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Better Cell Phone Towers Kill People [Cell Phones]





AT&T's network sucked in 2008, glutted with iPhones and facing the menace of a 3G rollout. So like its competition, it put together a slapdash operation to build towers at any cost. Even a human cost, ProP...
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Verizon Unlimited Data Not Quite Dead, but There's No Point In Keeping It [Verizon]





Verizon dropped the bad, bullshit news yesterday: It's killing all grandfathered unlimited data plans next year. Thanks to a statement from Verizon to the NY Times, we know exactly how it plans to do so. T...
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Verizon to Kill Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans. This Is Bullshit [Verizon]





Unlimited data on Verizon is dead. The death rattle just wheezed out of Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo's dream-killing presentation at the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference. Mor...
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Verizon Users Getting High-Quality Live Video Broadcasting with Color App [Video]





Color announced a deal with Verizon today that will let Big V customers broadcast live audio and video from their phones on Facebook. I'm going to livestream my lunch complete with chewing sounds! More...
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Verizon Is Launching a 911 Texting Service [911]





Verizon has announced that it plans to launch the nation's first text-to-911 service, designed to allow those who are deaf or hard of hearing to contact the emergency services via SMS. More »...
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Verizon's LTE-Powered Home Broadband Goes National [Verizon]





While Verizon recently launched its LTE-powered home broadband service, calledHomeFusion, to a select few locations, it seems to be doing so well that it's now being rolled out across the entire country. ...
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Verizon's 4G Jetpack Hotspot Gets Prepaid Treatment [Verizon]





Beginning May 1st Verizon will offer a new prepaid version of its Jetpack 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot MiFi 4510L with three different prepaid plans. For $15, you'll get 250 MB of data a week. For $60 you'll get...
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Verizon Jetpack 4620L: The Best Wi-Fi Hotspot [Hot Spots]





Former Gizmodian Brian Lam has a site called The Wirecutter, whose singular goal is to decide which gadgets to buy or not to buy. Today, he looks at the best Wi-Fi hotspot money can buy. More &raqu...
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Leaked Verizon Roadmap Tips Fall iPhone, Summer Galaxy SIII [Smartphones]





Verizon's roadmap for late summer/early fall 2012 has reportedly leaked, and it includes a few interesting rumors. More »



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Why Is Verizon Advertising a Phone from 9 Years Ago? [Image Cache]





Remember the original RAZR? It was super-thin, super-overpriced, and commanded the gadget-lust of a whole generation. It often shattered when dropped—a sort of proto-iPhone. That was nearly a decade ...
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What the Hell Happened to Google Wallet's Cash-Free Future? [Google Wallet]





Almost a year ago, Google held a press conference to announce Google Wallet, an ambitious, multi-faceted plan for a cash-free future in which cell phones would replace hard currency. More »
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No More Free Phone Upgrades: Verizon's $30 Fee Starts April 22nd [Verizon]





On April 22nd, Verizon will begin charging a $30 upgrade fee when existing customers buy a new phone on a new contract. It's the sad end of the free upgrade era. More »



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Carriers Unite to Track Stolen Phones Nationwide [Crime]





Cell phone theft is among the fastest-growing crime segments in the US and police commissioners from around the nation are fed up. So the FCC and the Big Four carriers are developing a nation lost/stolen p...
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City Hacks, Rocking Chair Freaks, and Other Stories We Didn't Post [Left Behind]





So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in...
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What Is HD Voice? [Hd Voice]






As people increasingly abandon voice calling for texting and emailing, audio quality has been a bit neglected. But Sprint's debut of the HD voice-compatible Evo 4G LTE signals that carriers are starting ...
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Verizon Will Force DSL Subscribers to Buy Home Phone Service. Awesome. [Verizon]





DSL is often the most cost-effective way to get a broadband connection at home. Not for long! It's about to get a lot more expensive for Verizon customers. Starting May 6, you won't be able to get DSL serv...
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Hackers Stole 174 Million Personal Records in 2011 (And a Ton Were by Anonymous & Co.) [Factoid]





Verizon just put out its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, and you can probably guess what it says: 2011 was a banner year for hackers, and represented a huge statistical comeback. They compromised...
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iPad Test Notes: Which LTE iPad Is Faster? [Ipad]





