Verizon Wireless Upset because you just bought a Verizon phone but now crave the new iPhone? The good news: Verizon will give you a $200 gift card if you swap your current phone for an iPhone. The bad news: You’ll still need to pay the full retail price for the iPhone. Nestled about halfway down …
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Mobile World Congress 2011 is still a few weeks away, but Samsung is getting the buzz going early by posting a teaser site for its next-generation Galaxy S smartphone. The page doesn’t reveal much, other than to say, “Something big is coming” and “Evolution is fate.” Samsung said it will post another teaser preview on February 1, but the big …
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Recent changes to T-Mobile’s fair-use limits for mobile data had customers clamouring to get out of their contracts. Vodafone met a similar furore when it slashed its data allowances, as did Orange when it upped its call charges. Such changes can give you the right to break your mobile phone contract — you just need some spare time and a geological …
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After a few episodes where Bonnie Bear had to stand in for the real Bonnie, we actually got to see and hear our favorite New Yorker this week. She was on hand to bring us the latest Sprint and Samsung news before Jessica and Nicole hashed it out over the BlackBerry Playbook. Elsewhere in the podcast, Kent threatened to use …
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Apple’s long-delayed white iPhone 4 could be on sale on 27 February in the US, judging by a screenshot published on MacRumors. The image appears to show the device’s listing in retailer Best Buy’s inventory database. Bully for the Americans, eh? But wait! Separately, Engadget turned up its own screenshot of Vodafone Germany’s inventory system, which lists 16GB and 32GB models of …
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U.S. Cellular announced today that it’s pushing Android 2.2 Froyo to its Samsung Acclaim smartphone. You can’t get the update over the air–you’ll have to actually connect your phone to a PC–but that’s a small price to pay for all the goodness that Froyo brings. Here are a few of the highlights as listed on U.S. Cellular’s site. Fully integrated …
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Nokia has canceled the U.S. release of a new smartphone that was supposed to be exclusive to AT&T, CNET has confirmed. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news today, but a source close to the situation, who didn’t want to be named, confirmed Nokia had pulled the plug on the launch of the new smartphone on AT&T’s network. A …
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The Tekkeon myPower for iPhone offers smart supplemental power, but it’s mighty pricey. Tekkeon If you’re constantly fighting the low-battery blues, you might want to consider switching to a case that provides supplemental power. The Tekkeon MyPower MP1280 for iPhone 4 is one such case. It provides not only protection, but also 1200 mAh’ worth of extra juice–enough to nearly …
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Oops! Hef misspoke about the iPad offering. Twitter Playboy plans to bare it all anew in March with a Web subscription service that offers the full catalog of the venerable men’s magazine. The news was revealed yesterday by none other than the magazine’s famed founder and bon vivant, Hugh Hefner, though it turns out that Hef’s tease was a bit …
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Wireless carriers in the U.S. have turned 4G into a meaningless marketing term, and standards purists are none too pleased about it. With good reason: All four of the major U.S. wireless carriers are calling their faster wireless networks 4G, but the truth is that none of these networks meets the International Telecommunication Union‘s specifications for 4G. Top on the …
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After the genius that is WordLens, augmented reality is a step closer to revolutionising the way we use our mobiles to interact with the world. eBay is the latest company to make use of AR in an interesting way. The auction service has updated its spin-off iPhone app eBay Fashion with a new feature called See It On, which lets …
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Apple According to two separate rumors, Apple has not given up on releasing a white iPhone 4. After months of production issues, any hope for getting a white iPhone 4 to consumers seemed to be lost. With the passing holiday season and last week’s announcement of the iPhone coming to Verizon, it appeared as though we might have to wait …
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I’m a closet World War II junkie. I sat rapt through Ken Burns’ “The War” and HBO’s “Band of Brothers.” And I just finished “Unbroken,” the mesmerizing, jaw-dropping tale of WWII POW Louis Zamperini. (Seriously, if you read no other book this year…) So I was very keen to thumb through War in the Pacific, an iPad application based on …
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Usually when we refer to something as a Mickey Mouse phone, we’re not being generous. Today is different. Disney. Japan. Android. Smart phone. Boom — four of our favourite things, coming together like two dogs hoovering up a piece of spaghetti, as Disney stamps its distinctively eared brand on an Android phone. The Disneyphone will run version 2.2 of Google’s …
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With rising data usage and rising network costs, Sprint announced today that it will increase its Everything Data plans by $10 per month on new smartphone activations starting January 30. This new Premium Data add-on, which Sprint already charges on its 4G handsets, applies to all smartphones, including BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone, Palm, and Instinct devices. Note, however, that if …
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