You know, our wireless carriers don’t nickel and dime is enough. How about another fee. But wait a minute. It isn’t AT&T serving the latest slap in the face — it’s Verizon. Beginning April 22nd, VZW will charge a $30 fuck you over “upgrade fee” to upgrade to a new device when re-signing a new contract. Some small saving grace can be found in the fact that if you trade-in your old phone through VZW’s green program you can...

It appears that VZW has been slyly slugging away on their LTE network. A lot of the time we’ll be sent a boastful (for good reason) PR sheet telling of the latest LTE additions/enhancements/expansions that VZW is rolling out across their network. This time, however, Droid-Life has stumbled upon the latest rollout information before VZW could send it to us. In short: Verizon has a ton of new developments on the LTE front with…new additions, enhancements to...

As smartphones become more mainstream and widely adopted, the necessity of having a separate $20-$50 data plan attached to each device/line is greatly reduced. What carriers really need to do, as they already do with SMS and voice minutes plans, is offer a shared pool of data. Rumors of such services being added to existing plan options has been rumored for U.S. carriers AT&T and Verizon for over a year now. And while no firm date has been mentioned yet regarding when...

Wondering if that “universal” third-gen iPad will work across networks? We all know that abroad, roaming between carriers and cellular devices is pretty much a norm. Here in the states however, carriers don’t really get the whole point of “roaming” or the real utility of sim cards. That said, the third-gen iPad appears to be kicking the locked carrier habit. A video posted by Macrumors shows a Verizon specific LTE third-gen iPad connecting to...

Good news Indiana residents: Your mobile data experience on LTE is about to get a lot better. Specifically, residents of Cromwell, Howe, Kimmel, LaGrange, Lake Wawasee, Leesburg, Ligonier, Shipshewana, Syracuse, Topeka, Warsaw & Winona Lake will be able to make use of Verizon’s fantastic LTE network beginning tomorrow, March 15th, as the carrier surpasses 200 LTE markets in the U.S. with the aforementioned cities as well as those listed below. In our testing...