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It looks like T-Mobile is reworking its ad campaign with Carly Foulkes, the T-Mobile Girl. Gone are the magenta and white dresses and bubbly personality, as a new picture posted on Twitter shows Team Magenta’s Foulkes in a new, darker light. T-Mobile recently sent out a tweet with the picture you see above, saying “It’s…
Today Sprint finally made the Samsung Galaxy Nexus official on its premature 4G LTE network beginning this Sunday, April 22. If you’re the impatient type, then you can get your hands on this phone earlier by way of pre-order starting now, those who choose to get handset now will receive it by Friday. The Galaxy…
Sprint’s going to launch a 4G LTE network this summer that’ll initially cover five to six cities. By the end of the year, Sprint expects to cover over 123 million Americans, and by the end of next year they expect that figure to climb to 250 million Americans. To put that number into some perspective,…
Last Monday, Easter Monday, AT&T started selling the Nokia Lumia 900 in the United States. According to The Wall Street Journal, who quotes Paul Roth, President of Retail Sales at AT&T, sales have “exceeded” expectations. What were those expectations in the first place? We’ll never know. Some people point to Amazon’s best sellers list as…
A few days ahead of schedule, Nokia released a software update that’ll address the data connectivity issue plaguing some Lumia 900 handsets. The update is available through the Zune software on the PC and the Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac. If they prefer not to apply the update, Nokia confirmed that customers still have…
Verizon Wireless has announced that its expanding its 4G LTE network to nine new markets, which are heavily concentrated in California. The areas that’ll be getting LTE include Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Monterey, Sacramento, Salinas, and the San Francisco Bay area in California. The only outlying area is Reno, Nevada. All these locales will get LTE…
Ah, LightSquared. What once was part of Sprint’s grand scheme to bring an LTE network to the masses is now in desperate need of saving. LightSquared has invested billions of dollars into plans for a nationwide 4G LTE network, only to find the chosen spectrum has a good chance of interfering with critical GPS devices…
Verizon Wireless will soon push a software update to the plum colored HTC Rhyme. Unfortunately, it won’t bring Ice Cream Sandwich, but a number of bug fixes and improvements, instead. Here’s what software version 2.20.605.3 710RD brings to the table: Device Features “Ringtones” has been replaced with “Edit Home” when the Menu key is pressed…
Canada’s SaskTel will join the HTC One craze by adding the One S model to its portfolio in the near future. We don’t know when exactly that will happen, but my guess is you’ll be able to get your unit by the end of this month. And if you don’t live in SaskTel’s coverage area…
Sprint is moving closer toward releasing one of its first LTE handsets, the LG Viper 4G. We knew the LG Viper was hitting store shelves soon, once a document leaked last week. The company is slowly rolling out its LTE network, with the first test in Kankakee, Ill, so Sprint will begin to offer LTE…