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Buoyed by Android devices like the Droid Incredible and the Motorola Droid X, Verizon was able to sign up more customers than rival AT&T during the last quarter. Verizon added 1.4 million new customers, but the number it really cares about is the number post-paid users, or subscribers on long-term contracts. Verizon was able to…
So you’ve got your hammer and piggy bank sitting right next to you thinking that any day now, the white Apple iPhone 4 will be yours. After all, Apple did say that it was running into manufacturing problems with the white iPhone 4 and said that it wouldn’t be available until late July. As a…
It looks like Qualcomm wants to get out of the mobile TV business, as its CEO said the company is looking for “a number of alternatives” regarding Flo TV. “It will get done in the next year but I don’t think I can be much more specific than that,” Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said in…
We heard rumblings that Verizon Wireless will be killing its unlimited data plans by the end of the month and the folks over at Droid Life have received the alleged script that Big Red is sending out to squash concerns. Thanks to “blog activity,” Verizon is coaching its customer service representatives to deflect customers who…
Regardless of what you might have heard about the relationship between Apple and AT&T, the latter sure has several reasons to be happy. After posting its earnings, AT&T has announced that it activated 3.2 million iPhone units during the second quarter – a record for the company. It certainly helped its bottom line, too, which…
By now, you should be aware that Apple pulled the Handy Light app this morning because the flashlight app could be secretly turned into a tethering program with a secret code. I would like all the people encouraging other developers to include secret functionality in apps to kindly shut up. Tricking the gatekeepers leads us…
So, you’ve got an AT&T Samsung Captivate in hand, and you want to get some root only applications like SetCPU, CacheMate, or Root Explorer onto your Samsung Galaxy S variant, do you? Well, you’re in luck, we have put together a handy little guide that should make it easy for you to do with your…
Good news, Skype users with iPhones, Skype has updated its free iPhone app to support the iOS 4 multitasking feature that allows the app to run in the background. In doing so, the refreshed app basically allows heavy Skype users to avoid using their wireless voice minutes on an iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS with…
Apple iPhone owners may think AT&T has a huge percentage of dropped calls but the nation’s second-largest carrier said it drops less than 2% of calls nationwide. In response to a recent ChangeWave study, AT&T said: Statistically valid drive test shows the AT&T network continues to deliver the nation’s fastest 3G network and near best-in-class…
With Antennagate issues still looming, and other manufacturers like RIM and HTC responding to Steve Jobs’ comments and ‘hard data’ the other day, there’s no time like the present to pick a little fun and have a good laugh. Enter the creative team at jle, with a hilarious spoof video, poking fun at the company,…