Starting next week, users with either of Verizon’s two unlimited plans can call and text to Mexico and Canada, as well as use data when visiting. Verizon has two tiers of unlimited plans: Go Unlimited (which costs $40 a month for four lines each) and the slightly more expensive Beyond Unlimited (which costs $50 a …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Lacking in intelligence? Sprint/iSpotTV screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Have you ever been in an argument and called your opponent stupid? How did that go? Generally, calling people dumb doesn’t exude emotional intelligence. Yet here is Sprint suggesting that Verizon customers might not do too well …
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If you’re trying to make a splash in Las Vegas, it helps to be flamboyant. Maybe that’s why at CES 2018, LG showed off its top-tier V30 phone in a new vibrant shade. First announced on Jan. 3 and officially called “Raspberry Rose,” the new color is a deep mixture that falls between fuchsia and magenta. It will be available …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. T-Mobile’s John Legere. Is his company satisfying customers? James Martin/CNET When you’re loved, do you keep it to yourself, for fear the love will wane? Or do you boast about it from the highest mountain top because, well, that’s just who you are? T-Mobile seems …
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Unlimited data returned to the mobile world in a big way this year. T-Mobile’s move in 2016 to offer only an unlimited data plan initially drew a lot of scorn. But instead of withdrawing, the company raised the ante, announcing at CES in January of this year that it would shave off taxes and fees. Its momentum dragged Verizon and AT&T …
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You may not remember, but there was a time when you had to plug a cable into the side of your computer if you wanted to check your email. Today, Wi-Fi’s wireless connections make physical network cables a rarity. But that’s just the beginning. Technological forces are converging to make a lot of other wires in our lives look like …
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Whether you have a kid who is finally of the age you deem it appropriate he or she has a phone, or your spouse is overdue for an upgrade, the holidays make for a good occasion to get a new phone. But instead of activating the phone right away, potentially revealing your intentions, there’s a way to keep a phone …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Not loved by carrier store salespeople? Óscar Gutiérrez/CNET It’s been a pulsating few weeks. I’ve wandered around various carrier stores and Best Buy, learning about phones and failing to find a single salesperson to tell me that iPhone X is the best phone …
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T-Mobile is getting into the holiday spirit — by laying into rival Verizon. On Monday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere used Twitter to call out Verizon for its plan to speed up wireless broadband service, using a next-generation cellular technology called 5G. Specifically, he criticized the rival for missing a self-imposed deadline of deploying commercial service by 2017 (which CNET first reported). …
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Verizon said Wednesday that it plans to launch wireless 5G service in up to five US cities by the end of next year. Sacramento, California, is likely to be the first city to get access to the 5G network, which promises to be 10 to 100 times faster than the company’s speediest existing cellular connections. That service should begin in …
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