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IntoMobile is giving away 50 high-end smartphones to help you keep up with the holiday shopping madness that kicked off on Black Friday. From now until December 21st, you’ll have 50 chances to win a smartphone of your choice from IntoMobile. That’s right, you can win one of 50 AT&T Apple iPhone 4, Sprint HTC…
Best Buy has announced today that it is kicking off another deal with free smartphones for the month of December. Back in October, the mega retailer was offering select smartphones for free every Friday. This time, the sale is good for the entire month and includes a number of pretty hot handsets. Of course, there…
Heads up bargain shoppers, Radio Shack is offering the Sprint Galaxy Tab for $349, a $50 discount off the normal retail price. You will need to hoof it down to your local store as the sale is available in store only and check first before you start the trek as the deal is available in…
Clearwire is looking to raise more than $1.1 billion to build out its WiMax infrastructure as the competition in 4G is heating up. Clearwire will be offering debt securities in private placement transactions and the funds will help it build out its mobile data infrastructure. The company provides the service behind Sprint’s 4G network for…
Sprint promised to launch WiMAX, in conjunction with Clearwire, in Los Angeles on the first of December. Instead of making people wait until Wednesday, they’ve decided to flip the switch today. In addition to LA, they’ve also activated Miami, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. Want even more good news? If you live in…
Black Friday is upon us and so are the savings (and rabid mobs, for that matter). This year, Sprint wants everyone to know that they’ll have Android handsets available for all your Black Friday shopping needs. And, since many of you will be out there braving the crowds anyway, we thought it was a good…
The ITU recently decided that two wireless technologies would be worthy of the 4G title: WiMax 2 and LTE-Advanced. Despite the decision, however, Sprint has continued to call its WiMax network “4G,” and surprisingly around that time T-Mobile decided to launch a massive campaign calling its HSPA+ network “America’s Largest 4G Network.” This week, at…
AT&T and Sprint have filed a request with the FCC for a swap of spectrum licenses. This is about the driest news you’ll be reading this week, so let’s get to the meat and potatoes and get out of here so we can go and enjoy Thanksgiving: The Applicants state that the additional spectrum (including…
Well, it looks like Apple has nixed its plans to build the next iPhone with embedded SIM cards after the carriers cried out, “Bloody murder,” according to reports. As you may know, Apple was reportedly working with Gemalto for the next generation iPhone to have integrated SIM cards which could be flashed to work on…
AT&T is crowing about its mobile broadband network, as it’s pointing to independent studies which find its 3G network to be 20-60% faster than the nearest competitor. But will AT&T get left behind as Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon quickly move to 4G? The second-largest carrier said that a Global Wireless Solutions study checked out 400…