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Verizon Droid X Announcement Stirs Cell Phone Market

Even with almost two million iPhone 4 phones sold, the news about the DROID X model from Verizon Wireless last week stirred customers of the popular carrier into deciding whether to upgrade to the powerful device or jump ship to the Apple iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 has over 100 new improvements but the Droid X [...]

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AT&T increases ETF for smartphones and netbooks

Engadget is reporting that AT&T has raised its early termination fees on “more advanced, higher end devices” for new customers, as spelled out in an open letter the company drafted.   The ETF has shot up to $325 when a new two-year contract is created around one of those highly-subsidized smartphones or notebooks folks never want [...]

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The iPhone Effect On Verizon And AT&T (T, AAPL, VZ)

How important is Apple’s iPhone to AT&T, its exclusive U.S. carrier, and Verizon Wireless, the carrier that doesn’t have it?

Here’s one clue: Take a look at each carrier’s churn rate — the rate at which customers leave the service — since the iPhone 3G rolled out, argues Turley Muller, Apple analyst and [...]

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Verizon Pre / Pixi Plus users: How's GPS after 1.4.1.1?

The (long-awaited) release of webOS 1.4.1.1 for Verizon devices had us provisionally hopeful that we had a fix for the persistent and persistently annoying issue of trying to get a quick and reliable GPS fix on the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus on “The Network.”

Sadly, in the ensuing days we’re finding that GPS is [...]

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Verizon Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, one penny apiece on Amazon

If you were thinking that the Buy One Get One Free deal still running at Verizon was a good deal, but not good enough for you, we’ll happily direct you towards the fine digital folks at Amazon. The online mega retailer is now selling both the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus for, get this, [...]

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BlackBerry Bold 9650 Due May 27 on Verizon?

Spec Sheet Leaked

Some internal Verizon (NYSE: VZ) documents are pegging the release date for the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold 9650 on May 27 (which falls nicely in line with the Tour 9630 end of life) and gives us a full spec sheet to chew on.

Most of the features listed on the spec [...]

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Blackberry Data Outage in US

A number of users are reporting and an escalated RIM tech support call has confirmed data issues affecting WiFi device NOT connected to a WiFi network. The outage is sporadic and issues are confirmed on at least on Verizon and T-Mobile on both US east and west coasts. Again, if you are connected to WiFi, you [...]

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Skype in My Pocket? Mobile VoIP Crosses the Chasm – Part 1

By Larry Lisser

In the USA, we are a spoiled bunch when it comes to communications. We were the first to eliminate the notion of a long distance call, and probably the first to force unlimited plans from our wireless companies. So while growth in Mobile VoIP has thrived at the consumer level in foreign markets, in [...]

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Verizon Wireless Data Outage

Sporadic Outages Being Experienced Across the U.S.

If you have a phone with Verizon Wireless and you’re having trouble with it today, you’re not alone. We have had reports that the carrier is undergoing a data outage nationwide.

Although there’s no news of it on their website, some Verizon reps have been confirmed that there is a [...]

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Palm shares tumble 10% after foreboding downgrades

Today both Vivek Arya of Merrill Lynch and Phil Cusick of Macquarie Research downgraded their analytic opinions of Palm, with Arya moving Palm into the sell column, while Cusick took a more cautionary approach and advised not buying any more shares. What worries investors, however, is the reasoning behind their downgrades: sales of the Palm Pre [...]

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