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AT&T Working Hard to Deliver iPhone Tethering Soon?

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According to emails sent from AT&T employees to MacDailyNews readers, the network is working hard to enable iPhone tethering as soon as possible. Many of our readers are still waiting patiently to see when AT&T will flip the switch on iPhone tethering and if you contact AT&T the following are the contents of the cookie [...]

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AT&T Not Banking on Selling 3G Data Plans for iPad?

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AT&T CEO, Randall Stephenson, has been quoted in saying that the Apple iPad will be a “Wi-Fi driven product” so no customers should be concerned with poor 3G data. But it did not end there, he also went on to say the following.

“My expectation is that there’s not going to be a lot of people [...]

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AT&T: We’ll Carry iPhone for “Quite Some Time”, Variable Pricing, LTE in 2012

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According to the Wall Street Journal, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson took the opportunity, while speaking at an investor conference, to once again talk about the iPhone remaining on his network, and also touch on the iPad, problems in New York and San Francisco, variable pricing, and Apple’s new darling, the iPad.

While Stephenson doesn’t seem to [...]

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AT&T Microcell to Boost iPhone Reception in 5 More Markets

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George Ponder over at sibling site WMExperts brings word that AT&T’s Microcell — the device you plug into your home cable/DSL connection to boost your phone reception — is being rolled out to Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, San Diego, and Las Vegas.

If you are lucky enough to live in these areas, all [...]

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Analyst: Apple Should Lower Price, Add New Features for 4th Gen iPhone

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Okay, that headline about how an analyst thinks Apple should lower the price and add new features next June/July when they release the 4th generation iPhone (not iPhone 4G, that’s a couple years and an LTE network away) is only semi-facetious. Apple has lowered up-front costs and increased features on every generation of iPhone, after [...]

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iPhone + AT&T Fastest Smartphone/Carrier Combo in PCWorld Test

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If PCWorld’s second 3G, 13-city performance tests are to be believed, AT&T’s investment in their network just might be starting to pay off:

84% better download speeds than 8 months ago 64% faster than Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Average download speed of 1410kps 3x faster in Chicago, 40% faster in San Francisco 94% connection reliability (up from 68% last spring) iPhone [...]

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Apple iPad to Be Sold in AT&T Stores?

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The Boy Genius has been hearing from his AT&T contacts that it is highly likely AT&T will be selling the 3G version of Apple’s iPad in their corporate stores across the country.

Don’t get too excited thinking AT&T will offer any sort of subsidy, however, because that is simply not in the cards. The rumored [...]

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Closed vs. Open, Control vs. Chaos — What’s Best for Apple, the iPhone and iPad?

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Yesterday at Macworld two events helped clarify something I’ve been discussing with Dieter for a while now — Apple, the iPhone and iPad, and closed vs. open systems, control vs. chaos. These two events were a presentation by John Gruber of Daring Fireball concerning the 10 biggest problems faced by Apple, and a brief conversation [...]

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AT&T Navigator for iPhone Updated to v1.5i

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Yesterday Navigon MobileNavigator received a pretty nice update, today Telenav released a update of their own for AT&T Navigator that includes some very nice new features. They are as follows:

Shake-to-Go(tm): Users can now shake their iPhone at any time while in an AT&T Navigator menu screen and it will automatically initiate a route to a [...]

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AT&T Admits LTE Rollout Will Begin in 2011

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AT&T has openly admitted that they have selected Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as their LTE equipment suppliers and even better is the fact they are on track for a 2011 LTE rollout. 2011 is dead on with the information we gave you almost one year ago stating that LTE would in fact be here on AT&T [...]

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