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Stop me if you’ve heard this before but a Verizon iPhone is on track for early next year. Now, an analyst is saying that March 2011 is the scheduled release date. “It’s on track,” said Brian Marshall, an analyst with Gleacher & Co. “It won’t be just for Verizon. There are international carriers that use…
Clearwire has a ton of spectrum and is said to either be selling some of it or looking for equity partners. With the talk of spectrum auction, Verizon was named as a potential buyer, but the company is openly denying it. After all, it seems that Verizon already has big plans for its own LTE…
Verizon confirmed that it will be selling the Apple iPad in all of its retail stores starting October 28th. The popular tablet device will be sold in a bundle with Verizon’s MiFi 2200 mobile hotspot for the following prices: 16GB iPad Wi-Fi + MiFi for $629.99 32GB iPad Wi-Fi + MiFi for $729.99 64GB iPad…
Best Buy confirmed that it will be carrying four new smartphones and mobile devices this holiday season. The illustrative lineup was previously spotted in a leaked sales flyer and includes the following: Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 in White on AT&T with the Essential Taylor Swift Experience: The A&T Sony Ericsson X10 will be available in…
Verizon announced today that it will pre-install the Amazon Kindle app on its Android handsets. The eReader application will initially be available on the Motorola DROID X, the Motorola DROID 2, and the Samsung Fascinate. Beyond this trio, other un-named devices will also ship with Amazon’s popular eReader pre-installed. For eBook fans, the Amazon Kindle…
AT&T was late to jump on to the Android boat and, when they did, it wasn’t pretty. The second-largest U.S. carrier is the exclusive carrier of the Apple iPhone, and for a time, AT&T probably felt that they didn’t need to do much more than watch the money pile up because of this exclusivity. That’s…
Verizon is reportedly using Android to beef up its network in preparation for an onslaught of iPhone customers. The latest CDMA iPhone rumor assumes that Verizon will debut the device early next year and is preparing now for this highly popular smartphone from Apple. Unlike AT&T, whose network has struggled under the load of millions…
The entry-level BlackBerry Curve 3G 9330 was announced on Verizon a few weeks ago, with promises of a fuchsia version in the future.Well, happy day, the 9330 has arrived on Verizon, though there’s no sign of the more subdued “charcoal” version in the online store. Besides running on CDMA rather than GSM networks, the 9330…
Clearwire is in a bit of a bind. Creating the nation’s, probably the world’s, largest WiMAX network wasn’t cheap. The airwaves needed to broadcast the signal, the towers to put up antennas, and the funds used to advertise that “4G is here” when that’s truly not the case, have put the company in a situation…
Earlier this morning, Gizmodo posted an image that it claimed might have been the new iPhone 4 for Verizon. While I was getting ready to wrap up my report on it (and with a debunk), Gizmodo updated its information about 20 minutes after the post and called it a fake. It also pulled the post…