Now that T-Mobile has had the BlackBerry Curve 3G for a week, it’s time for Verizon to get in on it as well. The 3G version of the popular BlackBerry Curve (model 9330) will finally head to Verizon Wireless. It has a slightly tweaked design–a mirror-finish trim, soft-touch sides, and a textured back–but the full …
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Wal-Mart, which already offers Common Cents and Straight Talk prepaid plans, has just launched a post-paid service called Wal-Mart Family Mobile. While Common Cents and Straight Talk runs on Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless respectively, Wal-Mart Family Mobile will piggyback on T-Mobile USA’s network. Customers will get unlimited calls and texts for $45 a month for the first line, and …
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LG has recently announced the LG HBM-810, which is a Bluetooth headset housed inside a solar-powered charging cradle. The headset itself is designed to be lightweight and features dual microphones, noise reduction, echo cancellation, and up to 5 hours of talk time and 150 hours of standby time. It also has multipoint connectivity so it can connect up to two …
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Though AT&T didn’t officially announce it, the carrier put the LG Encore for sale on its Web site on Sunday, September 5. The touch-screen phone uses LG’s proprietary operating system. The Encore is a quad-band GSM/EDGE phone with dual-band 850/1,900Mhz 3.6Mbps HSDPA 3G, A-GPS, an accelerometer, a 3.5mm headset jack, a microSD card slot that takes up to 16GB cards, …
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Verizon announced on Thursday new prepaid data plans for smartphones and feature phones. The 3G Prepaid data package offers $30-a-month unlimited plans for smartphone users, and $10 a month for 25MB of data for feature phone users–you’ll have to pay 20 cents per megabyte of overage if you go over that limit. As for which phones qualify for the new …
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This week we chat about new leaked information about the T-Mobile G2, the Samsung Fascinate, and also a little something that Steve Jobs mentioned about iOS 4.1. We go over a few more new phone announcements, plus the latest reviews. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 141: T-Mobile G2 unveiled 22:21 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. …
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Sprint is quickly taking reins of the prepaid market with the growing expansion of its Common Cents service to another 500 Wal-Mart Stores in Chicago, New Orleans, Cincinatti, Washington, D.C., and more. Common Cents was launched back in May and offers a cheap pay-as-you-go service promising 7 cents per minute or 7 cents per text. You pay via $20 refill …
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We knew the BlackBerry Curve 3G would be available from T-Mobile, but we didn’t know when. T-Mobile has announced via its Facebook page that it will begin offering the BlackBerry Curve 3G–also known as the Curve 9300–on September 8 for a very affordable $80 with a new two-year contract. The Curve 3G is an entry-level smartphone, but it does have …
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Welcome to the 411, my column answering all your questions about cell phones and cell phone accessories. I receive plenty of questions about these subjects via e-mail, so I figured many of you might have similar queries, too. At times, I might solicit answers from readers if I’m stumped. Send your questions and comments to me at [email protected]. If you …
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MetroPCS has plans to launch its LTE network in September using Samsung networking equipment, according to Jaebeom Choi, a Samsung executive in charge of systems research and development. The Wall Street Journal reports that MetroPCS will also have a Samsung phone called the Samsung Craft (also known as the Samsung SCH-R900), which promises to be the first LTE phone. The …
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