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. …
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T-Mobile’s announced Tuesday that it is expanding its HSPA+ network to nine new cities including Boston; Erie, Pa.; Fresno, Calif.; Palm Springs, Calif.; San Diego; Miami; Richmond, Va.; Spokane, Wash.; and Topeka, Kan. Once the cities are switched on, the carrier’s enhanced data network will cover 55 major markets and 100 million people. T-Mobile also promises that further network expansion …
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The Griffin PartyDock is ready to turn your previously hermit-like iPhone into a multiplayer party gaming machine your plug into your big-screen TV. Wireless Goodness did a spot of digging through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website and found information on the device, which has four wireless controllers and a space to put your iPhone 4 or iPad. Once the …
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Ever since I got my iPad a few months back, I’ve been looking for the perfect case–which to my thinking was one that not only protected the device but also held it upright for watching movies and whatnot. The Brenthaven 5-in-1 iPad Case does that and more. Although a few design flaws keep it from achieving perfection, it provides a …
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The Federal Communications Commission is close to finalizing rules for the use of unlicensed white space spectrum, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper on Tuesday reported that top aides to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski have met with TV broadcasters and others in recent weeks to discuss how to get the spectrum freed for use by …
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Dell Streak owners should be getting a new and improved tablet experience thanks to an Android 2.1 update out on September 1 from O2, according to The Really Mobile Project. In a blog post from the site on Monday, Ben Smith, a public sector management consultant, wrote that owners would be able to upgrade to version 2.1 from tomorrow. We’ve …
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Cricket Wireless, the little carrier with big plans to go national, added yet another handset to its lineup Tuesday. The Samsung Messager Touch comes hot on the heels of the Android-powered Sanyo Zio, which had its formal introduction last week. The Messager Touch isn’t a smartphone, but it offers a slider design with a full keyboard, messaging and multimedia features, …
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Though we’re still waiting to see what comes out of the HP-Palm merger, Palm’s still plugging away on WebOS and released some new information about WebOS 2.0 on Tuesday. The news mostly affects developers, as they can now download a beta version of the WebOS 2.0, but Palm also gave us a glimpse of what’s to come and we’re pretty …
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LG has been making some impressive noises about a new range of smart phones, and the latest leak is of a Windows Phone 7 which could be carrying a mighty 1.3GHz Snapdragon processor. Polish website Android.com.pl published pictures and videos of the LG E900, which has a 3.7-inch capacitive TFT LCD display and is said to be carrying a 1.3GHz …
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Now playing: Watch this: Stream Netflix on your iPhone 2:14 Hulu Plus may have been the first major entertainment app to stream television shows and movies on Apple’s iOS 4, but now it’s facing stiff competition from Netflix for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, which has also now taken up residence in the App Store. So how is Netflix’s streaming …
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T-Mobile G2 T-Mobile It appears that the first official images of the forthcoming T-Mobile G2 have found their way online. And I like what I see so far. Besides looking very polished in its T-Mobile branding, the phone features a spacious four-row slideout QWERTY keyboard and an optical trackpad, in addition to the four soft buttons across the bottom. Given …
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The C6 was only recently picked up by Vodafone, but more details have emerged about the C6-01, which you may be able to buy by the middle of September, after this year’s Nokia World. There have been conflicting reports, but we think the C6-01 might have the Symbian 3 OS upgrade, as claimed by Mobile Geek Inc, rather than keeping …
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Best known for its social music- and lyric-finding service, TuneWiki launched a new venture Tuesday in the form of a game with a slightly different take on music discovery. Lyric Legend is a free app that combines aspects of a karaoke and a rhythm game into one visually stimulating package. I downloaded the app onto an iPhone 3GS to give …
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Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Epic 4G (Sprint) 3:24 If you’ve been waiting for the Samsung Epic 4G, it can now be yours, as Sprint’s second 4G smartphone hits the streets Tuesday. The Epic 4G will run you $249.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. However, you can also pick up the phone at Best Buy …
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PapayaMobile Papaya is best known for its mobile social platform dubbed PapayaMobile, which offers a variety of features from gaming to chat to photo sharing. Unlike many others in the space, PapayaMobile recently elected to abandon support for the iPhone OS in favor of focusing all of its efforts on Android apps. The benefit of this is the open-source nature …
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