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Verizon Wireless has announced, a few hours ago, the availability of a new Samsung handset for its US customers. Verizon has dubbed the phone Samsung Knack, although the device itself doesn't live up to this name, not being that advanced when it comes to performance. Having nothing to do with the power pop-... |
3 September 2008
11:37 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless has announced today the launch of a new and cool contest that will end with 40 of its customers going to Paradise. Well, not to the real Paradise (if that even exists), but to Bahamas' Paradise Island. The 40 winners will embark on a trip that has as final destination the Atlantis resort fr... |
28 August 2008
07:58 GMT |
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AT&T might have gotten its hands on the BlackBerry Bold 9000 (although it hasn't released it yet), but Verizon Wireless is apparently getting ready to launch and even cooler RIM smartphone. Dubbed BlackBerry 9530 Storm, the device in question seems to be the same as what was previously known under the name of Bl... |
28 August 2008
06:33 GMT |
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On the same day it launched the weird-looking Blitz QWERTY handset, Verizon Wireless also announced the availability of LG Voyager in Titanium. The Titanium Voyager doesn't bring too many new things when compared to the old black one (which, by the way, is now out of stock). The main difference (besides the colo... |
25 August 2008
13:00 GMT |
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Two of Motorola's unannounced yet phones that should be soon released by Verizon in the US, namely Motorola Blaze ZN4 and Motorola Rapture VU30, have appeared in new live images (found at PhoneArena). Both devices should bring CDMA EV-DO connectivity as well as a set of mid to high-end features. The Blaze ZN4 ... |
25 August 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, the second largest North American mobile carrier, has, as of today, a new handset in its line-up of products. Called "Verizon Wireless Blitz", the new device is presented as a "messaging phone" targeted towards "heavy texters or those who simply want to keep in touch." The Blitz has a pretty weird... |
25 August 2008
06:52 GMT |
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Verizon, the popular wireless Internet and mobile services provider, was unwillingly involved in a scam that tried to persuade each of the victims to cough up no less than $3,200. Unknown persons, using the name of the company, tried to trick randomly selected individuals into believing they had won a $750,000 prize.... |
25 August 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion have come up with a new offering for the US mobile users who like their smartphones in pink: BlackBerry Pearl 8130 and BlackBerry Curve 8330 are now available in the just-mentioned fashionable color and can be bought from the V carrier. The pink Pearl is available as of n... |
9 August 2008
04:14 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, the second largest North American mobile carrier, announced today having completed the acquisition of Rural Cellular, the Minnesota-based mobile carrier that offers services under the Unicel brand. The deal was sealed for a total of $2.66 billion (in cash as well as in assumed debt) and it brings Ve... |
7 August 2008
10:17 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, North America's second largest mobile carrier, has recently lowered the prices of three BlackBerry handsets from its line-up of smartphones. In consequence, users across the US can now buy the BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry Curve and BlackBerry 8830 World Edition for 70 bucks less. The new prices... |
6 August 2008
09:43 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, North America's second largest mobile operator, has teamed up with Linkin Park (the Grammy Award-winning rock band) and Chris Cornell (ex-front men of Soundgarden and Audioslave), in order to get fans closer to them during the upcoming Projekt Revolution US summer tour. Debuting on August 7, t... |
5 August 2008
03:03 GMT |
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After it was made popular by Apple and its first-generation iPhone, Visual Voice Mail has been embedded in Sprint's Samsung Instinct and now Verizon Wireless is offering the service too. The application that brings you Visual Voice Mail is offered by Verizon for free and is currently available only for the popul... |
1 August 2008
13:49 GMT |
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Quest Wireless, a small US mobile carrier, has just announced that it will sell, as of today, handsets and services from Verizon Wireless, the second largest North American carrier. The offer is for the moment available only for Quest's new customers but, later this year, the already existing ones will be able t... |
30 July 2008
08:24 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless has added a new rugged mobile phone to its line-up of products, namely the G'zOne Boulder. Built by Casio, the Tokyo-based Japanese manufacturer, the new handset comes only one week after the release of another rugged phone, the Motorola Adventure V750. Well, if the Moto Adventure looks like a ... |
29 July 2008
09:07 GMT |
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First unveiled (in an unofficial way) back in April, Motorola Adventure V750 has been released today in the US by Verizon Wireless, coming in a week before its rumored launch date (July 28).The new V750 is available, as of now, via Verizon's business channels, as well as on the carrier's official website, f... |
21 July 2008
12:53 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless offers from now on two new applications for its BlackBerry customers: Mobile Banking and Field Force Manager. Mobile Banking will allow users to have non-stop access to their financial information and the features and capabilities of the application include: - Bill Payment, for viewing and paying bi... |
18 July 2008
06:25 GMT |
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23half Inc., the Californian company that brought about a month ago its Thrrum MMS Search to Sprint's mobile subscribers, has announced today that the same service is now available for the customers of Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. With Thrrum MMS Search, camera phone owners across the US can take snapshots of ... |
