http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Steve looks so much in a better shape in that pic! ]]>May 10th 2010 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Thats why im commenting again

lol]]>May 10th 2010 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
So I guess its true--the world will end in 2012. I guess Apple and ATT had it right all along...]]>May 10th 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Talk about adding insult to injury!



]]>May 10th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
If you have to have a contract, you blew it.]]>May 10th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
I guess apple has handicapped itself and android will be the markets major player for years to come...

]]>May 10th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/]]>May 10th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Exactly... I don't want those iphone noobs hoggin all my bandwidth! :)

I would like to note that I do not intend to disrespect those iphone users that know how to use the phone... just those morons who think having an iphone makes them a higher class of people.]]>May 10th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/Its cause there are hardly any Nexus One owners AT&T. Who would want one?]]>May 10th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
How did I insult him? It was just a remark. His health has deteriorated much since. Why would I make fun of someone's misfortune?!]]>May 10th 2010 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/I dong even know a nexus one owner in the first place.

Anyway, the article mentions the continued validity of the AT&T / iPhone contract ... How is that an issue to speak of if we all haven't seen it and the terms to allow a party to break it without breach? That seemed like wild speculation/hyperbole to me.]]>May 10th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/You are correct. It's too bad no major news/tech site will report the truth.
"Apparently, in an effort to lower power consumption, Apple
designed the iPhone to stay in touch with the network through heavy
bursts of signaling traffic rather than keep a radio channel open
constantly (keeping the channel open drains the battery). The iPhone
effectively caused signaling congestion problems like dropped calls and
poor connection quality." -thestreet.com]]>May 10th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
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Thank God!!! Let the iPhone hog up AT&T's bandwidth and I'll be more than happy with my HTC Evo on Sprint...]]>May 10th 2010 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
i was saying that because android just passed them up this qtr.... i was not really replying to you .. sorry for the unclear post dude]]>May 10th 2010 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
You are correct, it is the iPhone, not the network. It is pretty clear that the iPhone often drops calls when switching from Edge to 3G and back.

Other 3G phones on AT&T do not have this issue. iPhones are improving in this respect though - perhaps the next version will get this right once and for all.]]>May 10th 2010 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
NOW DOWN RANK THE TRUTH AWAY IF YOU MUST ;^)...]]>May 10th 2010 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
GSM sucks, and I really don't care if I can't "surf the Web" while talking. That is such a half-assed comeback to AT&T's grossly inadequate network coverage.

Think it through: If I'm having a conversation and need to look something up for someone, I'll want to text it to them anyway for reference. Say, "OK, I'll find out." Hang up, get the info, text it to them. Done. On AT&T, you don't have Web access much of the time anyway, or even voice capability for that matter.]]>May 10th 2010 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Sent from my iPhone ]]>May 11th 2010 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
It's apparent you're a sprint/verizon customer stuck in the stone ages. Let me guess, you have dial up at home, too? I mean who would want to talk *and* surf the web at the same time? Its not something used every day, but it is handy. Troubleshooting my directv the other day, I couldn't find my account number, so I looked up my bill on my iPhone and BAM I had it.

But I guess when you're stuck in dark ages of EV-DO, you'll look for any excuse, right chump?]]>May 11th 2010 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
And saying "On AT&T, you don't have Web access much of the time anyway, or even voice capability for that matter" is just plain WRONG and ignorant.]]>May 11th 2010 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Again, the winner can be determined for potential, costs, timeliness or a major backer. Notice, only the first two actually deal with the efficiency/effectiveness of the utilized technology. However, having international compatibility is a great advantage, but not a definite indication of having better tech. ]]>May 11th 2010 3:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 11th 2010 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 11th 2010 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Perhaps not in some areas of the country, but I have never experienced a time (aside from inside some pretty big, concrete buildings) that I haven't had a decent signal for calls & Internet access. The gross generalizations are getting to be ridiculous when it comes to AT&T. I had Verizon in the same area here about 3 years ago and did not find any improvement, and Internet speeds slower. ]]>May 11th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/True. And the most important part is all contracts have TERMS. If you think Apple doesn't have a legion of lawyers that can find loopholes, think again.]]>May 11th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/Reading this article closely again, why is Engadget stirring the pot with this poor reporting? These aren't excerpts from some legal doc. This is an interview with USA Today taken years ago with who? We don't know for sure. Some Apple Exec answering off the cuff?

Taking this article that Engadget claims is matter of fact with a grain of salt....]]>May 11th 2010 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
I have AT&T and being able to browse the web while on a voice call is a godsend. I hate not being able to put the person on hold for the 10 minutes it takes to load up simple web information over EDGE.

*cough*]]>May 11th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://bit.ly/4g-iphone-going-to-verizon

Oh apple.. ]]>May 11th 2010 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Maybe to some users the AT&T's data+phone GSM offerings are useful. Most of my friends on AT&T drop calls on their smartphones when getting emais pushed to them. Besides that I've never had a friend tether their phone on AT&T and beat my speedtest on Sprint in terms of ping times or data speeds. Pseudo 3G? ]]>May 12th 2010 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Meh indeed. I'm quite happy with Verizon and my Incredible/Android.

Also, with the report this morning that Android sold more phones than the iPhone in 1st quarter 2010, maybe Apple SHOULD reconsider this.
Droid and Droid Eris led the charge in 1st quarter, the Incredible and Evo will do it for this quarter.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100510005773&newsLang=en]]>May 10th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/LOL at the new ATT ads noting their "97%" coverage

yeah - of course you have voice coverage - we dont care about that anymore ATT - we need 3G coverage which you're WAAAY behind on...]]>May 10th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
they have 3g everywhere that matters. Its not their fault they dont cover cities where the cows outnumber the people.]]>May 10th 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Yeah, like San Francisco and New York City. All those cows...]]>May 10th 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Seriously those figures are pointless. People arent going to buy an iPhone in the 1st quarter of any year as every year since 2007 a brand new iPhone has been launched in the 2nd Quarter, there will be some customers who upgrade as they cant wait or have trouble spotting patterns but the majority of people are either still under contract or waiting for the new 4G.

Come June/July iPhone will outsell Android yet again, dont look at quarterly sales figures, look at the overall sales figures.]]>May 10th 2010 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/May 10th 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Don't you mean "sheep"?


Sorry, I couldn't resist!]]>May 10th 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/LOL, since they are sticking with AT&T the iphone is gonna be stuck with the 3g network while everyone else is moving on....iphone continues its legacy of living in the past ]]>May 11th 2010 3:18AM