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- mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -12/+146This is not CONFIRMED! "Wall Street Journal is reporting Cingular Wireless is expected to provide wireless service for a new Apple Computer Inc. cellphone, PEOPLE FAMILIAR WITH THE SITUATION SAY." Rumor, nothing more. No need for the "BREAKING" tags.
- labbrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+55You could, theoretically, call Sprint and tell them that you are theoretically moving to Cherryville, Missouri, where the closest Sprint coverage is theoretically 20 miles away. This would theoretically allow you to get out of your contract with no penalty.
Theoretically. - smartsingh24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25i'll believe it when jobs says it
- Rousterfar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Damn it, and I am locked in with Sprint for another year. :(
- mob2day, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17This would only make sense since Cingular is GSM service and could provide an easy path for european market.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15http://disneymobile.go.com/disneymobile/home.do
- NoOneButMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13no CDMA :(
- mob2day, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12When the WSJ speaks you have to think twice that this is true.
- mckirkus, on 10/12/2007, -12/+22What's with all the trendy morons saying this is a dumb idea? Lets pretend it's 1950 and the first car was released with a built in radio. You say "Most people have radios already and find no need for them to be in the car itself. I just want an Studebaker with tires, windows, a decent cam, and refillable gas tank." Hundreds agree, citing your ability to spot stupid trends early.
And furthermore Susan, there is a more interesting story that's currently breaking anyway...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=spR&ct=title&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=skype+nokia&btnG=Search+News
"Nokia announced today that they will be teaming up with Internet based voip provider Skype to offer calls on a cell phone without using minutes on your provider’s calling plan." - corsairstw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yeah. Someone's blog saying this is one thing, but if the WSJ prints it in their paper, it has a lot more clout and people feel they can trust the news.
As a Cingular customer, this is exciting if it's true!
(Though I'm still mad that they're upping the SMS price from 10c to 15c this month.) - alexvalentine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Here is the actual article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116830347326670832-email.html
Can we please try to link to actual articles, and not post links to crappy blogs with zero value added. - XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I really hope the this rumor is invalid(like most iPhone rumors are). If the iPhone is everything people are talking it up to be, I would really want one... Just not from Cingular, they have the worst service in my area....
- trutherd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12"THEY DID ALREADY. MORE THAN ONCE.
Last time it was Apple + Cingular + Motorola, this time it might be Apple + Cingular + someone else.... big deal.
Same concept. Slight twist. Now do everyone a favour and crank down the hype a little."
Actually, no. This time it's Apple + Cingular + Apple. It's an Apple branded phone. That's the difference.. quite a huge difference too. - PasteEater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm actually pretty happy with Verizon. It's worked really well for me everywhere I've lived (Michigan, Florida, and now California). That being said, I really don't want to switch to another carrier.
Why can't we just buy a phone and *then* decide what carrier we want to use based on price, local service, and plan features? The current system is absolutely ridiculous.
Verizon deliberately cripples their phones (my RAZR had bluetooth OBEX turned off by default until I cracked into it). Would it be such a big deal for me to just bring the phone that I want to use to Verizon? They still make money, and they don't have to subsidize phone costs. - sencha5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8BREAKING: Business analysts are usually wrong about these sorts of things, information this secure would be behind several NDAs at least. It's an educated guess, but a guess nonetheless....
Besides, I rarely if ever trust "BREAKING" news stories from sites that rely on IntelliTXT for anything. - 4NDr01D, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18cingular sucks
actually all US carriers suck
where is my 4G 1gb/s connectivity that they are testing in South Korea
I'd be happy with a 2 bar signal out here actually - fitzfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"We can look forward to 1 of 2 headlines tomorrow."
I hate to break it to you, but there will be atleast 10 Apple stories making the front page tomorrow. - RiemannLebesgue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That Steamboat Willie phone is pretty sweet.
- JaredRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5heh.. I'm on Cingular and my phone is horrid... won't charge half the time, take bad pictures... Both my wife and I have been looking for a new phone. I've been dragging my feet hoping Apple would provide something awesome. :)
Here's hoping it's true! - Dihuko, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7What is with the "expected" stuff. The internet is FULL of Apple rumors considering that "Santa Steve" is expected to announce new product(s) tomorrow but really? If you browse the internet for around 30 seconds looking at the latest MacWorld rumors from analyst's, you will see the annalists contradicting each other. No one really knows for sure what Apple is coming out with. But boy oh boy! I can't wait! Tonight is like Christmas Eve except you have to pay for whatever "Santa Steve" brings! :D
- ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/wsj-reports-apple-and-cingular-launching-cellphone/
- Lazyboy0172, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5how is this breaking or a surprise at all? cingular was the only company to have itunes and the rockr phones, so what would make anyone think apple would go to someone else?
- ripflash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yep, Cingular will become AT&T: http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/cingular-to-become-att-138545.php
The marketing team thought "old & stodgy" was a better image than "hip but without phone coverage" - hoyaman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm on Cingular, and let me tell you - CONSUMER REPORTS has it right - Cingular and Sprint are the WORST. Those ads they run? total *****.
If Apple wants GSM, they should go with T-Mobile (which actually has a European business unit), and if not, Verizon - which actually does have a reliable network. I've got a Treo, and yes I am a Mac-head, and I was really hoping to drop Cingular int he next few months when my contract expires. - forchilli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hopefully well get the "iPhone" unlocked if cingular is going to be there...
