Category: Carriers

  • Nexus One Coming To At&t?

    The FCC label on the right is from the current Nexus One for T-Mobile, with ID NM899100. The label on the left comes with ID NM899110, which appears to be an identical model with just one digit off. The RF reports show that it has 3G on WCDMA Bands I, II, and V, meaning that…

  • Nexus One Experiencing Nationwide Data Outage

    Update: As of 12:54PM ET the issue has been fixed, although there hasn’t been an official announcement of what the issue was. Users of the Google Nexus One on T-Mobile are reporting a nationwide data outage this morning. Users are reporting that their SIM card will work in other phones in the same area. While…

  • At&t To Require Messaging Plan With Select Feature Phones

    We’ve already heard about carriers forcing people (mainly smartphone users) to add a data plan when they purchase a new phone. This, of course, is nothing new for the iPhone, but has recently been forced onto other smartphone users by a few carriers. This is a first though. At&t says that it will be requiring…

  • Mobile Data is Money Honey for Verizon

    Verizon Wireless has released its 4th Quarter 2009 Revenue results and there are some stunning statistics. Keep in mind that all this occurred in just 4 months time. 162 billion text messages were sent or received (that’s 15,625 texts per second) 4 billion picture/video messages were sent or received 38 million music and videos were…

  • Paid an ETF to AT&T/Cingular in the last 12 years? Your check is in the mail (maybe)

    What is $18 million divided amongst all the former subscribers of AT&T Wireless/Cingular who paid a flat-rate ETF between January 1, 1998 and November 4, 2009 minus lawyer fee’s? Not a whole lot, but if you happen to fit into that category then you should be getting your portion in the mail (hopefully sometime this…

  • Motorola Milestone Coming To At&t?

    We’re sure you’re aware of the Motorola Droid, selling on Verizon Wireless. What you may not be aware of is that there is a GSM version called the Motorola Milestone. It is currently sold in Europe, which means it doesn’t support the 850MHz 3G band used by At&t. However, a version that does support both…

  • Nexus One To Sell At WalMart?!?

    Update: WalMart has admitted this was an error and released the following quote: “Due to a technical error, this item erroneously was displayed on our site. We’re working with our partner Let’s Talk to have it removed as quickly as possible. We have no plans to carry Nexus One in Walmart stores or online at…

  • At&t iPhone Exclusivity Rumored To End Wednesday

    Update 4pm CST: According to BGR, Verizon Wireless store managers have been told that Wednesday will be a big day and it will be a “kick off” for the new quarter, with a live Webcast at 1pm EST. Since this is the same day as the Apple media event, we’ll let your imagination run wild…

  • Motorola MOTOSPLIT Rendering

    We’ve already seen the Morotola Backflip that’s coming to At&t this year, but now its time for another new design concept from Motorola, the MOTOSPLIT. Taking a queue from Nokia (there was the Nokia 5510 and the 6800), the rendering to the left (click on it to view the full size) has a split qwerty…

  • T-Mobile HD2 Gets Spec Boosts

    If you remember, the HTC HD2 is headed to T-Mobile USA, and is rumored to be the only device currently on the market to be upgraded to WM7. Now that the HTC product page is live, you’ll see that the US version will come with some nice boosts in its specs compared to the European…

  • Diamond3 Coming To At&t And T-Mobile? With WM7?

    An unconfirmed source says the HTC Obsession aka Diamond 3 will supposedly be released on At&t and T-Mobile this year with WM7 and there are no reports of a CDMA (Sprint/Verizon) version in the works. The specs that we have so far (via WMExperts) are a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor, GSM/HSDPA connectivity, 3.7 inch capacitive…

  • HTC Bravo Headed To T-Mobile?

    The HTC Bravo is very similar to the Nexus One.  It features a 3.7″ touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and HSDPA/HSUPA.  The biggest difference is that it includes HTC’s SenseUI.  Rumor has it that this device will also land on T-Mobile, just as the Nexus One is.  The source also says it may be free on…

  • Sprint releases maintenance update for Samsung Moment

    Back on Friday Sprint released a maintenance update for customers using the Samsung Moment. The update is not the Android 2.1 update that everyone is waiting for, nor even an update to Android at all, but rather a culmination of patches and fixes. Unfortuantely there is no OTA update yet, though they promise “the ability to download…

  • Sprint Releases Official 2016 SMS Fix for 3 Devices

    Sprint has released an official fix for the 2016 SMS Timestamp bug that has been plaguing a multitude of devices since the new year. The following devices have fixes waiting to be downloaded as of now (clicking on device name will send you to download page)- HTC Touch Pro HTC Touch Pro2 HTC Touch Diamond…

  • Verizon gets WinMo 6.5 update for Touch Pro 2 and Ozone

    Verizon Touch Pro 2 and Ozone owners can now escape from the Windows Mobile 6.1 woes and download a fully supported Verizon release of Windows Mobile 6.5. To get the download you just have to simply visit the web site of PCD (the new name of the company formerly known as UTStarcom) and you are…