Well, this is honestly overwhelming: it seems AT&T is pulling behind from its anathema on third-party sideloaded apps upon the Android devices, because HTC has only released an Aria refurbish which enables them (either that or HTC only went brute here, though you rarely disbelief it). While that doesn’t have much unsentimental implication for your typical smartphone user, it’s a clever pointer which AT&T competence be ready to take the more reasonable position upon a honesty of the branded inclination which would put it inline with the attitudes Sprint, Verizon, as well as T-Mobile have all taken with their Android phones so far. Additionally, the update includes “a Mobile Network pity function,” which we take to mean a mobile hotspot app in the same capillary as the one that’s shipping with Froyo — if we had to guess, it probably requires AT&T’s 2GB DataPro plan and the tethering add-on, which would put it in line with what they’re charging upon a iPhone. Onward as well as ceiling, AT&T.

[Thanks, Dylan T.]