With all the hardships we face each day (scratched screens, dead batteries, no 3G coverage), I would like to share a comic with you from Randall Munroe over at xkcd.com. It covers a topic PPCG has covered in the past and is especially relevant due to the recent launch of the Droid smart phone. So please sit back and enjoy the laughter!
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It seems that those of you who are rocking an Apple iPhone that has been jailbroken via a SSH client may catch a virus. A phone virus that is. It seems that a creative coder from Australia wrote some script that accesses the SSH client and causes the users wallpaper to be changed to a picture of Rick Astley, the man who has annoyed millions with his song Never Gonna Give You Up.
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At&t had a great last quarter, activating 3.2 million new iPhones, 40% of which were purchased by customers new to AT&T. AT&T’s exclusivity deal with Apple is expected to end next year, though neither company has disclosed the terms of the arrangement.
“Even if we lose the iPhone exclusivity, we’re going to probably be the only ones that have a speed of 7.2 (Mbps) that these phones can work on,” says AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega.
At&t has been quickly trying to boost its network by expanding coverage, specifically 3G expansion. They are turning on new 3G sites everyday, and de la Vega said dropped calls have been down about 12%.
So if the exclusivity deal ends sometime next year, will At&t’s network be enough to keep users on board, or will we see them move away as fast as possible. That all might depend on who else picks up the iPhone. As we all remember, both Sprint and Verizon were approched by Apple and turned the deal down. Will either of them change their mind now?
Source: DSLReports
In the on-going battle for global dominance in the cell phone world, it seems that Google’s Android will be emerging as a big challenger over the next few years.
Currently running on less than 2% of all smartphones, Gartner Inc. predicts it will surge to 14% of the global smartphone market by 2012 — ahead of the iPhone, as well as Windows Mobile and BlackBerry.
By 2012, Gartner forecasts that Android will rank second in the global market behind the Symbian OS. Symbian is used in Nokia devices that are very popular in Europe and other countries outside the United States. Read more…
From sea to shining sea, users across the U.S. are chiming in that MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) works for them. It looks like AT&T is slowly but surely enabling MMS for the iPhone.