16 July 2008
12:52 GMT |
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The only Samsung smartphone from Verizon Wireless' line-up of products, namely the SCH-i760, can now be upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1 (from the old 6.0 version). Besides the Vista look of Windows Mobile 6.1, users who upgrade their Samsung i760 will also get support for YouTube videos, enhanced Bluetooth capabi... |
15 July 2008
09:53 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless announced today that it has teamed up with Jonas Brothers, the famous American pop-rock group, in order to bring their music closer to its subscribers. Jonas Brothers are on a US tour called "Burning Up" and Verizon offers its customers the chance to win tickets to the upcoming venues. All those who... |
14 July 2008
14:07 GMT |
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LG Chocolate 3, announced for the US market exactly one month ago, together with LG Dare and LG Decoy, will be on sale starting July 13 (hence in two days - next Sunday). This piece of info is as official as it gets, since it has appeared today in a press release issued by Verizon Wireless, the only carrier to offer ... |
11 July 2008
10:34 GMT |
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Motorola V750, also known as Motorola Adventure V750, will be released in the US on July 28. The handset will be offered by Verizon Wireless, as we previously reported, and those interested in buying it have to pay $99, after a 50 bucks mail-in rebate. Of course, this price is only available with the signing of a con... |
11 July 2008
03:00 GMT |
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LG Chocolate 3 (also known as LG VX8560), the newest handset from the popular Chocolate series, will apparently be released by Verizon Wireless in the US on July 14. This info does not come from the second largest North American carrier, as it appeared only on PhoneArena, but since Verizon said from the beginning tha... |
7 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Motorola has revamped (again) its Q9 smartphone and transformed it into "Motorola Napoleon". This new handset will be soon released by Verzion Wireless in the US, bringing a new design as well as new features. According to Boy Genius Report, the royally-named device features CDMA EV-DO Rev. A connectivity in addi... |
4 July 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless is now offering a new version of its V CAST Music service, named "V CAST Music with Rhapsody." As you probably already figured, the new V CAST Music is offered in collaboration with Rhapsody, the online music service of RealNetworks and MTV. V CAST Music with Rhapsody will allow Verizon subscribers t... |
2 July 2008
04:11 GMT |
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The latest high-end Pocket PCs unveiled by HTC, namely Touch Diamond and Touch Pro, will be available on the US market not only from Sprint, as known until now, but also from Verizon Wireless. Obviously, since both Sprint and Verizon are CDMA carriers, the new HTC handsets will be modified a bit, so as to change the... |
1 July 2008
07:25 GMT |
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It seems that Motorola is going into the touchscreen direction with more and more of its handset. After the two Mings (A1600 and A1800) and the A810 - all three released in China - we have another Moto-made touchscreen phone, named Motorola Blaze. The Blaze was recently spotted at Boy Genius Report, coming in ... |
30 June 2008
05:03 GMT |
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LG Dare, the full-touch handset proudly announced by Verizon Wireless a few weeks ago, is now available for purchase from Verizon's official website. The new Dare is priced at $199 with a contract agreement for two years and at $249 with an agreement for only one year. For a limited period of time, those who buy... |
26 June 2008
12:54 GMT |
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The latest LG handset from the Chocolate series, namely LG Chocolate 3, planned to be released in the US by Verizon Wireless, will be available in two colors: black and blue. The black version was already unveiled by Verizon, in the press release announcing the new handset, while the blue one was (apparently) kept se... |
25 June 2008
03:12 GMT |
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As announced last week, Verizon Wireless has released the LG Decoy handset today - the very first mobile phone to come with a detachable Bluetooth headset that's integrated into the case of the phone. LG Decoy can be bought as of now, for $179.99, with a contract agreement for two years (after a $50 mail-in ... |
16 June 2008
10:50 GMT |
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Verizon has just announced the availability of the first "Nokia Batman" phone, officially called Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight. With such a long (and quite funny) name, the new handset, that we first heard of two days ago, will try to appeal to the fans of both Nokia and Batman. That's because it's named after... |
13 June 2008
10:47 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless has officially announced that it starts offering the best-selling Palm smartphone of the last year(s), which is, of course, the Palm Centro. The V carrier is the third important US operator to include the Centro in its line-up, after Sprint and AT&T. Sprint actually released the Centro quite a while... |
12 June 2008
12:48 GMT |
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Pearl Jam fans from all over the US, listen to this: Verizon is offering free mobile bootleg recordings from the band's current US tour that started yesterday, June 11, in West Palm Beach, Florida, and will end on June 30, in Mansfield, Massachusetts. More exactly, during every one of the 12 concerts included in... |
12 June 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Verizon is preparing a hot summer for its subscribers, as it has just announced the upcoming availability of no less than three new LG phones: LG Decoy, LG Dare and LG Chocolate 3. LG Dare is by far the main attraction of the new line-up. The handset features a wide touchscreen display with a 240 x 400 pixels resol... |
11 June 2008
