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The best handset for T-Mobile at the moment, the G2X, may have just been pulled due to quality issues. From random reboots to light leakage, T-Mobile’s dual-core phone may be down for the count. As a happy owner of the T-Mobile G2X, I was surprised to hear so many are having issues with the handset.…
T-Mobile is shaking things up a bit with some new changes to its pre-paid and post-paid cell phone plans, and has kissed unlimited data plans goodbye. It seems to be the direction that most carriers are heading now, and I suspect it’s only a matter of time before all carriers in the U.S. offered tiered…
AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed that AT&T may be forced to divest customers and wireless spectrum in its bid to acquire T-Mobile USA. This admission does not come as a surprise as mergers involving two major wireless companies would require some form of divestiture. Verizon Wireless had to concede select assets when it purchased Alltel…
Last week, we learned that Adobe Flash 10.2 was being prepared for Android and would become available for the Android Market on March 18. That’s today, folks, so definitely keep your eyes peeled for it in the Android Market, where it should be live. Flash 10.2 brings some new features and enhancements to the platform…
It’s been a long time coming but the Android-powered HTC Merge is finally official and the CDMA world phone will be coming to “multiple carriers” later this year. The handset reminds me a bit of the EVO Shift, as it sports a large touchscreen and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The HTC Merge does have…
Are you getting tired as I am of these iPhone 4 antenna issue stories? Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: the iPhone 4’s antenna, whether it’s the GSM or CDMA iPhone model, is also its frame. When you touch that frame, you’ll have some attenuation issues whether you’re gripping it as you would when making…
Tomorrow Google will be holding a special event for their newest version of their massively popular Android operating system. We can expect to see an in-depth look into Honeycomb, and possibly the announcement for a desktop Android Market, and Google Music. We’ll be there live, and we’ll be keeping you up to date the second…
Google’s Android-themed media event is nigh, and we’re expecting the Big G to show off all kinds of next-generation Android goodies at the press conference. The event is slated to kick off at 10AM PST on February 2nd, at which point, we’ll get our very first comprehensive and detailed look at the tablet-optimized Android 3.0…
Opera and YouGov recently released the results of their survey regarding popular perceptions of online security and privacy. Compiling data from over a thousand respondents in each of the U.S., Japan, and Russia, it was concluded that having internet privacy violated to the point of fraud was a bigger daily worry than losing a job…
Finnish news site Kauppalehti just published something that if true, has huge ramifications for the future of the world’s largest handset maker. They say that Nokia Chairman Jorma Ollila, who put Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo (OPK) in charge as CEO in 2006, began a search for his replacement in the spring of 2010. The search was more…