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Verizon To Sell Netbooks

Previous rumors of Verizon entering the world of netbooks have been confirmed this Saturday, March 28, 2009. Brenda Raney, the spokeswoman for Verizon, announced that the company plans on carrying 3G enabled netbooks by either the end of the second quarter, or June of 2009. Although information about an estimated release time-period was spoke about, [...]

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AT&T to offer iPhone 3G at no commitment pricing, with no activation

That’s right. The Boy Genius Report was able to get their hands on some Team Meeting slides, which detail new pricing initiatives for the iPhone 3G. Among these new price points sits a no commitment price for the 8GB and 16GB iPhone 3G, being $599 and $699 respectively. What does all this mean? Existing customers [...]

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Verizon wants to know why you changed carriers; was the iPhone the reason?

The exit surveys that Verizon asks parting customers to fill out reveal some interesting information. The carrier, in addition to listening reasons such as customer service, locations, data plans, etc. for leaving, also throws iPhone related reasons on the list as well. While this doesn’t present much notion that Verizon will be getting the iPhone [...]

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It’s rumor-time! AT&T may be launching handset trade-in program

According to the Boy Genius Report, AT&T is rumored to be starting a phone-trade in program, for all those customers who were upset with their recent (or misinformed) purchases. Take this with grain of salt however; nothing is set in stone yet. In terms of the potential conditions of a trade-in, BGR lists them as [...]

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Wrap up time: Mobile World Congress 2009

Another Mobile World Congress has come and gone, so I decided to be a nice guy and share all the ETN coverage of the event. We saw some awesome new phones, lost hope in a few companies, and even witnessed a crime. Either way, it was a good show in Barcelona. Enjoy.
February 16th:
Samsung creates a [...]

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AT&T’s LTE 4G network coming in 2011?

We’ve reached a plateau with 3G speeds; I want to download massive files, video chat with multiple friends and watch HD movies. Will a 4G network give us these capabilities? AT&T took the floor at Barcelona to announce that testing of their Long Term Evolution/4G network will begin in 2010, with the deployment being as [...]

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iPhone carrier update hinting at AT&T 3g Microcell?

If you’ve updated your iPhone (in the US) in the last day or so, you may see the following update:

The carrier update is hinting at the upcoming release of AT&T’s Microcell connection, a service aimed at 3g users that live in dead zones. In prepping the iPhone for this update, they’ve thrown a few Microcell [...]

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AT&T Quickfire: Review

As most of you know I purchased a AT&T Quickfire about 2 weeks ago. I am writing this review to let you know about how I like or dislike the phone:
The Good:
On the outside this phone boasts a touchscreen and a keyboard. This phones navigation is very snappy. Some features on this phone are Cellular Video, (AT&T’s wireless [...]

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AT&T Launching In-Car Television Service

There have been ways for Do-It-Yourselfers to install television functionality into their cars for awhile now. AT&T Announced that they will soon be providing this service to anyone. That is, anyone that wants to pay…

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AT&T Quickfire: First Impressions

After AT&T wouldn’t replace my existing phone I had to buy a new one. I had a big debate with myself to buy the Quickfire or the iPhone. Long story short, I bought the Quickfire for the single reason it has a keyboard and here first impressions. First off, the touchscreen on this device is [...]

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