- fitzfan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I dont think they would put their reputation on the line the day of MacWorld if it wasnt legit, assuming this is going to be one of their featured stories in the paper tomorrow
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm "in" with *shudders* Verizon until December 2007. I've been wanting to change to Cingular for a few months. Their phones and features are far superior to Verizon.
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4*****. All I want is a small cellphone w/ WiFi and basic pim features. Is that too much to ask for?
- AlrightMister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I am a little surprised by this announcement and hope that Cing doesn't have an exclusive on this phone for any length of time. Everything I've seen to this point has indicated that Apple does not want this phone to be carrier subsidised and they want it to be available over the counter. This would lead one to think that Apple will not open the device up for fiddling by the carriers which is a good thing. If this is not available unlocked from other sources the day it launches I will be pissed!
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You know what the absolutle best thing about the shipment of an Apple iPhone would be?
The cessation of rumors about the Apple iPhone! And I actually would like one!
Of course, even that is probably not true since some time back we had the rumor of the second Apple iPhone... - colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"If it is even $500 Apple will be bankrupt by the end of the year. At that price, there is NO WAY anyone would buy both a phone and a separate iPod. So they will lose their market share in the MP3 market. And then if something happened with the phones, they will not have the dominance, which is all they have right now since the iPod quality is not what is driving the business."
The anti-Apple zealots do get a lot more rabid around MacWorld time. They seem to care more about Apple's well being than the Apple fanboys do. - dan0111, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This is horrible news. Cingular's coverage in big cities such as New York is very spotty and the call quality is pretty horrible. Should've gone to a CDMA company such as Sprint or Verizon, or better yet, sign agreements with all of them.
- Mudger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I am banking on buying a "cingular iphone" then swapping my T-mobile sim card.
- chrisxkelley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Agreed. Damn Verizon.
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"First AT&T, then Cingular, then back to AT&T. Make up your freakin minds!! ;)"
AT&T had a seperate wireless company, AT&T Wireless, and Cingular was BellSouth's wireless service. Cingular merged with AT&T Wireless, with BellSouth being the 60% holder in the company. Finally, just a few days ago, BellSouth merged with AT&T to form the (completed) Ma Bell, the "new" AT&T. AT&T announced plans before to rebrand their collective wireless service AT&T Wireless, but it remains to see if this will actually happen.
Convoluted, but basically it's simply unrolling the breakup that happened in the 70's due to AT&T's monopoly. - xhadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3well its slightly more convoluted than that. When AT&T folded they sold their wireless division to Cingular (Bell South) and there land lines to SBC... SBC decided to keep the familiar name of AT&T which now has acquired Cingular(yes you read it right acquired, not reacquired since SBC was never AT&T and the original AT&T ceases to exist).
- CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Wait, something is breaking?
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's exactly what Apple can offer - a simpler phone, that just does calls and music, and avoids bells and whistles.
- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Cingular absolutely blows in the Minneapolis area. Worst. Service. Ever. They used to be ATT Wireless there, on an old TDMA network. That actually worked quite well. They decided to go with GSM, and found that the TDMA towers interfered with the new GSM towers. So they had half their userbase on TDMA, and half on GSM, and half their towers were either/or. You can imagine that it sucked. They finally switched over all of their towers, but there are huge holes in their coverage, and since they don't listen to their customers there will probably be huge holes for a long time.
T-mobile on the other hand, works awesome. The only time I don't get signal in the Minneapolis area is when I'm in the basement of a building or in a big parking ramp. And their customer service is actually not too bad. Like all customer service, it sucks. But it's a matter of who sucks the least. - TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This sounded about as reliable as an article from The Onion.
- lcohiomatty86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4charging 15 cents per text message.. if theres anything about cell phone companies that is just outright stealing.. its this 10-15cents per text and 43 cents a minute if you go outside of your plan... or the 1 cent per kilobyte! its absolutly rediculous.. they should, at a minimum.. at least just automatically upgrade you to the next level of data/texting/voice plan if you go over your minutes/messages by a few dollars worth.. instead of these BS $400-800 bills people can get if not careful.
- AdverseEntropy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You didn't add "BREAKING" to your title.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4why are people suggesting tmobile? half of their damn network runs on cingular towers. Cingular is the obvious choice. GSM > CDMA
- tfaz1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That was awesome.
firemillin's comment starts off completely calm and logical, but it quickly plummets into crazy town. Dropping f-bombs and getting all worked up. +digg for hilarity. - ki1022, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3First AT&T, then Cingular, then back to AT&T. Make up your freakin minds!! ;)
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@pasteeater: i had to do the same thing. flashed my phone & enabled things as i wanted, as well as added skins and what not (although the v3c doesn't really support skins the way it should). the phone is better now - and there is no more lag time between selecting menus - instead of verizon's 1-2 second delay (makes going through nested menus painfully slow). fully customizeable..... but you have to know to try this, which i can't imagine the vast majority of people doing.
there was a class action lawsuit filed against verizon concerning the RAZR V3c, i recommend googling it to see if you can take advantage of it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i hate being with sprint. they're the last to do anything.... although i do love my samsung A-900. it's way cooler than the razr ever was and it reminds me of the old powerbook G3s
- jrkagan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks for telling us about your digg spam so that we can bury it appropriately.
- didymus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Stand aside, it IS tuesday.
Well at least where I am :) - OdinEye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Huh?
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