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March 29, 2011
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Verizon announces Samsung LTE mobile hotspot, Novatel LTE modem

By on March 29, 2011 at 3:02 PM.

Verizon announces Samsung LTE mobile hotspot, Novatel LTE modem

Looking to lasso yourself some of those sweet, sweet LTE airwaves being emitted by Verizon Wireless towers? Don’t really need a new smartphone? You’re in luck. In a pair of press releases today, Verizon announced two, new LTE-enabled network devices, the Verizon USB551L modem (made by Novatel) and the Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot. The USB551L is a standard USB data-stick modem capable of connecting your Windows or Mac-based machine to Verizon’s ultra-fast, LTE network. The Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot is a MiFi-like device that supports up to five simultaneous, Wi-Fi connections. Both devices will retail for $99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and 2-year contract signing, are backwards compatible with Verizon’s CDMA network, and promise LTE download speeds between 5Mbps and 12Mbps. The Samsung hotspot is available immediately and the Novatel USB511L will be available beginning on March 31st. Both press releases are after the break. More →

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Retail
December 21, 2010
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Trade in your old cell phone and get an EVO 4G for $99 at The Shack

By on December 21, 2010 at 8:23 PM.

Trade in your old cell phone and get an EVO 4G for $99 at The Shack

Need a last minute present for… yourself? If you’ve had your eye on HTC’s EVO 4G from Sprint for a while, your patience may have finally paid off. RadioShack is guaranteeing customers a $100 trade in on their old mobile device when purchasing an EVO and opening a new line or signing a new 2-year contract. The exact verbiage of the deal is as follows:

Trade up to HTC EVO 4G for only $99

Starting Sunday, December 19, through December 25, RadioShack will be helping both new and upgrade customers get their hands on one of this year’s most popular devices, HTC EVO 4G from Sprint. For next week only, both new and upgrade customers are guaranteed a $100 trade-in value for any working cell phone through our Trade & Save program, so with a 2-year plan, they can get the HTC EVO 4G for the low cost of $99. (Trade-in offer limited to one per customer. Some restrictions may apply.)

Not a bad deal for what is arguably the hottest mobile handset of 2010! More →

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mobile
December 1, 2010
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Dell Venue Pro available today, ships December 9th

By on December 1, 2010 at 11:08 AM.

Dell Venue Pro available today, ships December 9th

It’s official. Via a press release, Dell has announced that its Windows Phone 7 handset offering, the Venue Pro, is now up for grabs. The device, which boasts a 4.1-inch AMOLED touchscreen display and vertical slide-out QWERTY-keyboard, will start at $99.99 (8GB) with a signed 2-year contract on wireless provier T-Mobile. Dell says the device will ship by December 9th. Hit the jump to check out the full press release. More →

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Retail
November 19, 2010
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All DROID smartphones on sale for 1¢ at AmazonWireless

By on November 19, 2010 at 11:10 AM.

All DROID smartphones on sale for 1¢ at AmazonWireless

Thinking about treating yourself to one of Verizon’s DROID smartphones right before the holidays? You’ll definitely want to check out this latest deal from AmazonWireless. The online retail giant has the full compliment of DROID devices from Big Red — the DROID Incredible, X, 2, and Pro – on sale for a single penny for those opening a new line of service. The offer is good now through November 22nd and includes free activation. If you’re thinking about jumping over to Verizon, how can you go wrong with a deal like this?

Now, if you’re already a VZW customer, and the DROID Pro has caught your eye, Best Buy is offering the new candy bar set for a very reasonable $99.99 with a signed two-year agreement; that is a full $80 below the on-contract price being offered by Verizon. It also looks like Best Buy’s $100 offer is being served straight-up, with no mail-in rebate or other forms required. Man the holidays are a great time to buy a cell phone.

Let us know what you think of the two deals!

UPDATE: Wirefly is selling the DROID Pro to new 2-year contract signers for an even lower $50. [Read] More →

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General
October 20, 2010
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Motorola DEFY coming to T-Mobile November 3

By on October 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM.

Motorola DEFY coming to T-Mobile November 3

It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything about the Motorola DEFY; a rough and rugged Android handset we first told you about in August that was announced just last month. But that all changes today. T-Mobile has announced, via Twitter, that the 3.7-inch scratch-resistant, touchscreen device — which also boasts a 5 megapixel camera with flash, DLNA support, FM radio, Wi-Fi Calling, and GPS — will be available for $99 with a 2-year contract starting on November 3. Not a bad little device for a c-note — especially if you’re one of those people who are unusually rough on electronics.

[Via TmoNews] More →

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Breaking
October 18, 2010
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Sprint makes BlackBerry Style 9670 official, October 31st release for $99

By on October 18, 2010 at 9:00 AM.

Sprint makes BlackBerry Style 9670 official, October 31st release for $99

Sprint and BlackBerry have finally gone and made the BlackBerry Style 9670 official as of this morning. In case you’re forgetting the specifications on the device we first showed to the world, here they are… a full QWERTY flip phone rockin’ BlackBerry 6, 624MHz processor, 5 megapixel camera, GPS, and Wi-Fi b/g/n. The BlackBerry Style will also come in two colors on the nation’s first 4G carrier — steel grey and royal purple, just like we reported. If you’re looking for the purple variant, it won’t go on sale until “early November” but we’re sure most of the general public will be gunning for the grey handset anyway. As far as price, it’s just like we said — $99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and new 2 year cellular agreement. Full press release is after the break, folks! More →

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General
August 24, 2010
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Dell makes Aero official, $99 on AT&T

By on August 24, 2010 at 1:15 PM.

