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Sprint To Promote New iPhones With $50 Unlimited Plan
Las Vegas – Apple unveiled its new smart phones in California, but Sprint was here at Super Mobility Week to unveil a $50 unlimited...
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Touch Mobile Launches Low-Cost Cellular/Wi-Fi Calling Service
Las Vegas –MNVO Touch Mobile came to Super Mobility Week with a low-cost prepaid service that keeps plan prices down by defaulting voice calls...
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Alcatel One Touch Sales Rising Despite Mature U.S. Market
Las Vegas – Practical-minded millennials and the wireless industry’s transition to unsubsidized phones are helping drive up Alcatel One Touch’s U.S. sales, said Steve...
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Cricket Eyes More Retail Expansion After GameStop Tie
Las Vegas – AT&T prepaid brand Cricket isn’t ruling out the addition of more CE stores to its dealer base following Monday’s announcement that...
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Amazon Cuts Fire Phone Price To 99 Cents
Seattle — Amazon has lowered the price of its fledgling Fire smartphone to 99 cents with a two-year contract, with a year of Prime...
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IFA: Huawei Bows New Flagship Phone
Berlin — Huawei continues to build spec-spectacular smartphones that will, at least temporarily, frustratingly fail to reach U.S. consumers. Here at IFA, the Chinese...
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Motorola Unveils Next Letters In Smartphone Alphabet
Chicago — Motorola unveiled its second-generation Moto X and Moto G Android smartphones, increasing the screen size of both models and the processor speed...
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LG To Bring Pen-Enabled G3 Variant To IFA
Berlin — LG will go to the IFA convention here next week to demonstrate a pen-enabled variant of its G3 flagship smartphone. The LG...
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T-Mobile Ups The Ante In Price War
Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile fired the latest shot in the wireless price wars, launching a limited-time promotion that boosts the LTE data allotment in...
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Sprint Fires Another Shot In Price War
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint and T-Mobile, once potential merger partners, are breaking up badly. Sprint is cutting prices on its unlimited data, talk...
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Carrier Cat Fight Intensifies With T-Mobile Offer
Bellevue, Wash. – In another sign of intense competition among carriers, T-Mobile responded to Sprint’s new pricing initiatives by offering free unlimited LTE data...
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HTC Launches Windows Version Of Flagship One
Bellevue, Wash. — HTC will offer a Windows version of its flagship One smartphone for the first time with today’s launch of the HTC...
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Sharp Raises Cellular Profile With Sprint Deal
Overland Park, Kan. — Sharp will raise its profile in the U.S. cellphone market with the launch of an Aquos smartphone through Sprint and...
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Sprint Launches First Salvo In Price War To Retake Share
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint unleashed another weapon in its battle to win back subscribers, launching new shared-data plans said to offer double the...
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HTC’s Midtier Desire Family Comes To U.S.
Bellevue, Wash. — HTC is rolling out its Desire series of Android smartphones through several carriers to strengthen the company’s U.S. presence in the...
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LG, Kyocera Launch New Smartphones
New York — New smartphones hitting the shelves include a midtier big-screen Android phone from LG and Kyocera’s latest waterproof Hydro smartphone. LG’s new...
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HTC One (M8) Smartphone Gets MirrorLink
Beaverton, Ore. — MirrorLink is coming via a software upgrade to the high-profile HTC One (M8) smartphone, and HTC promises more MirrorLink-enabled HTC devices...
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Kyocera First With Sapphire Smartphone
San Diego — Kyocera will be the first company to market with a mass-market smartphone equipped with rugged sapphire crystal display. The company’s midtier...
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ZTE Brings Grand-Series Phone To Another U.S. Carrier
Richardson, Texas — ZTE USA is bringing another smartphone from its flagship Grand series to a major U.S. carrier. Starting Aug. 8, the ZTE...
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Iliad’s Odyssey To Buy T-Mobile Could Trigger Lower Prices: Report
Boston — A bid by start-up French carrier Iliad to buy T-Mobile could cause U.S. service pricing to tumble, leaving Sprint the least able...
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Bidding War In Offing For T-Mobile?
