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Motorola Droid 4 lands at Verizon Wireless on February 10th for $199
Verizon announced the Motorola Droid 4 at CES and we got an early look at the LTE phone. It’s now a month later and the wireless carrier has finally given us a release date. The latest iteration of the popular Android model will hit Verizon stores and online starting February 10th. The phone will retail for $199 with a new two-year customer agreement. Under the hood, the Droid 4 is competitive with other handsets in Verizon’s current Android lineup. The Droid 4 has a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, an 8-megapixel … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Microsoft stores supposedly taking pre-orders for the white Nokia Lumia 900
We don’t have an official launch date for the Nokia Lumia 900, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from accepting pre-orders for the Windows Phone handset. According to recent reports from SlashGear and wmpoweruser, it’ll cost you $25 to secure yourself a Lumia 900, which is available in black, cyan and, surprisingly, white. The original press release for the 900 says the handset will be available in cyan and black only. Though Nokia announced the white Lumia 800, there’s been no mention of a white Lumia 900 until now. Regardless of color, the Lumia 900 is a gem of a phone. It has a … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Droid RAZR MAXX temporarily out of stock on Verizon’s website
The DROID RAZR MAXX is obviously selling like hot cupcakes these days with Verizon Wireless at one point listing the popular devices as out of stock (along with the LG Revolution and Motorola DROID X2). However, the carrier and Motorola must’ve been working round the clock to fix this “injustice” and now the DROID RAZR MAXX is back with a small label that says “Will ship by 2/9.” That’s two days from now, so if you want the thicker version of the RAZR (with bigger 3300 mAh battery), you may … Read more
Dusan Belic
Sprint’s ZTE Optik 7-inch tablet now available for $99.99
Sprint’s affordable 7-inch tablet, ZTE Optik, is now available for $99.99. The device is pretty capable, delivering quite a bang for the buck. It comes with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, 3G (EV-DO Rev. A) and Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, while Android 3.2 Honeycomb is running the show. Don’t want another two-year contract? Sprint lists the Optik with the regular price of $350, though you can’t seem to buy it without committing to the carrier’s plan. Guess they … Read more
Dusan Belic
Hutchison Three Austria acquires Orange Austria
We told you consolidation is coming to Austria, and voila – the local branch of Hutchison Three has finally (started) acquiring Orange Austria, having agreed to pay 1.3 billion EUR to France Telecom which owns 35% stake and private equity investors Mid Europa Partners (65%). As part of the deal, Hutchison will sell frequencies, base station sites, the mobile phone operator Yesss! Telekommunikation along with certain intellectual property rights to Telekom Austria Group, immediately after the acquisition is completed. As usual, the transaction is a subject to the approval by … Read more
Dusan Belic
Verizon and Redbox to launch online and mobile video service
Verizon and Coinstar/Redbox announced on Monday a joint venture LLC company that’ll bring a subscription video service to Verizon customers. Verizon will own a 65 percent stake in the venture and Redbox will hold the remaining 35 percent. Details on the agreement were sparse, but the pair did say the joint venture will mix both online and mobile content with Redbox’s popular kiosk rental service. The mobile video service will launch sometime in the second half of 2012. Undoubtedly, this move will bring Redbox into closer competition with Netflix and heat … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
AT&T’s throttling limit as low as 2 GB in some areas?
AT&T announced last year that it will throttle customers on unlimited data plans who use excessive amounts of data. AT&T said it will throttle only the top 5 percent of unlimited users and, initially, this appeared to affect customers pulling down 10 to 12 GB per month. Recent reports from John Cozen, who works for Oceanhouse Media, and Willa Plank of the WSJ suggest this limit might be creeping lower, as low as 2 GB for some customers. Both Cozen and Plank report getting a message from AT&T saying they … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Watching the Super Bowl on NFL Mobile was 80% successful
Last night, I took the opportunity to check out Verizon’s NFL Mobile app and watched the entire Super Bowl game on my Galaxy Nexus. I’m a cord cutter and don’t have cable so watching it on the small screen was my only option. After watching the game on 4G, 3G and WiFi, I’m happy to say the stream was a resounding success. I’d give it an 8 out of 10, with a few points subtracted for missing content blacked out on the mobile that cable viewers got to see. What I liked best about the NFL Mobile app The … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Best Buy offers free flip cover case with AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy Note
Best Buy has started taking pre-orders for AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy Note and is even offering a free flip cover case (value of $29.99) with the phone activation. The tablet/smartphone itself is selling for $299.99 with a new two-year AT&T contract that requires a minimum data service starting at $15/month. It will be available on Sunday, February 19th. But that’s not all. The electronics retailer is also providing free shipping along with a free $50 gift card with any activation (as we discussed before). As a reminder, the Galaxy Note rocks … Read more
Dusan Belic
LightSquared caught trying to bribe a senator from Iowa
LightSquared is a wireless operator run by a hedge fund. Chances are you haven’t heard of them because, well … their network hasn’t actually launched yet. They’ve been wanting to build a wireless network for about 18 months now, but the problem is that the spectrum they want to use to build said network sits way too close to the spectrum that GPS devices use to get a signal from the satellites up in space. Early testing showed that GPS receivers within a 20 mile radius of a LightSquared cell … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
TELUS to get the LG Optimus LTE, too
We’ve already spilled the beans on TELUS’ LTE plans, talking about the carrier’s LTE-enabled SIM cards. Moreover, we’ve heard about two devices from their LTE portfolio – Samsung Galaxy Note LTE and Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE. Now we have another phone to add to the mix – LG Optimus LTE. Unfortunately, we’ve no idea when TELUS will start selling the best mobile device LG has ever made, though we hope that will happen sooner rather than later. The above image comes from LG Canada’s website, clearly showing TELUS as … Read more