Health | Science | Technology | Space | Sports | Entertainment | Mobile | Games | Economy | Politics | Movies | Music | [Top News]

Category: verizon

Verizon to kill grandfathered unlimited data plans with 4G upgrades

May 16, 2012
Verizon Wireless plans to eliminate its $30 per month unlimited data plan that it provides to customers who subscribed to the plan prior to the company’s transition to tiered data plans last July, Fierce Wireless reported on Wednesday. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said at the 40th J.P. Morgan Technology, Media ...

Verizon’s Galaxy S III may lose quad-core processor

May 14, 2012
An unknown Samsung handset running on Verizon’s network made an appearance on NenaMark’s benchmarking app over the weekend. The smartphone features the model number SCH-I535, which has previously been rumored to be Verizon’s variant of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S III. The benchmark confirms that a powerful Samsung device with a ...

AT&T shared family data plans coming soon

May 8, 2012
AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said he feels good about the future of the company’s shared family data plans. “I’m very comfortable with the plan that will be offered to our customers,” de la Vega told CNET at the CTIA Wireless trade show. The comments mark a 180-degree ...

HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE Now Official on Verizon

May 7, 2012
Verizon and HTC have just unveiled officially the HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE handset, the latest Android smartphone to reach the carrier. We’re dealing here with a model that should belong to the One series, since it borrows many design elements. Some people even say it’s a combo between the ...

Verizon Wireless announces new prepaid plans

May 1, 2012
Verizon Wireless on Monday announced a new prepaid plan that offers unlimited talk, text, and 1GB of data for $80. The monthly plan is only being offered on the 3G Samsung Illusion, which can be had for $169.99 and will be available at Best Buy, Target, RadioShack and Walmart. Verizon ...

Leaked Verizon document details Android updates

April 28, 2012
A Reddit user by the name of DroidTosser claims to have the inside scoop on Verizon’s Android update schedule, and has posted the images to back their story up. According the photos, the HTC Rezound is slated receive an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on May 9th, followed ...

Apple discontinues Chomp for Android

April 28, 2012
Apple in February acquired the San Francisco-based company Chomp, a startup that develops application search and discovery software. Apple went forward with the acquisition in an attempt to improve the application search and discovery features within its App Store — the company’s Genius recommendations are a little half-baked. The service ...

HTC Droid Incredible 4G Coming on May 10th… Ready for a New HTC Hit?

April 27, 2012
PhoneDog seems to be sure that HTC is readying yet another handset for Verizon: the Droid Incredible 4G. An anonymous source is quoted as sure that this device is coming, but I advise you take the info with the usual grain of salt. The device has been leaking a lot ...

Verizon Keeping Busy in the Following Weeks/Months With Galaxy S III, RAZR HD, Mystery HTC “Note”

April 27, 2012
Not only is Verizon gearing up to launch the Samsung Galaxy S III, but also a mystery Note model from HTC, that might prove to be their very first phablet. Jonathan Geller of BGR claims that he came across some very interesting info, that says Verizon will launch the following ...

Verizon’s Summer / Fall 2012 smartphone roadmap

April 26, 2012
While Samsung’s Galaxy S3 has been the star of the rumor show for the past few months — with BGR leading the pack — we now have a clear picture of the smartphone landscape for late summer and early fall this year. BGR has exclusively learned details about most, if not all ...

DROID Incredible 4G LTE appears on Verizon site

April 24, 2012
The HTC DROID Incredible 4G LTE has been outed on Verizon’s “Droid Does” website. The new Incredible is equipped with a 4-inch qHD Super LCD display, a dual-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, a microSD slot and an 8-megapixel rear camera — possibly the ...

Verizon Wants to Push Windows Phone Devices in the Holiday Timeframe

April 21, 2012
I can’t really see why big carriers such as AT&T would invest dozens of millions of dollars (or hundreds) in the promotion of Windows Phone devices… Well, Verizon must have sensed that this trend must be followed, since they announced plans for a big marketing push that will promote WP ...