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Verizon’s after Christmas sales were a little ho-hum, but you might find Best Buy’s a little more exciting. They’re offering a wide range of devices across all the major U.S. carriers, and the phones are all free with a two-year contract. From Verizon, you’ve got the Samsung Stratosphere and HTC Droid Incredible 2; from AT&T,…
Verizon has a few sales on certified pre-owned smartphones and tablets going until this Thursday, December 29. Verizon has knocked $80 off the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, asking $349.99 on a two-year contract for the 16 GB model, or $449.99 for the 32 GB version. Verizon has also reduced the price of the HTC ThunderBolt…
Not exactly a “hot” deal since there are better or at least sexier devices out there, but a deal nevertheless. Costco is offering the Motorola DROID BIONIC for $99 with few accessories, including a navigation dock, additional battery charger and a desktop dock. All in all, you get way more than $100 in extra accessories…
The last 12 months have been a wild ride, as we started the year with many of us wondering how the Xoom and PlayBook could compete against the iPad, how would HP use webOS, what the iPhone 5 would look like and if 4G LTE would really come to America in a big way. There…
Verizon announced that it will soon release a software update for the Galaxy Nexus and it hopes to relieve concerns from users over the device’s poor signal strength. Brenda Raney, a spokeswoman for Verizon Wireless, said the software update will “adjust the signal strength indicator to more closely match other Verizon Wireless devices.” Doesn’t that…
Remember when AT&T had data outages all the time? Those days are gone and Verizon is now the one experiencing some growing pains as it rolls out its LTE network. According to reports on Verizon support forums and twitter, it appears that Verizon is suffering from another nationwide outage that’s affecting its 4G and possibly its 3G…
The U.S. Justice Department is probing Verizon Wireless after it made deals with Comcast and Cox Communications that will contribute to Verizon’s cable and wireless services. The Justice Department is stepping in to determine whether these new deals put too much cable and wireless power in the hands of Verizon while preventing competition from getting…
It’s an exciting time in the mobile world, as all four major carriers have a 4G network deployed but we all know that not all 4G is created equal. When you think of “4G,” you should be thinking about LTE because this mobile data technology delivers speeds which really can change the way we work…
Want the HTC Rezound? Sure you do – it’s the best smartphone the Taiwanese company has ever made, rocking the Galaxy Nexus-like HD (1280×720 pixels) touchscreen, while Android Gingerbread is running the show — the Ice Cream Sandwich update will be released at some point in 2012 (most likely in the first quarter). Amazon is…
It seems that the new Google/Samsung Galaxy Nexus is having a little “antennagate” of its own. After Twitter user Jack Doyle tweeted to Verizon about signal strength issues he’s experiencing with his Galaxy Nexus, the Verizon Wireless Support team confirmed: “The signal strength issue is currently being investigated. We don’t have an ETA, but a…