Article mentions "new in October..." target iPhone date?

[utwarreng]

I know everyone is sick of the endless speculation, but after reading this article in USA Today I had to point it out.

Cellphones get emergency alerts
http://usat.me?46992346

One specific paragraph that drew my attention was this one.

Some current cellphones, including some iPhones and some Android phones, already have the circuitry required to receive PLAN alerts. The iPhones that have the capacity to get alerts, says AT&T's Robert Quinn, will require software modifications. New AT&T phones due out in October will be PLAN-ready.

I wouldn't have thought much of that last sentence if it had been on it's own, but the context: right after a big blurb about current iPhones needing slight modification, makes me wonder.

 

[The Californian]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

software modifications.

 

[utwarreng]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

software modifications.

I get that for the current iPhones, but it also says

New AT&T phones due out in October will be PLAN-ready.

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[iFiend]

I get that for the current iPhones, but it also says .

Since when does At&t only have iPhones? Wishful thinking OP, buy I'd say you're reading too much into it

 

[0007776]

I get that for the current iPhones, but it also says .

AT&T has lots of phones besides iPhones

 

[elan123]

AT&T has lots of phones besides iPhones

Still could be a clue