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.
I was shocked by the 300 pages long bill Justine received too!
Granted she probably used hers more than average, but how nobody, in the entire process, has questioned whether they should default users to online billing is simply baffling, isn’t it!?
Anyways, pleased to have found your blog through this week’s Mobile Carnival!
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