Apparent T-Mobile security breach sees personal data revealed to other customers
In what appears to be the latest in a series of T-Mobile security breaches, customers are reporting that they are…
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iPhone eSIM bug randomly deactivating iMessage and FaceTime, requiring physical SIM
An apparent iPhone eSIM bug is randomly deactivating iMessage and FaceTime. In some cases, the only resolution appears to be…
Apple Watch $100 rebate program ‘designed not to pay out’ – Gurman
Some people are finding that an Apple Watch $100 rebate program announced by Apple is not being honored by carriers….
T-Mobile trade-ins against iPhone 13 purchases being denied; carrier says it will resolve
Following problems with the Apple Watch $100 rebate program, customers are now reporting that T-Mobile trade-ins against iPhone 13 purchases…
[Update: T-Mobile rolls out fix, not DDoS attack] All four major carriers reportedly experiencing network disruptions
What looks like a major outage has hit T-Mobile while Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint this afternoon are also seeing issues….
T-Mobile announces new discounted Unlimited plan for people 55+
T-Mobile announced today a new promotion that gives users 55-years-old or older a discounted wireless plan. Starting August 9th, the…
T-Mobile says don’t update, iOS 10 causing ‘connectivity issues’ for iPhone customers, fix coming soon [Updated]
Update: T-Mobile says the issues have been resolved. Here’s a support document regarding the situation. Good news! iOS 10 fix…
iPhone heading to EVDO/Verizon for 2009?
We’ve fielded a couple of tips (some more sketchy than others) about EVDO iPhones floating around Cupertino in the past, but today’s tipster seems a little bit more sure of himself. Besides having some Verizon insider credentials, he seems to know way too much about Verizon-Apple politics. According to him, Apple will be announcing iPhones for Verizon Wireless in 2009, perhaps as early Macworld 2009. Negotiations between Apple and Verizon are ongoing but they expect to hammer out agreements by the end of the year.
This isn’t a huge surprise for a number of reasons:
Google Android poses little threat to iPhone…yet
Today’s Tmobile-HTC-Google three way Android G1 event was watched intently by those in the technology community – especially by those with the defacto king of the mobile devices, the iPhone.
Well, the good news for iPhone users is that the G1 isn’t a finished product yet…you are still king of the mobile devices for the forseeable future. Most of the functionality of Google’s device is in the hands of 3rd party developers. It doesn’t mean that future hardware products won’t be more compelling. Gizmodo made a good table on the features of the leading smartphones, below:
Join in the Dutch iphone line
What is it like to wait on line in Holland for an iPhone? Look no further than Tmobile’s Webcam. http://hosting.dutchview.nl/t-mobile20080710/t-mobile.swf
party is over…
AT&T (or Tmobile) bringing the iPhone to Canada?
We know Rogers in Canada is a bit of a slacker on the iPhone front from our reader comments. However, they are the only GSM/EDGE provider in Canada and if you have a hacked iPhone they are your only choice. If Apple, for whatever reason, doesn’t want to deal with Rogers, they may have one of two already-established partners in Canada soon. AT&T and Tmobile are both rumored to be partners with Niagara Networks Inc. who are currently bidding on Canadian spectrum.
Either firm may be backing an auction application lodged earlier this month by unknown entity Niagara Networks Inc., which has no current operations in Canada. The company surprised industry observers two weeks ago when it appeared on an Industry Canada list of applicants for the spectrum auction beginning on May 27. Niagara Networks has applied to bid on all the spectrum being auctioned, requiring a letter of credit for $881 million.
Douglas Evashkow, president of Niagara Networks, told CBCNews.ca at the time that he was unable to disclose who was funding his company because of confidentiality agreements.
Obviously with a name like "Niagra" (as in "Falls" – which have both US and Canadian varieties), AT&T would be the easy guess of wireless partner.
After TIM in Italy, is Russia next for iPhone?
