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Motorola Droid 4 now available from Verizon for $199 with two-year contract
Hey Verizon people, today’s the day you can grab yourself a Droid 4, an Android handset with an awesome QWERTY keyboard. The 5-row, edge-lit keyboard is a dream to use. The handset also packs a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, a 4.0-inch qHD display, an 8-megapixel camera with 1080P HD recording, front-facing camera for video chats, 1GB of RAM, 16 GB internal storage, 4G LTE and Android 2.3.5. The handset is on the short list to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich sometime in the near future. Think of the Droid … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Consumers may love the iPhone, but carriers hate it
Ever wonder why when you walk into a carrier store, they always subtly (or in some cases, not so subtly) try to push you toward buying an Android device? The reason is because even though Apple requires a grandiose display of the iPhone, carriers make much more money off of Android phones. Carriers pay Apple the subsidy that is able to keep the iPhone down to its $199 price point even after cramming in loads of new features in every release. For Apple, this is good. For consumers, this is … Read more
George Tinari
Outrageous: T-Mobile USA will not upgrade the Nokia Astound (rebranded C7) to Symbian Belle
Back in September 2010 Nokia announced a Symbian^3 smartphone called the C7. It can best be thought of as a Nokia N8, but without the fancy high end camera, and in a body that’s much more fashionable. Half a year later (April 2011) it hit American shores courtesy of T-Mobile for just $80 with a two year contract; they rebranded it as the Nokia Astound (see video below). When Nokia started pushing out Symbian Anna, an update to Symbian^3, many people rightly assumed that the Astound would also get the … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Orange Israel is on sale, too
It’s like everyone’s “trading Oranges” these days. Just recently, we’ve seen Three Austria acquiring the local branch of Orange and now Partner Communications is looking to sell its big stake (44.5%) in Orange Israel. The company has apparently already hired investment bankers to look at options to get as much money as possible for the mobile network. To sweeten the deal, one of the advisors, Deutsche Bank, said it will offer credit lines of up to $1 billion if necessary to the prospective buyer. Partner Communications’ stake is worth around … Read more
Dusan Belic
HTC and Vodafone announce Germany’s first LTE handset
Vodafone announced its plans to release Germany’s first LTE smartphone, called the HTC Velocity, slated to hit store shelves in Germany. The new HTC offering will use the 4G network only for data services as Voice over LTE has not yet been implemented. Besides that, the Velocity carries Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU. Other noteworthy specs include: 1.5 GHz dual-core processor Support for quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE, dualband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 900/2100 MHz as well as dualband LTE at 800/2600 MHz Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi b/g/n and a GPS … Read more
Charles West
T-Mobile Valentine’s Day sale includes free phones, tablets
If you’re looking for a new smartphone or tablet on T-Mobile, you should probably go into your local store this Saturday (Feb. 11) because T-Mobile is having a Valentine’s Day sale which includes free 4G devices with a new contract. All of the smartphones or tablets will be “free” with a mail-in rebate and a new, two-year contract on a qualifying Classic plan. T-Mobile is pretty much making every one of its desirable smartphones and tablets available during this sale, as you can pick up a Galaxy S II, Lumia … Read more
Marin Perez
Phoenix Suns, Samsung team to bring tablets to NBA
There are two things I really dig: mobile technology and the National Basketball Association. That’s why it’s very cool to see the Phoenix Suns, Samsung and Verizon Wireless teaming up to bring Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to the game. These 4G LTE-enabled tablets will be used throughout the Suns’ operation. This will include workers at the game showing perspective clients interactive views of their game seats and you could easily see kiosks or retailers in the arena using these to jazz up displays. It’s not just the business side … Read more
Marin Perez
Sprit announces fourth quarter 2011 earnings, 1.6M net subscribers and $1.3B loss
Sprint announced its quarterly earnings today and the news is mixed. On the plus side, Sprint added 1.6 million net subscribers, which is its best quarterly result in six years. It now has a total subscriber of about 55 million, an all-time high for the wireless carrier. The company sold 1.8 million iPhones in the quarter, 40 percent of which were to new customers. Over the course of the year, Sprint added more than 5 million net new customers to its rolls. Handset sales are strong and subscriber count is … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Samsung and Vodafone give away 91 pairs of London 2012 Olympic tickets
Samsung and Vodafone are organizing a neat sweepstakes, offering customers across Great Britain and Northern Ireland the chance to win a pair of London 2012 Olympic tickets. In total, the two companies will give away 91 pairs of tickets to just under 50 of the most highly sought after Olympic Games events, including the Men’s 100 meters Final, Track Cycling at the newly created Velodrome and swimming events at the Aquatics Centre. In order to participate, folks should purchase any Samsung Galaxy smartphone between February 1st and 29th. Moreover, those … Read more
Dusan Belic
U.S. Cellular unveils Voice Mail to Text service
You know it’s a pain to go through voice mail every day. Sure enough, you can detect some numbers and decide not to listen to them at all. However, there are others which you should/could listen, only to find out no action on your part is needed. Hence, Voice Mail to Text services were born, transcribing audio into text and allowing you to see (rather than hear) what a guy/gal on the other end of the line has to say. U.S. Cellular announced such service for its users, offering it … Read more
Dusan Belic
Sprint’s releases its plan to phase out IDEN
Sprint is finally beginning to phase out its less attractive half, Nextel, as the company enters the first stage of transitioning customers off its iDEN cell towers. The Now Network put up a site that maps out where and when towers are being shut down. So for instance, if you live in my area of Hartford, CT, reduction is planned in late May of this year. This is something we’ve known since late 2011, and it’s an important part to Sprint’s “Network Vision.” The third largest wireless provider plans to shut … Read more