This is Broken: August
Our monthly roundup of what’s broken in the mobile market:
The first iPhone bills arrive and they are up to 300 pages long. AT&T itemizes every kilobyte downloaded. Rumor has it that AT&T will soon fix this problem … by charging for a paper bill.
Three years after they announced interoperability, you still can’t send a picture message from a Verizon cell phone to an AT&T phone and be sure it works.
Clarins’ advanced anti-pollution complex does not protect your skin from cell phone death rays, despite using a Magnetic Defense Complex based on Thermus Thermophillus.
And finally, roaming is even more expensive when you’re dead.
Credit where credit is due: T-Mobile’s new Hotspot@Home service is getting great reviews.
More reading in this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists.