Where I go to college is in such an isolated, mountainous area that the only carriers that have service there are Verizon and Cellular One. Right now I use a Sony Ericsson phone with a Cellular One service plan. To use the others you have to have digital roaming enabled and pay a huge fee. I was hoping with AT&T buying Cingular their coverage area would grow, but right now, checking their website, they still don’t have coverage in my area.
I was hoping with AT&T buying Cingular their coverage area would grow, but right now, checking their website, they still don’t have coverage in my area.
Actually, in early 2004 Cingular bought AT&T Wireless from AT&T, and merged with them in late 2004 (still calling themselves Cingular) and then in 2005 SBC Communications bought AT&T Corp., and since SBC is a majority holder in Cingular, has chosen to merge them together under the brand AT&T since it has much more name recognition.
Some reviews of the iPhone have hit the net, and reveal what the device doesn’t have:
• Flash support
• Songs as ringtones
• Games
• Instant Messaging
• Picture Messages (MMS)
• Video Recording
• Voice recognition/voice dialing
• Wireless Bluetooth Stereo Streaming
Kind of surprising about some of them. No songs as ringtones, IM, or MMS really hurts, and is kind of inexcusable not to have on a modern phone, let alone one costing at least $500.
The Flash designer in me screams in agony every time I see that the iPhone has no Flash support. When shitty Chocolate phones and such come loaded with it, not even Safari on the iPhone has it for “The Internet”.
It’s pretty weird they omitted it. Is there any official, or just plausible, explanation? Security reasons? Legal reasons? Money reasons? Avoiding awful bloated flash sites to mess up the perfect aesthetics of the phone?
Oh the rumor is since the iPhone requirements call for iTunes 7.3 (not out yet) that there will be some sort of $.99 downloadable ring tone service through iTunes added. Still not confirmed or anything, but even though there’s alot of money to be made in the ring tone business, it does seem retarded to not allow customers who already paid for songs purchased on iTunes not be allowed to put them on their iPhone for any other purpose other than the iPod functionality.
As much as I also hate ring tones, a device made for music and phone calls that costs roughly the same as a PS3 should toast my bread and clean the dishes.
