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Mobile News

Waze adds Amber Alerts, gets green light for Android pre-install

Google’s crowdsourced real-time traffic app Waze is adding another kind of alert: Amber alerts. Waze has announced it will integrate Amber alerts… Read More

Advertising watchdog advises Sprint to stop claiming it has a ‘brand new’ network

Sprint will no longer claim to have a “brand new” network, after an industry watchdog found some of its advertising to… Read More

A wireless love connection? T-Mobile and Dish Network could be a perfect match — or not

T-Mobile seems to be perpetually on the dating scene, looking to hook up with someone who can provide spectrum or cash —… Read More

Gartner: iPhones outsold Samsung worldwide during fourth quarter

Apple’s massive fourth quarter was enough to propel the company to the top of the worldwide market share charts, according… Read More

Microsoft continues its cross-platform march with a universal foldable keyboard

Android? iOS? Windows? Microsoft doesn’t care. Or, at least, its newly announced foldable keyboard doesn’t. The company today unveiled the… Read More

John Legere

T-Mobile looks to fill network gaps using LTE over WiFi in 2016

T-Mobile is looking for another way to improve its coverage map. Today, at Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry event… Read More

Cyanogen aims for mainstream Android market: New Alcatel device, Qualcomm deal, and big plans

Cyanogen Inc. is launching a new effort to take its Android-based operating system further beyond its hacker roots — posing a stronger challenge to Google… Read More

IKEA wants your smartphone and tablet to get a charge out of its new furniture

IKEA is introducing a new line of furniture that will charge your smartphone and tablet for you. Dubbed IKEA Wireless,… Read More

Confirmed: Samsung’s Galaxy S6 comes with Microsoft apps pre-installed

Skype, OneNote and OneDrive are all preloaded on the new Samsung Galaxy S6 devices being shown by the smartphone maker… Read More

Samsung unveils Galaxy S6, shows off Apple Pay competitor with ‘Samsung Pay’

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Samsung today unveiled two new smartphones, a new virtual reality headset, and a mobile… Read More

John Legere

T-Mobile CEO John Legere gets salary increase and contract extension, longer non-compete clause

Like a professional athlete coming off a winning season, T-Mobile CEO John Legere has received a salary increase and an… Read More

Microsoft Garage rolls up its doors to reveal new Android, Windows Phone apps

Open the Garage bay doors, Redmond. For the second time since October, Microsoft has rolled out a fleet of cross-platform apps… Read More

Twitter rolls out “While you were away” feature for Android

Twitter is now introducing its Android app users to the new “While you were away” feature. Rolled out a month ago for Twitter’s… Read More

Apple takes smartphone market share from Android thanks to strong iPhone sales

  Apple’s strong sales of iPhones during the fourth quarter of 2014 gave the company a greater piece of the… Read More

T-Mobile launches update tracker for Android phones

T-Mobile just launched a new update tracker tool that’s designed to alleviate some of the confusion that arises around when… Read More

Report: Emergency location hard to pinpoint in many smartphone 911 calls

Think your smartphone can always tell someone where you are? Data from 911 dispatch centers say otherwise. A new analysis of… Read More

T-Mobile shows off Samsung Galaxy S6 image, one week ahead of launch

Thanks to T-Mobile, we have a better idea of what Samsung’s new flagship phone looks like. The Bellevue-based wireless carrier… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: How Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint fare in data speeds, call quality and more

How do AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile stack up? We’ve looked at their customer growth, and this week on the GeekWire… Read More

Scorecard: T-Mobile edges out Verizon and AT&T, eclipses Sprint in Q4 customer additions

T-Mobile continued to post strong growth in the fourth quarter, adding more customers overall than Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. The Bellevue,… Read More

Mobile startup Urban Airship lands $9 million, names new execs

Urban Airship, the Portland startup that helps companies like Red Bull, Alaska Airlines, TMZ and Rhapsody deliver push notifications to… Read More

App developers bailing on Fire Phone, in new challenge for Amazon

It’s no secret that Amazon’s first smartphone was a flop with consumers, but behind the scenes, the Fire Phone is also struggling with another… Read More

John Legere

T-Mobile revenue surges 19%, as wireless underdog swings to profit

T-Mobile capped a big year with $8.15 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, up 19.4 percent, as the company pulled itself into the black with profit of… Read More

T-Mobile names Mike Sievert Chief Operating Officer

Mike Sievert has been named the Chief Operating officer of T-Mobile, according to a new SEC filing from the Bellevue-based… Read More

Samsung teases wireless charging as it prepares to unveil Galaxy S6

As it prepares to debut the newest version of its flagship smartphone next month, Samsung has been teasing out possible features… Read More

Cell phone robberies down 25 percent in SF with use of ‘kill switch’ technology

Smartphone owners can rest a little bit easier when it comes to having their phones stolen, according to new data… Read More

Rhapsody tops 2.5M subscribers, up 60% from last year

Rhapsody, the Seattle-based music streaming company, said today it now has 2.5 million paid subscribers around the world using its… Read More

Samsung and Microsoft reach mystery settlement in high-stakes Android patent dispute

  Samsung and Microsoft say they have settled their lawsuit over a patent licensing agreement that required Samsung to pay Microsoft for… Read More

Sprint passes T-Mobile for call quality in latest RootMetrics study, but data speeds still lag

Sprint’s call quality is getting better, T-Mobile is improving its data speeds, and Verizon is still the overall highest-performing carrier.… Read More

News Brief

Alibaba plunges into smartphone market, investing $590M into obscure handset maker

Alibaba has invested $590 million into Meizu Technology, an unknown Chinese handset maker that is estimated to have less than 2 percent… Read More

HTC shows small profit on Q4 revenue of US$1.5B

HTC, the Taiwan smartphone maker with U.S. headquarters in Bellevue, WA, stayed profitable in the last quarter of 2014, but just… Read More

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