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The iPad has gone on sale at Verizon and AT&T this week, but the Apple tablet has been helping Sprint all along, too. After coming up with a few clever ads showing the iPad running on 4G thanks to Sprint’s hotspot devices and combo cases (holding the iPad and mobile hotspot devices at once), it…
For all the hate the Nokia N8 has received in recent reviews, it still packs the best camera any smartphone has on the market. For that, it has been used to film some amazing videos, like the world’s smallest stop-motion character, and take some great snapshots. This time, the N8’s 12MP shooter has been employed…
Verizon is finally settling with the FCC for $25 million to pay for erroneous data charges that customers were hit with over the last few years. Some customers owned phones without data plans, but were charged with data fees anyway. To avoid issues like this in the future, Verizon has given every customer a 50KB…
Sprint announced yesterday during its developers conference keynote, where we were in attendance, that Sprint ID will make its way to the Samsung Epic 4G and the Galaxy Tab. Originally, it seemed that Sprint ID was only destined for low to mid-range Android handsets like the Sanyo Zio and LG Optimus S. Perhaps users who…
Windows Phone 7 by Microsoft hasn’t even hit the masses yet, but apps like the Amazon Kindle are already finding their way onto the platform. The Windows Phone 7 app store already has hundreds of apps waiting to be downloaded upon release, and Amazon is making certain that its popular Kindle reading app is one…
Gmail users who prefer the web client on the iPhone or iPod touch have some new changes to look forward to. Google updated the UI to be a little more intuitive, and it also made some updates to performance as well. Some of the changes include a fixed toolbar where a floating bar was before,…
Did you get a little envy for our overseas friends when the HTC Wildfire hit their carriers earlier this year? The Nexus One-esque Android handset had everything you could possibly want in a keyboard-less HTC device, but it was one of the first few to adopt an optical trackpad over the clunky and grime-prone trackball.…
A rumor is stirring that alleges Apple and Gemalto – the lawsuit-happy company we heard about recently – are working together to design SIM cards that can be integrated in the iPhone. This means that iPhones will come with a SIM card built in and consumers can pick and choose their carriers. GigaOm is reporting:…
It looks like MeeGo has itself a promising future as Nokia is backing the platform, and now it seems Sprint is lending a hand, too. The carrier said that it will support MeeGo and the mobile operating system in its future devices. From what we’ve seen so far, the OS looks very clean, intuitive and…
Looking to get an Android phone soon, but aren’t sure exactly which one you want? The Google Phone Gallery has just gotten an update to reflect the current state of Android-dom. A number of new handsets have been added so that you get a little more info about which Google powered handset might be right…