About a year ago I moved and subsequently switched over to AT&T which, by all accounts, has better coverage in my new area. After considering all of my options, I went with the HTC Vivid as I had been using a Blackberry Storm II over on Verizon. The point being, since I succumbed to the …
Kev’s Review of the LG Optimus G Pro phone, love it or hate it? Read More »
Have you noticed that you haven’t received an email, status update, or been able to streaming music for the last 12 hours or so? Well if you’re on the Magenta network it’s because they’re suffering a major service disruption. We called up T-Mobile and were able to determined that the epicenter of the outage is …
Surprising absolutely no one (but possibly inspiring envy from Verizon and T-Mobile subscribers) AT&T announced that they will be the exclusive carrier of the Nokia Lumia 920 – the flagship Windows Phone 8 device. So the nation’s largest carrier will also have the largest selection of WP8 devices including the Lumia 920, Lumia 820, and both …
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Nokia announced some pretty big news for current and prospective Nokia Lumia 900 (AT&T) and Lumia 710 (T-Mobile) customers; Nokia will be launching a new music streaming service in the Windows Phone Marketplace in the US. The new service will supposedly launch with “millions of songs,” radio functionality (think Spotify Radio – which is noticeably …
New free music streaming service coming to Lumia 900 and Lumia 710 phones Read More »
A couple of days ago, Samsung wowed the tech world by managing to keep a secret and unveiled the first official Windows Phone 8 device – beating Microsoft’s hardware partner, Nokia, to the punch. Now it looks like Nokia’s handset may have been outed a week before their big announcement in New York City. The …
I enjoy doing helpdesk stuff most of the time. Not all of the time, though. Amazon unveils Glacier, super cheap data archive service. This isn’t your average cloud service, but rather a service focused on rarely-accessed data. It comes as cheap as a penny per Gigabyte per month. The idea is to bundle your files …
It’s not every day that Sprint gets to share good news twice in one day, but today is no ordinary day for the number 3 national wireless carrier. Coming off better than expected earnings report, CEO Dan Hesse made his appeal to customers very simply, Sprint will be “the good guy.” In The Verge’s article, …
Sprint’s plan for mobile domination? “Be the good guy.” Read More »
Howdy! Welcome to the Roundup! Don’t forget to check out the Steam Summer Sale, and vote on the next Community Choice! In the meantime, here’s a little ditty by the Ink Spots. That was relaxing, right? Onward! A UK judge dishes out embarrassing justice. Bloomberg is reporting that a judge in the UK is ordering …
The above was a screen shot taken from a Finnish electronics store, Gigantti, advertising pre-orders for a “Fuchsia Red” Nokia Lumia 900. According to the Finnish retailer, the phone was expected to ship in May. If you notice the use of the past-tense in our lede, that’s because this morning it appears that you can …
Here we go again. Today, Ars Technica reported that Samsung released a fact sheet for all the confirmed ICS (Android 4.0) eligible handsets and it seems that for the most part, if you’ve recently purchased a Galaxy variant, you can expect to get all the goodness that’s promised in ICS. Unless you’re a T-Mobile customer. T-Mobile …
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If you’re on the Deathstar network and are looking for an upgrade deal, look no further. Just announced today, AT&T will be seeing two new flagship Windows Phone options from both HTC and Nokia. First up is the HTC Titan II. The Titan II is the evolutionary follow up to last year’s Titan, both come …
It’s really no surprise that the days of truly unlimited data plans are a thing of the past. Even customers who were grandfathered into all-you-can-eat data plans, mainly iPhone customers, have seen text messages notifying them that they were now in the “top 5% of data users” and subject to data throttling. Up to this point, …
AT&T revises throttling procedure on unlimited data plans Read More »
I’ve been known to go on a few rants about Windows Phone. Not the actual Operating System, but the people who are behind it. Almost a year ago, Nokia joined hands with Microsoft to fix their lack of a smartphone OS and Microsoft’s lack of notable hardware. Since then we’ve seen one US phone released, …
Nokia must listen to the Noisecast: Lumia 900 coming to AT&T with FFC Read More »
Google Wallet is the NFC technology that is looking to revolutionize the way we pay for things. We know it will be available on the Nexus S and was front and center on the features list for the Galaxy Nexus, but now comes news that Verizon has asked Google to not include Google Wallet on …
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In case you may have missed the news and or confusion on Twitter this past Friday, AT&T announced that the iPhone 3GS is no longer free with a two-year agreement. Nope, if you’re in the market for a new free iPhone you may be out of luck if you’re going through your local AT&T store. …
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