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It looks like Verizon will be taking it to AT&T with the upcoming 4G LTE network, as the nation’s largest carrier will be sticking it to AT&T for not having a 4G network. According to some leaked promotional campaign material leaked to Engadget, Verizon will be bringing back its familiar map motif. “Verizon now has…
The ACCESS NetFront Life Android browser just hit the Android Market and this web browser offers some unique user interface qualities which helps it stand out from the crowd. The NetFront browser is HTML5-compliant and it’s actually pretty nice for one-handed operations. One of the coolest things about it is that it will actually tilt…
Doing what I do for a living, I spend a lot of time looking at Google News on my various smartphones. That’s why I’m happy to say the search giant has improved Google News for smartphone devices that run on the Android OS, iPhone (iOS) OS and webOS. Google has updated the way Google News…
Verizon unveiled its first television commercial for the Apple iPad that it is now selling in bundles with its MiFi mobile hotspot creator. The ad emphasizes the strength of Verizon’s mobile data network, as it shows an Apple iPad users in a house that slowly turns into a field. The point of the spot is…
If you’re an Opera fan and you’re using an Android then we have some good news: the Opera Mobile 10.1 beta will be landing next week with multiple new features. Unlike the Opera Mini browser, Opera Mobile doesn’t have to use proxy servers to deliver web content to Android devices, as it uses a Presto…
We know that Google Instant is hitting some select Android handsets but we can confirm that it’s now on some Apple iPhone devices too. How can we confirm this? Well, we have Google Instant on our Apple iPhone right now and it works pretty well. You simply go to Google on your iPhone, start typing…
It looks like the claims of T-Mobile that it has the largest 4G network aren’t going over well with the competitors, as Sprint is now talking all sorts of trash. “Halloween is over – it’s time for T-Mobile to stop dressing up like their favorite super hero – Sprint 4G,” Sprint 4G President Matt Carter…
Telenor is in the midst of the “Klik” (“click”) campaign in Serbia. If you read pretty much any newspaper or turn on TV every now and then, you simply gotta know about it. They are that decisive or annoying, depending on your point of view. But it’s a nice offer BTW, providing users with free…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but your mobile phone could soon become your wallet. This has been bandied about for nearly a decade but PayPal is taking some steps to actually make this happen within months, instead of years. I spoke with Laura Chambers, senior director at PayPal Mobile, at the X…
You may recall some of us being upset with how some carriers are describing its next-generation mobile networks as “4G” even though standards bodies didn’t designate technologies as such. Well, the International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunications has finally designated which wireless technologies should be called 4G but don’t expect that to clear up the confusion. The…