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New AT&T iPhone Features Coming in the Near Future?
Posted 09/08/2009 at 7:39:23pm | by Christine Chan

Apple's iPhone with AT&T
Image Source: Gizmodo

If you ask most iPhone owners in the US about AT&T's service, you are more than likely to get a negative response. Although you'll probably hear praise for Apple's iconic device. Now it seems like AT&T is going to try and add some more little features in an attempt to please dissatisfied customers.

Just like the Visual Voicemail feature, these changes may require AT&T to tailor its network for change.

Two features have been talked about that may actually appear before year's end:

- Overage Alerts: A proposed new setting under the iPhone's "Phone" preferences would allow users to customize a push notification -- in the form of a badge, message, or sound -- to be issued when they're in danger of exceeding their monthly anytime minutes.

- New Voicemail Options: A new "Voicemail" setting, also proposed as an addition to the touch-screen handset's "Phone" preferences, would provide a means for users to disable the custom Voicemail greeting -- as well as AT&T's standard Voicemail introduction -- heard by other users. Similarly, the same feature would also make it possible for users to automatically bypass Voicemail greetings, AT&T's standard introduction, and other automated instructions when placing calls to other AT&T customers.

This could be another collaborative effort between Apple and AT&T, to battle all the negative comments and feedback about AT&T's service. While this is mainly a step to better customer satisfaction, it can also pave the way for more additional carrier-specific features.

Via AppleInsider

 

COMMENTS: 1
TAGS:  iphone, apple, AT&T
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avatarAT&Tsmoke and mirrors

I suspect it's not a coincidence that AT&T is pulling out new "features" at a time when most customers (at least here in Colorado) have impaired connectivity and minimal ability to complete a simple call. I guess they believe we'll be so dazzled by these new features we'll forget we can't make a freaking phone call.

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