SAN DIEGO – Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets, sounded like a man on a mission in his keynote Wednesday at CTIA. Following on the heels of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s keynote, de la Vega aimed to prove that the wireless industry in the United States […]
Verizon, Google partner on Android-based future
Verizon Wireless and Google today announced a partnership that they say “will leverage the Verizon Wireless network and the best of the Android open platform to deliver leading-edge mobile applications, services and devices.” What does that mean? Well, for starters, it means the imminent release of Android smartphones on Verizon’s network. But it also marks […]
Study: iPhone still big, users want total satisfaction
A study released today by CFI Group takes a look at smartphones and the carriers that support them. Not surprisingly, the iPhone ranks highest in customer satisfaction, beating out the Pre, Android, BlackBerry and Palm Treo, in that order. Beyond the obvious, the CFI Group study found that there’s really no correlation between a customer’s […]
Apple’s App Store tallies 2B downloads
Apple’s App Store today announced 2 billion downloads. Apple marked the milestone in a press release, along with a fresh batch of data for the App Store. According to the release, the App Store now offers more than 85,000 downloadable apps, which it says are available to 50 million iPhone and iPod Touch customers worldwide. […]
National Broadband Coalition report sets targets
The National Broadband Coalition released a report that outlines the findings of an 18-month study that brought together more than 160 members to discuss the future of a national broadband strategy. The report discusses national broadband goals and offers policy options to stimulate broadband adoption, use and build-out. The coalition represents more than 160 organizations, […]
Palm woes continue with latest rumors
There’s a small storm of curiosities building around Palm as of late, and it just got a little bit more interesting. The Street yesterday published a report stating that Verizon Wireless will not carry the Pre. A spokesman for Verizon Wireless declined comment on the report today. However, The Street reports that a Palm representative […]
Sprint gets Samsung Instinct HD
Samsung today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Instinct HD. The Instinct HD is a follow-up to the Samsung Instinct, which was released this summer exclusively on Sprint. The Instinct HD boasts Sprint’s first high-definition, 5-megapixel camera and camcorder and TV-out HD connection. The Instinct HD allows photo and video playback on an HD-capable […]
Sprint: The price is right
Sprint claims Palm Pre customers will save $1,430 with the Simply Everything plan over the course of a two-year contract compared with other offers. But do the numbers add up? While the Palm Pre and iPhone cost the same at $199 (Sprint gets to that price point via a $100 mail-in rebate), the unlimited plans […]
Is the “smartphone” dead?
Forrester Research today released a report that concludes the term “smartphone” is dying off, as all phones are increasingly considered “smart.” “We’re transitioning from a world with arbitrary industry categories to one where we just have intelligent phones, not ‘voice phones,’ ‘smartphones’ and ‘feature phones,’” the report states. The report says consumers don’t understand any […]
AT & T touts more smartphone users
AT&T today announced a new ad campaign that will highlight the carrier’s relatively high number of smartphone subscribers. In a press release on the company’s Web site, AT&T cited “independent market research” that shows twice as many smartphone users have chosen AT&T over any other U.S. carrier. AT&T said a new TV spot features a […]