Two of America's biggest wireless carriers are pushing back against hefty government fines, and the Supreme Court will soon decide whether federal regulators have been overstepping their authority. The case could reshape how the government holds telecom companies accountable when they break the rules. A few years back, the Federal Communications Commission discovered that Verizon and AT&T weren't properly safeguarding where their customers were located—a serious privacy violation. The FCC... Read more →
Thinking of getting Samsung’s current flagship device, the Galaxy S6? You might want to check out T-Mobile’s latest trade in deal. The third biggest wireless carrier in America has is offering the deal on a very limited time only, and this deal has T-Mobile offering the Samsung Galaxy S6 device to subscribers for $0 down and $0 a month. ... Read more →
Robin, the smartphone from Nextbit, can now be preordered by way of BackerKit. For those not yet familiar with Nextbit’s Robin handset, it is a smartphone that is distinctly cloud based. The smartphone was first launched a month ago by Nextbit via a Kickstarter campaign. Just before the closing date of the project, its campaign has already managed... Read more →
It is official -- HTC’s newest smartphone, the One A9, is finally coming to stores in the United States in November of this year. And at a price of $400, the One A9 smartphone appears to be one of the less expensive premium smartphone options currently (or about to be) available in the market today. First, a review of the device’s specifications... 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 →
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