Vonage is sweetening its Internet calling service by extending its international unlimited calling plans to mobile phones. The company today introduced Vonage Extensions, which basically extends its home voice calling service to any cell phone. This means that customers who subscribe to the company’s $25.99 Vonage World service will be able to make an unlimited …
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Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #184: We’re moving! 46:24 It’s true–after almost four years of our Wednesday podcast presence, Dialed In is moving to Thursdays at 2pm PT, starting next week. Don’t worry, we’ll still bring you cell phone and smartphone news and reviews of the highest caliber, just a day later than we do now. In the meantime, …
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Verizon Wireless’s Android lineup grew a little stronger today when the carrier began deploying 2.3 Gingerbread to the Motorola Droid X2. The 101MB software update features a number of bug fixes and general enhancements plus improvements to existing applications. As is the case with nearly all recent Verizon updates, the addition of a new Download Manager app provides a central …
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Sprint’s end-of-line listing. Sprintfeed Sprint might soon be phasing out a few of its older products in favor of newer models, if this leaked end-of-line listing from Sprintfeed is any indication. The most notable handsets on the list are the HTC Evo 4G and the Samsung Epic 4G, which were released about a year ago. The Evo and the Epic …
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Real or not? That’s the question we always ask when we see design schematics, drawings, or mockups of upcoming cases for upcoming Apple products. But in the past, a few of those schematics have proved to be reliable previews of the design of next iPhone or iPad. In this instance, the source of the alleged CAD drawing for a new …
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Love Facebook? Yeah, we’re fond of it too, which is why we’re moderately excited about the Vodafone 555 Blue. It’s built around the social network and will cost under £100 when it lands in Blighty soon. The budget phone sports a massive Qwerty keyboard for speedy status updates, and a 2.4-inch screen. In the corner of the keyboard, there’s a button …
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Kingston’s new Wi-Drive is now available for sale. Kingston Running out of storage space on your iPhone or iPad? Then you may want to take a look at Kingston’s new Wi-Drive. Now available for sale through a variety of retailers, the Wi-Drive stores content that iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users can access directly on their devices. So you can …
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Lance Whitney/CNET iPhone owners who use the Google Shopper app to find their favorite products can now hunt for special deals at local restaurants and other businesses. Updated last week, Google Shopper 1.5 now sports a tab at the bottom called Offers. Tapping on Offers brings up a list of special Google Offers being promoted by local merchants eager for …
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Documents that seem to show case schematics for the iPhone 5 have surfaced at MobileFun.co.uk, and show a design radically different from the current iPhone 4. We’ve heard no end of speculation that the fifth coming of the Jesus phone will be the same as the iPhone 4, at least in terms of design. But these computer-generated drawings, reportedly from …
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Companies hopping into the payments business–with particular focus on mobile–will face unexpected challenges as PayPal did in its early days, according to an executive for the digital payments service provider. PayPal’s Laura Chambers demonstrates the tap-and-pay move at the MobileBeat conference earlier this month in San Francisco with VentureBeat editor in chief and moderator Matt Marshall. James Martin/CNET “Being in …
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Sales of the Samsung Galaxy S2 smart phone have passed the mammoth 5 million mark, and the phone hasn’t even gone on sale in the US yet. Samsung reckons it managed to hit the mammoth figure in under three months — 85 days to be exact, according to adorably named Samsung blog Sammy Hub. As the chart to the right …
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The only pay is Essex, according to ITV. The broadcaster will test payments for its online services before the end of the year, but in the meantime ITV Player catch-up is now available for free on freesat. ITV Player lets you catch up with shows from ITV, ITV 2, ITV 3 and ITV 4, including Emmerdale, Corrie, The Only Way …
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BlackBerry is promising a “shiny, new and social all over” phone will be launched today. Late last night, BlackBerry’s Facebook wall and Twitter feed lit up with the news that we’ll see “new devices” with the lastest BlackBerry 7 operating system on board. Based on the company’s leaked roadmap, we’ve got our fingers and toes crossed for the BlackBerry Storm 3, an …
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RadioShack said today that it plans to drop T-Mobile USA and start selling Verizon Wireless products and services in its stores beginning in September. RadioShack The switch allows RadioShack to tap into Verizon Wireless’s customer base, which is currently the largest in the nation. It’s also a calculated move to detach itself away from T-Mobile, which is going through the …
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The first images of AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II handset, the Attain, have landed online. Boy Genius Report has obtained multiple pictures of the SGH-I927 smartphone, which confirm a sliding QWERTY design and an 8-megapixel camera. The device should run the latest version of Android in 2.3.4 Gingerbread, however, it’s expected to also feature Samsung’s TouchWiz 4.0 user interface. Some …
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