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AT&T activates 4G LTE in Twin Cities and intros new global calling, messaging and Wi-Fi offerings

4g Heads up, AT&T customers, because today the big blue carrier made a couple of announcements that you may want to be aware of. The first is that, a day after AT&T expanded its 4G LTE network to a handful of cities across the U.S., the...

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Why I don't plan on buying the DROID DNA

Android Following a sudden flood of rumors over the past two weeks, we saw the DROID DNA by HTC become official at the press event held by HTC and Verizon in New York City yesterday. Inspired by super cars and built to be "the ultimate...

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Third-party messengers are beginning to affect SMS revenues

Business And Money If I need to get in touch with someone, my sure shot way is usually SMS. I could always just call them. But most of you already know where I stand on calling – it's often inconvenient for both parties and can spiral from a quick, planned...

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Where do you draw the line on no-contract pricing?

Android Smartphones can be rather expensive, both to operate and to own. Monthly rates for individuals through some of the nation's largest providers start around $70 per month and can stretch as high as $140 or more. And the devices themselves,...

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AT&T opens up FaceTime over Cellular use to customers with tiered data plans

Business And Money AT&T made some waves earlier this year when it announced that it would only allow FaceTime over Cellular to be used with its Mobile Share plans, leaving customers unwilling to switch to one of the new plans only able to use the new iOS 6...

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Is this the beginning of Apple's descent?

Business And Money If you look at the past six years, Apple has been at the forefront of most everything that has happened in the mobile world. Competing with Google, Apple has helped redefine the mobile industry, introducing the ever-popular iPhone and...

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What sort of things do you buy from your smartphone?

Business And Money E-commerce is booming. The successes of Amazon are a perfect example of just that. And there are many reasons why people are moving to online shopping: you can shop from the comfort and convenience of your couch, you can have things...

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How much would you pay each month to have unlimited data again?

Business And Money It's no secret that carriers dislike the thought of giving consumers free reign on their wireless networks. Remove a tangible data cap, and some customers will take full advantage of the extra, unused bandwidth. So in light of smartphones...

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Has the mobile industry become too serious?

Business And Money “Why so serious?” That’s a question I’ve been asking the mobile market for what seems like a long time now. It has been quite some time since I’ve thought the manufacturers who create our favorite devices have had any fun doing what they...

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Can any other Android series compete with the Galaxy series?

Business And Money I look at Android, over the years, and I realize that I look at the platform in stages. You can do the same for pretty much every other platform, especially when we tie in the hardware market, but for Android it’s different. The...

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Will the increasing price of smartphones impact your holiday shopping?

Android For the past five years or so, smartphones have been an increasingly common holiday present. In fact, I remember being green with envy when my sister was given a cell phone for Christmas when she was 13 (I was 11 at the time). A few years...

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I'm strongly considering an HSPA+ Nexus 7

Android I've been off and on with the Nexus 7. I've been wishy washy about it since day one for more reasons than one. While I've welcomed one back into my arsenal, 7-inch tablets are still unwieldy at times, particularly when running about....

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Do you ever exceed your data cap?

Android Cellular data is worth its weight in gold these days. With the exception of Sprint and T-Mobile here in the States, carriers are clamping down on usage, charging arguably outrageous prices for limited amounts of data. With either a hard or...

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Sprint shares Q3 2012 results, also introduces new 4G LTE tablet data plans

Business And Money Next in line to report third quarter 2012 results? Sprint. Today the folks from the Now Network shared their numbers for Q3 2012, which includes nearly 900,000 net additions to the Sprint platform. The carrier finished Q3 with almost 56...

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Do you have trouble deciding on a single device?

Android The holiday shopping season will soon begin to pick up, which means new products are beginning to flow in rather steadily. In September alone the Motorola DROID RAZR M, DROID RAZR HD, DROID RAZR MAXX HD, Apple iPhone 5, Amazon Kindle Fire...

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Should every flagship phone come with a MAXX-like variant?

Android Battery life has always been a fairly major concern for us power users, particularly with the current and last-generation smartphones. The days of BlackBerry were great, at least in terms of battery life. But not long after that, battery...

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T-Mobile no longer offering 200MB smartphone data plan to new customers

Business And Money Way back in November 2010, T-Mobile introduced a new $10 data plan that offered 200MB of data usage each month, making for a rate plan that was attractive to customers that were light data users. It doesn't look like the 200MB option will...

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Will you switch carriers to get the phone you want?

Android Samsung generally catches a lot of flack for shadowing a lot of the things Apple does. In the past, Samsung has taken many design cues from the Cupertino-based firm, mimicked many of the iOS interface elements in its customized Android...

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The J Butterfly isn't the HTC phablet I was hoping for

Android This year, I've made it sufficiently clear that I love phablets. I may not have been a fan of behemoth phones when the original 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note was but a mere rumor, or even after the global version first hit shelves. But...

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Is Surface RT priced just right?

Business And Money It has been a long time coming, but the “day of days” has finally arrived. There’s been rumors. Speculation. Advertisements without pricing. And we’ve seen Xbox Music officially released into the wild as well, but up until today we’ve...

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"Does Google deserve a "free pass" for I/O 2013 in light of choosing to polish their current portfolio of services instead of announcing new software and hardware?"

Brandon Scoggins No.

Tim Feierabend I wouldn't coin it as a "free pass" but I am glad they are polishing all the services that they have for the future. They already have a good selection of online services I don't see why they should announce and work on more.

Lukasz Dudek I did not expect any new devices.

Lanh Nguyen Like Taylor Martin who's now with pocketnow said Google announcing a new version of android last year at IO was an anomaly. Typically the next version always comes in the fall with the release of a new nexus phone. This is a developers conference after all so they weren't doing anything different from what they did prior to last year. More than likely they will refresh everything in the fall.

Dustin T. Robles Opinions get in the way of a yes or no answer I'm less likely to read a 700 character answer than the 3. like this, If I continued at some point you would stop reading