Feb

21

The price of owning a Blackberry

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February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In the past few months Research in Motion has seemingly been pushed to the background by all the recent exciting product launches in the wireless industry. They appear to be loosing track to Apple’s iPhone, Nokia’s N series, and even HTC’s touch. Not to mention the new SonyEricsson Xperia X1 that is poised to be […]

Feb

20

Unlimted plans popping up everywhere

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February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

As I alluded to yesterday, the wireless companies did react to Verizon’s unlimited offerings with plans of their own. AT&T essentially matched the $99 voice plan but only for non smartphone users, which is ridiculous as most power users don’t use flip or candy bar phones. As expected, soon thereafter T-Mobile matched the $99 a […]

Feb

19

Verizon’s unlimited bonanza

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February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment

On Tuesday, February 19 Verizon will not only be launching an unlimited voice plan but 5 additional plans that add various features as well. Obviously this announcement is huge in the mobile world as this is the first major carrier that has done this and at the price point that they are talking about, they […]

Jan

25

2007 4Q Financial Reports

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January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In a stunning announcement AT&T Mobile added a U.S. Wireless Company record of 2.7 million new activations in the 4th quarter of 2007, this contributed to them eclipsing the 70 million subscriber mark. Profits soared to $3.14 billion, a 62% increase from 2006, ARPU went over $50, and data revenues increased over 50%. Of course […]

Jan

24

The state of the wireless industry

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January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

A glaring stat in the 3Q ‘07 financial numbers of the top U.S. wireless companies shows that one of the top five companies had so few new activations and so many customers leaving, that they had a activation total of -60,000. The company happens to be Sprint and their acquisition of Nextel is looking like […]

Sep

14

New Samsung i760 ships early for Verizon

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September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Fans of texting now have another option (at least if you’re a Verizon customer) as the new Samsung i760 has been released more than a week ahead of the scheduled date.
Officially, this new lateral slide-out keyboard phone was set for release on September 24th but if you make a call to the business or customer […]

Aug

9

The American Dream…in Europe

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August 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Many recent developments in the mobile phone industry have had one thing in common and that is Europe, a place we left some 300 years ago and have largely forgot about except when they need help stopping Germany from from taking over and making everyone wear really tight leather pants.
Case in point the BlackBerry 8830 […]

Aug

3

Nokia must be butter cause they are on a roll

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August 3, 2007 | 4 Comments

Nokia is leading the way in the mobile phone industry with innovation and massive profitability and its paying off huge for their stock holders. Lets break the recently announced numbers down and yes there is math involved so get out that number 2 pencil folks…just kidding.
Net Sales of 12.6 Billion (That’s Billion with a B […]

Jul

30

Verizon continues rural expansion

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July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Today Verizon Wireless announced plans to buy Rural Cellular for $757 million to expand their rural market in 15 states. The deal should be approved in the first half of 2008, both companies said, subject to government and stockholder approval. Verizon Communications also announced wireless and wireline earnings of $1.7 billion in the second quarter, […]

Jul

23

HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger

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July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

This week at Content Quake we will be looking at alternatives to the standard of getting new cell phones directly through your cellphone provider.
Ultimately it costs about $1000 for a wireless company to get you to sign the initial contract on the dated line, so these companies have a lot of leeway in how much […]

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