by Joshua H. on November 1, 2011 in News, Wishful Thinking
I’m not sure I’ll take this one as fact. Actually, I’m very skeptical. Elizabeth Woyke, interviewing Sprint CEO Dan Hesse for Forbes: Industry observers often speculate when Sprint will have to adopt tiered pricing like AT&T and Verizon Wireless. Sprint is still not saying when it may make that switch, but credits the iPhone for [...]
by Joshua H. on October 24, 2011 in Gadgets, News, Rumors
My parents just ordered quite a few new iPhones – one for all of their three kids and themselves. It surprised me that the cost of the phones was a bit of an issue. When you have to buy five phones all at once, the cost of the device can be a bit overwhelming (even [...]
by Morgan Williams on October 18, 2011 in Gadgets
Sprint is the only carrier to offer unlimited data on the iPhone 4S in the US. With “World phone” capability, the iPhone is now more accessible than ever before. It is finally available on three major US networks: AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. Sprint paid through the nose to get the ability to sell the iPhone. [...]
by Summer G. on October 14, 2011 in Gadgets
My husband pre-ordered his phone along with the other eager million apple product lovers last Friday October 7th. As scheduled it arrived at our house at 10:27 AM this morning. The only hangup? The phone wouldn’t activate. After hours of research, intense frustration, and no answers he decided to call AT&T and Apple until he [...]
by Joshua H. on October 12, 2011 in Rumors
I have an axe to grind. Stupid Apple Rumors looked at the statistical accuracy of Apple rumor sites. 2 of 9 accurate In third place, Appleinsider with 46 stories reported on, nine of them original to the site. Out of those nine, two were accurate. That’s a success rate of only 22% of their *own* rumors [...]
by Brett B. on October 6, 2011 in New Technology
Since the release of the iPhone in 2007 the big debate in the US has been which carrier would be the next one to get the iPhone. Around the launch of each new iPhone there has always been big speculation on when the AT&T-iPhone contract would end. Finally in Janurary of this year Verizon announced [...]
by Joshua H. on October 6, 2011 in Gadgets, New Technology, Product Reviews
Apple clearly states that the iPhone is not 4G capable. 4G means the fourth generation of cellular wireless standards. Obviously it’s the supposed successor to the 3G and 2G families of standards. The peak requirement for 4G standard is 1Gbit per second for low mobility communication. 4G? The technologies labeled 4G are mobile WiMAX (Sprint), [...]
by Josh A. on September 19, 2011 in News, Wishful Thinking
Remember the news that AT&T was going to try to acquire T-Mobile, the Deutsche Telekom-owned company? Well, they’re still trying, but they’ve run in to quite a few snags. The merging of two of the nation’s largest cellular providers was certainly big news and would be major trouble for other providers (Sprint definitely doesn’t want [...]
by Josh A. on September 11, 2011 in New Technology, News, Rumors, Wishful Thinking
Woohoo more iPhone 5 rumors! Unfortunately this rumor doesn’t have much to do with the phone itself, rather with the possible release date of the phone. A memo that was sent throughout Sprint was leaked and gives further insight in to a possible release date for the iPhone 5. The memo reads thus: “due to [...]
by Kelli F. on September 7, 2011 in News
For those of you who haven’t heard the news – though I hope you all have – AT&T and T-Mobile are merging…or at least that was the plan. Up until last Wednesday, AT&T was set to merge with T-Mobile in a “$39 billion takeover”, but the U.S. Justice Department was not about to let that [...]
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