In addition to our crowd-sourced National Speed Test, we thought we'd do a little testing of our own. We love LTE, but which iPad (and network) gives the best LTE? Let's have a look see. More &raqu...
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Verizon LTE iPads Will Have Free Tethering [Ipad]





LTE data on the new iPad can get expensive, but at least Verizon's cutting you a break and including tethering in the price of your iPad data plan. Otherwise, it would be a $20 charge for tethering, along ...
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The Full List of Verizon Phones Getting Ice Cream Sandwich [Android]





Verizon has finally let a bunch of smartphone and tablet owners exhale, giving up the full list of current devices that will be getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. There's 14 devices in all....
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Verizon's Claims Its HomeFusion LTE Service Is Faster Than DSL [Verizon]





Verizon is confident that its just launched HomeFusion broadband service will be faster than DSL, despite running entirely on Verizon's 4G LTE network. That sounds pretty good. More »

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Study: There Is No Difference in Usage Between Unlimited Data Plans and Tiered Data Plans [Data]





Hey Carriers. We need to talk. You know how you said you were going to start throttling high data usage users in hopes to preserve bandwidth? That's bullshit, apparently. It's only because you want to get ...
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Verizon Wants to Recycle Your Old Phones [Wireless]





Valentine's Day seems an odd time to get environmentally responsible, but Verizon has done just that. The carrier has just announced a new nationwide trade-in disposal program for its old handsets and is g...
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Autocowrecks: What *REAL* Married People Text To Each Other

Butthole is unacceptable, but douche canoe gets a free pass. This makes perfect sense, because “douche canoe” has been scientifically proven to be the sixth-most hilarious two-word phrase in the English language.

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iPad 3 Will Come in 4G LTE, WSJ Confirms [Rumors]





As details continue to leak ahead of the expected Apple announcement on March 7th, the Wall Street Journal has confirmation that an LTE-compatible variant of the new tablet will be available to AT&T and Ve...
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Watch SNL Make Fun of Verizon 4G LTE Commercials [Video]





Sure maybe you know your way around Android phones but all those Droids, Razrs, Rezounds, HTCs, LGs, 4Gs and LTEs are confusing for normal people! Hell, it's so confusing that SNL made a parody commercial...
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The Clearest Way to Tell Verizon It Sucks [Image Cache]





The owners of this New York restaurant don't like Verizon. In fact, they think it sucks. Sucks. So much so that they've turned their only window into an angry billboard. Take that! More »
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Verizon's Double Data Promo Deal Is Back [Verizon]





Cnet says that starting Friday, if you buy a 4G LTE phone and sign up for a $30 monthly data plan from Verizon, Big Red will double the amount of bandwidth, giving you four gigabytes a month instead of two...
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Redbox and Verizon Joining Forces for a Streaming Movie Service [Streaming]





Rumors had previously suggested Verizon and Redbox were working on a streaming movie service to go against the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. Those rumors were true. The two companies will offer video ...
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Google Just Stripped the 'Nexus' from the Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Update: No It Didn't) [Android]





Google's pissed at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE about something because it just effectively stripped away the Nexus title of the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus LTE no longer shows up on Google's Nexus deve...
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Droid Razr Maxx Gets an Insane 8+ Hours of LTE Battery Life [Android]





If the Droid Razr Maxx is anything to go by, idiotically terrible battery life on LTE phones might be a thing of the past. Laptop Mag ran battery tests on all of Verizon's LTE models and the Maxx crushed e...
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AT&T Sold 9.4 Million Smartphones, 7.6 Million of Them Were iPhones [Factoid]





In a holy crap stat o' the week, AT&T sold a record setting 9.4 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011. 7.6 million of that 9.4 million were iPhones. 7.6 MILLION. That's a ridiculous 81% of all ...
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Motorola Droid 4 and RAZR MAXX Hands On: Two Giant Leaps for Droidkind [Android]





I just copped a major feel on the new Motorola Droid 4 and the Droid RAZR MAXX. I'm going to cut right to the chase: they both carry on the traditions of their ancestors, but improve on them in ways that a...
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Motorola's New Droid 4 Is the Phone to Get for People Who Still Love Physical Keyboards [Android]





