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Verizon may cut what’s left of Alltel data starting January 10th, 2013

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Alltel customers brought under the Verizon umbrella have been getting more and more signals that it’s time to let go of that legacy phone. The latest red flag is a letter that Droid-Life understands is making its way to holdout customers. According t…


Verizon may cut what’s left of Alltel data starting January 10th, 2013

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Alltel customers brought under the Verizon umbrella have been getting more and more signals that it’s time to let go of that legacy phone. The latest red flag is a letter that Droid-Life understands is making its way to holdout customers. According t…


Sprint Galaxy Nexus review

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Third time’s a charm… Three’s a crowd… She’s once, twice, three times a lady Nexus… Three’s a magic number… Good things come in threes… or is that sneezes? Okay, so maybe there isn’t anything clever we can say to get you hooked, but do we r…


Verizon’s ZTE Jetpack flies through FCC, arrival time still unknown

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Do you wish you had your own personal Jetpack? Well, you may not have to wait much longer for ZTE’s version — the EuFi I890, announced at CES last month — to come out, if its entry into the records of the FCC are any indication. It may not be the k…


Tucows launches Ting, a contract-free mobile service on Sprint’s network

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Harken back to the days of Windows 95, and you may remember downloading a few shareware titles to your Compaq or Packard Bell courtesy of Tucows and its network of mirror sites. While the company is no longer of much relevance in the software arena, i…


Samsung’s two-faced SCH-W999 Android plays the dual core, dual SIM game

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Remember Samsung’s second-gen dual-screen Android clamshell we spotted about a month ago? Well, here it is at last: announced in partnership with China Telecom, this SCH-W999 flip phone packs two 3.5-inch 480 x 800 Super AMOLED panels back to back, …


Motorola Admiral to directly connect with Sprint on October 23rd for $100

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We all knew it was coming, it was just a matter of time — that, of course, is the Motorola Admiral that Sprint sure had a difficult time keeping a secret. But no matter now, as the fleet captain is ready to hook you up with the Now Network’s CDMA-b…


A look inside Verizon’s test car: we go heads-in at CTIA E&A 2011

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Imagine if Verizon’s Testman was actually the admiral of a fleet of Chevy Tahoes, all dedicated to the purpose of testing and comparing networks and asking if others can hear them now over a million times each year. The famous Testman himself is jus…


Apple iPhone 4S pre-orders exceed one million in first 24 hours (updated)

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Last year’s iPhone 4 launch brought more than 600,000 pre-orders within the first 24 hours. This year, that number nearly doubled, topping one million within one day of the device’s pre-order availability through AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. Those …


iPhone 4S officially announced: lands October 14th starting at $199 in sizes up to 64GB, coming to Sprint

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What’s this? The second coming of the iPhone 4? Sure enough, Tim Cook just pulled the covers off of the hotly-anticipated iPhone 4S here in Cupertino, making 2011 the first year in the company’s current stint in the smartphone business that it chose…