November 2011 Archives
TS2R Wireless News:Transformer Prime 12/8, FCC Reports, Jordy Nelson A&T & DOT No-Mobiles
TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:Full news stories include sold-out BlackBerry PlayBook deals, great Kindle Fire sales, best top Sprint smartphones RoR, Samsung Droid Charge update and Motorola Xoom update. Here's the news that is too short to report: The FCC released a r…
Motorola Xoom Update Primed for Prepaid Option B/4 Android 4.0
The Motorola Xoom was our readers' favorite Black Friday and Cyber Monday bargain and Verizon Wireless sold so many of these full featured tablets with a two-year contract for the rock bottom price of $199.99. There is a Xoom update that will enable it with with new 4G LTE data options. A new u…
Samsung Droid Charge Update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread OTA
There have been reports that there is an update ready to go for the Samsung Droid Charge update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread named "i510.EP4" The Verizon support page says "Coming Soon," however, there have been reports of Droid Charge by Samsung owners, receiving the update. Along with Android …
Kindle Fire Sales Kindle Black Friday Black- Bestseller@ Amazon & Target Stores Most-Gifted
Amazon.com sold four times as many Kindle products during Black Friday 2011 than last year, the company announced Monday. The Kindle Fire remained the bestselling product across all of Amazon since its introduction. Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle said, "We're seeing a lot of customer…
TopTen Best Smartphones Review of Reviews Samsung Epic 4G Touch, Motorola Photon, Epic 4G & HTC EVO 3D Best iPhone: CR Part II
We continue to examine rankings for the best top ten coolest hottest smartphones for 2011 from Consumer Reports. This is the first year that the iPhone did not come in in first place. Now that the iPhone is available from Sprint, Verizon and AT&T, Android superphones with bigger screens an…
TouchPad Déjà Vu $199 BlackBerry PlayBook Sold-Out : Cheap Tablets Needed!
Here we go round the TouchPad déjà vu, all over again. The BlackBerry PlayBook sale was so much of a success even BlackBerry ran out of the 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook when the price went down to $199. The price had been lowered to $299 previously and that didn't catch the eyes of tablet bargain hu…
TS2R Wireless News: Lumia Windows 2012, Samsung/AT&T m3s, Mobile Cyber Monday & Small Biz Smartphones
TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:Full news stories include new Samsung Galaxy Nexus news, the LG Nitro HD, AT&T pulled its FCC application to buy T-Mobile, BlackBerry Mobile Fusion and Droid 4 leaked specs. Here's the news that is too short to report: The Nokia Lumia 90…
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Primed for Accessible Hangouts, Flash & Fused Insides Outed -No Presales
Yesterday, the web was abuzz with he said-she said rumors that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus would go on presale today, we had feeling that it was bogus and lo and behold there is no Nexus presales today while that media outlet received lots of traffic. So what's new on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus fron…
AT&T Asks FCC to Pull App to Buy T-Moblie
AT&T has requested that the FCC withdraw its application to acquire T-Mobile for $39 Billion. The FCC will report on what its staff has found to be its concerns over the deal. Meanwhile AT&T is focusing on the upcoming trial with the Justice Department. AT&T is still trying to push…
LG Nitro High-Defs 4G LTE with Dual-Core & More 12/4 Release Date
AT&T announced that the LG Nitro HD will be available on this Sunday, December 4 for $249.99 after a two-year contract. The LG Nitro HD has a 4.5-inch True HD AH-IPS touchscreen(1280 x 720 pixels), dual-core 1.5GHz processor, and is called a superphone. Features include 8MP HD ca…
BlackBerry Mobile Fusion Gives IT Control Over BlackBerry, Android, iPad & iPhone
Enterprise IT departments need the ability to control smartphones, tablet, and mobile devices. RIM today announced a new product BlackBerry mobile fusion for multi-platform mobile device management. They claim that BlackBerry Mobile Fusion will make it easier to manage devices running BlackBer…
Droid 4 Review of News: RAZR-Like with QWERTY -Release Date Same as Galaxy Nexus?
In the history of Verizon Droid, Droid the First was a capable smartphone, previews of Droid 4 show it to be a superphone with insides like the Droid RAZR. Let's review what has been leaked about the Droid 4 due to be released soon from Verizon Wireless. Expected specs of the Droid 4 include: …
TS2R Wireless News: Samsung Galaxy Nexus Dating Game, iPhone 4″and Consumer Cellular Apps
TS2R Wireless News from Wireless and Mobile News:Full news stories include great Cyber Monday deals, Asus Transformer Prime release date, free low-income cell phones in KS, creepy AT&T Facebook promotion, BlackBerry PlayBook sold-out and Samsung Illusion. Here's the news that is too short…
Asus Transformer Prime Primed for December 8 Release Date?
Some of the world has gotten a taste of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus while Americans are still waiting to taste the new version of Android on a smartphone or tablet. Americans may get to taste it on December 8 on a super thin quad-core tablet. The release date of t…
Free Cell Phone Assurance for Low-Income Households in Kansas
Attention low-income households in Kansas, Assurance Wireless is now offering free cell phone services to Kansas residents. Assurance Wireless is a Lifeline Assistance program supported by the federal Universal Service Fund. This service provides free cell phones to low-income people, 250 m…
Cases for HTC Vivid, Samsung Galaxy SII(Skyrocket), HTC Inspire, BlackBerry or Captivate Slide on Facebook
AT&T is so convinced that you have to convince your Facebook friends that you should have a smartphone they will have faux attorney Kent Wesley, played by comedian/actor Will Arnett, to build your case for a new AT&T smartphone with the shameless self-promotion Facebook app "You've Got a C…
BlackBerry PlayBook Like TouchPad Fire Sale Sold-Out Customers Disgruntled
While our readers were tracking down tablet deals this Black Friday-Weekend Cyber Monday like the $199 Motorola Xoom tablet at Verizon Wireless and the $149 HP TouchPad, the BlackBerry PlayBook is disappearing from retailers for $199 and making some buyers peeved. There were complaints in Be…
Samsung Illusion Primed with No Price Illusions @Verizon Free on Cyber Monday with Green Features
Verizon Wireless' Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday sales gave us illusions of great bargains, especially for the Motorola Xoom @ $199, and we missed a great value Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone arriving to the network . The Samsung Illusion which normally will retail of $79.99 was lau…
Cyber Monday Deal Alert: Motorla Xoom $199 Back at VZW with Free Red Incredible 2 + Free Activation
We have good news for those of you who were hoping for a large tablet for less than $200. Starting Cyber Monday at 12:00am EST, Verizon Wireless has lowered the Motorola Xoom price back down to $199 with a contract for today online only. They have also brought back the LG Revolution($49.99) de…
Black Sunday through Cyber Monday Deals:1¢ Droid RAZR, HTC Rezound or Samsung Galaxy SII – Free For All: LG Revolution & Droid X2 & More 2Day
Here's a quick review of the smartphone and tablet deals still happening today. We will have a special Cyber Monday edition when new Cyber Monday deals go live. Amazon Wireless Penny Pincher 1¢ best deals are for the most expensive smartphones such as the AT&T Samsung Galaxy SII (AT&a…
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