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Official: Swisscom to launch iPhone in Switzerland -- 3G, GPS, mobile TV, video conferencing rumored {Engadget}
May 14th 2008 8:01AM My only concern about the 3G iPhone is that it might not have 3.5G. There's no specific evidence for that, only that none of the carrier leaks have mentioned HSDPA speeds in particular. I would be disappointed having to downgrade my connection speed from my current phone, but I would still buy one. All I've been waiting for is 3G and 3rd party apps.
There will be many features that my current phone (Tilt) has that the iPhone does not, but the PITA of using Windows Mobile is not worth those extra features. I want a phone that I can be productive on because I want to use it. I frequently don't write things down in my Tilt because it takes too long and half the time doesn't sync properly anyway. The user experience is equally important as raw power and number of features.
AT&T says "iPhone Black" means nothing, gunman acted alone {Engadget}
May 12th 2008 9:31PM My Tilt is mostly black. With a little gunmetal gray on the front. I don't know why they'd need to distinguish it since it only comes in one color. But I would say that one color could be called black.
When should you buy an iPhone? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
May 12th 2008 8:46PM I see the point about buying behind the curve, but for me I am already buying a year behind the curve. I needed 3G and 3rd party apps, so I have waited patiently. I have avoided the growing pains of jailbreaking, updates, AT&T's activation problems, etc. and I didn't have to pay $600 for it to boot. I am more than ready to snap this up as soon as it's available.
AT&T says "iPhone Black" means nothing, gunman acted alone {Engadget}
May 12th 2008 5:42PM Everyone knows there's going to be a 3G iPhone. We've known since they announced the first iPhone a year and a half ago. What's news is the release date. A lot of people have been waiting a year and a half to get one, and I know many current iPhone users will want to upgrade.
Since Apple likes to announce things at the last minute, rumors are the only way to find out when it might be coming. Every little piece of information helps to narrow it down a little.
AT&T listing "iPhone Black" model, O2 gets the original back in stock {Engadget Mobile}
May 12th 2008 5:35PM It sure would be a good time. The only evidence directly suggesting otherwise is the AT&T vacation memo, which says late June. Can't figure out why they'd pick those dates if the iPhone is coming out in mid-May.
AT&T says "iPhone Black" means nothing, gunman acted alone {Engadget}
May 12th 2008 5:23PM I think you missed the point. No one is saying, "Damn it AT&T, tell us about the 3G iPhone!" We know they can't announce it. What we're commenting on is what fools they're making of themselves with the ways they have chosen to cover their slip-ups.
AT&T listing "iPhone Black" model, O2 gets the original back in stock {Engadget}
May 12th 2008 5:04PM Interesting. There does seem to be a lot pointing to a late-May release. The only thing going directly against that is the AT&T employee vacation memo, which points to late June. I don't know what to think at this point. My credit card is waiting whenever they're ready.
AT&T says "iPhone Black" means nothing, gunman acted alone {Engadget}
May 12th 2008 4:37PM Personally I'd have gone with, "Whoever was updating the site meant to apply that 'black' option to a different phone and accidentally put it on the iPhone's listing." I'd still know in my heart it's a cover-up, but at least could acknowledge the possibility that that could happen, and any other time besides a few weeks before the obvious release of the 3G iPhone, I might even entertain the notion that it's true.
How many possible explanations did they toss around the office before deciding on "we meant to say 8GB but put 'black' instead"?
AT&T says "iPhone Black" means nothing, gunman acted alone {Engadget}
May 12th 2008 4:31PM That's two completely illogical explanations from AT&T in the same day. The other is that the free iPhone wifi was enabled by "human error," and it's too early to say when it will be available or how it will work. If it's so far from completion that you don't even know how it will work, how was it so easy to activate it and advertise it on the website, "by accident"?
This is their way of saying that they're so clueless they don't even know that their original system didn't even need to be hacked to be bypassed. A lot of browsers let you select the user agent of the iPhone browser (or anything else) as a feature!
And now this! Methinks Steve Jobs currently has the head of an AT&T web maintenance guy on a platter on his desk.
Leaks happen. Apple even had one for the G5 PowerMacs a few years back. But what's most pathetic about this is that AT&T needs to worry less about their site update people and free-wifi-planning people, and come up with some press people who can cover their asses with an excuse that at least makes sense. Even if people don't believe them, the explanation should at least be POSSIBLE!
AT&T's bringing free wifi to the iPhone -- once it finishes wigging out {Engadget Mobile}
May 12th 2008 4:20PM That's the stupidest excuse I've ever heard. Human error? Like somebody accidentally clicked on the "enable free iPhone wifi" button, and all of a sudden all the hotspots knew to accept iPhones, and the website magically updated to advertise it?
But yet this feature that could be so easily activated by accident is so far from release that they can't give any kind of a timetable or even describe how it will work, despite the fact that it has already been working. WTF AT&T?
I think the only possible explanation is that the people who devised the plan originally were so stupid they didn't realize that spoofing the user agent of an iPhone is so easy, it's a standard feature in the menus of many browsers. It didn't exactly take a hacker to bypass that system.
I'm a little concerned that these are the same people who hold my credit card information and secure my data.