11:56 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, the future No.1 American mobile carrier (after the acquisition of Alltel is completed), will soon release a new Nokia handset, namely Nokia 6205.The 6205 will come in two versions, a regular one and "The Dark Knight Edition" one, the latter being packed with content from the yet to come movie with t... |
10 June 2008
08:04 GMT |
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LG Dare (also known as LG VX9700) is a future LG handset that Verizon prepares to release sometime this summer, so as to compete with Samsung Instinct from Sprint as well as with the 3G iPhone that will surely be available only via AT&T. While there are little details about the new LG, we do know that it's a ful... |
6 June 2008
08:48 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, currently the second largest mobile operator in the US, might soon buy Alltel, which ranks only fifth when it comes to mobile subscribers, thus becoming the largest carrier in the US as well as on the whole American continent (including North, Central and South America, of course). Verizon has, ... |
5 June 2008
03:23 GMT |
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It looks like two of the future smartphones to be offered by Verizon Wireless are Samsung i770 and Palm Treo 800w, both coming equipped with Windows Mobile and several other nice features. Unveiled by Engadget Mobile, the new Verizon handsets are planed to be released in the third quarter of 2008, for prices that ar... |
2 June 2008
10:43 GMT |
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LG Decoy, first spotted on the Web at the beginning of the year, is finally making its way to the pockets of those who want to buy it, as its release date seems to be set for the 16th of June. The phone will be offered, as already known, only by Verizon Wireless, the second largest mobile carrier in the US. Initial... |
2 June 2008
05:20 GMT |
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After announcing the Qwickies collection of mobile games, Verizon Wireless, the second largest mobile operator in North America, brings even more fun to its customers, via Mobigamz, a mobile portal that contains a wide range of Flash Lite games. Created by Mobitween, the Mobigamz online portal will allow Verizon&#... |
30 May 2008
12:30 GMT |
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Motorola V750, the clamshell we first heard of about two months ago, is ready to be released soon by Verizon Wireless, as samples from the phone's User Guide have recently appeared on the Web. Unveiled by Phone Arena, the new snapshots with Moto V750 bring to light several details that make the handset a prett... |
30 May 2008
09:15 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless announced today that its subscribers will be able to enjoy a new collection of Flash-based games gathered under the name of "Qwickies". These are actually mini-games offered in collaboration with Nickelodeon Kids and AddictingGames, a leading online game provider. From now on, Verizon's ... |
28 May 2008
12:28 GMT |
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LG Decoy, also known as LG VX8610, will soon hit Verizon's stores much to the joy (we guess) of its subscribers. Approved by the FCC at the beginning of the year, the new LG phone is now presented in official photos. Not by Verizon, but by Engadget Mobile, which somehow managed to get several "press photos" wi... |
23 May 2008
12:15 GMT |
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Verizon, the American broadband and telecommunications company, has recently won the C block in the 700MHz spectrum auction. For those who aren't aware, the 700MHz auction was initiated by the Federal Communications Commission back in January 2008, for the rights to operate the 700MHz frequency band in the Unite... |
8 May 2008
03:27 GMT |
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Samsung Glyde is finally being released by Verizon Wireless, most probably at the end of this week, as official images with the long-awaited handset have surfaced today. In case you don't know, Glyde is a full QWERTY slider that looks really nice, both when open and when closed. Being the US version of Samsung F... |
8 May 2008
03:03 GMT |
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A new Nokia phone was unveiled these days, the Nokia 6205, a handset that will be available in the US via Verizon Wireless, the second largest mobile carrier in the country (and in the whole North America actually). Nokia 6205 comes in a clamshell form factor and it seems to be an entry-level device. There aren'... |
30 April 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless announced the release of LG enV2, available in the US as of tomorrow, the 30th of April, via all the Verizon Communications Stores in the country as well as online, at Verizon's website, and at Circuit City, the well-known electronics retailer. Following the successful LG enV, the new enV2 is ... |
29 April 2008
10:20 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless, the second largest North American mobile carrier, will soon offer a new Motorola phone, and that is Motorola W755. The handset will be available in two color versions, black and purple, offering both men and women the chance to own it. Boy Genius Report is reporting (obviously) that the W755 ... |
26 April 2008
05:50 GMT |
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Verizon Wireless announced that Natasha Bedingfield, one of the most known and acclaimed UK female singers, would start a national US tour under the name of "Verizon VIP Tour 2008". The young and pretty singer will perform in 20 cities across the US, together with other two popular female acts: The Veronicas and Kat... |
22 April 2008
11:34 GMT |
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As of today, the 15th of April 2008, Verizon Wireless offers new nationwide messaging plans to its subscribers, enabling them to send an unlimited number of messages from their mobile devices. While some users might not see the need of an unlimited message plan, as long as unlimited voice plans exist, some others act... |
15 April 2008
13:28 GMT |
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Exclusively available in the US from Verizon Wireless, the second largest mobile carrier in the US, LG Voyager could be soon offered by AT&T and Sprint too, the first and respectively the third largest North American operators. According to Electronic Times Korea, an "official of LG" said the South Korean company p... |
15 April 2008
10:48 GMT |
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