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Rumor — AT&T Losing iPhone Exclusivity Next Week
MojoKid writes "An inside source over at HotHardware reports that AT&T will lose their iPhone exclusivity on 1/27, coincident with Apple's upcoming press event next week, though it's not yet clear what other carriers will be stepping in to pick up the iPhone. For anyone who has followed the saga, you may notice that you haven't seen AT&T fighting to extend their original exclusive agreement as of late. In fact, they have spent most of their time fighting Verizon's negative ad campaigns. This may not be all that surprising. Inside of AT&T, word is that the iPhone is causing more trouble than ever before. On some level, having the iPhone is hurting AT&T's image. Do you remember hearing about AT&T's 'horrible network' before the iPhone? The iPhone itself doesn't really handle the switch from 3G to EDGE very gracefully, so calls that are in-progress tend to fail whenever 3G connections aren't optimal and the phone attempts to step down to EDGE. It seems that AT&T may finally be tired of taking the heat."
"iPhone, you phone, we all phone for iPhone"
Well, maybe before AT&T's woes.
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Sweetheart, you're not supposed to talk about it. I could lose my job.
You definitely could have been more eloquent with that, but I agree.
Anyway, as of the Nexus One, Android has definitely caught up to the iPhone in terms of usability.
Oh, well alright then, there you have it: "deadend44's fiance" verified it, folks.
I have run over 10 apps in the background on my iPhone (jailbroken of course)
And for those of us who *don't* want to void our warranty and potentially fuck over the phone...
If you're going to hack one device and then compare it to another that isn't hacked, you might as well start comparing a factory-bought Chevy truck with a Ford truck that you mounted a fully-functional warp drive on. There's no point to it.
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I like Android for the multiple concurrent apps
Plus the ability to install an SSH client and do port forwarding with an RDP client allowing secure connections to a terminal server.
With abilities like that, I can't believe my whole family doesn't have one already.
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