Just received an interesting email from AT&T Wireless. If you have a Starbucks gift card that you’ve registered for AT&T WiFi hotspot access at Starbucks locations, AT&T lets you buy phones or accessories from them with a $50 discount. Note that this excludes iPhones.
Start your day with wireless savings. Shop AT&T online and get up to $50 off the purchase of any cell phone or accessory (excludes iPhone).
You can learn more about registering your Starbucks card for free WiFi at:
I thought LifeHacker’s article…
Android Versus iPhone 3.0: The Showdown
…would be just another item with providing a generic comparison of a few features. But, nope, anyone interested in a feature-by-feature comparison of the current iPhone 2.0 firmware features with the current Google Android features and the upcoming iPhone 3.0 features should take a look at the color coded matrix in the article where light-red/pink indicates missing features, a pale green indicates feature presence and a pale yellow includes availability with provisions. According to this scorecard the current iPhone 2.0 units are missing a lot of features, Android has over half of the features with a lot of provisions, and iPhone 3.0 is nearly all green. Nice matrix. Run over there to read it, then come back here đŸ™‚
The Boy Genius Report tells us…
AT&T bringinĂ¢â‚¬â„¢ sexy back, offering iPhone 3G at no-commitment price, no activation
According BGR, starting on March 26 you can buy a 8GB iPhone 3G for $599 or a 16GB iPhone 3G for $699 with no contract requirements. You probably still have to activate the phone with AT&T Wireless though.
MacRumors reports…
USB Tethering Seems to be Working in iPhone 3.0
MacRumors notes that the test connected a developer’s iPhone running version 3.0 who connected it to a Mac with a USB cable. This person actually tested the tether (accessed the net using the iPhone’s 3G connection). Interesting stuff.
I was briefly happy to read about the release of…
(Firefox for mobile devices). Why only briefly? This release only for the Maemo platform (Nokia Internet Tablet series) which I don’t use. Oh well. Nice to see progress made on any platform.
Response to a good suggestion on my MobileDevicesToday blog about considering Apple’s tiny WiFi router as a travel router.
Thx for the comment & tweet about Apple’s Airport Express Base Station. I considered buying it but at twice the price of the D-Link, I decided to save some $$$ for a product I will probably rarely use. It’s support of 802.11n is faster if your mobile device supports it. And, while the older Eee PC 1000H supported 11n, the newer 1000HA does not (tops out at 11g speeds). The Airport Express Base Station does have a couple of other interesting features though. And, it may be among the last of the currently in-production travel access point/router products.
Originally posted as a comment by Todd Ogasawara on mediabistro.com: MobileDevicesToday using Disqus.