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Since October 2009, BlackBerry has slowly but steadily been losing sales on America’s top carrier, Verizon Wireless, to Android handsets (mostly Motorola, but also LG and Samsung). This probably isn’t a huge surprise to anyone who has seen Verizon’s aggressive (and awesome) Android marketing; in fact, Verizon would go so far as to say as…
A handful of Motorola Droid users were seeded with Android 2.2.1 the other day, and despite some difficulties pushing it out on the Droid X due to the night-time battery manager turning off the radio, Motorola has sorted out the deployment and will be unleashing the update tonight. Froyo officially hit Droid X handsets in…
Verizon has cut the cost of its prepaid wireless service in half to handle the mounting pressure in this space but users may want to approach this with caution because the texting rates have doubled. You’ll now be able to get Verizon prepaid wireless service for $1.99 a day, which is half of what voice…
The Verizon iPhone is expected to land early next year and many are expecting it to be a big seller and add to Apple’s market share but you may be surprised that some analysts aren’t predicting this will add that many sales to Apple’s bottom line. Merril Lynch’s Scott Craig said the company is now…
If you’re on Verizon Wireless, and noticed something a little fishy early (very early) this morning, you were not alone. Reports were floating around that Verizon’s data network was down. Earlier today, we got word from Jeffrey Nelson, spokesperson for Verizon Wireless. He wanted to shed some light and clear some of the confusion up…
The latest Android 2.2.1 update for the original Motorola DROID is rolling out now, according to reports from users that have received the update. This update is presumably the last Android 2.2 Froyo version that will hit the original DROID. The next update should bring Gingerbread, Android 2.3, to the handset sometime in the future.…
As the chatter about AT&T losing exclusivity of the Apple iPhone grows louder, AT&T is insisting that it isn’t worried about how it will compete without having Apple’s smartphone all to itself. At the D conference, AT&T’s Glenn Lurie reiterated that the company has other competitive advantages that go beyond just having the iPhone. He…
A little over a year ago, Google announced its intention to transform its web browser into a full-blown operating system in and of itself. Today, they’ve kicked off a pilot program in the U.S. where they will lend out laptops with 3G connectivity over Verizon to a select group to try it all out and…
The Nexus S broke cover and was made official yesterday by Google and Samsung. The successor to the Nexus One was confirmed to be an unlocked GSM handset that supports T-Mobile’s 1700MHz flavor of 3G. Today, a rumor fresh from the Android-o-sphere suggests the handset may rock a CDMA/LTE radio and land on Verizon Wireless.…
It looks like the rumors were on to something, as Verizon Wireless will be providing some free 3G data to the upcoming Chrome OS netbooks. Chrome OS was just released by Google today and it’s essentially an operating system that is all browser. Because of this, it’s very important that the netbooks running this platform…