Tag: AT&T
Father’s Day 2011: 21 Awesome Tech Gift Ideas for Dad
Father’s Day is just around the corner and rather than ties and the odd gift boxes offered at department stores we suggest you get dad one of these awesome Father’s Day gifts. These tech gifts for Father’s Day 2011 aren’t just for geeks. We have all types of consumer electronics, thumb drives, eBook readers, tablets, smartphones [...]
HP DataPass Brings Pre-Paid Mobile Broadband to HP Notebooks (Video)
On select HP notebooks with embedded 3G cards for mobile broadband access, including those with Qualcomm’s Gobi cards for GSM/HSPA/CDMA/EV-DO network access, HP will be pre-installing a connection manager that gives users access to HP DataPass, a pre-paid mobile broadband service for on the go connectivity. Rather than have enterprise and consumer customers sign up [...]
Apple Announces iPad 2 with Cameras, Faster Processor and White Version
Wednesday Apple announced that the iPad 2 will ship March 11 with prices starting at $499, the same price as the previous iPad. As always our sister site Gottabemoble.com was on top of the coverage. The biggest news is that the iPad 2 will have a new dual core processor, gain a thinner and ligher [...]
The True Cost of the Motorola Atrix 4G Laptop Dock: $800, Phone Not Included
After spending either $200 for the Atrix 4G with a two-year AT&T service agreement or upwards of $500 sans contract, the true cost of the optional Motorola Laptop Dock accessory is closer to $800, which begs the question of how much mobility is worth it to you as the end user. For now, the laptop [...]
AT&T Turned On Hotspot Tethering for iPhone Developer
AT&T turned on the Personal Hotspot Wi-Fi Tethering feature for an iPhone user who had an iPhone with iOS 4.3 beta installed, according to Apple Insider. If true this could be an early sign that once the new version of the iOS firmware is released, the carrier may follow the lead of new iPhone seller [...]
Sprint Still Considering LTE as Mobile Broadband Standard for Use
While Sprint has released a number of USB dongles that allow enterprise and consumer customers to connect to the carrier’s 4G WiMax mobile broadband network, the nation’s third largest carrier is still considering rival LTE technology as a possible candidate for 4G deployment. LTE has been selected as a standard by AT&T and Verizon Wireless [...]
Stop the “Unlimited” Data Insanity – 5 Steps to Saner Data Plans
It’s been an exciting few years to be involved in mobile technology. In the last 4-5 years 3G mobile internet has gone from major cities to practically the entire nation and the price of data has dropped from $45-$60 a month plans to $30 and below. But with the lower prices came more users and [...]
How To Get 1000 Free Rollover Minutes from AT&T via Text
If you are an AT&T customer, as a reward for not jumping ship to Verizon for an iPhone 4, you can get 1,000 free rollover minutes credited to your account just by sending a text message. Our friends at sister site Gottabemobile shared this earlier. The offer has been sent out to customers via text [...]
AT&T Slashes Price on Data Pricing for Laptops
For laptops and data devices, such as the company’s newly released MiFi 2372, it looks like AT&T may be slashing its monthly data prices according to a leaked internal document that was posted on Engadget. The maximum plan for 5 GB of data–on notebooks and netbooks as well as on the MiFi and other USB [...]
AT&T Can Hear Verizon, Offers MicroCells to Customers
Today we received a letter from AT&T offering to give us a free AT&T 3G MicroCell. This is a device that a customer hooks up to their own Internet connection via a router and it offers a signal that AT&T 3G handsets can use to get a cellular signal. Previously AT&T charged customers for the [...]
