Nov

2011

Republic Wireless To Give You Unlimited Talk, Text And Data Starting November 8th

by Roy Alugbue
tagged carriers, Republic Wireless, unlimited plans

We love our Android phones, but loathe the expensive monthly plans. Most of us pay what can be an arm and a leg monthly to use our devices. Here’s something that is sure to be an eye-opener for all: paying $20 per month for unlimited talk, text, and data courtesy of Republic Wireless. The carrier is fed [...]

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Oct

2011

HTC Wildfire S Coming to Virgin Mobile Oct 23rd

by Justin Routhier
tagged android 2.3, announced, Best Buy, carriers, Gingerbread, HTC, launch, radioshack, us cellular, virgin mobile, Wildfire S

Virgin Mobile has officially announced that they will start carrying the HTC Wildfire S beginning October 23nd for $200 at such outlets as Best Buy and RadioShack. This latest offering gives consumers yet another option in carriers for this Android 2.3 device as U.S. Cellular made the same announcement for their own version of the [...]

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Aug

2011

Cellular South Expands Mobile Broadband Capacity, Readies Plans For 4G LTE

by David Laborde
tagged 4G LTE, Android, carriers, cellular south

Cellular South, the largest privately held wireless communications provider in the U.S., is continuing to expand its network as it readies plans to introduce 4G LTE (Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution). The unprecedented $90 million network expansion is designed to meet the growing demand by consumers and businesses for faster data speeds and more robust services. “Our [...]

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Feb

2011

New HTC devices launching on several UK carriers

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, carriers, Chacha, Desire S, HTC, incredible s wildfire s, international, MWC, mwc 2011, new phones, O2 UK, orange, phone release, Salsa, three, vodafone uk

After HTC had a HUGE day at MWC in Barcelona, we now have several UK carriers jumping on the HTC train. Three and O2 announced on their Twitter pages that they’ll be launching the HTC Desire S, while Orange and Vodafone will be adding the Desire S, Wildfire S and ChaCha (a facebook phone) in [...]

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Jan

2011

T-Mobile USA presenting strategy plan to parent Deutsche Telekom – business issues

by Jesse Bauer
tagged 4G, Android, business, carriers, Deutsche Telekom, facetime, meeting, profits, T-Mobile, tmobile, tmobileusa, video chat

What is T-Mobile’s strategy for bringing on new customers and keeping existing customers? That apparently is the hot topic of discussion set to possibly take place overseas in Europe next week when T-Mobile USA CEO Philip Humm and Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile USA parent company) CEO Rene Obermann meet with some higher ups. No doubt they [...]

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Dec

2010

Froyo now available for all Samsung Galaxy S phones – in the UK

by Dustin Karnes
tagged 2.2, all, Android, carriers, froyo, galaxy, S, Samsung, Twitter, uk, update

Have a Samsung Galaxy S phone? Live in the UK? Well, today is your lucky day, as Samsung UK has announced via Twitter that the upgrade to Android 2.2 is now available for all Galaxy S phones on all carriers in the UK. To quote the tweet exactly: We have some good news for the [...]

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Dec

2010

Watch Full Interview Video With Android Master Andy Rubin

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, Andy Rubin, apple, carriers, dive into mobile, Google, interview, iphone, video

D: Dive Into Mobile had several speakers lined up, last week in San Fransisco, one of which we actually enjoy hearing. His name is Andy Rubin, and he’s a big reason we have these articles to begin with here at talkandroid.com. Andy is a humble guy, one who recognizes the strides his competition Apple is [...]

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Dec

2010

AT&T the worst mobile carrier according to consumers, iPhone users particularly displeased

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged AT&T, carriers, iphone, Sprint, T-Mobile, us cellular, Verizon

Well, the people have spoken, at least according to one poll by Consumer Reports about consumer satisfaction with mobile carriers. AT&T is now ranked dead last with customers, followed by T-Mobile, then Sprint, then Verizon, and topped off by U.S. Cellular. A lot of the flack AT&T is receiving is coming from iPhone customers, who [...]

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Nov

2010

Five reasons why Android is better than the iPhone

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged Android, Android 3.0, Android Development, AT&T, carriers, hacking, iOS, iphone, MIUI, roms, Verizon, xda-developers

The Android versus iPhone debate has been heating up in the recent months as consumers, journalists, industry folk, and even CEOs argue over which platform is superior. Now, obviously an article found on an Android website discussing these issues is going to be a little (ok, maybe a lot) biased, but hey… this isn’t NPR. [...]

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Oct

2010

Android Rant – Is Android really open source? Absolutely, and here’s why

by Dustin Karnes
tagged Acer, Android, AT&T, carriers, gnu, HTC, huawei, manufacturers, moto, motorola, open, Samsung, source, Sprint, t-mo, T-Mobile, tmo, tmobile, Verizon, vzw

You probably heard about Steve Jobs losing another few thousand brain cells over Android in an earnings call last week. He went off on a bit of a tangent, saying a bunch of things about Android, and how they’re not really open, even though some people think they are. He also called Tweetdeck “Twitterdeck”, and [...]

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