All news-site has written that AT&T announced that MMS will be available for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. If you have not known about it yet we inform you that it will happen in the US on September 25th by AT&T. The functional MMS has been available for iPhone with new iPhone os 3.0 on iPhone 3G and 3GS from June.  Read the rest of this entry »

Rumor has it that AT&T’s gearing up for yet another door-busting, riot-inducing summer filled with new iPhone hardware, which would certainly jibe with everything we’ve heard in the past few months (never mind the fact that June is officially Apple’s iPhone release cycle these days, and indeed, AT&T’s apparently saying that the June cycle is becoming “a tradition”). That’s not terribly interesting at this point — what is interesting, though, is how AT&T plans to play it. Apparently, the carrier wants to ramp up its — ah, how should we put this in a politically correct way — “integration” with Apple’s hardware, including a U-verse app that we’re guessing will approximate the functionality to be offered by Verizon’s FiOS. What really has us worried is not so much the U-verse app specifically, but the possibility that AT&T’s sick and tired of having its crapware left out of its highest-profile device, leading to non-removable garbage like Cellular Video on a future iPhone’s home screen. It’s still a bit early to sound the alarm there, but you know, we’re paranoid types around here. It’s said the new device will be faster, though Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, AT&T announced an official timeline for the rollout of their next-generation 4G network, which will be up and running in 2011. The new LTE network will be capable of more than five times the speed of HSPA+. Speculation is that the announcement of the new network reflects a desire to provide a wider range of services, like VoIP, mobile gaming and video calls.