We’ve known for awhile that TIM Italy was in the iPhone carrier settings…but for some reason they haven’t gotten the the green light to announce the iPhone. Perhaps it all went bad. Or they are waiting for 3G? Or maybe it is only a matter of days. Strangely, the created on dates for TIM are the same (Dec 12th 2007) as Orange in France, O2 in the UK and Tmobile in Germany, with Tmobile Austria and O2 in Ireland created later (February 2008).
Something tells us that TIM and Apple had a falling out.
Onto a possible Russian iPhone possibility…
Austria, welcome to iPhone
Tmobile is offering the iPhone in Austria as expected. Details below. With Ireland, the iPhone is now officially available in 6/180+ countries.
Plans after the break…
More iPhone countries to be announced at March 6th event?
The timing seems right for more iPhone countries to be announced at the iPhone SDK event next week. Earlier we reported on Italy, Spain and Switzerland getting on board around the time of the SDK launch. Recent rumors have also included Rogers in Canada, O2 in Ireland and Tmobile in Austria and possibly in the Netherlands.
Update: Ireland (O2) and Austria (Tmobile) by extension are officially on.
Adding fuel to the fire, Morgan Stanley is reporting that El Jobso has been getting some serious private jet time in over the past quarter – indicating he’s been doing some global traveling and possibly sealing some deals.
Starbucks drops Tmobile and goes with AT&T AND free 2 hours of browsing, iPhone access?
Big news day today – especially for us coffee addicts. Starbucks has announced that it was dropping its T mobile wifi access points around the world and going with AT&T. The new deal will give free wireless access to Starbucks card holders and AT&T broadband users and charge about half of what T mobile charged for WiFi access. $3.99/visit or $20/month.
Now this deal has Apple written all over it for a number of reasons – not just because taking your MacBook to Starbucks will be a whole lot cheaper. Starbucks and AT&T are also iPhone partners. Starbucks sells it’s music to iPhone and iPod Touch users through its Wifi Music store (now run by AT&T). AT&T is obviously the carrier for the iPhone.
Why doesn't the MacBook Air have 3G?
One thing that stood out from all of the reviews was Ed Baig’s comment that Steve Jobs wanted to put 3G access into the Air but ran out of room.
Air does not come with the built-in ability to connect to a speedy wireless data network run by various cellular carriers. Jobs told me last week that Apple considered it but that adding the capability would take up room and restrict consumers to a particular carrier. Through a USB modem, he says, you can still subscribe to wireless broadband with your favorite carrier.
I hate to badmouth Mr. Baig and Mr. Jobs but there is no other way to put it. BS!…
iPhone SDK details emerge from iPod touch update?
The iPhone SDK is due next month and there is a lot of speculation on exactly how it will all work. Stevo has said he is fond of the Nokia model and we’ve heard comparisons to the Tmobile Sidekick’s delivery system.
We know that Apple has stockholder interests to protect and will likely take a cut of the cheddar on apps that it delivers. How picky Apple is about what type of apps get on the platform is another story entirely. We already know that, for whatever reason, Apple isn’t fond of putting iChat-type of Instant Messaging on the platform. Whether this is to encourage the lucative SMS services or to save AT&T some terrabytes on bandwidth is not really certain. The question is whether they will extend this blockage to the SDK.
For instance we know that a lot of VOIP providers would like to be on the iPhone. Will Apple let this fly? Doubtful.
Other services like Sling, which could be a competitor to AppleTV might also be in the doghouse.
Some pieces of the puzzle might be starting to come together on the technical details of the system Apple will employ to deliver these developer applications. The five new apps for the iPod touch were delivered by a system that is likely the basis for the upcoming mobile application delivery model.
Mossberg comes out (yet again) against the US mobile cartel
http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319854
You have to admire Walt Mossberg for taking his position as grand exalted leader amongst technology journalists directly to the US telecoms. He is single handedly trying to break the hold on consumers that the Sprint/Tmobile/AT&T/Verizon Cartel has on the US Mobile industry. To his credit, he has gotten Verizon to promise that in Q3 2008, that it will accept any device on its platform – as long as it meets a very simple set of requirements (like no VoIP?). If he were running for Office, we’d vote for him.
