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T-Mobile is sending out invitations to a press event on the night of April 18th. The headline for that shindig will the HTC One S, a 4.3-inch phone with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Details about the launch date and pricing are not available, but a recent rumor pegs the 25th as the date the One S…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note may be headed to our favorite underdog carrier Sprint. This juicy tidbit comes from an advertisement spotted on Sprint’s website that appears to contain the Galaxy Note (the ad has been removed as of the writing of this post). Neither Samsung nor Sprint have announced that the device will launch with the…
Did you cringe when you heard that Facebook was going to buy Instagram? Apparently you weren’t alone. Over 1/3 of the tweets (35 percent) that referenced the acquisition were negative, with most people expressing anger and disgust at Facebook. Another 18 percent were from people in shock at the news and ten percent said they…
Nokia confirmed today on its Conversations blog that the Lumia 900 has a memory management problem which may cause the handset’s data connection to drop. There is a growing number of users who claim their handset loses its data connection and won’t reconnect even after a restart. Rather than ignore the problem, the Finnish company…
T-Mobile and Leap Wireless, which owns the Cricket brand, confirmed on Monday that the two carriers are swapping spectrum to better improve their 3G and 4G coverage. T-Mobile will use this spectrum to improves its HSPA+ network and prepare for its future LTE network, while Leap will use it to extends its coverage and prepare for LTE.…
The nation’s four largest wireless carriers are working with the US Government to build and support a database of lost and stolen phones. The carriers have agreed to deny both voice and data service for phones added to the database will be denied . Carriers will setup their own databases and eventually roll them into a centralized…
T-Mobile didn’t waste any time trying to grab new customers from AT&T. One day after AT&T began unlocking off-contract iPhones, T-Mobile is letting it be known that it has some of the best calling and data plans in the nation. The carrier also points out that it already has one million iPhones running on its…
It’s May 8th and today’s the day that AT&T starts selling two new Windows Phone Mango handsets, the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II. On paper, the Titan II has the better specs, but the Lumia has attracted the most attention because Microsoft, Nokia and AT&T are pushing the handset with some big advertising…
Sonos is killing its CR200 remote control and replacing it with your smartphone, says a report in The Verge. Sonos CEO and founder John MacFarlane told The Verge, “We knew from the early days of the iPhone explosion that controlling out system from the device that people were carrying around in their pockets is what…
AT&T told Engadget that it will start unlocking out of contract iPhones starting April 8th. This is a big policy reversal on AT&T’s part as the carrier, up until now, was reluctant to unlock iPhones even when the customer was no longer under a contract. Beginning Sunday, April 8, we will offer qualifying customers the…