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T-Mobile Snubs Nokia's Ovi
In August of last year, Nokia announced a new service initiative called Ovi. Through this branding and portal, Nokia made plans to offer games, music, mapping, GPS and other services to their phone us...
Sprint Quietly Offering $89.99 Unlimited Plan
With everyone talking about the $99 unlimited plans being offered by the 4 major carriers, Sprint has one-upped the competition. For $10 less than the competition, you can get unlimited voice, messag...
Sprint to have WiMAX Phones in 2008
New CEO, Dan Hesse mentioned yesterday that later this year Sprint will introduce dual-mode CDMA/WiMAX devices. This is a good thing for them as they need to do what they can to be the first company ...
Sprint Answers The Bell
Sprint has upped the ante in the bidding wars for your cellular business. A week after Verizon and T-Mobile matched their offering for unlimited rate plans, and in T-Mobile's case bested it by offeri...
T-Mobile Ends 2007 On A High Note
T-Mobile reports that it added more than 951,000 new net customers in the 4th quarter of 2007, which brings their total customer base up to 28.7 million. You can read the complete article here on Mob...
Any Device Any App Details to Emerge in March
Verizon is slated to roll out the rules and regulations concerning their plans to open up their network. March 19th is the date given from Big V as when to look for their announcement at the Open Dev...
This Week in Open Handset Alliance News (February 22nd Edition)
After the busy week of events from Mobile World Congress, a lot of the members of the OHA seemed to be stuck in vacation mode. Not a lot of news to report as everyone made their big headlines the pre...
Sprint to up the Ante?
Since three of the big 4 carriers announced $99 unlimited plans yesterday, Sprint's unveiling of the $119 unlimited plan just seems downright worthless. T-Mobile will start offering unlimited calling...
20/20 Podcast #9 (Bonus Edition)
Last night Jamie and Scott got together and knocked out a bonus edition version of our 20/20 podcast. That's right, there is a full hour of AndroidGuys goodness to listen to! We liked the format fro...
Monkey See Monkey Do
The virtual ink had not even dried on our last article when we saw that T-Mobile is expecting to offer a $99 unlimited calling and texting plan. Currently the unlimited text package would run $14.99 ...
AT&T and Verizon Offering Unlimited Plans
Following in the footsteps of Sprint, AT&T and Verizon have announced that they are now going to offer unlimited calling and data plans. One has to wonder if these companies reacted that quickly ...
T-Mobile First To Market With Android Phone
While other carriers are taking a "wait and see" approach to Android based handsets T-Mobile is having none of that. The German based company intends to have a handset out by November of 2008! That's ...
AG5 - February 16th Edition
It's Saturday again so it's time to hit you up with 5 AndroidGuys we think are worth another look. If this is your first time stopping by, consider this your Cliffs Notes for the last week. 3GSM/MW...
This Week in Open Handset Alliance News (February 15th Edition)
We changed the title of our Friday round-up article but not by much. Formerly "OHA News", all we really did was add a few words to the beginning so prospective readers get a better idea as to what's ...
Starbucks Leaving T-Mobile for AT&T
Coffee giant Starbucks is moving from T-Mobile to AT&T for its Wi-Fi provider. And just like that, T-Mobile loses 7,000 HotSpots. In a deal that dates back to 2002, Starbucks was originally line...
AG5 - February 9th Edition
It's Saturday so you know what that means... Time to hit you guys with 5 articles worth another look. If this is your first time stopping by AndroidGuys, consider this your Cliffs Notes for the last...
Open Handset Alliance News (February 8th Edition)
Holy cow! We are so close to 3GSM / Mobile World Congress that we can taste it. Have you noticed how almost all the discussion surrounding next week is anticipation for Android and what Google is br...
Verizon Vs Google in 700MHz Showdown?
The latest information we're gathering this morning indicates that Verizon might be the company going around bidding up all the regional spectrum. If you recall from yesterday's post, if the total am...
34 Weeks of OHA: #5
Open Handset Alliance Member Profiles (Week #4 - Broadcom ) For 34 weeks, each Tuesday, Jordan from fandroid.net will be joining us to offer a profile of each of the 34 members of the Open Handset All...
20/20 Podcast #8
Last Wednesday saw Jamie and Scott sitting down to record another pair of 20/20 podcasts. Rather than sticking to a pre-planned 'script' for talking from, we decided to give ourselves a few bullet po...
AG5 - February 2nd Edition
What a weird week that was. From big news to little news, to non-news, there was a little something for ever day. 3GSM/Mobile World Congress is less than 10 days away so we're getting very excited a...
Open Handset Alliance News (February 1st Edition)
Do you guys feel that? There's a rumble off in the distance that feels like it is getting closer each passing day. We can't help but get the sense that the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is like a herd...
Good News, Bad News for T-Mobile
Taking the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Wireless Customer Care Performance Study seven times in a row is how you keep customers. Congratulations to T-Mobile for the honors! With recent figures sho...
The iPhone is No Longer Revolutionary
I'm not gonna beat around the bush here. I like the iPhone. I think the design of it is sleek, classy, and very desirable. What I don't like is the fact that unless I want to go about it illegally,...
OHA News (January 25th Edition)
Another week of lean news specifically surround the Open Handset Alliance. We're optimistic though. It seems like each passing week, some non OHA news trickles out regarding Android. It's just a ma...
Sprint Nextel Cuts Starting Near Top
You didn't think it was going to be all retail sales reps, did you? So far, the CFO, CMO, and President of Sales and Distribution are officially "stepping down" tomorrow. There's probably a lot of m...
The Higher Cost of Bringing Your Own Phone
There's a piece up over at PC World called Will Carriers Deliver on Pledge of Open Access? that we found interesting. Towards the end of the article, it mentions the possibility of carriers discourag...
Carriers Slow to Grant Businesses & Orgnanizations Short Codes
You know that number you have to send a message to when you vote for your favorite American Idol? And the number you have to send a message to in order to get that "free ring tone" you saw on TV? We...
FCC Set To Enforce Hearing Aid Mandate.....Unless You Are Apple
February 18th is the date the FCC can begin to enforce its 50% rule when it comes to handset manufactures and hearing aide compatibility, unless of course you're Apple and we're talking about the iPho...
AG5 - January 19th Edition
The last seven days saw Google, Android, and members of the Open Handset grabbing some decent headlines. Even with Macworld taking up most of the tech world's attention, Google still found a way to g...