Ever since AT&T announced their 3G femtocell solution, confusingly dubbed the “3G Microcell,” signal-seeking AT&T customers have been waiting for Big Blue to go live with their wireless signal booster. That wait may soon come to an end. Reports have crossed the wires, indicating that AT&T is finally preparing to launch their 3G Microcell in…
iPhone MMS Shows First Signs of Life on AT&T
While the service isn’t available for all AT&T subscribers just yet, a sizeable number of people are now able to handle MMS messages on their iPhone. This comes as a bit of a surprise for those who had been counting down to the official September 25th. launch date, but I suspect the process will be…
The Nokia Mural has been on sale for less than a week, and AT&T just pulled it off the shelves
The Nokia Mural, a really low end cheap clam shell phone that doesn’t even run S60, has been pulled off the shelves according to The Boy Genius Report who cites that the 3G feature inside the Mural has been “inadvertently turned off during production at Nokia.” Are you serious? Nokia doesn’t even know how to…
Loopt’s Always-On Location Service does background location-tracking
Location-tracking mobile services are wacky cool or ominously scary, depending on how you look at it. There are numerous location-based social networks out there that allow you to keep track (literally) of your group of friends, but the one thing they all have in common on the iPhone is the inability to update location data…
AT&T Introduces A-List Service: Unlimited Calling to Five VIPs
AT&T has just launched a new service called A-List that will look awfully familiar if you ever had anything to do with T-Mobile MyFaves. Basically, if you have a monthly plan over $60, you’ll be able to pick five landline or wireless numbers across the U.S. to which you can make unlimited calls; if you’re…
AT&T Upgrading to 7.2 Mbps Across Six Cities
AT&T has been testing their 7.2 Mbps data network in Chicago since December, but the service is now set to go live in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Miami by the end of the year, and another 25 cities by the end of 2010. Rogers has been working on their own HSPA upgrade…
Custom iPhone Updates for AT&T en Route?
Word has it AT&T and Apple are working together on some custom updates to the iPhone operating system that would allow push notifications to warn about approaching overage charges, and voicemail options that would bypass or eliminate default voicemail greetings. These are apparently in a bid to raise customer satisfaction that has taken a beating…
AT&T Pulls BlackBerry Bold Software Update
You might remember that BlackBerry Bold update from a few weeks ago that was supposed to enable free visual voicemail for AT&T subscribers, as well as enable the ability to chose to use 2G or 3G networks. Well, it looks like AT&T is experiencing some technical difficulties, specifically a “software issue affecting the interaction between…
Android Boots Up on HTC Kaiser
It’s not a new trick, but it is one that never gets old. This HTC Kaiser, perhaps better known as the AT&T Tilt, is shown here loading up Google’s mobile operating system, Android, thanks to some fancy codework in an app called HaRET, that apparently runs in Windows Mobile 6.5 (no ROM flashing required). Man,…
Nokia Mural officially announced; AT&T to start selling it on September 6th for $49.99
Nokia Mural, the clamshell phone we’ve seen being approved by the FCC and in a leaked AT&T roadmap, is officially announced. The somewhat stylish phone resembles other Nokia model – N76, but unlike the NSeries device, it’s a simple feature phone that runs Series 40 platform. Specs wise, it sports a HSDPA connectivity support, 2.2-inch…