It’s sometimes hard to believe that AT&T was once this huge telecommunications conglomerate that encompassed the entire length and breadth of the U.S. before an antitrust action separated Big Bell into Baby Bells. Well, mergers and acquisitions have fattened what was left of AT&T and Verizon, and left smaller players on the fringes. Qwest, another […]

Let’s be clear about this: AT&T may have been the best wireless carrier partner for the iPhone from a business standpoint, but any customer who has encountered a spate of dropped calls will tell you there ought to be a better way. Now the story goes that Apple first brought the concept of the iPhone […]

My first report on the iPhone 3GS presented the tale of a botched ordering process when AT&T got involved for a pre-shipping verification. However, the phone itself has worked great since Day One, without any activation delays or other untoward behavior to report. Certainly, a sequel is called for, although I can’t say that I’ve […]

They never learn. Media pundits have this “bigger they are, harder they fall” philosophy when it comes to one of Apple’s hot-selling gadgets. So in the days when the iPhone was growing tremendously every single year, almost every pretender to the throne was touted as the one and only inevitable iPod killer. This was particularly true […]