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Boost Mobile, a Sprint owned company, plans to start throttling customer data usage that exceed 2.5 gigabytes of usage each month. Once the throttle cap is hit, speeds will drastically come down to a meager 256kbps. This new policy will go in effect despite the prepaid carriers’ pay-as-you-go “unlimited” marketing we’ve all come accustomed to. These changes…
Sprint today announced a new addition to its family of rugged phones called the Sonim XP Strike. The XP Strike is the first Sonim handset to be sold by Sprint, and it happens to be a tough a SOB. The new ruggedized phone delivers some incredible durability such as an impressive military-spec rate of 810G,…
Kodak has gone through a lot this year. The picture company had endure the painful reality of bankruptcy and had to tolerate legal squabbles with Apple over patents. Now Kodak has taken one big step forward in restructuring the future of its company, as it was finally able to sell off its digital imaging portfolio…
What’s a morning without any new Apple rumors? Well, there’s speculation that the tech giant is readying production of another iPad mini with a Retina display within the next few months, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Doug Freedman. In a research note, Freedman said the “iPad Mini Gen-2: Apple’s gen-2 iPad mini is getting…
We have great news for you Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 owners out there. AT&T will be rolling out a new Windows Phone 8 update, according to a leaked internal email to employees. No one knows exactly what time this update will go live, but the guess at the moment is 9AM PT/12PM ET. The…
Apple released an iOS update (6.0.2) to help address WiFi bug issues going on with the iPhone 5 and the iPad mini. Many users were frustrated with malfunctioning Wi-Fi connections on the iPhone 5, so getting this update is refreshing for those iPhone owners who have suffered. After releasing iOS 6.1 beta 4 yesterday, the iPhone maker seems…
For over a decade, Apple has been known as the company who’s been leading the charge in product innovation. Now with the passing of Steve Jobs, many people question if the company can hold true to such a high standard. Strangely, Apple has sat idly by while Google continues to snatch up innovative start-ups such as Sparrow, Snapseed, Meebo,…
Sprint sent out an internal memo saying it has shutdown its popular Upgrade Now program that allows subscribers to pay a little extra to get upgrade pricing a little early. In the memo The Now Network mentions the program will be “temporarily discontinued.” However, Sprint told Android Central that it should “check back later to see…
Big things are happening when it comes to the expansion of Long Term Evolution (LTE). Sprint announced today a few more cities that will receive coverage of its LTE network. Theses locations include the following: Indianapolis/Carmel, Ind. Santa Rosa/Petaluma, Calif. Vallejo/Fairfield, Calif. Southern Puerto Rico (including Ponce, Coamo and Guayama) York/Hanover, Pa. Franklin County, Pa. In addition,…
We’ve heard so much lately about AT&T rolling out LTE in different markets, now it’s Big Red’s turn. Verizon announced today that it will be lighting up more big cities with its speedy LTE network on the date of December 20. The cities below represent the southwest: Payson, Arizona Casa Grande, Arizona Ruidoso, New Mexico…