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Unfulfilled promises are Motorola’s specialty. From never mentioning the name MotoBlur again to shipping handsets with unlocked bootloaders, Motorola’s wrap isn’t the shiniest of Android’s manufacturers. Case in point, the Motorola Droid 3 that launched yesterday does indeed ship with a locked bootloader, making custom ROMs a no go for the time being. Although Motorola…
The HTC Thunderbolt was the first phone to hit the market with Verizon 4G LTE and a new report from iSuppli suggests that the high-speed mobile data capabilities greatly added to the cost. In fact, the company said it was the most expensive phone to make that is has torn down yet. In a report,…
Apple’s iPhone 4 launched in June of last year on AT&T and has proven to be one of the most popular mobile phones, smart or not, to ever hit the market. Many will have different reasons for picking it up, some need to wipe the drool off their face after taking a look at the…
Whether you like it or not Verizon’s tiered data plans are now in place for new customers and there’s little you can do about it. To help customers monitor their data usage Verizon will not begin to send free texts messages after a user passes a certain amount of data used. Verizon will now begin…
It seems the day has come for those of you looking to grab the Motorola DROID 3. Moto’s QWERTY smartphone is now live on Verizon Wireless’ website though we still can’t get to the product page. I assume this will change later in the day when the official press release will be sent out to…
The first dual-core LTE handset for Verizon has been spotted with a new design that’s certainly more appealing than its previous clunky hardware we saw earlier this year. Oddly enough, the Droid Bionic’s redesign is so drastic it looks as if Motorola has just repackaged the handset into another existing design, which looks somewhat similar…
Verizon is rolling out tiered data plans July 7 and new users won’t be able to get an unlimited data plan. Instead, users will get to choose four different plans for their mobile data needs and this could be a good or bad thing depending on your usage. We’ll lay out what the IntoMobile team…
Well, we knew this day was coming. Verizon confirmed that it will be rolling out tiered data plans and it will be ditching unlimited data starting July 7. Verizon told Fierce Wireless that it will be offering four different options for mobile data starting in a few days: $10 for 75 MB per month, $30…
We already knew that Verizon was abandoning its unlimited 3G and 4G data plans in favor of tiered packages, and a leaked customer brochure details the new options. Of course, if you’re currently a Verizon customer with an unlimited data plan, it will be grandfathered indefinitely or for as long as you keep your Verizon…
As far as we know Verizon Wireless will officially launch the Motorola Droid 3 on July 7th. And while we’ve seen quite a few leaked photos of the device, we were kinda surprised someone managed to access Droid 3’s 360-degree view on Verizon’s website. I couldn’t find it myself, but Droid-Life did. Thanks to them…