One of the mobile data junkies biggest complaints when it comes to their digital-loving lifestyle is that of data plans. It used to be that the US was the pioneering front in price and data allotment. As of late, however, US carriers have become just as blood sucking and greedy as the rest of the world by raising prices and/or lowering data allotments. To that effect, the solution to pesky mutli-year contracts was to ditch the contract altogether and go pre-paid. T-Mobile...
Just because something is found within the software of a device doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll ever see it go live. Case in point: 4G in the Droid Incredible. It’s not marketed as a 4G phone and Verizon doesn’t have that large of a 4G network actually live…yet. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean the parties involved with such a rollout can’t prepare, right? I doubt the Incredible has a 4G radio. We would have heard about it by some...
You may recall late last week an article that showed the LG Optimus potentially getting UMA calling features. (Quickrecap: UMA calling allows cellular calls to be made over WiFI and then transfer between the two technologies as you move from local network to cellular network.) It looks like the proof is slowly building, as a new series of training documents has leaked showing several slides of a new Android WiFi calling app. Unlike UMA that is currently available on most...
As the battle for your mobile dollar gets more and more intense, a couple of carriers are promising data caps, raised fees, and overall less friendly/pro-consumer services. T-Mobile is taking a different approach. Instead of screwing you, their devoted customer (or potential customer), they are giving you up to 3 extra lines for free through the end of 2011. On top of the 1st and 2nd lines already being $0/month, T-Mo is giving you the 3rd, 4th, and 5th lines also. If...
It’s a simple question brought up by a new survey whose results are pretty interesting, though not surprising. Specifically, the survey conducted by Credit Suisse asked users if they would switch to a different carrier if the iPhone became available on that carrier. The big news isn’t the 2% who said they’d switch to T-Mobile or the 3% who would jump ship for Sprint. Instead, the focal point is the 23% of respondents who claim to love Verizon and nothing...
