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Verizon Refreshes Droid Franchise With Turbo 2, Maxx 2
Verizon refreshed its Droid phone lineup with the launch of the Motorola-made Droid Maxx 2 and Droid Turbo 2, whose screen is promoted as...
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Consumer Cellular Expands LTE Smartphone Lineup
MVNO Consumer Cellular, the no-contract service provider that targets people ages 50 and up, expanded its selection of 4G LTE phones with the launch...
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T-Mobile Taunts Verizon With Skywritten Message
A team of T-Mobile skywriters buzzed Verizon’s headquarters in Basking Ridge, N.J., this morning to deliver a skywritten message urging Verizon to abolish the...
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ZTE Expands Unlocked Axon-Phone Selection
ZTE expanded the selection of unlocked smartphones in its flagship Axon series to capture a greater share of an growing unlocked-phone market. The company...
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Android 6.0 Coming To HTC One A9, Joining Google’s Nexus
HTC will become the first smartphone supplier after Google to launch a phone running the Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS when the HTC One A9...
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Speed Test: Watch Every iPhone Boot Up At Once
EverythingApplePro has released a video of every iPhone receiving a simultaneous boot, with each model given the most updated OS it can accept. While...
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Pepsi (Yes, Pepsi) Is Launching A Smartphone
The Pepsi generation is getting its own phone. Pepsi will debut its first branded smartphone in the Chinese market later this month, according to...
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LG V10 Phone Gets 2 Screens & 2 Front Cameras
If you thought you couldn’t be any more glued to the single screen in your pocket, you might want to take a look at...
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Apples To Apples? Not Really. iPhone 6s Launch Sales Break ‘Records’
Apple touted record iPhone 6s and 6s Plus sales of more than 13 million in the first three days after launch, beating last year’s...
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Watch The iPhone 6s Get Destroyed In Every Way Imaginable
What is it about a new phone that makes people want to destroy it? Since the iPhone 6s became available last week, there have...
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Here Is Everything You Need To Know About Today’s iPhone 6s & 6s Plus Launch
In case you’ve been living under a digital rock, Apple’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus become available today. Here’s what you need to know: ...
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Verizon, Cricket Add Twists To Today’s iPhone Launch
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus went on sale today with a couple more twists. Verizon is launching the phones on an installment-payment plan...
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BlackBerry Confirms Android Smartphone Plans
Blackberry confirmed that it will offer its first Android-based smartphone late in the year but said it will also continue to offer phones based...
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Sprint Throws A Shot In The iPhone 6s Price War With $1/Month Plan
The new iPhones don’t come out until tomorrow, but leasing prices for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus fell once again with an announcement...
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T-Mobile To Lease The iPhone 6s For $5 Per Month
Apple’s installment-payment and upgrade plans for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are already getting stiffer competition. T-Mobile unveiled a $5/month JUMP (Just Upgrade...
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How Will Apple’s Unlocked iPhones, Payment Plans Impact Carriers?
Apple could upset carriers’ apple carts with its own installment-payment and upgrade program for unlocked iPhone 6 and 6S phones, which can be activated...
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iPhone 6 Plus Delivers Longest Battery Life, Tests Find
The Apple iPhone 6 Plus delivers longer battery life than competitors’ flagship phones even though its battery does not have the highest capacity, Strategy...
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Qualcomm Promises Faster Smartphone Download Speeds
New flagship smartphones due in the first half of 2016 will support faster 4G LTE speeds, thanks to a new Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The...
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Microsoft On Marketing Phones: “We’ve Massively Retrenched”
“We’ve massively retrenched,” Microsoft EVP/CMO Chris Capossela said about Microsoft’s smartphone-hardware plans during the recent Citi Global Tech Conference. He reiterated Microsoft’s plans to...
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New Windows Phones On Way From Microsoft, Alcatel One Touch?
The selection of Windows-based smartphones has been rather thin in the U.S., but Microsoft is planning two new flagship models for an October launch,...
