Verizon Wireless customers who travel from time to time are obviously looking for ways to keep their phone while travelling abroad. As you may know, roaming is for super rich, hence you want a local number. In other words, most phones offered by the Big Red carrier won’t work, but some will. Motorola Droid 2…
Japanese operator Softbank is making the Apple iPad free with a 24 month contract
Japanese operator Softbank, who has exclusive rights to the iPhone for the small island nation in much the same way that AT&T has a death grip on the iPhone in America, will soon begin offering Apple’s iPad for free with a 24 month contract according to mocoNews. This isn’t the WiFi iPad either, this is…
HTC Desire Z, Nokia C7 land at Vodafone UK
Vodafone is adding more smartphones to its portfolio. The latest two phones that have hit the Big Red’s offering are the HTC Desire Z and Nokia C7. As you know, the first of the two is one of the most wanted smartphones on the market today. The carrier is offering it for free on a…
AT&T makes its Windows Phone BOGO sale retroactive
In conjunction with Microsoft, AT&T launched a Windows Phone buy one, get one free sale for the holiday season. Starting on Black Friday, this sale kicked off less than a month after the handset officially launched in early November. The sale may have delighted holiday shoppers, but its timing raised the ire of the early…
Acer Liquid Metal may land at AT&T, T-Mobile
AT&T and T-Mobile are currently evaluating picking up the Acer Liquid Metal Android handset, according to representatives from Acer. The company said the Acer Liquid Metal is currently being evaluated by these carriers and it could provide a solid Android experience if it is finally picked up. Wherever it lands, the Acer Liquid Metal won’t…
HTC HD7 with Windows Phone 7 suffers from the death grip, too
Perhaps the Antennagate issue that plagued the iPhone 4 wasn’t exclusive after all – just like Apple said. The HTC HD7 – one of the latest in a series of new Windows Phone 7 handsets – appears to suffer from a little user interference, too. The T-Mobile handset is depicted in a video where it…
Sony Ericsson claims AT&T is to blame for slow Android updates to X10
Users who have purchased the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 on AT&T may be wondering when they’ll get the Android 2.1 OS update and finally rid themselves of Android 1.6, but it looks like they may have quite a bit of time to wait. Who is to blame, though? According to Sony Ericsson, they are pointing…
Grab the T-Mobile G2 for free at Best Buy Mobile
Just because Black Friday is over doesn’t mean the deals are. Best Buy Mobile is now offering up the T-Mobile G2 for free on a new two-year contract. That’s right folks, if you’re craving one of the best QWERTY keyboard-toting Android phones available today, it can be yours for free, as long as you’re willing…
HTC Merge accessories appear, still no launch date on phone itself
We’ve been expecting the HTC Merge to be announced for some time now, and just when it seemed likely that it would happen, it never did. Now with the appearance of a Merge case popping up, the handset has got to be announced sometime soon, right? When we heard of the Droid Incredible’s relaunching party,…
Verizon buys #CyberMonday tag on Twitter
It’s Cyber Monday and Verizon has quickly jumped on the social networking train and bought #CyberMonday from Twitter. It’s the Monday right after Black Friday where most of us at work are spending the entire day surfing the web for deals and steals. To make sure that all things Cyber Monday point back to Verizon…