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Earlier this week Virgin Mobile announced their new pricing plans, which brought down the cost of the unlimited everything plan and eliminated the extra fees associated with BlackBerry service; that’s bloody awesome. On the flip side, they’re making those who prefer to pay less by using a 300 or 1200 minute bucket cough up more…
For those of us old enough to remember the days before mobile phones, the era of landline domination had a couple of advantages compared to the incredible computers we carry around in our pockets today. First and foremost is voice quality, you simply can’t get the same type of fidelity on a mobile phone than…
Cricket, one of America’s smaller wireless operators with just over 5.8 million subscribers, has just announced the Huawei Ascend II, the followup to the first Ascend that was launch in October of last year. It features a 3.5 inch screen with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, 5 megapixel camera, 600 MHz processor, it…
Logos are important. They create a sense of familiarity, and in the case of brands, they can project a certain perceived social status. You may think you’re above that, but here’s a question for you: How many times have you avoided going to a particular store just because there wasn’t a Visa sticker placed somewhere…
If you’re looking to grab a bite to eat or find a bar to wash away your misery, odds are that you have several applications at your disposable that all do the same thing, which is to display a list of places, ordered by distance, that you can visit. One of the more popular applications…
A little over 5 months ago, at an investor relations meeting in London, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop got on stage and announced that the Finnish handset maker has essentially given up on Symbian, is going to halt development on MeeGo, and will switch their smartphone operating system of choice to Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Since then…
Google’s mobile operating system Android has been in the headlines recently, and not for what new innovative features are due to arrive in the next version dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich or because of a new highly popular app. Because of Google’s lack of patents in the mobile industry, companies who opt to use Android to…
Virgin Mobile, the prepaid operator who relies on Sprint’s network for coverage, is soon going to rejigger their monthly plans. At the lowest rung of the ladder, the $25 per month plan that has unlimited text and data and 300 minutes of talk time, that’s due to go up to $35 per month. The $40…
Walk into any phone shop and you’ll be faced with identical slabs of glass from every handset maker on the planet. Kind of boring, right? With the exception of Nokia, and most obviously Research in Motion, nearly no one else even bothers to launch devices with a physical QWERTY keyboard anymore. They might do one…
Feel free to call us out on this one, but doesn’t every mobile phone from Samsung look exactly the same? Take a look at the Wave 725, an as yet to be announced handset that runs Bada 2.0, Samsung’s homegrown operating system. It looks like the Tocco, their infinitely popular feature phone that sold well…