By Jacob Kleinman |
An official Twitter account used by Verizon in the past to announce new DROID handsets, as well as the occasional scavenger hunt, tweeted today for the first time since November 2011, sparking rumors that a new DROID smartphone is about to be announced. The cryptic…
By Adriana Lee |
When it comes to 4G/LTE, Verizon’s network is largely acknowledged as the best. But now, PCMag‘s latest test results have come along to challenge that notion. According to the website, AT&T actually had the fastest LTE network of all four of the major carriers. In its…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Sprint is still lagging behind Verizon and AT&T when it comes to LTE coverage, mainly because it launched the high speed service over a year after its competition, but a new expansion may help the carrier level the playing field. Service just launched in 22…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The Galaxy S4 Mini, a 4.3-inch variant of the flagship handset, may be heading to Verizon in the near future. Droid-Life reported the news earlier today after spotting the suspicious model number SCH-I435 on Bluetooth SIG. The model number lines up with previous handsets in the Samsung…
By Adriana Lee |
Earlier The Guardian broke the startling news that the National Security Administration has been secretly collecting phone records for every call on the Verizon network. With tens of millions of people’s data at stake, this is the broadest surveillance initiative ever brought to light. Initially,…
By Todd Haselton |
A top secret order recently gave the National Security Agency (NSA) permission to collect millions of phone records from Verizon customers, The Guardian reported Thursday. It’s doesn’t appear to be randomly collected data here and there, either. Apparently Verizon hands over data from “all telephone calls…
By Brandon Russell |
HTC’s highly successful One, which has sold quite well for the company thus far, is coming to Verizon later this summer, the carrier said on Monday. Just last week a leak confirmed the device was indeed coming to the big U.S. carrier, and Verizon couldn’t…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Verizon has lagged behind its competitors in bringing the HTC One to market, we still don’t know if it ever will, but recent rumors suggest it could be coming soon with the latest version of Android installed. Other variants of the handset (excluding the Google…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The Z10 may have whetted the taste buds of BlackBerry fans but the QWERTY-packing BlackBerry Q10 is about to make its big U.S. splash. Following yesterday’s news that T-Mobile will begin shipping the BlackBerry Q10 on June 5, Verizon announced Thursday that it will ship the…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The Galaxy S3 may not be Samsung‘s flagship smartphone anymore, but that doesn’t mean owners of the popular handset will be left out in the cold. Verizon just announced a massive update for the S III that includes bug fixes, multi-window functionality and direct carrier…
By Brandon Russell |
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will support Verizon’s next network upgrade, which is expected to double the Internet speeds of today. According to Mike Haberman, vice president of network support for Verizon, all it’ll take is a simple software upgrade once the faster AWS spectrum is rolled…
By Todd Haselton |
Verizon doesn’t yet carry the HTC One and several signs have suggested that neither HTC nor Verizon have plans to launch the device. Perhaps Verizon changed its mind after seeing glowing reviews of the new flagship smartphone, however. Slashgear recently obtained a leaked image from @evleaks,…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The results are in from TechHive‘s Wireless Week cellular speed tests and AT&T came away with the fastest LTE speeds. For the second year in a row the carrier blew away the competition with an average download 13.5Mbps and average upload speed of 6.45Mbps. Verizon still…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Verizon Cloud launched recently for iOS and additional Android devices including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC’s DROID DNA. The carrier broke the news on its official website, updating an earlier post announcing the new service. The cloud service is available to Verizon subscribers with…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The Verizon Galaxy S4 hasn’t event been on the market for one full day and already an intrepid hacker has released a guide detailing how to root Samsung‘s newest handset for Verizon subscribers. Droid Life notes that the method, which was posted on the XDA Developers…
By Todd Haselton |
Google announced that it will sell a developer version of the Galaxy S4 for $649 starting on June 26. We know that it’s only going to be available in the U.S. at first, but we didn’t know that it was going to launch with support…
By Todd Haselton |
Verizon Wireless is now officially selling the Samsung Galaxy S4 in stores and online for $199.99 with a new two-year contract. Verizon is the last of the big four carriers to offer the device, which is available in both black and white. Since it doesn’t…
By Jacob Kleinman |
The Verizon Galaxy S4 wasn’t supposed to arrive until May 23, but a few lucky Android fans have already received their new smartphones two days early, according to Droid-Life. Here’s a tweet from one customer who appears to have a shipment confirmation: patiently waiting for my Galaxy s4 to…
By Todd Haselton |
Verizon has the largest 4G LTE network in the United States and now it’s larger than ever. The carrier announced Monday that it recently activated its 4G LTE service in six new markets, bringing the total market count to 497. It covers a total of…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Motorola’s XT1058 “XFON” smartphone is expected to hit the market for AT&T in the near future, but until recently Verizon subscribers had little reason to believe that Google’s new smartphone would land on their network of choice. However, according to a new leak found on…
By Todd Haselton |
Verizon’s latest Windows Phone 8 device, the Nokia Lumia 928, is now available for $99.99 with a new two-year contract. We recently unboxed the phone and found that it was a more refined version of the Lumia 920. It offers a similar camera but with…
By Sean P. Aune |
Verizon announced this morning at BlackBerry Live that it will be launching the BlackBerry Q10 in the near future. So far the carrier has only put up a page where you can sign up for updates, but no information as of yet on pricing or…
By Todd Haselton |
Verizon reached out to TechnoBuffalo on Monday alerting us that it will now launch the Galaxy S4 online and in stores starting on May 23, one week earlier than the wireless carrier originally stated. That means Samsung was able to deliver enough devices to meet…
By Todd Haselton |
Walmart announced Friday that customers can now pre-order the Verizon Wireless Samsung Galaxy S4 and that the device will be available in stores on May 30. The device is available with 16GB of storage for $199.99 with a new two-year contract, but you only need…
