Verizon Affirms Unlimited Smartphone SIM Card Usage in Hotspots, Tablets, LTE iPad
Verizon Wireless answers exclusively to PhoneNews.com about one of the most burning questions for grandfathered 4G LTE customers.
You Can Use Your Verizon Smartphone LTE SIM in an iPad (with Unlimited Data Plans & Hotspot too) – Verizon Responds
We go hands-on to answer the most burning, lingering question that Verizon techies have with the new iPad.
Page Plus Makes More (Welcome) Changes to Flagship Plans
PagePlus makes welcome changes to its flagship plans
Editorial: Carriers May Be Okay with Tether.com
We take a look at why the carriers have seen (the new, HTML5) Tether.com coming from a mile away, and what they’ve done to accept that there’s nothing they can do about it.
Verizon Formalizes Stance on Unlocked Bootloaders, Freezes Out Android Modders
Lost in the sea of MWC news this week was the formal stance that Verizon Wireless took in regards to the possibility of allowing its handsets to ship with unlocked booloaders. As Verizon shipped the first generation Motorola Droid with an open bootloader, it was thought that the carrier did so initially in order to […]
PSA: Page Plus Cellular Double Data Promotion Ends Tomorrow (Updated)
As we previously reported, Page Plus Cellular is offering a record 1 GB of data for a full year, but you have to lock by the end of tomorrow. The promotion takes their “The 55”, $55 per month plan, which provides unlimited voice, text messaging, and 500 MB of data per month, and doubles it […]
Deal: Verizon Leather Tablet Case for iPad, Touchpad, XOOM, etc – $3.99 Shipped
An eBay seller is offering the remaining supplies of Verizon’s leather cases, originally designed for the first-generation iPad. It’s a case we’ve highlighted in the past. The case was designed to allow for the Wi-Fi first-generation iPad, as well as a Novatel MiFi, which Verizon marketed as a pairing at the time. The CDMA-based iPad […]
webOS Community Testing 2.2.4 Update for Original Pre, Pre Plus
Despite HP not delivering on a promised webOS 2.0 upgrade for all first-generation webOS devices, the webOS community is still at it. While unofficially upgrading the Pre and Pre Plus to webOS 2.0 (via the webOS Internals’ meta-doctor project) is nothing new, progress stalled out at webOS version 2.1. Since then, webOS 2.2 has provided […]
Verizon to Charge $2 “Convenience Fee” for Phone or Online Bill Payments (Updated)
Verizon Wireless has decided that customers weren’t paying enough on their monthly bills, so the carrier has decided to implement a new $2 fee for customers that routinely pay bills either online and over the phone starting January 15th. In a short statement, the carrier cited increasing costs resulting from the processing of bill payments using […]
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 […]