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May 28, 2007

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AT&T peeps about iPhone here and there

Posted May. 28, ’07, 3:38 PM PT by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen
Category | iPhone

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In case you just can’t get enough of iPhone non-news, AT&T is sprinkling a few details here and there.

First, about the phone plan: the cell carrier apparently wants to re-launch its “Unity” phone plan at the same time as the iPhone. So far, the plan has been a disappointment, since it’s an over-complicated combination of local, long-distance and cell phone plans. For the iPhone launch, AT&T says it wants to make it simpler. No word, of course, on the possibility of a special iPhone plan. [via Infinite Loop]

Second, the Seattle Times interviewed Glenn Lurie, an AT&T executive. While most of it is innocent chit-chat and a little Apple love, Glenn does tease us on how it is to actually use the iPhone:

I think when people get their hands on it and really experience it — the touch screen is phenomenal, this touch screen is like nothing you’ve ever used — to experience that, the skepticism, I think, around some of those things will go away.

[…] It’s a pretty incredible browsing environment. That’s the first part that I think will blow people away. It’s the first widescreen iPod they’ve ever done; it is very, very good, works extremely well.

He also mentions “Google applications”, plural, which makes T3 magazine speculate on whether we’ll see Google Reader or Google News in addition to Google Maps. Maybe, maybe not, who knows?


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