Article
by Phil Nickinson
May 31, 2012
You pay for convenience, they say, and there's nothing more convenient in the smartphone world than being able to step off a plane in a foreign country and your phone just works. No swapping SIM...
Article
by Anndrew Vacca
May 17, 2012
T-Mobile announced today that it is reshaping its no-contract mobile broadband packages for its 4G tablets, hotspots, and laptop sticks. Beginning May 20, customers will be able to choose between th...
Article
by Anndrew Vacca
May 01, 2012
comScore just took the wraps off its data for the first quarter of 2012, and it confirms what we’ve been seeing over the past few months: in the U.S., Samsung and Android are the manufactur...
Article
by Chris Parsons
Apr 18, 2012
Want to get into the world of smartphones without getting tied down to a monthly contract? AT&T GoPhone is one of many prepaid options out there, and now AT&T has announced so...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Apr 11, 2012
That's right, Staten Island. No longer can Manhattan and Queens and Brooklyn and the Bronx lord over you for not having AT&T's 4G LTE data, as the switch has been flipped and you're ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Apr 03, 2012
AT&T this morning announced that Bloomington and Muncie, Ind., and Bryan-College Station, Texas, will see LTE data starting this Sunday, April 8. It's part of a 12-market expansion that also...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Mar 19, 2012
Verizon over the weekend dropped word that an impending update to the LG Revolution would include a Verizon Remote Diagnostics app — a "new customer care solution to improve dev...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Mar 16, 2012
And that, as they say, is that. Sprint this morning announced that its spectrum deal with LightSquared is officially over, and the two companies will go their separate ways. LightSquared'...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Mar 13, 2012
T-Mobile today announced that it's flipped the switch on its HSPA+ 4G network on eight new cities. They are:
Abilene, Texas
Amarillo, Texas
Odessa, Texas
Victoria, Texa...
Article
by Android Central
Mar 13, 2012
Been getting e-mails from a bunch of you folks this morning saying that Verizon's data network is again struggling. Doesn't look like it's a nationwide outage, which is good, but we'...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2012
AT&T this morning announced that it's bringing its new LTE data services to a dozen more locations over the next few months. The cities include:
Cleveland, Ohio
Akron, Ohio
...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
Regional carrier C Spire (formerly Cellular South) today announced a $60 million rollout of LTE services in September, to cover 20 markets in Mississippi. The locations are:
Jackson metropol...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Mar 05, 2012
Oy vey! According to a report from Reuters (via Phonescoop), U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has called for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "reports that applicati...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
Carrier IQ cares. Or, rather, for Carrier IQ, it's all about care. The much-maligned California analytics company has weathered the Great Privacy Scandal of 2011 and today at Mobile World Congre...
Article
by Simon Sage
Jan 19, 2012
AT&T's new plans are only really decent choices for moderate data users, but T-Mobile will be offering a few that are geared for more hardcore smartphone owners. A leaked internal memo is de...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 18, 2012
Good news and bad news here, for you folks in Peoria, Ill. You indeed are seeing fleeting Verizon 4G LTE signals in your fair city, according to the Journal Star. The bad news? You're still just...
Article
by Chris Parsons
Jan 18, 2012
Remember last year when Virgin Mobile USA said they would be delaying their plans to throttle data for users who used more then 2.5GB in one month? At the time, they never gave any reason as to why ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 06, 2012
In case you missed it late last night, a report from Greg Bensinger of Dow Jones Newswires that stated Sprint is throttling the top 1 percent of its unlimited users was not correct. (Dow Jones has y...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 05, 2012
Sprint's making the jump from Wimax to LTE in 2012 (well, Wimax will keep working for some time), and CEO Dan Hesse just annouced the first markets for the new brand of 4G. They are:
Atl...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 29, 2011
Verizon's Twitter account this morning tells us that its latest 4G LTE outage has been resolved.
4GLTE issue resolved overnight. 3G operated normally; calling, texting were unaffected.
It...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 28, 2011
Hey, the good news is it's been a whole week since the last one.
More: Verizon LTE Down ... AGAIN!
...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 27, 2011
Sony Ericsson today is sending out e-mails reminding folks (or chaps, since the e-mail we received was sent to our UK operation) that it's shutting down its Sony Ericcson Sync service on Dec. 29...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2011
Just got word back from Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney about the overnight/early morning 4G LTE outage. Here 'tis:
"Verizon Wireless 4G LTE service is returning to normal this morning...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2011
Update: Looks like data's starting to come back for some of us. Still no word from Verizon yet.
Well, that's no good. Verizon Wireless is dead in the water this morning for what appears to ...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
Sprint today told Android Central that it is no longer using Carrier IQ to collect diagnostic data from its devices. The statement comes in response to our asking Sprint about an anonymously sourced...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
AT&T's responses to questions posed by U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., over the use of Carrier IQ analytics software are probably the most interesting we've seen thus far.
AT&T...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2011
Update: Sprint says it's no longer using Carrier IQ
Sprint, in its reponse to U.S. Sen. Al Franken over its use of the Carrier IQ software, goes into great detail about how and why it needs and...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 14, 2011
See what we did there (again)?
Verizon today announced that on Dec. 15 (that'd be tomorrow) it's adding the following cities to its 4G LTE roster:
Dover, Del.
Lafayette, Ind.
...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 13, 2011
Carrier IQ, the company that everyone -- for right or wrong -- has come to hate of late has released a document explaining in plain English how it does what it does. "Understanding Carrier IQ T...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Dec 06, 2011
Our mantra around here is that you should aways start and end your day with Android Central -- we're the center of the Android Universe, after all. But when we're not busy stroking o...
