ATT and the Woefully Missing iPhone App
A family member pointed out that I’ve been a bit sluggish with the posts recently. No surprise there what with the new iPhone and all. (What have I been doing with it, you ask? Why I’ve been preparing to time Sarah’s contractions with Birth Buddy, (beware: first of four links to the iTunes store) executing some precision steeping with Tea Timer, and rendering those 3D molecule ideas that I’ve been thinking about with Molecules.) So now I emerge from my darkened cave (lit only by flashlight) to tell you about the missing app:
ATT Wireless Manager (it doesn’t exist)
How can it be that this phone, which here in the US is licensed to only one carrier, doesn’t have a convenient way to manage its wireless account? An application that tells me how many minutes and text messages I’ve used and maybe even lets me change plans should have been shipped on board – or at least available in the store. But instead, we’ve got nothing.
Okay, almost nothing. I know you can dial *646# and get a text message. Or go to the settings button, press phone, then services button, then view my minutes, wait and then receive a text message, but if I wanted that kind of nuisance, I’d have kept the old Treo. Doesn’t all that seem arcane on a beautiful handset that has visual voice mail and so many other goodies baked right in?
AT&T – if you’re listening, put a developer or two on the project and make a management app for this great phone!