News Stories Tagged ‘smartphone’

Sprint Raises Data Plan Pricing By $10

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A $10 charge per month is being added to Sprint Nextel’s new Smartphone as of the end of January. Sprint is the third-biggest carrier in the US. The charge is called a Premium Data add-on. Many believe that this add-on charge was inevitable considering that Sprint is the US’s cheapest carrier for unlimited plans. The [...]

Verizon iPhone Will Steal Market Share From At&T

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The introduction of the iPhone for Verizon will notably increase US sales for Apple. However, the impact on the carrier AT&T will be significant. An analyst from Piper Jaffray, Gene Munster, commented to investors in a Monday press conference that he believes that the total handset sales in 2011 for Apple will increase by 2.5 [...]

Europe Approves Cellphone Charger Standard

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A universal European smartphone charger standard was announced on Thursday 30 The decision was made by the regulatory authorities at the EU’s European Commission. The standard charger was designed and developed alongside 14 of the EUs handset manufacturers, including Nokia, Apple, Samsung and Research in Motion. The standard is intended to reduce e-waste within the [...]

Majority Of Smartphone Apps Are Used To Spy On The Users

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According to a recent post in the Wall Street Journal, you might want to watch what sort of information you put in your smart phone. These smart phones contain not just your personal information, but also the numbers and addresses of your friends and family, your current location and a unique ID number that can [...]

Apple iPhone Is Battle Ready

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The U.S. Army has announced it has chosen to keep its soldiers up to date with all areas of technology, including smart phones. The next big advancement for the troops is none other than an Apple iPhone, a tool they say that will change how information is accessed. The idea behind this move is that [...]

Android Looses Momentum

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The Google Android has had a rocket-rise to success, putting in months of strong growth. However the growth hasn’t been able to push Apple’s iOS smartphone out of first place. Ad impressions for November put the two phones neck and neck. On Tuesday the MediaMix report released by Millenial Media revealed the November statistics for the two [...]

300,000 Android Phones Activated Daily

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Google’s Android is starting to catch up on the iPhone market. Android phones are claiming 300,000 sales every day, beating out the other giants in the smart phone market. Selling more than both the iPhone and Blackberry, the Android seems to have finally blossomed in the gaming field. A surprise as it didn’t initially take [...]

AT&T Rated The Worst Carrier

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A nonprofit magazine, Consumer Reports, has revealed that a survey of their readers put AT&T in the position of worst cell phone carrier in the U.S. The survey was conducted over more than 58,000 readers. The survey is part of a report on the cell phone industry. Consumer Reports survey shows that AT&T iPhone users [...]

Research in Motion to launch iPad competitor in new year

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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) is branching into the new and potentially lucrative tablet market, shrugging off recent bad news that Dell and other corporate customers may be switching their smartphone preferences. RIM will be taking on the dominance of Apple’s iPad when its Playbook device is launched and goes on sale early in [...]

The Need For (4G) Speed

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The question is, “Do we need broadband capabilities on our cell phones.  Do we need to have wifi-like capabilities everywhere we have cell reception.  Do we need a cell phone that can download movies or television shows and play them smoothly?  Do we need to make and upload videos and download maps instantly? The answer [...]