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Wirefly has an awesome deal for T-Mobile’s newly launched Samsung Galaxy Note. The retailer is selling the powerful phablet for $179.99 which is $70 off of the carrier’s asking price ($249.99). Best of all, both new customers and those upgrading can take advantage of this deal, which is pretty cool. Again, the Galaxy Note offered…
Some Sprint customers in Boston are enjoying a boost in their network connectivity speeds thanks to early testing of the carrier’s 4G LTE network, says a report in PhoneArena. At least one Sprint customer in Boston is supposedly connecting to the carrier’s nascent LTE network and seeing download speeds of 6 Mbps and upload speeds of…
We reported just a few days ago that Sprint for no apparent reason started selling the 16GB iPhone 4S at $149.99 with a two-year contract, well below its standard price of $199.99. The 32GB and 64GB models got a $50 discount as well. Now Apple retail stores are getting on board with the price cut…
Remember the T-Mobile G1, with its little chin and side-sliding keyboard? It may have been the first Android phone to hit market way back in 2008, but it has not been forgotten. A handful of enthusiasts over at XDA-developers have managed to port a Cyanogen Mod version of Jelly Bean to the almost four-year-old handset.…
Sprint may launch the newly announced Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE on August 19. Apparently the carrier has already started with employee trainings and is set to start accepting orders within 10 days. The information comes from PhoneDog, which quotes an unnamed source, who may be easily be one of Sprint’s employees getting the mentioned…
T-Mobile is now selling the Samsung Galaxy Note, a 5.3-inch phone and tablet hybrid that debuted earlier this year in the US with AT&T. The Note includes a 1.5GHZ dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB onboard storage and a 1080P HD camera. It also runs on T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ network. Customers can grab the Note…
If you’ve waited for the T-Mobile version of the Galaxy Note, then you should stop shopping on T-Mobile’s website and point your browser to Walmart’s website instead. According to a report in TmoNews, Walmart is severely undercutting T-Mobile’s price on the Samsung Galaxy Note by selling the device for $349. The retailer is also selling…
For better or worse, shared data is all the rage these days. Verizon was the first company to offer the service in June, and AT&T is set to launch their own shared data plans later this month. Early comparisons of the two offerings revealed disappointing news for Verizon customers. While AT&T offered data packages up…
MetroPCS announced the world’s first commercial launch of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services along with the world’s first VoLTE-capable handset – LG Connect 4G. The new Android-based smartphone is available at the company’s Dallas/Fort Worth stores with other areas to get it in the coming weeks. Calls to and from the handset will use VoLTE,…
Looks like Virgin Mobile won’t be the only carrier in the U.S. to offer the Samsung Montage with Sprint (Virgin’s parent company) also preparing to add it to its portfolio. And while we don’t know when that will happen exactly, we did notice the device getting a dedicated page and new name (Samsung Array) at…