If you want a smaller smartphone without sacrificing high-end specs and the latest software, your only good option until recently has been the iPhone, with its 3.5-inch display. But now, there’s the Droid Incredible 4G LTE, an …
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Verizon’s New ‘Share Everything’ Plans: Good Deal or Total Ripoff?
Verizon’s been hinting at the arrival of shared data plans for over a year, and this week, the wireless carrier finally revealed how the so-called “Share Everything” plans will work.
Starting June 28, subscribers can pay a …
5 Lingering Questions About Shared Data Plans
The end of unlimited smartphone data is coming. AT&T and Verizon, the two largest U.S. wireless carriers, already throttle data speeds for unlimited users who consume the most data, and starting this summer, Verizon won’t let …
Droid Incredible 4G LTE for Verizon: A Smartphone for Normal Hands
There’s nothing cutting-edge about HTC’s Droid Incredible 4G LTE, a smartphone that’s coming to Verizon Wireless in a few weeks. Yet the new Droid Incredible might become one of Verizon’s most desirable phones, simply because you …
Color’s Video-Sharing App: Now Optimized for Verizon
Back in March of last year, an innovative but ill-fated iPhone and Android app named Color debuted. It let you share photos with nearby folks who you didn’t necessarily know; the idea was that it would be cool for use at …
Verizon to Let Customers Text 911 During Emergencies
We’ve all seen movies where a terrified homeowner hides under the bed or in the closet, afraid to call 911 because of menacing home invaders. Well, worry no more, hypothetical crime victim: Verizon has announced plans to let …
Report: The Fastest 4G and 3G Wireless Networks in America
As SNL so masterfully parodied, TV commercials for wireless carriers are usually a mess of vague technical jargon, meaningless graphs and annoying spokespeople. But who actually has the fastest wireless network?
The editors at …
Verizon Tacks on $30 Fee for Upgrading to a New Phone
Starting April 22, Verizon Wireless will charge an extra $30 to upgrade to a new phone.
The fee applies to “existing customers purchasing new mobile equipment at a discounted price with a two-year contract.” Here’s how Verizon …
How Apple’s iPhone Actually Hurts AT&T, Verizon and Sprint
Apple’s iPhone is the hottest mobile device around — so hot in fact that the major mobile service providers are willing to sacrifice their own profit margins just to carry it. The big three providers, AT&T, Verizon Wireless,
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Verizon Teams Up with Redbox to Go After Netflix
It’s a looming square-off of Shakespearean proportions: Smartphone colossus Verizon is buddying up with movie-rental-kiosk outfit Redbox to take the fight to streaming giant Netflix. Imagine Verizon’s press release articulated by …
Putting the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx’s Battery Life to the Test
As Verizon Wireless tries to push a broad lineup of 4G LTE smartphones on its customers, the company omits an important fact: LTE destroys battery life. This may improve some day, when tech companies figure out how to optimize …
Motorola’s Droid Razr MAXX Almost Achieves the 24-Hour Battery
In a smartphone market where companies breathlessly try to outpace one another in screen size, clock speeds and pixel density, kudos to Motorola for focusing on battery life instead.
Motorola’s Droid Razr MAXX for Verizon …