AT&T’s free hotspot access finally useful with auto-connection in iPhone OS 3.0

Posted under Reviews on Thursday, 18 June 2009 by john

Filed under: Software, ATT, Apple

Back in the stone age — iPhone OS 2.x, that is — men wrestled wild boar to the ground with their bare hands, wore Members Only jackets, and connected to AT&T hotspots using an archaic, ridiculous process involving text messages, websites, and prayer. One previously unpublicized feature of the just-released OS 3.0, though, changes all that: connecting to your rightful WiFi coverage is now a seamless, no-brainer experience, which magically and very suddenly makes AT&T’s hotspots useful. If we had to guess, these guys are looking for every reasonable way to get iPhones from the 3G network over to WiFi as often as possible, and this should certainly help. Follow the break to see exactly what it means to have an iPhone in close proximity to a Starbucks, in case you’re curious.Continue reading AT&T’s free hotspot access finally useful with auto-connection in iPhone OS 3.0

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