Articles tagged "Verizon"

This shouldn’t affect too many of our readers, but for those who may find themselves with an older Verizon handset and are looking to activate service on Verizon, the carrier will no longer activate 3G (CDMA) devices. Verizon confirmed this with...

The major US carriers are having a bit of a deal frenzy and are offering great price slashes if you're willing to sing up for a contract. Verizon offers up to $300 discounts on the Samsung Galaxy S9+/S9, LG G7 ThinQ, Google Pixel 2/2 XL, Samsung...

Verizon's Droid-branded version of the Moto Z Play from 2016 is finally being graced with the update to Android 8.0 Oreo. This has started rolling out today, more than a month after unlocked units got it (back in May). The new software arrives as...

Best Buy and Verizon love discounting the second-gen Pixel phones – the first discount came the day after they were announced! Today’s deal is better than that one, but not quite as good as some in the past. The good news is that it includes the...

Carrier-specific version of headsets are a pretty common occurrence these days. Besides a new confusing branding, these devices typically come with minor tweaks, compared to the generic model. The new Samsung Galaxy J3 V 3rd Gen - a new Verizon...

Verizon has started pushing a new update to Motorola Moto Z Droid and Moto Z Force Droid smartphones on its network. The update - which arrives as software version OCL27.76-69-4 - brings along Android Oreo OS. Needless to say, all the usual...

Verizon has started accepting pre-registrations for RED's Hydrogen One smartphone. You can head to the carrier's official website, and sign up (by providing you email address) to receive updates about the phone's availability. Last month, RED...

Update: Rolling out again (let's hope it stays that way this time). Update: Verizon has removed all references to Oreo from its official Galaxy S7 support pages, meaning the update has been pulled (yet again). Original story follows: Back...

Verizon has started pushing out a new update to Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 units on its network. Arriving as software version R16NW.T827VVRU1BRD4, it's a major update that brings Android Oreo. In addition to the usual Oreo goodies, the new...

Verizon launched an own-brand smartwatch running Android Wear last year. The Wear24 debuted at $349.99, but the carrier promptly discontinued it only a few months later, following pretty bad reviews all-round. The fact that you haven't been able...

First spotted by Mobielkopen, the Samsung Galaxy Note9 has been benchmarked on the popular benchmark app: Geekbench. Although the Note9 has already been benchmarked in the past, it was running the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 CPU. This new benchmark is...

If you want to purchase one of Samsung's latest flagships, Best Buy has a very good deal for you right now. The Galaxy S9, S9+, and Note8 are all $300 off compared to their normal pricing. The caveats are as follows. First, the unlocked models...

T-Mobile was the first of the big four US carriers to let us know about its pricing and availability details for LG's recently unveiled G7 ThinQ. Today Verizon and Sprint have published the same information. Verizon is starting pre-orders...

Two more smartphones are being updated to Android Oreo starting today, in the US at least. We're talking about the LG G6 units sold by Verizon, and the unlocked Moto Z. While the G6 launched last year, the original Moto Z is almost two years old at...

Camera maker RED has been accepting pre-orders for its Hydrogen One phone for close to a year now, but the shipping date keeps slipping – from Q1, then August and then to a non-committal “this summer”. At least now RED has unveiled which carriers...

Good news for fans of smaller smartphones who live in the US and happen to have Verizon as their carrier of choice. The network nicknamed Big Red has just certified the Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact for use on its airwaves. Unfortunately though,...

Your brand-spanking new Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9+ comes with quite a few preinstalled third party applications, but in the near future it will have to handle even more of what we call bloatware. Today Verizon's subsidiary Oath has signed a deal...

Verizon has started pushing out a new update to LG V30 units on its network. The update arrives as software version VS99620b, and brings along multiple changes, including ThinQ branding and AI cam. To begin with, post update, the start screen of...

Not funny, Verizon. People have been waiting for the Oreo update for the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge for a long time – these may be 2016 phones, but they are still flagships! So, when the Verizon Support page showed that the duo is finally getting the...

Today, Apple announced a new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus color option called Product RED. Apple has been making Product RED devices ever since the iPod Nano and even offered Product RED gift cards. The Product RED brand teams up with private...