May 3, 2006 | blog
Today RCR Wireless News is reporting that AT&T will drop the Cingular Wireless brand name in 2007 – surely not a surprise to many who suggested this when they heard SBC was buying AT&T. While I’m not sure how this will play out in the end, I believe that AT&T is making a mistake. With all the effort and dollars invested in the Cingular brand they now decide the old AT&T Death Star is a much more vibrant entity in the minds of customers.
Cingular has worked expanded their brand in the public mind share, they’ve successfully rolled out EDGE services network wide, expanded the network footprint for GSM 850 & 1900. The only area that they have left to improve significantly on is their customer service. The Cingular brand is youthful in comparison to AT&T Wireless. Many mobile users were stung in the conversion from AT&T Wireless TDMA phones to Cingular GSM phones and they won’t soon forget the experience. I think it’ll take a much more expensive sales job to win these customers over (again) to the AT&T brand when they are beginning to be satisfied with the Cingular service.
Many people also like to have a delineation between their land line and wireless providers. It demonstrates their power of choice, if only to themselves. Personally, I think the old AT&T is long dead. The latest ‘3.0’ rendition of the company is really a renamed SBC, and I’ve never had a good experience with them.
So what do you think of this latest play in the AT&T name game?
May 3, 2006 | blog
So I’ve been following Mathew Ingram’s work on the upcoming mesh conference in Toronto May 15th and 16th. It looks like a really great conference – good content, and interesting & relevent speakers. If you’ve been looking for a well-rounded web 2.0 conference, maybe you should check it out. Cool stuff.
May 2, 2006 | blog
The crew over at Brighthand.com have posted a review of the Cingular 8125 Pocket PC Phone. A varient of the HTC Wizard, its comparable to the T-Mobile MDA and iMate K-JAM.
For you new (or potential) Cingular 8125 owners – don’t hesitate to check out the HTC Wizard Web community site. You’ll find a lot of useful tips, tricks, registry hacks, etc… lots of fun.
Apr 30, 2006 | blog
I finally updated my ‘About’ page which needed to be done since I started this blog. Next I’ll continue on some of the work I started a few weeks ago on the ‘Links’ and the new ‘T-Mobile MDA’ page as well. It just feels good to have that page done!
Apr 30, 2006 | blog
Bink.nu has an article about a new update to Exchange that may disrupt axillary services such as BlackBerry, GoodLink or other systems that access accounts on Exhcange.
If you support such systems, please make sure to understand how this or any update effects you and your users.
Here is the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 912918
Apr 30, 2006 | blog
The Motorola Q smartphone is a great looking device and may be a great smartphone, but will any of us find out? There have been many false release dates and such about the device, and in typical Motorola fasion, they just can’t seem to get their devices ready for prime time in a reasonable amount of time.
Check out this post over at Engadget Mobile and then participate in the survey at Smartphone Thoughts.
Oh, and msmobiles.com has another post about the Q.
