Verizon is dealing with two separate customer complaints that have recently surfaced, raising questions about how the carrier handles security and community concerns. Both situations, while different in nature, have left customers feeling frustrated with the company's response. According to PhoneArena, a California homeowner is reporting significant financial losses after Verizon built a 200-foot cell tower just 15 feet from his property line. John Stewart, who owns a 7.9-acre parcel near... Read more →
US Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that uses T-Mobile’s network, and it is one of a few carriers out there that adopt a pricing structure that is more flexible. Similar to what Ting (an MVNO operating on Sprint’s network) is doing, US Mobile makes clever use of a tiered pricing model that basically allows customers to customize... Read more →
Only about a week after Pangu, a Chinese hacking team, released the first public jailbreak for iOS 9, Apple has managed to shut down a couple of the exploits taken advantage by the China based hackers. Pangu’s public jailbreak made it possible for iPhone owners to jailbreak their smartphones as well as almost all iPad and iPod Touch devices that... Read more →
Finally, Samsung Pay has arrived on Verizon Wireless. This means that subscribers of the biggest wireless carrier in the United States who own Samsung mobile devices such as the Galaxy S6, the Galaxy S6 Edge, the Galaxy S6 Edge+, or the Galaxy Note 5 can now download the South Korean tech giant’s mobile payment system onto their handsets. Samsung... Read more →
Apple is officially rolling out iOS 9.1, the first major update of the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 9, which debuted last month. With iOS 9.1, Apple is bringing in several new features and enhancements, notably Live Photos (which involves some nifty GIF flourishes). What iOS users will most likely be eager to check out though... Read more →
It appears that Samsung is planning to launch its next newest flagship device, the Galaxy S7, earlier than expected. As reported by South Korea based Electronic Times, the number one vendor of smartphones in the world is looking to debut its Galaxy S7 device in January of next year, and may be doing it in order to compete directly with Apple’s... Read more →
Apple is doing it again. The iPhone maker has proceeded to deleting more than 250 mobile apps from its App Store, and most of the apps removed were mostly Chinese made, and were already downloaded by a total of about 1 million iOS users. As indicated on a report published by SourceDNA, these mobile apps were apparently accessing and saving... Read more →
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