This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. AT&T is giving away Samsung’s Galaxy S21 this Cyber Monday as long as you meet the carrier’s conditions. The Galaxy S21 is Samsung’s flagship smartphone from 2021 that comes with 6.2-inch screen and a triple-lens camera. To take advantage of …
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This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. If you’re shopping for a new iPhone on Black Friday, Visible has one of the best deals available right now. Switch from your current carrier and sign up for its unlimited data plan by purchasing a qualifying device (or bringing your own), and you’ll get …
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Hoping to score a deal on Google’s Pixel 6 phone? It’s worth hunting for a Black Friday sale: Google’s phone is a CNET Editors’ Choice Award winner. Google itself does have a Pixel on sale on its store, but it’s the Pixel 5A for $50 off, not the Pixel 6, which the search giant is selling for $599 unlocked. The Pixel …
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AT&T and Verizon Communications are voluntarily agreeing to take further precautions to make sure cell towers transmitting 5G signals using newly acquired midband spectrum won’t interfere with aircraft signals. The companies laid out their plan in a letter sent to the US Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday afternoon, in a move meant to defuse a conflict between the wireless and …
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We all know the drill. As Apple’s annual fall event draws close, many of us start to check in on our previous two-year smartphone plan to see if we’re eligible for an upgrade in September. After all, the newest phone is only the newest phone for so long. Even for discerning shoppers like me, it takes serious willpower to resist the …
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Nov 2021 Editor’s note, Nov. 19: The iPhone 13 and 13 Mini have better battery life, better cameras and a newer processor than last year’s iPhone 12 and 12 Mini. Overall both the iPhone 13 and 13 Mini are excellent phones for most people, which is why we’ve given them a CNET Editors’ Choice Award. Our original review, first published in …
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Prepaid mobile provider Boost Mobile on Thursday released the first of several new plans that will debut this holiday season under the name Carrier Crusher. The plans are aimed at people currently paying for more data than they use. Boost is offering two plans that require a yearly payment: unlimited talk and text with 1GB of data a month for …
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T-Mobile’s lead in midband 5G has increased. On Monday, the carrier announced that it has reached its 2021 goal of getting 200 million people covered with this faster cellular network, coming in six weeks ahead of its previously stated target of the end of this year. The milestone lets T-Mobile tout that its faster version of 5G is now available …
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AT&T might not be the first place you’d think to look for Black Friday savings, but if you’re in the market for a phone upgrade there are some pretty substantial sales happening right now. The big blue carrier just dropped its first round of early Black Friday deals today, with more to follow next Friday. The standard terms and conditions …
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Looking to switch? Perhaps you moved to a new area where your current carrier doesn’t have great coverage. Or maybe you want to lower your monthly bill and found a better deal. No matter your reason, it’s perfectly legal to unlock your iPhone — if it’s not already unlocked — and switch to a new carrier. And there’s now an …
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