If AT&T is the carrier printing your wireless bill and you’re in search of a 4G LTE Windows Phone, and a bargain, Amazon Wireless’s latest offering just might be too tempting to pass up. The e-tailer is offering the Samsung Focus 2 for the ultra-low price of $.99 on a new two-year service agreement for

Earlier this morning NVIDIA said its Icera 410 4G LTE modem has been certified for use on AT&T’s network and now, during a conference call with investors, NVIDIA’s manager of its mobile business unit Mike Rayfield discussed NVIDIA’s future through 2014. First, he re-confirmed that Tegra 3 quad-core devices will launch in North America later

AT&T failed to purchase T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. We know that, but partially expected that another firm would and scoop up T-Mobile USA. That won’t happen, Deutsche Telekom said. “A complete sale is unlikely,” the company’s CEO Rene Obermann said during a recent shareholders meeting. “We must find other ways to

What sounds cooler and more futuristic than the HTC One X moniker? How about “HTC One XL?” HTC on Wednesday said the device, first announced during Mobile World Congress in February, is slated to hit Europe in June. The One XL is similar to the international One X. Instead of launching with the NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset

NVIDIA just announced that its Icera 410 LTE multimode modem has been approved to work properly on AT&T’s 4G LTE network. “Validation with AT&T is an achievement that paves the way for NVIDIA Icera-powered LTE devices on the AT&T network through this year and next,” Stan Boland, senior vice president of Mobile Communications at NVIDIA said

AT&T announced on Wednesday that it will begin re-allocating its 2G spectrum to meet the increased demand for its 3G and 4G networks in New York City. This step forward may come at the expense of AT&T’s existing 2G customers, who may experience a reduction in coverage. “Dedicating more capacity to our advanced wireless networks

AT&T on Wednesday announced its first Android-powered slider smartphone for its prepaid GoPhone service. The Samsung Galaxy Appeal offers a 3.2-inch display with a 480 x 320-pixel resolution, 512MB of RAM, 1.8GB of onboard storage, a microSD card slot for adding up to 32GB of additional storage, an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7225A processor, a 3-megapixel camera

A research paper from the University of Michigan will be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy claims that researchers were able to use a carrier exploit which allowed them to hijack connections to Facebook, Twitter, AdMob, Windows Live Messenger and spoof financial institutions. The exploit tricks carrier firewalls by manipulating TCP sequence numbers and can

Good news for those looking for out-of-stock HTC phones: U.S. customs have started releasing them.

Mega retailer GameStop may have shocked a few when it started pushing Android tablets and accepting iOS device trade-ins, but the house that games built is about to step into a brand new arena. The company’s new GameStop Mobile will be taking the “bring your own phone” approach similar to we’ve seen from places like MVNOs

Would you like the good news or the bad news first? Good: To help quell declining customer growth, AT&T is entertaining the idea of introducing linked data plans between smartphones and tablets. Basically, one plan to rule them all. Rather than requiring folks to have separate plans for each of their devices, AT&T would instead

AT&T’s One X has been well received by consumers and critics alike, but this high-end stunner is currently hard to come by and pressing legal issues are to blame. In the interest of good form, we’ve compiled a list of retailers that currently have this elusive smartphone in stock. In fact, two of the retailers

FedEx just swung by and dropped off AT&T’s latest Windows Phone, the Samsung Focus 2. The phone is Samsung’s first 4G LTE-enabled Windows Phone and offers a similar feature set to the Focus S. It’s equipped with a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, a 1.4GHz single-core processor, an 5-megapixel rear-facing camera and a front-facing camera for

If you’re one of the many AT&T customers that picked up the Nokia Lumia 900 before April 21st and were looking forward to receiving a $100 credit on your bill, you’re definitely not alone. However, as it turns out there was a bit of a catch to this offer. This promotion was intended for AT&T

AT&T revealed a rather scary report on Tuesday that suggests 43% of teens text while driving. That figure alone is frightening, but the report also says that 97% of teens are aware of the dangers associated with texting and driving and many still do it anyway. In fact, AT&T found that 77% of teens have

The HTC One X for AT&T is a superb phone. I hope you picked one up, because if you wanted to right this second you couldn’t; both the white and gray versions are currently out of stock on the carrier’s website. This can mean one of two things: 1) The device is selling faster than

We’ve long expected for each of the big four U.S. carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile — to launch Samsung’s latest Galaxy S III flagship smartphone. On Monday, test images, some of them awful, surfaced and revealed the model numbers for each carrier. The shots essentially dispel any doubts that the phone wouldn’t show

Apple’s new iPad is the first of its iOS devices to be equipped with 4G LTE technology. It’s great if you’re in the United States and you can take advantage of those super speedy LTE networks from AT&T and Verizon, but for most international customers, it’s almost useless. You see, despite being advertised as a

Noah K. tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! In this episode: AOL Tech up for sale? T-Mobile USA about to be merged … or sold … or something? AOL May Be Looking to Sell Engadget and TechCrunch T-Mobile to Merge with Metro PCS? Be sure to check out Rumor Roundup every Friday at 5 PM

In the world of mobile virtual network operators (MVNO), Tracfone’s 18 million customer base makes it a major player. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what an MVNO is, it’s pretty much when a smaller wireless provider leases coverage from a major wireless carrier. In the case of Tracfone, it leases network coverage from

AT&T considered purchasing Leap following its failed attempt to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion. The talks were held in recent months and it remains unknown if the two carriers are still in discussions, Reuters said in a report on Friday. Leap is currently valued at about $400 million and the acquisition would help

Samsung Galaxy Note users are reporting this morning that their devices have begun receiving a tasty slab of Ice Cream Sandwich. It appears the Korean electronics giant is now pushing out the Android 4.0 update to its super-sized smartphone for those located in Europe. According to The Verge, the news was broken by Devin Balentina

In the tech world, slow Android updates have become a fact of life. And it’s all Google’s fault, according to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. Speaking at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference, Stephenson said, “Google kind of determines what platform gets the newest releases and when. Often times that’s a negotiated arrangement, and so that’s something

T-Mobile still doesn’t sell the iPhone, but that doesn’t mean the carrier can’t try and bring iPhone owners to it. As part of the hefty $4 billion sum it received from AT&T, T-Mobile is preparing to free up 1900 MHz spectrum at the end of this year that would make Apple’s handset compatible with the

We just swung by a beautiful old mansion in the Garden District of New Orleans during CTIA 2012 to get a close-up look of AT&T’s Samsung Focus 2. The Focus 2 runs the latest version of Windows Phone, with support for 4G LTE, and costs half as much as Nokia’s Lumia 900. It’s equipped with