Britons! Dedicated followers of fashion! If your clothes are loud (but never square) and you’ve just gotta keep up with the latest trends, then Phones 4u should be your next stop. The independent phone retailer is offering customers JUMP (short for “Just Upgrade my Phone”): a 24-month deal that’ll let you upgrade your handset every [...]
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Phones 4u ‘JUMP’ plan lets you swap phones every six months, for a price
Posted: 10th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Break, Britons, Calculator, Carrier, Clothes, Engadget, Fashion, Followers, Fri, Handset, Handy, Independent Phone, Latest Trends, Math, Maths, Nbsp, Plump, Rent, Six Months, Vanilla
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Nokia Astound owners face a Belle-less future, no update coming
Posted: 9th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: C7, Carrier, Counterpart, Engadget, Face, Fate, Nbsp, Nokia, Precious Time, Speculation, T Mobile, Time And Money
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So this is where the road ends for the Nokia Astound. After getting a hearty helping of Symbian Anna in November, owners of T-Mobile’s first (and only) Symbian^3 device became hopeful that — despite the fate of the OS being sealed — the US counterpart to the C7 would remain relevant throughout the course of [...]
T-Mobile confirms Full Monty subscribers are capped at 1Mb/s, risqué plan becomes tame
Posted: 4th February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Act, Break, Carrier, Confirmation, Coolsmartphone, Full Monty, Launch Event, Magic 8 Ball, Nbsp, Subscribers, T Mobile, Tidbit, Uh Oh
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Uh-oh. Looks like T-Mobile’s Full Monty subscribers in the UK will be getting much less than they’d originally bargained for. T-Mo’s British support unit recently confirmed that the carrier has capped speeds on its “all-in” unlimited plan at a rather dismal 1Mb/s — in other words, this Full Monty act doesn’t really go all the [...]
US Cellular announces its first LTE devices: the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy S Aviator
Posted: 1st February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: 4g, Aviator, Carrier, Celebration, Cellular Network, Engadget, Galaxy, Mystery Question, Nbsp, Quite Some Time, Samsung, Us Cellular
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US Cellular’s had its LTE network in the oven for quite some time, and we knew it was going to be showing up sometime next month. The missing part of the equation, however, was which devices would ring in the celebration. The carrier finally answered the mystery question: the first tablet will be the Samsung [...]
Samsung Galaxy S Advance arriving on Three Mobile, gave no warning
Posted: 1st February 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Break, Carrier, Dual Core Processor, Email, Engadget, Galaxy, Megapixel Camera, Middleweight, Nbsp, Packing, Samsung, Smartphone, Three Mobile
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Intrigued by the Galaxy S Advance’s more-than-middleweight specifications revealed yesterday? Well, if you’re residing in the UK, you can expect to see the curved smartphone arrive on the Three network. Packing a five megapixel camera and a 1GHz dual-core processor, the Galaxy S Advance will also grace us with a four-inch Super AMOLED display. Although [...]
T-Mobile brings Square to select small businesses, does the mobile payment thing
Posted: 31st January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Business Offerings, Carrier, Credit Card Readers, Engadget, Handful, Jack Dorsey, Launch, Mobile Email, Mobile Payment, Mobile Smartphones, Nbsp, Palms, Retail Outlets, Small Business, Small Businesses, Source Link, T Mobile
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T-Mobile is throwing some of its weight behind the mobile payment movement this morning, becoming the first carrier to offer Square credit card readers to a handful of retail outlets. Under the company’s new campaign, stores equipped with T-Mobile smartphones will be able to use Jack Dorsey’s readers to finalize transactions from the comfort of [...]
T-Mobile to tighten the purse strings, limit data roaming starting April 5th
Posted: 31st January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Allotment, Amp, April, Billing Cycle, Carrier, Current, Engadget, Full Monty, Hot Heels, Hot On The Heels, Met, Nbsp, One Thing, Pact, Purse Strings, Restrictive Limits, Subscribers, T Mobile
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We’ve just come across an internal T-Mobile memo that will certainly give a few customers a moment of pause: come April 5th, it seems the carrier will impose new, restrictive limits that affect data usage when roaming. Hot on the heels of the network’s roaming pact with AT&T, the change would restrict subscribers to a [...]
Samsung Galaxy Note coming to Bell, Rogers and Telus in February
Posted: 30th January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Amp, Android, Best Buy, Best Buy Canada, Branding, Brother, Carrier, Engadget, Envy, Fun, Galaxy, Maple Leaf, Nbsp, Pine Needle, Reservation System, Rogers Canada, Samsung, Telus, Valentine S Day, Waves
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Those of you who seem to be more closely connected to the Maple Leaf than the pine needle might’ve jumped on the envious side at the news that folks across the border are getting their hands on the LTE Galaxy Note. Envy no more. Via blog post, Rogers has announced that Samsung’s “phablet” creation will [...]
Vlingo co-founder explains data-collection issues
Posted: 27th January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Break, Carrier, Co Founder, Communications Manager, Contact List, Engadget, Four Minutes, Galaxy, Gps, Iq, Keleher, Nbsp, O2, People, Privacy Policy, Product Marketing, Vigilance, Vlingo, Voice Recognition, Wynn
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With Carrier IQ and O2′s most recent data-snooping, people’s vigilance about what information cellphones transmit is increasing. Using a Galaxy Note, AndroidPit found that every four minutes, Vlingo’s voice-recognition app was sending a packet of data to an unencrypted server. The packet contained your GPS co-ordinates, IMEI (unique device identifier), contact list and the title [...]
Prada Phone by LG 3.0 arriving on T-Mobile UK next month
Posted: 19th January 2012 by Paul in GoogleTags: Carrier, Engadget, Launch, Mobile Email, Mobile Uk, Native Korea, Nbsp, Prada, Smartphone, T Mobile, Uk Email
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Brits dripping in Prada won’t have to wait much longer to get their smartphone fix. The awkwardly-named Prada Phone by LG 3.0 is looking to set sail from its native Korea — where it’s already launched — and will be available on T-Mobile, half of the Everything Everywhere duo, some time in February. Sidling up [...]