The Android User Experience

The Verge has a review of the HTC One on AT&T, and the phone is packed with bloatware from the carrier.

The most annoying piece of bloatware, however, is AT&T’s Address Book, which attempts to take over the contacts application in an effort to sync it with the carrier’s own cloud service. Not only is it annoying, but its nags are persistent — even if you’ve dismissed it once to tell it that you don’t want to use it, it will come back at a later date to remind you again of its existence. Oh, and this particular carrier app can’t be disabled or uninstalled.

I’ll keep my iPhone, thank you.

AT&T to allow Facetime over Celular.

9to5 Mac:

AT&T just announced it will soon enable FaceTime over cellular for all customers on tiered data plans using a compatible iOS device at no extra charge.

Finally.

IPHONE 5 HELPED APPLE CAPTURE MAJORITY OF U.S. SMARTPHONE MARKET FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

BGR:

Of those who purchased an iPhone in the timeframe covered in Kantar’s report, 27% came from another smartphone OS while 34% upgraded from an older Apple model and 40% of buyers were new to smartphones entirely. In fact, first-time buyers helped iOS become the top-selling operating system on Verizon’s network, beating out Android for the first time ever.

Android’s definition of winning.

Apple’s iPhone accounts for 77% of AT&T’s 6.1M smartphone activations

AppleInsider:

With 6.1 million total smartphones activated in the quarter, Apple’s iPhone accounted for more than 77 percent of AT&T’s smartphones. Though Apple remained dominant, AT&T noted that sales for Android and Windows smartphones also reached record levels.

Apple’s iPhone accounts for 77% of AT&T’s 6.1M smartphone activations

Galaxy Note II available on AT&T November 9, for $299.99 [The Verge]

Radio Flyer Red Wagon to carry it around, $99.99, available now. [Radio Flyer]

iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Set New Sales Record for AT&T

AT&T, Via MacRumors:

AT&T set a sales record with iPhone 5 over the weekend, making it the fastest-selling iPhone the company has ever offered. Customers ordered more iPhones from AT&T than any previous model, both on its first day of preorders and over the weekend.

What a disappointment

iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Set New Sales Record for AT&T

iPhone 5 cases already showing up at AT&T

Wouldn’t it be funny if the iPhone doesn’t actually look like that at all?

BGR

iPhone 5 cases already showing up at AT&T

AT&T has a new meaning for the word FREE.

All Things D:

AT&T said in a statement to AllThingsD, “AT&T will offer FaceTime over Cellular as an added benefit of our new Mobile Share data plans, which were created to meet customers’ growing data needs at a great value.

When did FREE loose it’s meaning?

AT&T has a new meaning for the word FREE.

iPhone clobbers Android and everything else at AT&T.

AT&T:

Strong Smartphone Sales Continue. AT&T sold 5.1 million smartphones in the second quarter. Smartphones represented 77 percent of postpaid device sales.

In the quarter, the company activated 3.7 million iPhones, with 22 percent new to AT&T.

Despite being nine months into the cycle, iPhone made up 73% of sales at AT&T.

AT&T announces Shared Data Plan.

AT&T

The money is in the Data, voice is not relevant anymore for most.