If you walked up to any non-techie, technologically inept individual and tried to explain why an iPhone on AT&T — regardless of cell signal strength, coverage, etc – is still better than an iPhone on Verizon, they’d probably laugh at you and walk away. At least here in the US, AT&T’s image has become synonymous with sub-par quality, coverage, and performance. Verizon on the other hand has benefited from AT&T’s foibles. On the...

Being in the tech world, I’ve pretty much come to the point that anytime I hear a company — wireless in particular — utter the words “unlimited, I immediately label said company spokesperson as a liar while simultaneously feeling a sinking feeling in my gut. All too often, commercials are plastered on TV boasting of “unlimited 3G plans for todays tech minded consumers. Unfortunately , the real meaning of “unlimited” in...

Hipsters and haters of the darkness unite, RIM has your BlackBerry ready and waiting in the wings. The king pin BlackBerry (9700) will soon be dropping on Rogers in a rather calming hue of white. Much like the older 9000 Bold before it, a complete 180 in the color department may not seem like much if anything. But to some, it’s the last hurdle in actually picking up said phone. I prefer the sleeker more mysterious lines of a phone dressed in all black. Though I...

Regardless of your opinion on Windows Mobile, you have to admit that the HTC HD2 — all 4.3″ of it’s glass faced frontal beauty — is a drop dead gorgeous phone. Currently however, US citizens are left without any official channels to pick up a subsidized or even a US version of the device. That’s all set to change in the not too distant future. A video (below) showing a new “2.0.1″ ROM showcases among other things, a very...

Here we are thinking that some big money making corporate machine such as AT&T was going to launch the first HSPA+ network in the states. It takes money to put up and support all of the physical and digital mojo behind such a network which is why the obvious default to the countries largest GSM provider was a given — or so we thought. Thanks to BendBroadband, a central Oregon cable company, the US does now in fact have the sweet, speedy waves of HSPA+...