After months of speculation and an accidental leak last month, Google formally announced its latest phones at an event in the San Francisco Jazz Center: the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. The phones are nearly identical in every way aside from size, battery and price. The Pixel 2, the smaller of the two, comes …
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The biggest benefit of AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner? Cheaper prices for consumers, fueled mostly by more targeted advertising. That’s what AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said Wednesday at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in Beverly Hills. Stephenson said not many people can afford the $110 to $120 a month cable companies charge for their traditional TV bundle. …
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The V30, LG‘s most premium phone of the season, will be available on the country’s three largest carriers starting Thursday, Oct. 5. The phone will be available online and in retail stores for Verizon right on Oct. 5, without pre-order. On AT&T, you can purchase the phone online that day too, or buy it in retail stores when it will be available …
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Time has run out for Verizon‘s Wear24 smartwatch after just four months. Verizon Wireless began selling the 4G LTE-connected Wear24 in May for $300. The smartwatch ran Google’s Android Wear 2 software and featured a 1.4-inch AMOLED display and a 450mAh battery with wireless charging. Apparently that battery power wasn’t enough to keep Verizon charged about the Wear24 and the …
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Verizon is offering up to $300 off an iPhone 8 when you trade in your old phone. Even better, the company is also giving away iPhones 8s. That is, if you can find them. Enlarge Image The AR number 8 could be hiding in your city. Time to go find it! Verizon Verizon is hosting an iPhone giveaway through Friday, Sept. …
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Over the past couple of episodes, we’ve talked about how photos affect our lives and issues around publishing them to the web. But the biggest problem I keep hearing about is where to safely store all these memories we create. Do we keep them on our computers? Do we back them up to the cloud? Should we pay someone to …
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T-Mobile and Sprint are quickly becoming the Ross and Rachel of the wireless industry. The nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers are in active discussions for a merger, according to a person familiar with the talks. It could take anywhere between three and five weeks before the deal might be made official, although there’s no guarantee it will go through. CNBC’s …
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Those of you on T-Mobile’s unlimited data plans will soon get to use at least 50 gigabytes of data each month before you face a possible speed reduction. T-Mobile, the third-largest wireless player — well behind Verizon and AT&T — previously warned that it may reduce customers’ download speeds once they’ve consumed 32GB of data each month. The wireless carrier …
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It’s decided: You’re buying an iPhone 8. Or an iPhone 8 Plus. Now to figure out where to get the best deal. There are, of course, many variables. Can you afford to buy the phone outright, or should you look at a lease deal? Should you sell or trade in your current iPhone? And what about the carrier: stay or …
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Wireless service is being restored to millions of people recovering from Hurricane Irma, but for areas hardest hit by the storm widespread outages persist. The nation’s largest wireless carriers — Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile — have worked around the clock to restore service to millions of customers in Florida and other areas affected by Hurricane Irma. Now playing: Watch …
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