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12 December 2010 ~ Comments Off

Verizon Readying $69.98 Rollout for Talk, Text, Data Plan?

There’s been a lot of chatter about the Verizon $69/mo unlimited talk, text and data plan. Up until now it’s been mostly a private promotion sent to select customers via email. If you hadn’t received the email but call to Verizon and ask to be enrolled you might have lucked out and found a sympathetic [...]

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30 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Windows Phone 7 Rumor Mill Say’s January 2011 Update Will Grow Hair, Increase Attraction, Shed Pounds

The rumor mill is churning, apparently stoked by some enthusiastic developer tweeting, that Microsoft is readying a super update for their just released Windows Phone 7. The phone has only been available a few weeks and already there are abundant rumors of slow sales with some reports claiming that new sales of Windows Phone 7 [...]

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14 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Samsung Focus User Manual – AT&T Windows Phone 7

Looking for the manual for your Samsung Focus Windows Phone 7 device? Here’s one that Samsung just released which provides more detail than your friendly AT&T store clerk may have offered. Samsung Focus Manual – ATT Windows Phone 7

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14 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Samsung Focus – Windows Phone 7 First Thoughts

As these things often go — purchased a Samsung Focus (New Windows Phone 7 device) at AT&T to replace my BlackBerry 9700. Suspect that will be the end of the line for BlackBerry and me. I have only had the device for about a half-day and really haven’t tested it in the real world (battery, [...]

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12 November 2010 ~ Comments Off

Verizon $69.99 Plan – 450 min and unlimited text/data

Some existing Verizon Wireless subscribers are reporting that they’ve received an email offer direct from the carrier offering a 450 minute monthly plan with unlimited text and data. This offering would match (except for the unlimited mobile to any mobile – the Verizon plan only allows VZW to VZW mobile unlimited) that which has been [...]

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