As crazy as it sounds, iPhone SE owners stateside are more satisfied with their property than those rocking a 7 Plus, Galaxy S7 or S6 Edge+.
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The ZTE Cymbal-T might or might not sound like a better name than the Samsung Galaxy Folder or the LG Wine and Ice Cream, but it’s what we’ve got to go on in the US.
You might be wondering why an Android Lollipop phone — we’re serious — has any business coming here in 2016. It’s because that it’s on prepaid carrier TracFone and is meant to transition candybar toters onto something with a little more modern operating system, but in a familiar flip phone form factor.
Do not make fun of candybar toters.
There’s a 3.5-inch touchscreen, 8GB of storage (expandable by microSD card up to 32GB), 1GB of RAM with a 5-megapixel camera at back and a 2-megapixel front-facer. A Snapdragon 210 runs the show here and provides for LTE, CDMA and Wi-Fi b/g/n.
The phone is being sold through Home Shopping Network and is being bundled with a car charger, a case, a voucher for complimentary software services and a TracFone plan with 1,200 minutes, 1,200 texts and 1.2GB of data for a whole year for $99.99.
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The largest mobile virtual network operator in the US has gotten even larger.T-Mobile has confirmed to FierceWireless that it has sold off its Walmart Family Mobile prepaid operation to TracFone. The new owners have added 1.4 million subscribers to the 26 million it was reported to have in its management last year. No terms of the deal were released. Walmart Family Mobile continues to operate on ...
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It’s said that HTC is making the two Nexus phones this year. It’s also being said that Huawei is making another Nexus device in 2016 as well. While something has to give, there’s a whole ton of slack to get through before Google schedules its hardware launch event sometime later this quarter.Media reports are pointing to a recent FCC equipment entry as a bolster to Huawei’s sequel to ...
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It’s such a simple word, “unlimited.” Yet far, far too often when we’re using it in the context of smartphones and mobile data, it means anything but. Instead, “unlimited” plans still bind you to restrictive terms of service (prohibiting things like running a server over your wireless connection), ban “excessive use,” or start throttling your speeds after a certain point. Here in the US, the FTC has had its eye out for carriers who advertise “unlimited” data but give their users something that falls short, with
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