Hoping to not get lost in today’s Nexus S news cycle is a report by analyst Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros who believes that Verizon will pay to keep the iPhone away from Sprint and T-Mobile. I believe it’s safe to say that analyst opinions like this are often steeped … [read full article]
In the midst of yesterdays Verizon LTE announcement, a little ego showed on behalf of Verizon as they proclaimed themselves responsible for the success of Android. “Android really took off when Verizon got involved” is the direct quote from Verizon CTO Tony Melone and comes off pretty matter of fact. T-Mobile was the first carrier to launch Android in the … [read full article]
With the 4G Wars heating up after today’s announcement of Verizon’s new LTE network bringing impressive speeds to the table, T-Mobile shares its reaction to the announcement. T-Mobile welcomes Verizon to the “4G world”, claiming that T-Mobile subscribers have been enjoying “America’s Largest 4G Network” for a while now and love it. Magenta also states that it is still on track to … [read full article]
Following Verizon’s LTE announcement this morning, it’s really quite clear that the battle for the “4G” speed war has begun. Early tests from bloggers and journalists testing the Verizon network are coming back with very impressive results, although they all admit the results are on a network with almost zero load on it. Up until this point however, T-Mobile has … [read full article]
If Sprint was hoping to steer the conversation back in their direction with this, the latest entrance in the “4G” argument, they should have tried harder. This video, which offers up a mini-tutorial on how Sprint 4G works as well as some digs at the competition, effectively does neither very well. All I learned from this video is that Sprint apparently has a … [read full article]
T-Mobile has been saying that its 4G HSPA+ network will boost speeds across the board regardless of whether or not the phone is capable of the full speed. So Wireless testing firm Root Metrics decided to put that to the test and found that the speed boost indeed was noticeable across the … [read full article]
Well, what do we have here? It’s another entry into the “4G” war by big red Verizon herself. The above image, via Twitter, shows that Verizon is ready to tackle the 4G issue and formally enter the 4G war. This time the ad hits AT&T where … [read full article]
Today, T-Mobile announced that it is teaming up with the other two major U.S carriers, AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless to bring Isis, a mobile payment system to customers. Isis will use near-field communication (NFC) based technology to allow smartphone owners to use their handsets as a form of payment, thus replacing the need to carry around [read full article]
A while back, there were several rumors floating around of Magenta supposedly discontinuing the Sidekick line. Many thought that the T-Mobile Sidekick would be replaced with the rumored Microsoft “Project Pink” handsets for Verizon Wireless. Today, April 12, Verizon Wireless and Microsoft announced the KIN ONE and the KIN TWO which are devices targeted towards the younger social networking crowd. T-Mobile states that, even though these new devices are very similar to the T-Mobile Sidekick handset, Sidekick … [read full article]
As some of you may know, there have been a bunch rumors (that are less rumor and more fact) about Verizon’s upcoming Android phone, the Motorola Sholes. Well, Verizon and Google went semi-official and announced their (somewhat unlikely) partnership today. While these companies have had disputes in the past, everything seems to be just peachy now. In a press call, Verizon and Google said that they will be showing … [read full article]
