AT&T was first to get the iPhone, yet it won't support iPhone Handoff
News AT&T was first to get the iPhone, yet it won't support iPhone Handoff William Gallagher 0 e-mail BlueSky Mastodon X Facebook Reddit Wed Sep 23 2026, 11:06 AM EDT · 1 minute read You won't have to decide on just one iPhone with the new iPhone Handoff. Apple's new ability to have one phone number and switch between two iPhones is spreading to more carriers, but AT&T doesn't seem to care. It was actually Cingular who was the only carrier Steve Jobs could get to take the iPhone, and also surrender the control carriers had back around 2007.
- ▪News AT&T was first to get the iPhone, yet it won't support iPhone Handoff William Gallagher 0 e-mail BlueSky Mastodon X Facebook Reddit Wed Sep 23 2026, 11:06 AM EDT · 1 minute read You won't have to decide on just one iPhone with the new
- ▪Apple's new ability to have one phone number and switch between two iPhones is spreading to more carriers, but AT&T doesn't seem to care.
- ▪It was actually Cingular who was the only carrier Steve Jobs could get to take the iPhone, and also surrender the control carriers had back around 2007.
3 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 2 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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News AT&T was first to get the iPhone, yet it won't support iPhone Handoff William Gallagher 0 e-mail BlueSky Mastodon X Facebook Reddit Wed Sep 23 2026, 11:06 AM EDT · 1 minute read You won't have to decide on just one iPhone with the new iPhone Handoff. Apple's new ability to have one phone number and switch between two iPhones is spreading to more carriers, but AT&T doesn't seem to care. It was actually Cingular who was the only carrier Steve Jobs could get to take the iPhone, and also surrender the control carriers had back around 2007. But AT&T bought Cingular before the iPhone launch and so was the exclusive carrier for the device that revolutionized cellphones. Skip forward twenty years and AT&T has not learned that backing an Apple idea is a good bet.
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