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Google Begins Android Pay Release
Google’s answer to Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and any other mobile payment platform has begun to roll out to Android phones. The company said...
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AT&T On Apple’s iPhone Payment Plans: What, Me Worry?
AT&T isn’t worried about competition from Apple’s own installment-payment plan for the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Apple this week announced its first...
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Sprint’s New iPhones To Boost LTE Speeds
Sprint’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will be the carrier’s first iPhones with carrier-aggregation technology to accelerate peak 4G LTE download speeds to 125-135Mbps...
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New Mobile Video Services On The Way From Rok, Verizon
Mobile video is getting a lot more attention from telecom companies. MVNO Rok Mobile, a cellular MVNO that offers a mobile music-streaming service, will...
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T-Mobile Crows About Its iPhone 6s, 6s Plus
T-Mobile is crowing about its version of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus and offering a lifetime network-satisfaction guarantee to go with them. The...
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How Important Is The Apple iPhone?
Apple will put on a really big show on Wednesday for its really big next-gen iPhones, but just how big is the iPhone? Really...
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Verizon Plans To Test 5G In 2016
Verizon announced its intentions to bring fifth-gen (5G) wireless-data technology to the U.S. sooner than the industry consensus had forecast. The carrier said it...
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T-Mobile Is First To Let You Make Video Calls Without An App
T-Mobile became the first of the national carriers to launch a video calling service , which lets subscribers place video calls just like standard...
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Sony Brings 4K To Smartphones With Xperia Z5 Premium
Sony is bringing its 4K Ultra HD expertise from flat-screen TVs to smartphones. On the eve of the IFA 2015 show in Berlin, the...
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Acer America Seeks U.S. Smartphone Share
Acer America is following through on plans to expand its selection of unlocked smartphones beyond the single Windows Phone 8.1 device launched earlier this...
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Legere Cracks Down On TMO Tethering Thieves
Outspoken T-Mobile chief exec John Legere has taken to social media again, this time taking tethering thieves to task. In a blog on his...
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LG Mobile Ties Up With Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – LG Electronics MobileComm is teaming up with actor, writer and director Joseph Gordon-Levitt to create short films pieced together from...
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Sprint To AT&T: Bundle This!
Sprint went on the offensive to blunt the impact of new AT&T-DirecTV service bundles, offering a free year of service to DirecTV subscribers who...
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Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus Getting iSight Camera Fix
Cupertino, Calif. – The iSight camera on some iPhone 6 Plus’ smartphones needs a corrective lens. Following months of complaints by some customers, Apple...
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What’s Sweet About Android 6.0 Marshmallow?
Google gave its next-generation Android 6 OS an official name and gave app developers the final software development kit (SDK) they need to publish...
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Sprint To Join Verizon, T-Mobile In Dropping Contracts?
Sprint is backing away from a statement that it would move completely away from contracts later this year but reiterated CEO Marcelo Claure’s observation...
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Sprint Battles T-Mobile Over iPhone
Sprint is preparing for the expected September launch of a new iPhone and taking T-Mobile head-on by letting consumers lease a new base-level iPhone...
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Samsung Courts Different Users With Two 5.7-inch Phablets
NEW YORK – The market for phablets is large enough to support two Samsung 5.7-inch models that target different users, at least in Samsung’s...
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LG Bringing High-Res Music Service To Smartphones
Seoul, South Korea — High-resolution music playback, largely confined to home-audio systems and select high-end portable audio players, is moving farther into the smartphone...
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What’s Next For The Apple iPhone?
New York — A better back camera, Force Touch user interface, a better battery, a higher resolution display and faster LTE could be the...
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TextNow Hits Brick-and-Mortar Retail
Waterloo, Ontario — TextNow Wireless, an MVNO that offers hybrid Wi-Fi/cell service, has begun rolling out phones to brick-and-mortar dealers for the first time,...
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Sprint Challenges T-Mobile With International Plans
Overland Park, Kansas – Sprint is countering T-Mobile’s cross-border calling initiative with its own Open World initiative. Open World offers free unlimited calls and...