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Hot on the heels of AT&T’s quarterly earnings report, Verizon announced its earnings for the opening quarter of 2011 this morning. Overall, the wireless division had a strong quarter and added 1.8 million new connections. About 906,000 of these new subscribers were retail postpaid customers, while the remaining 897,000 were wholesale and other connections. Verizon…
Apple held its earnings call yesterday and managed to surpass astronomical expectations, but it also set a new bar for itself: Thanks to the iPhone, Apple is now the world’s largest handset vendor by revenue. And it did this just with the iPhone. Nokia, who undoubtedly pumps out the most handsets worldwide, has now taken…
Early we reported that the Verizon iPhone failed to make a real dent in AT&T iPhone sales, but for the month of March it looks like the Apple smartphone took a back seat to the new HTC Thunderbolt, too. What could this possibly mean? Well, anything would be speculation, of course, but it seems that…
We didn’t believe it would actually happen, but when the Verizon iPhone finally arrived, some of us thought that it would make a huge impact on the iPhone landscape in the U.S. Tens of thousands of users would flock from AT&T to Verizon’s more stable network, where dropped calls are a rare occurrence and data…
Recent rumors have indicated that the upcoming Motorola Droid Bionic for Verizon had been canceled, but it turns out that the powerful handset may have just been delayed. We can now expect this beast of a phone to land sometime in the 3rd quarter of this year instead of the second quarter. While the competition…
A small gaffe on Verizon Wireless’ mobile website confirms the legal wording of its two-year customer agreements are long-winded. While the frank honesty is refreshing, this is undoubtedly a mistake on someone’s part. Whomever is in charge of this tiny part of the website forget to insert the proper legal terminology and left the developers…
If you want to ride high on the Verizon 4G LTE hog but don’t want one of the huge computer dongles and aren’t convinced the HTC Thunderbolt is the right device for you, you’ll be happy to know that you can now pick up a Novatel MiFi with 4G speeds. The Verizon MiFi looks very…
We’ve been hearing a lot about the upcoming Droid X 2 lately, and the powerful new device has just been spotted in the wild. The video below is short and simple, and gives us a quick look at the new handset, as well as some benchmark results from quadrant. There’s not much difference between the…
Verizon has a handful of next generation Android handsets slated to arrive in the coming months. Among these new handsets are the Droid Incredible 2, the Samsung Charge, the Droid X 2 and the LG Revolution. An earlier leak revealed the prices of the Incredible 2 and the Charge. Today, a second leak has fleshed…
We had little doubt that the upcoming Droid X 2 would ship with a dual-core CPU, but just in case you had your doubts, a new video has appeared to put them at ease. The boot animation below shows that the Droid X 2 will be sporting a dual-core processor. The handset in the video…