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New Apple Iphone Has Software Problem: WWW - Chinaview.Cn
New Apple Iphone Has Software Problem: WWW - Chinaview.Cn
A spokesman for AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the
U.S., said there was a global problem with Apple's iTunes software that
prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store, as had been
planned.
Instead, employees are telling buyers to go home and perform the last
step by connecting their phones to their own computers, spokesman
Michael Coe said.
When the first iPhone went on sale a year ago, customers performed
the whole activation procedure at home, off-loading employees. But the
new model is subsidized by carriers, as is standard in the wireless
industry, and Apple and AT&T therefore planned to activate all phones
in-store.
The new iPhone, more a pocket PC than a cell phone, will run on a
faster network. That means users will finally be able to experience
speedy Web access, the device's forte. It also comes at reduced prices --
199 and 299 dollars, depending on the amount of memory. The iPhones,
though, will come attached with more expensive, two-year AT&T service
contracts.