With today’s Verizon announcement that it will begin to carry the iPhone 4 in early February, some users are eager to ditch AT&T’s network for Verizon 3G. Of course, it won’t be easy. AT&T will likely do everything in their power to prevent you from switching services with high early termination fees and little wiggle room for …
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Everything You Need To Know About The Verizon iPhone 4
The four-year-long Verizon iPhone rumor’s reign of terror has ended. With an official announcement today—official!—we can get down to brass tacks and take a look at all the details, specs, facts and figures. Let’s dance.
Pricing and Availability
Verizon’s iPhone will be available online and in Verizon and Apple stores on …
It’s Official: The iPhone 4 Comes To Verizon In Early February
After years of speculation, Verizon announced it will carry the iPhone during a special press conference in New York City. In early February, the company will offer the the iPhone 4 to its customers. It will run on Verizon’s 3G network, despite the company’s recent extensive marketing campaign for its 4G LTE network.
“If the press …
Verizon’s iPhone: A Marriage Years in the Making
Move over, AT&T: Verizon is widely expected to announce a partnership with Apple during an event in New York today that will make Apple’s iPhone available for the first time on Verizon’s network. The long-rumored courtship is said to have come to fruition late last year, spurred onward by increasing competition from Google’s fleet of …
Build! Launch! Destroy! Angry Birds Toys Coming From Mattel
If a mobile game featuring birds with special powers that destroy the elaborate dwellings of their pig-like enemies has gotten too complicated for you, perhaps you’d like to try your hand at the analog version.
This May, Mattel will see how the masses take to the $15 Angry Birds “Knock on Wood” play set. As iLounge reports, the getup …
What Can We Expect From A Verizon iPhone?
The latest round of Verizon iPhone rumors comes yet again from the Wall Street Journal, a publication that hasn’t been short on Verizon iPhone rumors in the past. The fact that Verizon’s actually holding a press event tomorrow in New York is pretty helpful, though, so we may very well mark January 11th, 2011 as the day the Verizon iPhone …
Consumer Electronics Show: 11 Tech Trends for 2011
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show has officially drawn to a close. The biggest tech show around, CES covers over 3 million square feet of floor space and draws over 100,000 industry insiders to Las Vegas in early January every year to set the tone for what we can expect to see from the world of technology in the not-too-distant future. …
PlayStation Phone Images Leak in China
Despite the fact that Sony has yet to announce any plans for a PlayStation Phone, images of the device leaked this morning on the Chinese web site IT68. Since then, the web has been abuzz with photos and videos of the phone, which touts the ability to switch seamlessly from its touchscreen phone function to game-playing mode with the …
Hulu Plus Coming To Vizio, Android Phones
Hulu Plus is continuing its slow journey towards being available everywhere, with the announcement that the paid streaming television on demand service is now available on Vizio Internet-connected HDTVs, and will soon be available on Vizio Blu-Ray players and select Android phones. Hulu CEO Jason Kilar announced the partnerships at CES …
CES: No iPhone, But 10 New 4G Devices From Verizon
Rumors of a possible iPhone agreement may have fallen flat once again, but Verizon Wireless did announce its new line of 4G LTE service-enabled mobile devices – 10 in all – to be released by mid-year 2011.
At a special press conference today, Verizon rolled out the new Android devices, including four smartphones, two tablets, two …
Skype Buys Mobile Video Company Qik
Skype has announced that it will acquire mobile video company Qik, a Redwood City-based provider of software allowing mobile users to capture and share video. Describing the companies as sharing “a common purpose of enriching communications with video,” the purchase will give Skype control of Qik’s Smart Streaming technology to optimize …
eBay Mobile Sales Triple in 2010
According to eBay, online shopping on your computer is so 2009.
The company announced this morning that its gross merchandise volume in global mobile sales has tripled from $600 million in 2009 to $2 billion in 2010. eBay also added that its mobile apps have been downloaded over 30 million times in eight different languages and over …