Out of the record break 8.4 million iPhones sold by Apple last quarter, AT&T says they’ve activated 3.2 million of them. This is an unbelievable number for AT&T. 27% of those iPhones were activated to customers that were new to AT&T. This shows that a lot of people are switching to AT&T just for the iPhone, a huge marketing point for sure.
Rumor has it that Apple and T-Mobile are in the later stages of an iPhone agreement which would put the iPhone on T-Mobile’s US network by the end of the year. Apple is reportedly fed up with AT&T and AT&T isn’t that happy with Apple as well. This would also free Apple of the leal troubles of exclusivity agreement.
If you updated to iOS 4.0.1 or iOS 4.1 beta you probably have noticed that you get fewer bars in more places. This goes to show that Apple was deceivingly displaying signal bars previously, with evenly distributed signal bars it appears you have less signal strength.
Late last week a lawsuit was filed over the Apple and AT&T carrier exclusivity agreement. Now the lawsuit has received class action status, meaning that it now automatically covers every iPhone customer in the United States, instead of just those who filed. This is one of the largest movements against the exclusivity agreement since the first iPhone was launched in 2007.
One customers iPhone 4 has caught on fire: It’s the first time our guy has seen this happen (us too), but the brand new iPhone 4 caught on fire while being hooked up to a computer using the Apple USB cable that accompanied the device. The customer wanted to exchange the iPhone — obviously — for a new, non-charred unit however the AT&T store in question was out of stock. An Apple Store did confirm to our AT&T connection that this did appear to be a defective USB port and not some sort of user error. Our source went onto say that the phone bezel was extremely hot (obviously), and it slightly burned the customers hand.
We recently reported that iPhone 4 users were experiencing slow upload speeds on AT&T 3G data in many parts of the United States. At the time it was unclear whether the issue, which limited upload speeds in many markets to 100 kbps, was an intentional cap placed by AT&T or if there was some sort of network issue or maintenance operation causing the slowdown.
