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If LG’s Optimus Pad tablet works for you, and if you also happen to live in Canada – you’ll be happy to know that Rogers Wireless is now offering it for free on 2 and 3-year contracts. Unfortunately, if you want just the tablet, sans any long-term commitments, the price is unchanged – it’s $549.99.…
Boost Mobile is continuing its partnership with Mexico’s Club Deportivo Guadalajara (CD Guadalajara), the world-renowned soccer team known as Chivas, as the official wireless sponsor of its U.S. tour games. The partnership was secured by Soccer United Marketing, CD Guadalajara’s commercial agent in the United States. Under the deal, Boost will continue to have onsite…
We’ve already talked about Shazam-enabled shows, which allow TV addicts to not only recognize what they’re watching but also to interact with the show. The “world’s leading media discovery company” is now announcing that the entire second season of Being Human on Syfy will renew the integration of Shazam for TV into the hit series.…
LightSquared, the wireless operator run by a hedge fund, has been wanting to launch their network for the past 18 months. There’s a slight problem though. The spectrum they want to use to launch said network sits way too close to the same spectrum that GPS devices use to get a satellite fix and calculate…
Very few people remember this, but when Samsung announced the Galaxy S II back in February of last year the spec sheet said it was running a dual core 1 GHz processor. By the time the device actually hit the market in May however, that got bumped up to 1.2 GHz. Could something similar happen…
Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system is 15 months and 10 days old, and while it has failed to gain any meaningful traction in the smartphone market, one thing that we appreciate is Microsoft’s willingness to make sure that everyone’s device is up to date. In other words, if you picked up a Windows Phone on…
After months of delayed shipments, the iPhone 4S is back in stock at Apple’s online store. According to Apple’s website, all models and colors are now listed as being available. This is a jump from a few weeks ago when shipment times for the 4S were shortened to 3-5 days. The iPhone 4S had a banner launch…
Samsung sent out a tweet that is both vague and exciting today regarding an upcoming, “revolutionary” device. Said device will be launched in an ad during the Super Bowl this coming Sunday and while we want to say it’s the Galaxy S III, in all likelihood it’s the Galaxy Note. There have been rumors that…
Verizon is looking to change its family share data plans for 2012, according to a leaked document. We’ve heard about this before and we hope it’s true. In the new document, Big Red is said to be leaving training material for an update that shows a new section labeled “account level data plans.” The largest…
Software like Carrier IQ, which secretly logs every action you take on your smartphone, has been a topic of major controversy since its discovery last year. Carriers and manufacturers install it on many of their (primarily Android) handsets to troubleshoot their phones, but in some cases it goes a little too far. It seems the…