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by reaperducer 1692 days ago
the iPhone really exploded when unleashed from AT&T around 2011.

Cingular.
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xxpor 1692 days ago
Cingular was renamed to AT&T in 2006.
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warning26 1692 days ago
Exactly -- during the iPhone unveiling all the demo screenshots showed "Cingular", but by the time it had been released, Cingular had been rebranded to AT&T.
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reaperducer 1692 days ago
I had (and still have) a launch day iPhone and it had "Cingular" on the carrier icon at the top of the screen.

Maybe the rollout timing was different in different markets.

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hunterb123 1692 days ago
Bit more complicated than that:

https://www.att.com/Common/merger/files/pdf/Cingular_timelin...

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