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Verizon Wireless, America’s largest operator, has just announced that they’ll be turning on 4G LTE coverage in 19 additional markets, including Dayton, Fresno, Hartford, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and Spokane, starting tomorrow. That’s going to bring the total number of cities covered with 4G LTE up to 74. Verizon Wireless Chief Technology Officer…
When Stephen Elop, Nokia’s new CEO, got on stage in February at Nokia’s annual Capital Markets Day event and announced to the world that the handset giant would dump Symbian, throw MeeGo under the bus, and switch exclusively to Windows Phone, he upset many loyal fans, not to mention sent the stock into a death…
Earlier this year, before Steve Jobs got on stage and showed off the thinner, lighter, and camera equipped iPad 2, rumors were flying around the internet suggesting that Apple would release an iPad with a higher resolution screen. In much the same way that the iPhone 4 had a display with double the number of…
American Airlines and Samsung are announcing that first class passengers on international or transcontinental flights will now be given a Galaxy Tab 10.1 to entertain themselves with instead of having to go through the torture of trying to navigate the horrifically bad inflight entertainment system. Samsung will provide 6,000 tablets to American Airlines, who hopes…
U.S. Cellular, one of the smaller operators with just over 6.1 million customers, has announced that they’re now offering customers the HTC 7 Pro. It’s the first Windows Phone that does CDMA, and when we reviewed it back in April we weren’t really convinced it was the right device for us. Since then however we’ve…
Just yesterday we wrote about a rumor floating around the internet that this Wednesday Apple would start selling the iPhone 4 unlocked in the USA. Looks like those rumors were wrong since we didn’t have to wait until Wednesday, it’s official as of today. That’s right, nearly 4 years after the first iPhone went on…
T-Mobile is running a special promotion for Father’s Day (June 18th) whereby if you sign up for a 2 year contract you’ll get $10 credit towards your account every month for 12 months. Said $10 essentially makes the 200 MB dataplan you’re required to purchase essentially free. Want more data? No problem, you can sign…
One thing we gave up when transitioning to the current crop of smartphones on the market, many of which have a large touchscreen, was the familiarity and comfort of hitting physical buttons. Since the iPhone came out in 2007, and then Android in 2008, touch screen keyboards have been a hot topic with some claiming…
The epic patent battle between Apple and Nokia has finally come to a close. Nokia this morning announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Apple and that all the trials currently taking place in various countries are to be terminated immediately, along with both parties retracting their complaints filed with the U.S.…
You might have a Verizon 4G LTE smartphone in your pocket right now, or you may be rocking on T-Mobile’s 42 Mbps HSPA+ network, but for most folks around the world, roughly 4 billion of them, they’re still stuck using 2G technologies. Luckily for them Nokia Siemens Networks just conducted their first pre-commercial test call…