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We’re posting this as a warning to anyone expecting to just drop in to an Apple Store and grab a new iPhone.  If you haven’t already figured it out, iPhone 4 is going to be the biggest selling phone in history and even Apple didn’t anticipate the months and months of catch-up they’ll be doing [...]

“Prospective buyers in both the US and the UK — at minimum — found themselves unable to order the next must-have Jobsian device due to server overload, either in Cupertino, at the carrier level, or both.” I don’t know anyone who got through, unless they used the brand new Apple Store app made available yesterday. [...]

Soon enough we’ll know just how confident Apple feels about continuing a one carrier arrangement with AT&T for its iPhone.  In the mean time, AppleInsider has learned from statements made by AT&T’s CTO that much has been done in the background to ramp Apple engineering staff to very high wireless technology knowledge levels. Motorola’s heritage implies [...]

And if AppleInsider’s report is as true as it seems we won’t be seeing Verizon service anytime soon without a contract change.

Want “5 bar coverage” in your home?  AT&T’s 3G MicroCell is now (seemingly) available nationwide.  Of course you need to actually be on their service to take advantage of this new device, but once you’re lucky enough to find and buy one of these suckers you’re rock and roll. In a recent search all around [...]

If you think simply buying a Google Android device is going to set you free from closed ecosystems like the Apple iPhone and App Store combo, think again. Carriers are already showing signs of taking advantage of the devices on their networks that aren’t explicitly locked to any particular mobile OS, and Android seems to [...]

Apple and AT&T couldn’t have made 3G access any simpler than this.  You can even shift over to the expensive plan or sign up on the fly from your iPad!

The most interesting passage is here in bold: “The company’s version of the tablet will feature built-in Wi-Fi utilizing Verizon’s hotspots for free data; the device will switch onto the 3G cellular network when it’s away from a hotspot. This makes it easy and safe to connect to trusted Wi-Fi servers, and you’ll get a line-item [...]

AT&T says it’s fixed mobile Facebook problems now.  Pretty sloppy session identifier issues from the sound of it.  The average user will not understand this explanation, and AT&T and Facebook  both owe it to everyone to explain in detail how ridiculously easy it seems to have been for users to be able to access total [...]

Brooke Crothers wrote an article today questioning Apple’s lack of 3G mobile support in its laptops.  In it he says this: I’ve said this before. But I’ll say it again. There are consumers–including those potentially opting for laptops from Hewlett-Packard or Dell–who would like to buy a MacBook with 3G built in. Let’s hope Apple [...]