), meaning that if you live in the US and don’t want to move to AT&T, it’s going to be 2012 before you even have a chance at an iPhone. Better still, Today reports that Cingular’s arch-nemesis Verizon is claiming to have an iPhone-killer in the wings. According to Denny Strigl, Verizon CEO, “We do have a very good response in the mill. You’ll see that from us in the late summer.” It’s war, people, make no mistake about it.