Bellevue, Wash. – French carrier Iliad has emerged as a bidder for T-Mobile, which has also been courted by Sprint and its majority owner...
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T-Mobile Speeding Up Network
Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile launched nationwide Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and began rolling out 700MHz-band LTE equipment in base stations to increase data speed,...
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T-Mobile Expands Low-Price LTE Smartphone Selection
Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile is building up its selection of low-price LTE smartphones with today’s availability of the Samsung Galaxy Avant at an unsubsidized...
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T-Mobile Undercuts Rivals On Family Pricing
Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile cut the price of a wireless plan for a family of four for a limited time to further undercut its...
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T-Mobile Readies Second Windows 8.1 Smartphone
Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile will offer its second Windows Phone 8.1 smartphone later this year with the launch of the entry-level Nokia Lumia 530....
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Kyocera Readies Phone With Sapphire Display
San Diego — Kyocera hopes to be first to market with a smartphone equipped with rugged sapphire crystal display, which it said would be...
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LG Targets Midtier Growth With G3 Beat Phone
Seoul, South Korea — LG unveiled a smaller midtier variant of its flagship G3 smartphone to target growing demand by consumers who it said...
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AT&T Prices Its 1st Nokia Windows 8.1 Phone
Dallas — AT&T is joining T-Mobile in offering the low-price Nokia Lumia 635 smartphone, the first U.S.-market Lumia phone available out of the box...
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LG G3 Smartphone: Who’s On First?
Dallas — T-Mobile last week claimed it would be the first U.S. carrier to offer LG’s new flagship smartphone, the G3, beginning July 16...
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Windows Phone 8.1 Arriving With T-Mobile Launch
Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile will be the first national carrier to offer the U.S.-market Nokia Lumia smartphone available out of the box with Windows...
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T-Mobile To Be First To Offer LG G3
Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile said it would be the first U.S. carrier to offer LG’s new flagship smartphone, the G3, beginning July 16 through...
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Samsung Readies Galaxy S5 Mini
Seoul, South Korea — Samsung said it plans a mini version of its Galaxy S5 smartphone but didn’t say when it would come to...
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Sprint Expands Network Upgrades, Adds Satisfaction Guarantee
Chicago — Sprint CEO Dan Hesse went to the Museum of Broadcast Communication today to announce a fitness-oriented smartphone, network enhancements, and a satisfaction...
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Kyocera To Broaden Carrier Reach
San Diego – Kyocera plans this summer to add two more models to its Hydro series of waterproof smartphones as part of a plan...
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T-Mobile Offers Free Test Drives With iPhone 5s, Free Music
Seattle — T-Mobile is breaking again with traditional carrier practices by offering consumers an iPhone 5s to test drive for seven days with unlimited...
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High-End Amazon Phone Offers 3D Viewing, Gesture Control
Seattle — Amazon’s long-awaited Fire smartphone will be a high-end model available July 25 through Amazon and AT&T stores at $199 with contract for...
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BlackBerry Opening Up To Amazon Appstore
Waterloo, Ontario – BlackBerry smartphones running on the BlackBerry 10.3 OS due in the fall will be able to access Amazon’s Appstore to download...
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Sprint, HDtracks Team Up For High-Res Downloads
New York — Wireless carrier Sprint is teaming up with HDtracks, the high-resolution music-download service, to offer a free music sampler to Sprint subscribers...
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Report: AT&T To Offer Amazon Smartphone Service
New York — Amazon’s first smartphone will work exclusively on the AT&T network, reprising AT&T’s role in the launch of the first iPhone, The...
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Huawei Tries Direct Consumer Sales To Build Brand
NEW YORK – Huawei has begun selling its first smartphone direct to U.S. consumers via its own online store to build brand awareness. If...
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ZTE Launches $99 LTE Grand S Pro Through U.S. Cellular
Richardson, Texas — ZTE USA will sell one of its flagship Grand series smartphones through a U.S. carrier for the first time with today’s...
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First Windows Phone Phablet On The Way
Alpharetta, Ga. — AT&T prepaid brand Cricket Wireless is offering its first Windows Phone phablet with the launch of the LTE-equipped Nokia Lumia 1320 with 6-inch...