Mobile News – Page 7 of 60

Let the games begin: T-Mobile undercuts Apple, offers iPhone 6s for $125 less

If there’s one thing we know about T-Mobile CEO John Legere, it’s that he’s never afraid of a good old-fashioned… Read More

Apple offers new iPhone every year for $32/month, becoming latest to embrace installment plans

Apple just became the most recent smartphone seller to start offering monthly installment plans, about two years after T-Mobile first pioneered the… Read More

How tech could improve wildland firefighting, and protect lives

[Editor’s Note: Bill Schrier chairs the Washington State Interoperability Executive Committee, charged with improving radio communications for first responders.] The… Read More

T-Mobile introduces built-in video calling for select smartphones

T-Mobile announced a new built-in feature on Thursday that offers video calls to users who don’t want to download an extra… Read More

T-Mobile’s Legere plays data cop: Will throttle 3,000 users who abuse unlimited data plans

T-Mobile’s John Legere always wants to be the good guy, giving customers more data and minutes than the rest of… Read More

Obama administration partners with industry giants like Apple to launch wearables research lab in Calif.

The White House announced a new research consortium on Friday that will bring together 162 organizations — including companies like… Read More

Skywriting or a building-sized ad? T-Mobile CEO John Legere taking votes for next stunt

T-Mobile has pulled its fair share of publicity stunts, from cookies for tech talent to Twitter rants from CEO John Legere. But… Read More

Android will dominate smartphone market through at least 2019, despite slower growth, IDC predicts

The smartphone market is slowing down, according to a new forecast from IDC released today. Shipments are expected to grow… Read More

Microsoft officially brings Cortana to Android, but without some key features

Microsoft launched the first public beta version of its Cortana personal assistant for Android phones on Monday, meaning anyone can now download… Read More

Tully’s Coffee launches fancy new iPad-based point of sale system

Tully’s Coffee has just rolled out a new high-tech point of sales system that allows baristas to ring up a… Read More

HTC to cut 15 percent of workforce, 35 percent operating costs as it tries to get ‘leaner’

HTC, the Taiwanese phone maker with a U.S. headquarters in Bellevue, announced massive job cuts on Thursday as the company… Read More

Android vs. iOS: Mobile OS wars are basically over, suggests new study of smartphone switchers

Just over eight years after the smartphone revolution kicked off with the iPhone introduction, the war for which operating system you’ll… Read More

T-Mobile CEO John Legere takes credit after Verizon nixes contracts, confusing pricing

Verizon recently announced changes to the types of plans it offers, simplifying pricing and dropping phone subsidies and contracts. If you… Read More

DropForge Games launches ‘Loot & Legends’ with big App Store endorsement

DropForge Games, the Seattle-based studio led by mobile gaming vet David Bluhm, has released its first title, “Loot & Legends” — winning… Read More

Target is testing beacons in 50 stores to notify you of discounts on nearby products

Target is rolling out beacon technology in its stores to push recommendations and coupons to a customer’s iPhone based on… Read More

Finally, T-Mobile passes Sprint to become the nation’s third-largest carrier

The numbers are in. Six months after promising to surpass Sprint as the third-largest carrier in the U.S., T-Mobile has… Read More

PushSpring raises $5M from Trilogy to help advertisers target users on mobile phones

PushSpring, a Seattle-based analytics company that helps mobile app developers target specific audiences, has raised $5 million in a first round of… Read More

With T-Mobile’s new ‘Advanced Messaging,’ iMessage and Android may start playing nice

T-Mobile announced a new “Advanced Messaging” feature on Wednesday that brings a lot of the functionality from apps like iMessage,… Read More

Rhapsody and Napster top 3M subscribers, growing 50% over past year

Rhapsody International says it has surpassed 3 million subscribers combined for its Rhapsody and Napster music services, representing 50 percent… Read More

Verizon and AT&T may be the ‘big two’ in the U.S., but another carrier rules the world

T-Mobile CEO John Legere likes to talk about the wireless battle happening here in the U.S., as Verizon and AT&T… Read More

T-Mobile settles with FCC for $17.5M over 911 outages

T-Mobile today agreed to pay $17.5 million in a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission over two 911 outages in August last year.… Read More

T-Mobile adds 2.1M more customers, introduces no-extra-charge calling to Mexico and Canada

T-Mobile US is continuing its steady growth, announcing this morning that it added 2.1 million net customers in the second quarter,… Read More

Amazon slashes the price of an unlocked Fire Phone to essentially $60

Another fire sale for the Fire Phone. For today only, Amazon is cutting the price of the 32 GB device to $159,… Read More

Sprint CEO calls out T-Mobile CEO for ‘Uncarrier bullshit’ over iPhone 6 upgrade offer

It seems that Marcelo Claure has had enough of John Legere. Claure, the Sprint CEO, lashed out on Twitter last night… Read More

News Brief

Sprint brand rolls out to more than 1,400 RadioShack stores

Sprint is now claiming to be one of the largest retailers in the country, with a total of 4,500 locations thanks to the… Read More

T-Mobile revamps JUMP program, enabling device upgrades up to 3 times/year

T-Mobile is launching a new version of its JUMP device upgrade program, called “JUMP On Demand,” that gives customers the option… Read More

T-Mobile’s next move, called “Amped,” kicking off this Thursday

T-Mobile has started teasing its next big announcement online, which is set to take place on Thursday. In an invitation to the press, the… Read More

Straw app adds new ‘StrawCast’ feature to get opinions from a broad audience

After seeing Washington Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer pitch a no-hitter on TV this weekend, I was initially convinced that Pittsburgh Pirates hitter… Read More

AT&T gets hit with a $100M fine for throttling “unlimited” data plans

The FCC is slapping AT&T with a hefty fine after finding that it misled customers about unlimited data plans. The Commission… Read More

Another day, another company reportedly in talks to buy T-Mobile

T-Mobile has no lack of suitors, it’s just a matter of getting one to stick. Today, rumors surfaced that it… Read More