Christopher Price
Wirefly Leaks Lumia 710 Pre-orders for T-Mobile, CES Announcements Loom
Wirefly today took the apparently-accidental step of offering up pre-orders for the Lumia 710, Nokia’s first American Windows Phone. The phone will launch on T-Mobile. CES is shaping up to be Nokia’s re-debut with their line of Windows Phones all set to be announced at CES. As many as three Lumia variants may be seen at […]
Deal: Virgin Mobile MiFi 2200 – $49.99 Shipped
Today, Amazon.com is offering the Virgin Mobile version of the Novatel MiFi 2200 portable hotspot for $49.99. Shipping is free. At $100 off the standard retail price, it is the lowest price we’ve ever seen for the MiFi on Virgin Mobile. The only downside of the the Amazon offer is that the Wal-mart version of […]
Editorial: Ten Things HP Can Do (Quickly) To Reboot webOS
In the wake of HP re-committing to webOS (as an open source project), we go in-depth with ten things HP could do to bring the platform back into competition with Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Also as an added bonus, something yours truly blew thousands of dollars on.
Toshiba Acknowledges MacBook Woes in Canvio USB 3.0 Hard Drives
Following tests conducted by PhoneNews.com, Toshiba has acknowledged an issue affecting their Canvio USB 3.0 hard drives. The issue prevents current-generation MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models from properly connecting and powering up the drives. Read more to see our findings, and the resulting (ongoing) investigation by Toshiba.
iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak Now Available for Download
Prolific iOS hacker pod2G has released to jail breakers a new exploit, which for the first time brings a homogenous and simple jailbreak for iOS 5 devices. The jailbreak has been incorporated into redsn0w, the most popular jailbreak tool, and supports all devices with the exception of Apple A5-toting iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. This […]
Verizon Quietly Gives Half Off All LTE Batteries at Checkout
Over the past month, Verizon has been discounting LTE batteries. However, it was at times hard, and impossible to lock in the deal. We initially reported the half-off battery pricing with the HTC Rezound in a previous article, but the discounts were giving users errors. Namely, if a user was logged into VerizonWireless.com, they often […]
LG Facebook Post Affirms ICS for G2x, Nitro, Marquee, Leaves Revolution in Doubt
A post on LG’s Facebook page today disclosed plans for upgrading their devices to Android 4, Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). However, the post requires translation to make sense for their devices in the United States. Not because the post wasn’t in English, but because LG devices in the United States have different names than LG’s […]
Best Buy Offers BOGO Pricing on iPhone 4 32GB for AT&T, Verizon (Updated)
Best Buy email sent to customers this morning… Today only, Best Buy is offering buy-one-get-one free pricing on the 32GB version of iPhone 4S. The retailer is offering the pricing on both AT&T and Verizon Wireless versions of the iPhone 4S, but not on the Sprint variant. The offer is only valid for new two-year […]
Sprint Delivers Honeycomb 3.2 to EVO View 4G (with Review)
Just in time for the holidays, Sprint has rolled out the Android 3.2 Honeycomb upgrade that we first confirmed was on its way for the HTC EVO View 4G. The upgrade is is well over a hundred megabytes, those on a capped 3G/4G data plan are urged to download this update over Wi-Fi. The update […]
T-Mobile Says No Comment over iPhone 3G / HSPA+ Signals Hitting Devices
We were all set to close out the lights on PhoneNews.com to celebrate Christmas, but we got one piece of information that we had to push out to readers. Many in the mobile media had been covering that T-Mobile customers had suddenly noticed UMTS/HSPA receptivity on the unlocked iPhone models. This appears to be coming […]