Oh joyous rapture. Now, not only will New York commuters have to deal with buskers, panhandlers, street preachers, nail clippers, music blasters, and random shouters, but they soon have the option of enjoying overhearing the conversations of their fellow commuters as well. Next Tuesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveils their long-awaited platform cell service. Don’t […]
Own an Android smartphone on T-Mobile, but no data plan and you want to web surf? There’s an app for that. Smozzy (in beta) acts as a wrapper around the standard Android browser, but cleverly redirects the traffic into SMS messages instead of a typical 2.5G, 3G, or 4G cellular data connection. Because T-Mobile offers […]
Last night, Samsung announced the long awaited U.S. launch of their Galaxy S II smartphones, which are available from AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. There may also be versions coming to smaller regional carriers, but the event focused on the major networks. The European version of the line has been available for months, so there were […]
The United States government has just announced that they’re suing to block the acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T. Considering that what was originally AT&T was br0ken up due to anti-trust concerns, it’s not too surprising. Even if the U.S. government succeeds in nipping this merger in the bud, T-Mobile’s parent company Deutch Telecom still […]
First, AT&T put the kibosh on their unlimited data plans in favor of tiers and starting October 1 they are going to begin throttling customers who still have grandfathered unlimited data plans.
You know how we were saying Facebook needed to get their Android act together? It gets a tad worse. Bad enough that it looked like Facebook was going to make hardware makers look into their own app solutions (ala HP and WebOS), now it looks more like it’s actually aimed at Android. That’s right, Android […]
RadioShack, who I refuse to call The Shack no matter how many PR dollars they invest, announced their second quarter earnings today and included this little bombshell: “Net income in the 2011 second quarter included one-time costs associated with two initiatives designed to enhance growth and streamline operations: a charge associated with phasing out T-Mobile […]
PC Magagzine has an excellent article about Windows Phone 7’s problems in the marketplace, and it’s one that brings up familiar issues. Back when WebOS was owned by Palm and hailed as the Next Big Thing, posters at sites like Precentral and everythingpre would report being actively steered away from the Pre Plus on Verizon […]
