Since the Atrix was released, consumers (more tech minded ones mind you) have been relentless on AT&T’s practice of artificially capping this 4G phone with less than 4G speeds, particularly upload speeds. The only “fix” thus far has been rooting the device and flashing a kernel ported over from the Telstra Atrix 4G. For those of you who aren’t too keen on the whole rooting scene, however, won’t have to wait much longer. Atrix firmware...
As if AT&T needed another knock against their reputation, reports that the currently in route Windows Phone 7 NoDo update was disabling HSUPA capability on the Samsung Focus are “not true” according to AT&T. The company claims the Focus never had HSUPA enabled by default and that customers who manually hacked said feature onto their device were only seeing the NoDo update revert it back to stock. For a company that is continually pounding the...
AT&T may be into the act of marketing one thing and providing another (read: Bait & Switch), but lucky for you we here at Gadgetsteria care about you, your sanity, and the enjoyment you get from your gadgets. With that said, AT&T’s latest knife in consumers’ backs is boasting of “real 4G” while simultaneously capping said devices to at times slower-than-3G speeds. Awesome tactic, huh? Constant and obvious nitpicking aside, for those...
The MyTouch HD has been one of the more interesting handsets to follow in recent memory, mainly due to it’s lofty goals and brag-worthy hardware specs. Speaking of which, those specs were only rumored to be beastly as we didn’t really have any real concrete evidence to chew on. But alas, a marketing flyer for the MyTouch HD has slipped, and in doing so raises a few eyebrows. First and foremost, it mentions a “dual processor”. That likely means...
Recall the whole AT&T upload capping drama from a few weeks back? It turned out that it wasn’t some menacing plan by the Death Star carrier afterall. Instead, one of their business partners, Alcatel-Lucent suffered from a software problem that rendered AT&T uploads on their hardware painfully slow. Good news folks — a fix is rolling out as I type! According to AT&T, a mere 2% of their user base was affected. Nonetheless, the current update...
