The boards of Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile in the United States, and MetroPCS have both approved a deal that would merge the T-Mobile and MetroPCS into one carrier operating under the T-Mobile brand. Oh! Big news! The deal is in full spead and is expected to close in the first half of 2013. T-Mobile is the US fourth-largest operator...
The AT&T and HTC cooperation seems to be going on quite well! First, AT&T became the exclusive carrier of the One X in the U.S., and now they are to be again granted exclusive rights with some of the newest HTC smartphones, namely the One X+ and the One VX. We were pleasantly thriled to hear about the One VX...
After months of expectations, on Friday the Samsung Galaxy S III Developer Edition became available. The only place you will find the device is on Samsung’s website, and the phone will only run on Verizon’s network. Earlier, in July, we told you that Verizon’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S III was going to have a locked bootloader. The carrier...
Cincinnati, Fayetteville and Wilmington have gained LTE coverage through AT&T network. Exciting news for both, the customers that already own an LTE-capable device, as well as those users that are expecting an iPhone 5 delivery tomorrow! Which will be the next cities/ areas to gain AT&T LTE is not yet known, but the company has been steadily flipping its LTE...
Nokia’s new flagship, the Lumia 920, is most likely to make its debut in the USA with AT&T on October 21st. To many such a promise may seem a bit too optimistic, since Windows Phone 8 was just released to manufacturers, and this naturally allows Nokia and AT&T only a month to round out final testing of the device and...
Apple is notorious for keeping development and production costs low, while doing the “impossible” to ensure just enough innovations in their new iPhones to make it all worth. Now Apple’s 5 has been measured, weighed and its cost revealed. Techinsights have come up with a preliminary bill of materials and concluded that the iPhone5 cost $168 to build. Too ‘preliminary’...
As it turns out, the iPhone 5 won’t be able to do simultaneous voice and LTE data on CDMA networks. There are other phones that are perfectly capable of doing the job, however Apple have chosen to go with a single chip and singe radio for voice and data, and not to use yet a third antenna. This allowed reducing...
US carriers have been long bragging about their exclusive 4G LTE networks, while across the pond it was still limited. But things are changing now, as the Everything Everywhere is rebranding as EE and will be rolling out the first 4G LTE in the UK. The “4GEE” service is to actually cover a third of the population by the end...
Many smartphones users would prefer to own a device that isn’t locked to an individual carrier, which unfortunately can often be only available at a premium price. This shall certainly be the faith of the owners of the newest Apple’s iPhone5-s, too. However, US AT&T carrier has now made the ‘unlock’ option easier – owners of a ‘locked’ iPhone can...
The HTC 8X has all chances of becoming the newest addition to T-Mobile’s Windows Phone 8 line, this being the name under which it is expected to be distributed. The new HTC may indeed facing competition from devices like the Nokia Lumia 820, yet it has respectable specs: • 1.2GHz dual-core processor • 1GB RAM • 16GB internal memory • ...
