In a move seemingly to reduce the number of unlocked iPhones, AT&T has offered up some middle ground for those not wanting to get raped by international calling and data charges. There are two new plans, the top one tacks on $60 to your current bill and nets you 50MB of data per month, but that’s just the start of the benefits.
It works in 29 countries including Canada, Mexico, and then various other places throughout Eurasia. Here are the added benefits though, international voice and data roaming are enabled, and long distance dialing from the US are all the same price.
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Written by James Allan Brady on November 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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AT&T’s site, YellowPages.com, has just been pimped for ease of use on your iPhone and iPod Touch, so should you need directory assistance, before paying those extremely bloated 411 charges, check YellowPages.com. I wonder if the other site, whitepages.com got the same treatment.
You can easily search by name, location, or category for what you are looking for. Furthermore, your search results include ratings, maps, and directions as well as the obvious phone number.
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Written by James Allan Brady on October 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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That Apple gets a cut of the monthly subscriber love from AT&T is common knowledge, but neither party has been too keen to share the exact details of just how much of your iPhone rental passes straight through the carrier’s fingers and into Cupertino’s coffers. Now, thanks to an obscure rule regarding “deferred revenue” - basically when one company promises to pay another at some point in the future - Apple has been forced to reveal how much it expects to receive once it has finished holding AT&T by the ankles and shaking them upside-down. It’s a figure that has surprised even jaded analysts: on average, $18 a month or $432 in the space of a two year contract.
 
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Written by Chris Davies on October 26th, 2007 with no comments.
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According to Strategy Analytics the third quarter mobile phone sales pegs the iPhone at wrangling in 13% of AT&T’s phone sales. They also peg the iPhone at the 4th top most selling phone in the US.
Further stats show that sure, the 20-30 year-old range is the largest purchaser of iPhones, but the 50-60 age group still hit a quarter of the sales. That’s right; your grandparents might be contributing to up to 25% of iPhone sales.
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Written by James Allan Brady on October 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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And I feel dumber. Sure, these new commercials do a good job of showing how regular Joe’s would make good use of the iPhone in their everyday lives, but I like Apple’s approach better, some nice calm music in the background and then start with the showing off of what the iPhone can do with a calming voice narrating.
The Apple approach keeps it simple and shows technical people, like me, what the device can do. The AT&T approach seems like a futile attempt to sell a $400 phone to an average person, I am not saying the average person has to be technical to appreciate the artistry of the iPhone, just the average person has to have good credit and $400 to pony up for the device.
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Written by James Allan Brady on October 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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