Verizon just made the long expected Motorola Droid 4 official today, announcing the slider phone with a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB RAM, 4G LTE, 8-megapixel camera, 5-row keyboard and 16GB of memory in its h...
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Motorola Razr Maxx: An Android Phone With a Battery That Might Actually Last You a Whole Day [Android]





We really liked Motorola's Droid RAZR. It was crazy-thin, water-tight, and had a form factor we'd never seen. Too bad its battery life was sub-awesome. The RAZR MAXX is a little thicker, but it should keep...
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If You Don't Need LTE, Motorola's Taking Wi-Fi Xyboard Pre-Orders and Shipping in Two Weeks [Android]





Which would you rather have, a Xyboard with LTE or an extra $200? If you chose the latter, Motorola's now taking pre-orders for the Wi-Fi only tablet with plans to ship on January 18th. More »...
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Sprint Was Just Kidding about That Whole "Truly Unlimited" Ad [Video]





A recent on-air spot for Sprint billed the company as the last major US carrier to allow unlimited data and text usage. Apparently, nobody told their CEO about that offer, otherwise how could he explain h...
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Motorola Xyboard Review: It Only Looks Like It Can Fly [Android]





Xyboard. It sounds like a xylophone made sweaty, mumbly love to a chalkboard. Putting that aside, the Xyboard is a pretty serious tablet with an IR blaster, boom-packing speakers, and hardware that screams...
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How to Get Unlimited Data on Verizon Right Now [How To]





Verizon notoriously killed its unlimited data plans this past summer, leaving users with only tiered options with ugly data caps. Not cool. But such is life in the era of bandwidth slurping smartphone ubiq...
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Verizon Drops Its Absurd $2 Online Payment Fee [Verizon]





Well done, consumers! In a brief press release issued just this afternoon, Verizon has announced its change of heart on the $2 "convenience fee" it was prepared to charge customers just for paying their bi...
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The FCC Will Investigate Verizon's Ridiculous $2 Online Payment Fee [Verizon]





Verizon's announcement that hey, no biggie, but they're going to charge you two dollars a month just for paying your bill online didn't just catch our attention. It's also apparently perked up a few ears a...
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Verizon's Unsatisfying 4G Outage Explanation [Verizon]





If you're a Verizon Wireless customer with a 4G device, you may have noticed some coverage lapses recently. Three of them, to be precise, of differing magnitude and duration but all pretty darned inconveni...
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Stop Paying Your Verizon Bill Online [Verizon]





Service outages have made Verizon customers have been grumpy the past few days. They probably won't be any happier about a leak from Droid-Life and confirmed by Phonescoop that start charging a $2 "conveni...
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Why My 4G Is Faster Than Your 4G (Sometimes) [4G]





Yes, 4G is super fast and yes, we love it. But not all 4G is created equal. Even when you're talking about the same kind of 4G—LTE. Now that AT&T's launched their LTE network in a handful of cities, ...
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What's Wrong with Multitouch in the Galaxy Nexus? [Video]





There looks to be a really weird bug or faulty hardware in the Verizon Galaxy Nexus that's screwing with multitouch. When you hold down the top left corner of the screen, the bottom of the screen doesn't ...
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus for Verizon: Review Update [Android]





I originally reviewed the international version of the Galaxy Nexus, but I've been using the Verizon one—with LTE!—for about a week now, so our review is updated accordingly. (Check it out righ...
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Verizon Users Reporting Widespread Data Outage Across The US [Verizon]





If you're with Verizon and having trouble getting online from your phone this morning, you're not alone. The Verizon Community is awash with customers who are struggling to get a data connection. More&n...
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The Super Bowl Will Be Streamed Live for the First Time [Sports]





America's biggest television event, the Super Bowl, is going to be streamed live to computers and mobile devices for the first time ever. Football! Everywhere! Yeah! U-S-A! Along with the Super Bowl, fans ...
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Installing Google Wallet on the Nexus Just Got Way Easier [Android]





Verizon thought it was sooo slick, blocking Google Wallet on the new Galaxy Nexus in order to promote its in-house alternative. Too bad Verizon didn't count on the Internet. More »



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Verizon's Galaxy Nexus Is Having Signal Problems [Galaxy Nexus]





Folks who bought a Galaxy Nexus on Verizon last week are reporting that signal strength on the new Googlephone has been pretty darn terrible. Verizon knows it's a problem and is working on a software updat...
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