Valentine's Day seems an odd time to get environmentally responsible, but Verizon has done just that. The carrier has just announced a new nationwide trade-in disposal program for its old handsets and is giving away gift cards in exchange.
The Galaxy Nexus should be for sale on Verizon, but it's not. We list some of the newest oddities and controversies surrounding the first Android Ice Cream Sandwich phone's US debut.
After a day of downtime, Verizon says its 4G LTE is back up and working, the company said in a statement.
Yesterday, the service went down for users who had 4G LTE phones. Instead, those phones reverted to a slower 3G connection.
Verizon has an aggressive slate of 4G products in the works for next year--including the vast majority of its smartphones. The carrier also plans to make more 4G devices affordable, further driving adoption.
HTC, which rose to smartphone prominence with Google's Android operating system, will begin offering the new Ice Cream Sandwich version in "early 2012," the company said today.
Disgruntled Verizon Communications and Verizon Wireless workers and members of the labor union Communications Workers of America will be joining the "Occupy Wall Street" protest Friday in protest of "Verizon's corporate greed."
Last night Samsung failed to let us know which carrier its new Galaxy Nexus would launch on when it comes to the U.S. next month.
Now, we have confirmation Verizon is the winner, according to Samsung's Facebook page.
There's a crazy rumor on BGR right now, following WSJ's story that Sprint is betting the company on selling the iPhone.
BGR reports that an industry source says the redesigned iPhone 5 will launch this fall exclusively on Sprint. It will also run on the carrier's 4G network and have a thinner, sleeker design than the iPhone 4.
AT&T and Verizon will have to wait until early 2012 to get the iPhone 5. That device will run on their 4G LTE networks.
Microsoft appears to be close to closing the deal on bringing Comcast and Verizon to the Xbox, with the console serving as a set-top box, according to Digiday.
If the reports are accurate, the deals could be done within the next 30 days. The deals would allow customers to subscribe to TV packages through Comcast or Verizon Fios directly through their consoles and avoid the dreaded dance with the cable guy.
Watch out, Verizon. There's a new fastest network in town: AT&T's LTE.
AT&T launched a super-speedy 4G LTE network in five cities on Sunday, and PCMag.com junior analyst David Pierce went to Houston, Texas to compare the network to the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE system.
Verizon Communications Inc. and union leaders announced Saturday an end to the acrimonious two-week strike that left thousands of workers without paychecks and customers with long waits.
The 45,000 unionized employees who walked out on the company will return to work Monday night, according to a Verizon press release, although the two parties have not yet agreed to a contract.
