What’s that sound you hear? It’s the tune of Cricket Wireless selling smartphones with all-you-can download music plans from yet another retail giant. Starting today, nearly 1,600 Target stores will carry the Samsung Vitality and ZTE Score on Cricket’s network. Both Android smartphones feature Muve Music, the unlimited music and ringtone download plan that Cricket …
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Do you believe in second chances? Samsung and Verizon hope you do. About a year and a half after launching the original Samsung Gusto, the two companies are taking another stab at the series with the recently announced Samsung Gusto 2, a simple flip phone intended to pad out Verizon’s portfolio of basic phones. I personally hope it’s a big …
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AT&T continues to expand its 4G LTE markets. A company representative told CNET that the wireless provider added LTE coverage in Staten Island, New York, and in St. Louis, Missouri. The mini-expansion now brings AT&T’s maturing LTE network to all five New York boroughs, and to a total of 32 markets. Article updated at 8:15 a.m. PT to correct the …
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Although Samsung announced the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet with its larger stylus and screen at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, don’t hold your breath for a U.S. announcement anytime soon. As for the Galaxy Note 10.1, Samsung told a group of journalists today in San Francisco not to settle on the specs for the tablet we …
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T-Mobile now has a new pool of potential customers to fish in, thanks to AT&T’s recent resolution to unlock your device for you, after meeting the right requirements. It’s a position they intend to capitalize on, too. The nation’s fourth-largest carrier has GSM micro-SIM cards on hand for compatible phones, including the iPhone. Buying one of these micro-SIMs and signing …
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It was a good day for Microsoft and AT&T yesterday, when the carrier opened its registers for two 4G LTE Windows phones: the Nokia Lumia 900 and the HTC Titan II. Both have the most recent version of Windows Phone OS, large screens over 4 inches, and 16GB of storage, with 25GB of extra storage online. Yet the Titan II …
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If the Nokia Lumia 900 is any indication, Nokia’s resurgence as a mobile player will hinge on distinctive design. Take, for instance, the mock-ups that recently surfaced on IT168. Allegedly shots of presentation slides, the phone in question, the Nokia Lumia PureView, combines the 41-megapixel camera (really an advanced 5-megapixel camera) and Carl Zeiss optics of the Nokia 808 PureView …
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Restless for a taste of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich? If you’re a Samsung Nexus S 4G owner, don’t be. Sprint began rolling out the over-the-air ICS update today. The carrier predicts that by the end of the month, all users will have had a chance to install Google’s most recent OS (so a little patience might be necessary.) Of …
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If you’re a Cricket customer who skipped over the Huawei Mercury smartphone because it lacked Muve Music, you’ll be happy to know you can hop back to it. Cricket will soon supply an over-the-air download to upgrade the phone and let in the unlimited music downloads and ringtones on top of the usual unlimited calling, data, and text and multimedia …
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After months and months of waiting for the Microsoft-Nokia partnership to bear smartphone fruit here in the U.S., the Nokia Lumia 900 is finally here! I won’t say that I couldn’t be happier, because I could, but let’s just say that I’m very happy with this phone as a mainstream offering that makes Microsoft’s Windows Phone portfolio much more exciting, …
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