When looking to save money on gadgets, there’s one place many people may not think to look: the human resources department. In many cases, being employed by a certain company entitles you to a discount with various vendors. Cell phone companies in particular tend to shave a decent percentage off if you have the right […]
I drove from Boston to Queens, NY today so that my family and I could be part of my wife’s nephew’s bar mitzvah. The ceremony was originally supposed to take place in his own community of Long Branch, NJ, but the family was forced to move it to my wife’s parent’s synagogue in Queens because […]
Regular readers of The Consumerist may have seen its recent stories documenting complaints of excessive data usage on AT&T’s network with the new iPhone 5. The problem certainly isn’t a new one, but it’s difficult to pin down a definitive solution. Last month, Verizon customers with the iPhone 5 expressed the same complaints, and Verizon […]
One of the big perks about my new hometown, Houston, is that it’s one of the select few cities where Sprint’s high speed LTE network has been rolled out. This replaces the original high-speed WiMax network, largely spanked by AT&T and Verizon’s LTE networks. Heck, in some cases T-Mobile’s HSPA+ has beaten Sprint’s WiMax, and […]
Anyone who’s been following Apple events for a while is familiar with the concept of the “Reality Distortion Field“. For the uninitiated, the term referred to celebrity CEO Steve Jobs’s ability to make you believe what he wanted you to. The phrase has been used to praise Jobs’s charisma and equally used to imply something […]
The current version of Apple’s video chat solution, FaceTime, only works over WiFi. This is allegedly to spare cell networks the beating video calls would give them. With the iPhone 5, Apple will release Facetime over cellular, allowing users to make video calls over the new flagship phone’s LTE connection. With caveats, that is. AT&T, […]
My first cellphone was a T-Mobile cellphone, back when the company was called VoiceStream. Back then, it was the best value for wireless data usage. You could hook any Windows Mobile or Palm Device with a modem to what was meant to be its low-end data service for feature phones, T-Zones. Even after T-Zones officially […]
MetroPCS has a great agenda: affordable smartphones that don’t require a contract. Unfortunately, driving a phone down to $149 or $199 without subsidy often requires manufacturers to make cutbacks, especially to fit in LTE (complete with metroPCS’s fledgling coverage). Huawei did this maneuver with the Activa 4G I’ve been testing the last few weeks. This […]
We all know the era of the unlimited mobile data plan is coming to an end. Only one national carrier offers new customers an unlimited option, and the tiered pricing plans we’ve seen over the last few months have been something of a shock for top power users. Until now, there’s been one small hope […]
Good news, everyone. You can stop being so envious of European techies. While they’ve been lucky enough to have Samsung’s new flagship for a month now, we in the U.S. can get our hands on it this month. Samsung announced that the device will come out shortly for multiple U.S. carriers. T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon […]
