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Verizon may offer $100B to buy Verizon Wireless from Vodafone
Verizon Wireless may be an American wireless carrier, but its controlling companies are split between the US and the UK. US communications company Verizon owns 55 percent of Verizon Wireless, while the remaining 45 percent is held by Vodafone. According to a report in Reuters, Verizon may offer Vodafone $100B in cash and stock options to take full control over the wireless company. Verizon is allegedly in the early stages of any deal and has not made a formal offer. The company supposedly has hired bankers and legal advisers to help them craft … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Verizon pre-orders for the Galaxy S4 start tomorrow, arrives May 30th
It’s Verizon’s turn to announce its plans for the Galaxy S 4 and the carrier confirmed that pre-orders will start online tomorrow, April 25th. Verizon also announced via Twitter that the handset will land on May 30th in Verizon retail stores. Pricing will start at $199.99 with a 2-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate. While you wait for the S4 to land, you can check out our review of Samsung’s flagship handset. It’s a looker and some of its features are unrivaled among Android phones. [Via @VZWNews and … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Verizon’s Pantech Perception available tomorrow for $99.99
Pantech Perception has been finally announced by Verizon Wireless, even though we’ve first seen it back in January. As you may know from that post, we’re talking about a solid mid-to-high end device with a big, 4.8-inch 720p HD screen a la Samsung Galaxy S III. In addition, it also comes with Qualcomm’s dual-core processor, 8-megapixel rear camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, LTE connectivity support and 16GB of internal storage. Or to put it differently, the Perception is just like the U.S. version of Sammy’s last year flagship device. The price … Read more
Dusan Belic
Nokia Lumia 928 to hit Verizon next month, says Bloomberg
We’ve been hearing about Nokia and Verizon working on a special release of the Lumia 920 for quite some time. Now the latest nugget of news on this mysterious phone comes from Bloomberg, as the publication is reporting that Nokia and Verizon have come to terms in bringing the Finnish company’s forthcoming flagship, the Lumia 928. The new device is expected to launch sometime next month. Bloomberg’s sources go even further, saying that the Lumia device that will launch on Verizon will have a metal body, a 4.5-inch touchscreen, an … Read more
Charles West
Verizon Wireless details its new one-year device payment plan
Verizon was rumored to be kicking off a new installment plan that would let customers get a new device every year. The carrier announced the details of this plan in a blog post today. According to the post, customers can buy a full retail price smartphone or tablet that is priced over $349 and spread out the payments over a 12-month period. Each device will incur a $24 finance charge, which also will be spread out over the 12 months. The payments and the finance charge will be tacked onto … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Rumor: PureView Camera Touting Nokia Lumia 928 Coming to Verizon?
Verizon may be getting the Nokia Lumia 928 smartphone, thanks to a leaked image from @evleaks. The leaked image shows that the unit will indeed take advantage of Verizon’s 4G LTE network, running on the Windows Phone 8 OS and touting Carl Zeiss optics and a Xenon flash. Rumored specs for the Nokia Lumia 928 are a 4.5-inch screen with a Super AMOLED screen with a 1280×768 pixel resolution, a 8.7 megapixel PureView camera, 1GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, a 2,000 mAh battery, and will more than … Read more
Ian Kersey
Verizon Continues 4G LTE Rollout, Lights Up Five New Markets
Verizon has deployed 4G LTE service in five new markets today, lighting up El Centro, CA; Fort Dodge, IA; Middlesboro/Harlan and Paducah, KY; and East Liverpool, OH. Verizon is continuing to roll out its 4G LTE service in suburban and rural areas, covering over 95% of its 3G service areas with 4G LTE. Verizon plans on delivering 4G LTE service to every one of its 3G markets by the middle of this year, and is in good shape to do so. Verizon now provides its 4G LTE coverage to 287 … Read more
Ian Kersey
ACLU Asks FTC to Investigate Carriers Over Security Risks, Delayed Android Updates
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a formal complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday. In it they contend that Mobile Carriers are creating security risks for their customers by not releasing updates in a timely manner. As anyone still suffering with an ancient version of Android can tell you, carriers can take their time to push new Android updates even when the manufacturer has completed it, and there’s a point where a phone model will be completely left behind, often long before the end of its contract. … Read more
Wade Keye
Verizon Customers Petition for an End to Contracts
Since T-Mobile began its Simple Choice plans, customers of other carriers have been clamoring for similar no contract plans. One Verizon customer, Mike Beauchamp of Wichita, Kansas, decided to go further and started an online petition on Change.org. As of this posting, it’s up to 74,369 supporters and rising. The text of the petition implores Verizon to allow a contract free plan for their customers and cites technological advancements and changing patterns in phone usage: “Let’s face it; phones aren’t really phones anymore. They’re data devices for accessing the Internet and everything connected to … Read more
Wade Keye
US variant of Galaxy S4 has a quad-core Snapdragon processor, not an eight-core Exynos
Samsung officially confirmed the details on the US launch of its flagship Galaxy S4 handset. Besides the date and time, Samsung also confirmed the internal hardware that will land in the US variant. Not surprisingly, the US version of the phone will rock a 1.9GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 series processor and not the company’s own 1.6GHz eight-core Exynos 5 Octa SoC. This is similar to the Galaxy SIII, which shipped with a dual-core Snapdragon and not the quad-core Exynos processor. It’s a trade-off as the Galaxy S4, likes it predecessor, includes … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Verizon adds two feature phones: LG Cosmos 3 and Revere 2
Verizon Wireless is adding two new devices to its feature phone line-up, LG Cosmos 3 and Revere 2. The first of the two is a side-slider that packs both numeric keypad and full QWERTY keyboard, as well as 2-inch QVGA screen, social networking apps and a microSD memory card slot. As for the Revere 2, it’s a clamshell-shaped phone with a 2-inch 176×220 main display, a 0.98-inch secondary one and speakerphone. In addition, both devices also sport a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, as well as basic web … Read more