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Apple’s New iPhone 7: Understanding Carrier Models & Cellular Limitations
Apple launched the new iPhone 7 yesterday – showing off major new features like water resistance, stereo speakers, and some extremely impressive new camera capabilities. For mobile internet fans – the big news on the cellular front is yet another leap in theoretical peak speed – with the addition of 3x cellular carrier aggregation. Apple describes it this […]
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T-Mobile Yawns At Verizon’s LTE Advanced Launch, Rolls Out 4×4 MIMO And More
When Verizon made a big splash launching its LTE Advanced network last week, we pointed out that this was actually the launch of a marketing campaign, not a new technology. We noted that T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T have all also deployed LTE Advanced carrier aggregation to various extents, and said: “LTE Advanced is indeed awesome technology, […]
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FoxFi Fans: Beware Upgrading to Android 7.0 “Nougat”
Update: The newer tool called PDAnet, from the makers of FoxFi, supports more recent versions of Android. Google’s newest major Android Operating System release, version 7.0 “Nougat”, is beginning to trickle out to the world – and word is spreading that new security improvements under the hood will permanently break the once popular FoxFi application that […]
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Verizon Making “Safety Mode” Free – Dropping $5/mo Fee
When Verizon announced the New Verizon Plan in July, one of the core features was “Safety Mode” – an optional feature which eliminated $15/GB overage charges. Instead – once the high-speed data allotment for the month is used up, if “Safety Mode” is enabled your account will get throttled back to glacially slow 128kbps for the […]
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Verizon and Sprint Based Prepaid Plans with Mobile Hotspot from Boom! Mobile
New plans which may be of interest to mobile internet users include: Verizon- $64.99 – 7GB of hard capped 4G LTE data (plus unlimited talk and text) Sprint- $39.99 – 5GB of hard capped 4G LTE data (plus unlimited talk and text) (UPDATE- 8/31/16) Boom! Mobile, a fairly new MVNO, is offering prepaid plans which may be of […]
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