Wow, we’ve been waiting quite a long time for this thing to drop. After missing it’s initial shipping date for last year, we fully expected the Sierra Wireless AirCard 595U EVDO Rev. A USB modem in April. Well, now it’s August, and it seems that Verizon Wireless is finally offering the 3G AirCard on their…
Verizon launches CDM-8905 low-end phone
What happens when carriers stop giving a crap about looks and functionality in their mobile product offerings? Well, if you’re Verizon Wireless, you release the CDM-8905 low-ender. This thing is all about scraping the bottom of the barrel. It’s got tiny color display and even tinier monochrome external display straight from 1999. But hey, at…
Verizon ONE-BILL, integrated billing
Not exactly the pure mobile news, but if you’re using Verizon for more than mobile phone service, you’ll be glad to know that they’ve just announced integrated billing option. What this is means is that instead of paying multiple bills, you can apply for a single monthly bill (ONE-BILL) for all their services — “ONE-BILL…
Verizon V CAST Mobile TV reaches Arkansas
Following Florida, Verizon decided to offer its mobile TV service to the citizens of Arkansas — actually that’s Central Arkansas, but what the hack. Now, Verizon Wireless customers living in the mentioned area will be able to join the carrier’s subscribers from other covered parts of the U.S. in mobile TV watching. We’ve already talked…
Mysterious Motorola Q’s waiting in the wings?
Aside from the features of the Motorola Q9m and Q9h, Motorola’s newly launched Moto Q9 promotional website hints at a couple unannounced Moto Q’s waiting in the wings – literally. Flanking either side of the center-staged Motorola Q9m and Motorola Q9h are two blacked-out silhouettes of what we presume are Motorola Q variants.With the Moto…
Verizon launches new Mobile Web 2.0; Adds more content, services
It’s a competitive world out there among the carriers. Every new service and/or device counts, hence Verizon Wireless decided to redesign its Mobile Web 2.0 offering and add more reasons for its existing subscribers to pour out additional five bucks on top of their monthly bills. The newly redesigned service builds on top of the…
Palm: Treo 700p/w/wx software update makes your data connection bug out – our bad
You know that little software update that Palm released for its Treo 700p, Treo 700w, and Treo 700wx? Well, Verizon customers definitely do. They’ve been experiencing buggy data connections after updating their precious Treo 700s with the presumably benign patch. In response, Palm has pulled the update from their website, citing users’ complaints that the…
MOTORAZR 2 debuts with U.S. carriers
Virtually all major carriers in the States — Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, US Cellular, and Verizon Wireless — have already added or are about to add MOTORAZR 2 to their offerings. In order to make sure its flagship device works on all carriers, American handset maker prepared RAZR2 versions for all networks — V9…
Verizon buys Ramcell network in Oregon and Kentucky – expands rural network coverage
Hot on the heels of Vodafone’s annnouncement that will be keeping their fingers in the US wireless-cookie-jar a bit longer, Verizon Wireless has announced their acquisition of Ramcell’s wireless infrastructure in western Oregon and southeast Kentucky. The move will net Verizon Wireless all of Ramcell’s spectrum licenses and the 51 cell sites in the two…
Verizon picks up HTC Libra as UTStarcom XV5800 – for August release
Adding to Verizon’s already busy product roadmap for August, it looks like @LINK1@ has yet another dandy handset waiting in the wings. The @LINK2@ will be hitting the CDMA network as the EVDO (Rev. A)-equipped UTStarcom XV5800. If you’ll recall, the HTC Libra (aka S720) @LINK3@ as the CDMA flavor of the @LINK4@ aka HTC…