Tmobile Selling unlocked iPhones for
News is starting to trickle in. You can now officially buy an unlocked iPhone for yes, €999. Is this the actual price of the iPhone. Is this what Apple would charge if it wasn’t taking $10-$20 bucks a month of your Mobile bill? Perhaps it isn’t that easy to build an operationg system from the ground up for a phone that works as well as the iPhones?
I guess we know what price those unlocked iPhones are going to go for in France. The question is, are they different from a hardware perspective? Or can people who want carrier choice just buy a $399 iPhone at the Apple store and upload the new unlocked firmware?
O2 iPhone numbers – not too fantastic
That is how many O2 reported on the first day of iPhone sales. To put that into perspective, Apple sold 270,000 iPhones in the first weekend in the US. At that point it was an untested product. All of the reviews, mostly positive, have come in and have been taken in by British consumers.
Of course, there are a lot fewer people in the UK than in the US – probably about 1/5th. The weather was also rainy on the day of the opening – which wasn’t a help either (not that the UK is known for its great climate).
There are obviously a lot of hacked iPhones that have trickled into Europe over the last 3 months. That may account for some of the "opening day types" who went abroad and brought them back or bought them from ebay or other unauthorized resellers. The US models, which are reportedly the exact same hardware, cost much less before activation than their European counterparts.
Fake Steve on Fake Google Phone
Popular Steve Jobs satirist FakeSteve posted a nice piece on the percieved threat of the Google Open Handset Alliance on Apple and its iPhone franchise. Google’s stock is up and all of the alliance members are getting plenty of publicity. But in the end what have we really got?
- No devices for a year (!!) which is forever in technology terms. The 6 months wait for the iPhone was eternity.
- An SDK – which is based on Linux. Let’s reserve judgment until next week. No news yet.
- Device manufacturers like HTC will build the equipment. However, in hardware terms, since it is an open platform, they are already going to be building the same hardware anyway. Its like Dell saying we are going to build Linux compliant computers now. They already do and have for years. They just usually install Windows on them. It is a low risk for HTC because, if the OHA fails, they just sell the devices with WM6. In fact, it would not surprise us to see the same devices running WM6 and OHA – just like Palm sells similar devices running PAlmOS and WM6. Also – Rubin mentioned the low end processor for the OHA phone would be a 200Mhz ARM processor. Something that has been out for a few years already. IT was introduced in an iPaq about 4 years ago.
Google Announcement liveblog
EDIT – the call is over – you can treat this as notes – not much really to see – we’ll check back next week when we see the SDK!
Ed Shaig – welcome who is here:
Eric Schmidt: Overview
3 blliion users. Getting Google on there.
Want to create a new experience with android platform.
Not a Gphone. There is no suuch thing – there will be many devices. (Obviously reading this from a script)
Major platform change
Consumers have access to desktop type applications and new applications we can’t even imagine
Apple only accepting credit cards for iPhones?
Engadget this morning pointed us to the news that Apple was now only selling iPhones to people with credit cards – no Cash/Check money order. In addition, the limit on phones is now down from 5 to 2 per purchase.
Why?
According to Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris, the official Apple Line is, um:
"Customer response to the iPhone has been off the charts, and limiting iPhone sales to two per customer helps us ensure that there are enough iPhones for people who are shopping for themselves or buying a gift," Kerris said. "We’re requiring a credit or debit card for payment to discourage unauthorized resellers."
YEOUCH! The 1st 1/2 of that statement would seem to be untrue – there are plenty of iPhones out there no one is complaining of store shelves being bare – in fact, Apple will have to ramp up sales (Europe/Asia help) to meet its 10 million by the end of 2008 forecast.
More Legit 3rd Party iPhone Applications on the Way?
While Apple’s official line is that the only 3rd party iPhone development will be on the EDGE-crippled Web 2.0 "SDK", behind the scenes, there is much more going on. Apple has been furiously working with their partners on games and applications for the iPhone/iPod and the standardized Human-Interface Controls that will go along with them. For instance, EA is currently porting their iPod lineup to the OSX iPod/iPhone platform to be sold along side the classic iPod OS versions. Other big developers with strict confidentiality agreements are also on board.