So Apple is up to it again... but what are they up to exactly? According to Boygeniusreport.com, ATT is offering up refurbished iPhones for $99 for the 8gb and $199 for the 16gb, but wait... you will get an additional $50 off your purchase. Yes, they are only refurbs, but last time they actually discounted iphones, our wonderful 3G iPhone came out. This is purely speculation by me, but maybe Apple is getting ready to implement a new model. Either there's a new model coming out, or Apple is just clearing their stock of refurbs... :)
AT&T is offering up the iPhone 3G 8GB refurbished models for $99. Of course, it comes with a 2-year commitment, but still it's a great price. They also have white and black 16GB models at just $199. This offer ends on December 31st or when they run out. Clearance before MacWorld or simply clearance?
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega confirmed today that AT&T will begin offering a tethering option for the iPhone "soon". This will allow AT&T customers to use the iPhone 3G as a modem for a laptop.
De La Vega did not offer information on pricing.
According to a few well placed sources (one being a Verizon insider), 9to5mac is reported that Apple could announce a deal to bring the iPhone to Verizon at Macworld 2009. This news comes in spite of reports that Apple has an exclusivity deal with AT&T for as long as 5 years from the initial launch. Of course, when Apple first announced the iPhone, word was the exclusivity deal ran through 2009.
AT&T's data network appears to be down this morning along the east coast and fairly far inland as well. Users on Macrumors.com are describing various reasons behind the outage from calls with AT&T, with the most interesting one given as "Apple's Safari servers are down." Come again? Oh, yeah - all the data on every iPhone in the U.S. runs through Safari servers managed by Apple first. How could I forget about that? Right. Engadget has reported on this outage as well.
Has your iPhone camera taken odd pictures showing mis-placed pieces of the scene you want to capture like a live puzzle? If so, you're not alone - TUAW reports on a number of these distorted pictures posted to Flickr by various people, and the phenomenon is being called "iPhone Cubism." Who knew that you could create post-modern art with your iPhone without even trying? This looks like a software bug that will hopefully be addressed in a future update.
Griffin has announced some new iPhone 3G accessories at the IFA Consumer Elecrtronics show in Berlin. The new products are a suction cup window mount, the Reflect hardshell case, and the Streamline sport armband.
Remember that goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of the year that Apple has set? Well, it sounds like they are well on their way. Some dedicated fans have gathered data from the general public and extrapolated from it that about 8 million iPhones have been sold so far. Apple stockholders rejoice! -Via TUAW .
Posted by: Christopher Meinck in iphone 3g, att on
Sep 2, 2008
There have been widespread reports of data outages affecting AT&T's network in the northeast. Reports vary on exactly what states have been affected. AT&T is aware of the issue and working on resolving the problem. Let us know how you're faring in our iPhone forums or leave a comment.
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Gizmodo
A second lawsuit has been filed against Apple and AT&T over 3G network performance issues related to the iPhone 3G. The plaintiff, William Gillis, complains that the companies "recklessly oversold the iPhone 3G" while knowing that both the device and AT&T's network could not support fast access for the influx of new users. Gillis claims that speeds do not reach advertised levels and that many people are bumped to EDGE while in areas that should support 3G.
The 18 page complaint reportedly relies primarily on Internet reports of problems as the foundation of its argument.
If you owned a smartphone before the iPhone, you probably used it for tethering to get online with your computer in a place where wifi was not available or too expensive. With the iPhone, tethering hasn't been possible unless you've jailbroken your iPhone or were lucky enough to buy NullRiver's NetShare app while it was briefly available in the App Store. In the U.S., you'll notice that other smartphones offered by AT&T can make use of data plans that allow tethering, and the iPhone is one of the few smartphones, if not the only one, that they offer that cannot make use of one of these plans, nor is there currently a native app or Settings option on the iPhone that enables this.
Well, today there's a
rumor that indicates that AT&T and Apple are looking into this! The rumor revolves around an email supposedly sent by Steve Jobs in response to someone who complained about AT&T's lack of tethering options for the iPhone. The purported reply from Steve says "We agree, and are discussing it with ATT [sic]".
Every year, there is always at least one rumor supported by an alleged email from Steve Jobs, and we've already had one or two of these this year, but this could prove to be one of the more exciting ones so far for iPhone users who really want to be able to use their iPhone 3G's high-speed network connection to be able to do even more on the go without worrying about doing something unauthorized on AT&T's network and/or voiding the warranty on their iPhone to enable this capability.
So, as always, we'll wait and see if this turns out to be true. My trusty Magic 8 ball says the possibility of this rumor coming true is "Most Likely" and it's never lied to me yet.
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MacRumors
