Less than a year after Verizon Wireless declared the Hub as the landline of the future, the nation’s No. 1 carrier quietly drops the VOIP phone.
– Well, back to the drawing board. Verizon Wireless said Sept. 30 it was discontinuing sales for its Verizon Hub, a VOIP home phone that also served as a Web tablet. In January, Verizon Wireless said it was reinventing the standard home phone with the Hub.
The Hub retailed for $199 and required a …
News Analysis: The Palm Pre is going through some tough times. Verizon Wireless might be backing out of offering the mobile device to customers. But that’s just one of many reasons why the Pre might be the smartphone flop of 2009.
– A report has surfaced claiming Verizon
Wireless won’t be bringing the Palm Pre to store shelves. The device was
originally expected to be offered to Verizon Wireless customers later this year
or in early 2010. For a while, the possibility of the Pre coming to carriers
other than Sprint seemed qu…
Verizon Wireless will start selling the HTC Touch Pro2 smartphone on Sept. 11. The highly touted HTC phone is already available from Sprint and T-Mobile in the United States. The HTC Touch Pro2, which will sell for about $200, uses Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 software.
– The
HTC Touch Pro2 smartphone, which runs Microsofts Windows Mobile 6.1
operating system, is landing on the Verizon Wireless network on Sept. 11 for a
starting price of about $200.
On Sept. 10, Verizon announced that it would become
the latest U.S. carrier to offer the HTC Touch Pro2 phone. Spr…
At its Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference, Verizon Wireless rang in with the new but also made clear that it is not forgetting developers focusing on its older supported platform. Verizon is not abandoning its BREW application developers while moving to new smartphone development support.
– At its Verizon Developer Community (VDC) Conference, Verizon Wireless rang in with the new but also made clear that it is not forgetting developers focusing on its older supported platform.
Verizon assured developers who write applications for the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) that…
The Palm Pre smartphone will no longer be exclusive to the Sprint network, and will arrive on the Verizon Wireless network “early next year,” said Verizon COO Denny Stigl during the carriers July 27 quarterly earnings call. Strigl also said a BlackBerry Storm refresh and a device running the Google Android OS are on the way.
– During a July 27 Verizon
Wireless conference call with analysts and media, intended for the carrier to
share its revenue results for the second quarter of 2009, Verizons
president and chief operating officer, Denny Strigl, said Verizon will offer
the Palm Pre in early 2010.
During a questio…
Verizon Wireless, during a conference call to announce its second-quarter 2009 earnings, wouldnt say whether it has an iPhone in the works, but only that it has strong handset offerings in the pipeline, is at work on an app store, and will begin 4G LTE trials in Boston and Seattle this year.
– Verizon Wireless announced it is remaining resilient, despite a challenging
economy, and on July 27 announced total operating revenues of $26.9 billion for
the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, an increase of 11 percent from the same
quarter a year earlier.
Diluted earnings per share for t…
Verizon Wireless will announce its 2009 second-quarter earnings on July 27. Offering a preview of what’s to come, Verizon released a statement reporting it had added 1.1 million customers during the quarter, bringing its total to 87.7 million.
– Verizon Wireless, offering a taste of what’s to come during its July 27
financial quarterly results call, announced on July 24 that its customer base
grew by 1.1 million in the second quarter of 2009, for a total of 87.7 million
customers.
In a statement on the pending performance announcem…
In its second attempt in two weeks to placate lawmakers considering additional regulations for the mobile and wireless industry, Verizon Wireless proposes new roaming arrangements for small carriers. As with Verizon’s offer to limit exclusive handset deals to six months, consumer and advocacy groups roundly dismiss Verizon’s latest proposal.
– With lawmakers and federal regulators showing an interest in additional
wireless industry regulations, Verizon Wireless July 21 proposed new conditions
for offering roaming connectivity to small carriers. Under the proposal,
Verizon says it is willing to offer two-year roaming deals on its networ…
We haven’t gotten to see too many A series cellphones from Motorola, except for the A455, which was released last month on Verizon Wireless. We now have news of a new handset in that segment, the A45 Murano, which…
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam sends a letter to the House of Representatives offering to limit Verizon’s handset exclusivity contracts to six months, after which time the devices would be available to small wireless carriers as well. The big gorilla in the room is competitor AT T’s iPhone deal with Apple.
– Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S.
mobile carrier, sent a letter to major lawmakers on July 17 offering to limit
the length of its exclusivity deals on mobile phones.
Reuters reports that the gesture comes
after the Department
of Justice began looking into whether U.S. carriers violated an…
The newest BlackBerry smartphone, the CDMA-based Tour world phone, is now available on the Sprint and Verizon Wireless networks. The BlackBerry Tour balances consumer appeal, with features such as video streaming and a 3.2-megapixel camera, with enterprise-centric features such as a dedicated keyboard and support for use around the world.
– The
Research In Motion BlackBerry Tour is now available on both the Sprint and
Verizon Wireless networks.
The Tour, a CDMA world phone, offers calling and data access around the world Sprint
supports calls in more than 185 countries and e-mail and Web browsing in
nearly 150, and Verizon
su…
