AT&T announced Tuesday that it had completed its $1.9 billion acquisition of wireless spectrum from Verizon Wireless, which it plans to use to strengthen its 4G LTE coverage. More than seven months after the deal was sealed in January, AT&T announced today that it had acquired 39 licenses for spectrum it will use to deliver …

BlackBerry laid off dozens of people from it US sales force on Monday in another wave of layoffs at the embattled handset maker, according to published reports. The company laid off more than half its sales force on Monday, a source described as close to the matter told Canadian technology blog Cantech Letter, describing the company’s consumer sales force as …

Contradicting rumors, Amazon said Sunday it has no plans to offer a smartphone for free. Two days after former Wall Street Journal reporters Amir Efrati and Jessica Lessin reported that Amazon was considering the give-away strategy for “its long-planned smartphone,” the company broke its silence with a statement dismissing the suggestion. “We have no plans to offer a phone this …

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 phablet and Galaxy Gear smartwatch are expected to land in the US in early October, wireless carriers revealed late Thursday. T-Mobile said it will would launch the devices on October 2, while AT&T indicated that pre-orders of the Galaxy Note 3 would ship “around” October 1. The phablet will be available on AT&T for $299 with …

After years of talks and speculation, Verizon Communications has reached a deal to acquire Vodafone’s stake in their Verizon Wireless joint venture for $130 billion. The deal is the third largest corporate acquisition ever, behind Vodafone’s $183 billion deal for Mannesmann AG in 1999 and AOL’s $164 billion deal for Time Warner the next year. Under the terms of the …

LG Display might have just made that full HD screen on your smartphone look not so sharp. The South Korean LCD panel maker on Tuesday unveiled what it calls the world’s first Quad HD (2,560×1,440-pixel resolution) smartphone display. Measuring 5.5 inches long and 1.21 millimeters thick, the panel sports 538 pixels per inch, LG Display said. LG Display claims the …

A little more than 12 hours before LG is expected to take the wraps off its G2, the first press image of the company’s next flagship smartphone has allegedly leaked out. A purported marketing image of the smartphone, which incidentally displays the time and date of Wednesday’s big reveal, was obtained and tweeted by evleaks Tuesday afternoon. The device’s front …

Less than a month after rumors began circulating that HTC was building a phablet to take on Samsung’s Galaxy Note series, images of the purported device have popped up on a Taiwan Web site. Related stories Best VR Headsets of 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean It Without Causing Damage The Metaverse Is on the Way: …

Sprint has expanded the footprint of its 4G LTE coverage with the addition of 41 new markets across the U.S., the wireless carrier announced Monday night. The carrier, which lags behind Verizon Wireless with its LTE network, added markets such as Philadelphia, Portand, Ore., and Oakland, Calif., bringing the footprint of Sprint’s high-speed wireless network up to 151 markets. While …

Samsung on Thursday posted another company record quarterly operating profit that was marred by a slight recession in its mobile business. The South Korean electronics giant’s second-quarter operating profit for the period ended June 30 was 9.53 trillion won ($8.5 billion), an increase of 47 percent over a year ago, the company announced in a statement. Though the results were …