AT&T Shows Off Remodeled Cingular Store

By Digital Trends Staff March 12, 2007

AT&T Shows Off Remodeled Cingular Store

AT&T Wireless, err we mean Cingular, err, we mean AT&T, has unveiled what your neighborhood AT&T cellular products store will look like after they rip out all of the Cingular logos and dress their employees in new AT&T garb. The first AT&T Experience Store is open in Houston and coming soon to a strip mall near you.

The new AT&T Experience Store, which AT&T said will be larger than a typical Cingular store was, will house the unified company’s broadband, video and wireline voice products and services. Typical stores will include various stations where customers will be able to do things like watch demos of various AT&T services, browse the Internet, listen to and download personalized music to laptops or cell phones, interact with multimedia messaging and purchase external wireless features like ringtones, crystal handset designs, and phone “tattoos,” or pictures customers can download to a laptop in-store, print on a sticker, and apply to wireless phones.

The Houston location is the first of many planned conversions of company-owned Cingular stores from wireless-centric spaces to a "high-energy retail format that showcases AT&T’s complete provider profile."

"The AT&T Experience Store in Houston is what the new AT&T is all about,” said Stan Sigman, Wireless president & CEO, AT&T Inc, in a statement. "All of the communications and entertainment products consumers want are in one place, and under one roof.”

Editors' Recommendations

Digital Trends Staff

Digital Trends has a simple mission: to help readers easily understand how tech affects the way they live. We are your…

Mobile

Google made $8.5 billion in gross profit off the Play app store in 2019

A MacBook with Google Chrome loaded.

A court filing that was unsealed on Saturday shows that Alphabet Inc's Google Play store generated $11.2 billion in revenue -- and $8.5 billion in gross profit -- from app sales, in-app purchases, and app store ads over the course of 2019. The story, initially broken by Paresh Dave at Reuters, is a rare glimpse into the actual numbers behind Google's app store.

Typically, Google will group up the Play store's financial results with some other service in its earnings report, which effectively obfuscates the store's numbers. For example, Play is not mentioned by name at all in Google's numbers for the second quarter of 2021. This isn't illegal or even particularly unusual for a tech company, but it also means there hasn't been any reliable way for anyone outside Google itself to get an idea of just how lucrative the Play Store actually is until now.

Mobile

Fitbit Charge 5 leaks show off a sleek fitness wearable

The Fitbit Charge 5 leaks in black and blue.

Fitbit is reportedly working on a new Fitbit Charge 5, and new renders surfacing this week give a good look at what we can expect. The report comes from leaker Snoopy on Twitter, and it features an attached video showing off the promotional material for the successor to the Charge 4.

According to the report, the upcoming 5 Charge 5 will cost $179, a $40 boost justified by a few quality-of-life changes. These could include swapping out the monochrome screen for a full-color one and adding in new sensors. Based on the video, sensors include built-in GPS, an EDA for stress-tracking management, an electrocardiogram (ECG) for heart tracking, an optical heart rate sensor, and an SpO2 sensor for tracking your blood oxygenation. The biggest takeaway from the renders is a redesign of the previous model. The old design featuring sharp angles gives way to what appears to be a smooth, softer overall design with rounder corners. It could also come in different colors: Black, silver, and gold.

Mobile

OnePlus 9 Pro’s throttling controversy shows why benchmarks don’t always matter

OnePlus 9 Pro's camera module in close up.

All smartphones are pretty fast nowadays. A long as you get a phone that costs over $300, you should expect to have little to no issue with speed. The very best smartphones, from iPhones to Android, offer fast and powerful chips that do far more than we need in our day-to-day lives. No more is this more apparent than a recent scandal around OnePlus and the OnePlus 9 series.

OnePlus recently came under fire for appearing to slow down performance when a user used some of the most popular Android apps on their newest flagship phones. When using an app like Chrome, Microsoft Office, or WhatsApp, performance would drop relative to performance for benchmarking apps. This behavior was spotted in a performance review of the OnePlus 9 Pro and substantiated by Geekbench who opted to remove the phone from their Android Benchmark charts.