Sprint announced Monday that it will offer Samsung's Galaxy S III with 4G LTE on June 21st. The carrier will offer two models: a 16GB flavor and a 32GB version for $199.99 and $249.99 with a new two-year contract, respectively. Sprint's version will offer a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED screen, an 8-megapixel camera, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4...
Virgin Mobile USA is following in the footsteps of its postpaid parent Sprint by running an LG specific Google Wallet promo. The prepaid carrier is offering a $25 Google Wallet credit to customers who purchase and activate its new LG Optimus Elite. The crediting system goes as followed: $10 within the first seven days of activating the LG Optimus Elite on Virgin Mobile USA, and an...
Virgin Mobile on Tuesday announced that it is now offering the LG Optimus Elite, an eco-friendly phone that initially made its debut on Sprint, for $149.99 off contract. It’s a pretty solid deal, considering you won’t be tied down to the carrier and will be able to Virgin’s first device with NFC and Google Wallet support. The phone also features a 3.5-inch HVGA display, an 800MHZ...
Since when did the cell phone become a digital Swiss Army Knife? Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with that—hold your horses because there’s a caveat involved here. And before my ADHD takes hold and blasts me into 199 different channels in space, I’m going to lay down that caveat right now: cell phone manufacturers are adding too many colors to a palette. It’s a phone that’...
Watching the Google Wallet dog-and-pony show today over the new Near Field Ccommunication (NFC)-equipped digital wallet initiative was really fascinating. And also kind of uneasy. I just kept thinking, “This is it. This is the future… So why do I have the cold sweats?” Maybe because the thought of trusting Google or any large company with my actual wallet is kind of frightening. But...
With the announcement today of Google Wallet, NFC (Near Field Communication) has come to the masses in the United States. While the new service is currently limited to the Nexus S on Sprint, it will eventually roll out to more devices and carriers, and Google estimates that within a short amount of time, 50 percent of all smartphones in the market, a number that works out to a 150...