Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

Sprint’s popular pre-paid company, Boost Mobile, has recently introduced a new rate plan called $1 per Day Chat Plan.
The new plan will offer unlimited N&W minutes, unlimited M2M minutes and unlimited Boost Walkie-Talkie. The daytime rate for calls has been set at 10 cents per minute while the Walkie-Talkie feature will cost the pre paid [...]

Early March had seen storms of speculation that Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company, was considering an acquisition of Sprint. Recent reports are again pointing to the same direction. With talks being in the primary stage, such a move will hurl the No. 4 US carrier into the No. 1 position by having about 83 million [...]

Tonight, we’re taking the wraps off the all new PhoneNews.com Forums. We’ve redesigned the look, feel, and entire interface of the forums with you in mind.
Our redesign has focused on the things you want from a forum: readability, consistency, and better ways to discuss all-thing-wireless. We now have a consistent look-and-feel across the News, Forums, and our [...]

Specific launch dates have surfaced for three new LG models exclusive to Verizon Wireless. Read More for full details.

A quick look at some of the pages that have been updated the most this week on the PhoneNews.com Phone Encyclopedia.
Our Firmware Tracker has been updated several times over, and continues to be the most current source for phone software updates industry-wide.
Readers have also contributed several new tips, hacks, and updates for the HTC Touch [...]

Skype has iaunched a beta version of their combination VoIP and chat software for standard mobile phones. The client features many of the same features as the desktop client including both individual and group chat awareness, status updates, contact lists, and conferencing.
The software dials out using the standard voice radio, and then switches over [...]

Motorola may be set to release the W755 for Verizon Wireless in May.
With the recent press photos being released, Verizon is said to carry two color variants of the phone; purple and gray.

Images courtesy of PhoneArena
Not much is known about the phone as of now but from initial reports, the W755 will be supporting touch-sensitive [...]

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And, for the first time, we’re publishing some of our ad rates. So, if you’ve been wondering what it would cost to run an ad on PhoneNews.com, you can now quickly take [...]

Verizon Wireless is taking Sprint to court for the non-payment of interconnection charges which amount almost to $10 million. With a two-year “statue of limitations” period on the claims coming to a close, Verizon has taken legal action to speed up the process of re-payment.
Verizon’s repeated attempts to collect the debt owed over several months came [...]

With CTIA Wireless 2008 almost two weeks past, we’d like to take a moment to ask you how we did on CTIA coverage. Let us know how we did on photo galleries, on news coverage, and on any other aspect of our coverage.
Tell us what you liked, what was memorable, what you didn’t like, and [...]