Dell makes Aero official, $99 on AT&T

Today, Dell announced that their Aero Android handset would be available on U.S. wireless carrier AT&T for $99 with a two-year contract; $299 contract-free. The device has a 3.5-inch multitouch display, 624 MHz processor, quad-band GSM, tri-band UMTS/HSPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, micro-SD card slot (expandable to 32 GB), 1000 mAh battery, 5 megapixel camera with flash… and Android 1.5. The Aero has a pretty attractive spec sheet for a $99 handset, aside from the nearly two year old OS. Thoughts? More →

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General
August 18, 2010
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Samsung Vibrant $99 from T-Mobile for next 24-hours

By on August 18, 2010 at 6:41 AM.

Samsung Vibrant $99 from T-Mobile for next 24-hours

If you’ve been on the fence about purchasing a Samsung Vibrant from T-Mobile, ol’ Magenta is going to throw some cash your way in an attempt to sway you. For the next 24-hours, you can purchase T-Mo’s variant of the Galaxy S for $99 with a 2-year contract (normally $199). The deal is online only and won’t be around long. Anyone going to bite on this deal? More →

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Retail
September 8, 2009
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Sprint offering $100 service credit to new Pre customers porting from another carrier [UPDATED]

By on September 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM.

Sprint offering $100 service credit to new Pre customers porting from another carrier [UPDATED]

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Have you been watching all the Palm Pre coverage in recent months with jealousy, just waiting for the right time to strike? Well boys and girls, that time may be now. From now until October 10th, Sprint has effectively knocked $100 off the price of a shiny new Palm Pre for customers coming over from another carrier. Here’s how it works: Purchase a Palm Pre on a 2-year contract before October 10th and port a number in from your old carrier. That’s it. Within your first three months of service, Sprint will issue a $100 service credit to your account. Call it a welcome present, call it an attempt to boost sales or call it whatever else you want — the bottom line is that you can now effectively score a new Pre for $99 after MIR and a service credit. Any takers?

UPDATE: Consider us amazed. As quickly as Sprint’s offer appeared, it’s now off the table. Sprint’s official comment: “After further internal review today, the offer of a port-in service credit of $100 to new customers who buy the Palm Pre has been pulled, because it was put into the system in error.” Umm, ok. Sprint says it will honor the promo for anyone who managed to snag a Pre during the brief period of time before the promo was pulled.

Thanks, E!

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General
August 2, 2009
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Verizon drops pricing on almost all existing smartphones to under $99

By on August 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM.

Verizon drops pricing on almost all existing smartphones to under $99

Well, hear us out. We’ve had a flurry of tips sent in today that Verizon Wireless has dropped the prices of almost all existing smartphones they offer to only $99 with a two-year agreement. This obviously signifies one thing and it’s not Verizon just being nice (though they generally are friendly when we ring them up): new crap is coming. The much-awaited Touch Pro2 looks to be landing on VZ shortly (the Touch Pro dropped from $419 to $99) and while we doubt the BlackBerry Storm 2 is going to launch earlier than November, there’s still only two smartphones we can find above $99. Those are the BlackBerry Tour and Samsung Saga. So, new handsets coming relatively soon and obviously a little reaction to the $99 iPhone pricing, existing smartphones and BlackBerrys on Verizon Wireless just got a whole bunch less expensive.

Thanks, to everyone that hit us up!

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Exclusive
June 1, 2009
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Fido's 2009 roadmap leaked; $99 4GB iPhone 3G?

By on June 1, 2009 at 5:26 PM.

Fido's 2009 roadmap leaked; $99 4GB iPhone 3G?

Okay, so one of our Fido ninjas hit us up with some exclusive snaps of what is reportedly the entire roadmap for the rest of 2009. We’re very far away from being able to confirm this information — it actually made us pop about 50 antacid tablets — but we’re going to do our jobs as best we can and report the goods. So here we go…

The most notable slide has to do with a 4GB iPhone 3G. While there is a huge disclaimer that the image isn’t the device itself, the slide depicts a 4GB iPhone model that will run for $99 and come with quad-band EDGE, tri-band HSDPA, a 2 megapixel shooter and, believe it or not, iChat video calling (oh hi, front-facing camera). You might recall all of that talk of a $99 iPhone at Walmart that we brought you a while ago — it looks like the timing was a bit off but it may actually happen. Moving on to the other handsets, we have the BlackBerry Curve 8320 for $50, Nokia E71 for $50 and Nokia E55 for $25, Sony Ericsson Z780i for $75 and a bunch of low-end goodness at great prices.

So, what do you think? Is this real, or is it like that total BS Rogers roadmap we saw at Christmas? Hit the jump for the rest of the slides and sound off in the comments.

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May 12, 2009
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AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8900 to run $199 with a 2-year

By on May 12, 2009 at 1:50 PM.

AT&T BlackBerry Curve 8900 to run $199 with a 2-year

We just got our hands on the latest AT&T price sheet for the Southwestern region (don’t worry, these prices are national) and what did we find? The BlackBerry 8900 is going to run $99 $199 on a 2-year agreement after $100 MIR. We guess that sort of makes up for the 6 month delay in launching it… We’ll let you know if we find anything else on here, but come on, that’s an awesome price isn’t it?

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General
November 10, 2008
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Bell counters Telus’ $99 smartphone plan

By on November 10, 2008 at 4:26 AM.

Bell counters Telus’ $99 smartphone plan

It looks like actual value is going to be offered to Canadian smartphone users in time for Christmas because Bell is going to match Telus’ amazing $99 smartphone plan. Created in anticipation of large sales of the BlackBerry Storm, both Canadian CDMA-come-HSDPA carriers are offering up plans consisting of the following:

  • 1,000 daytime minutes (unused airtime from Bell rolls over to the next month)
  • Unlimited evenings and weekends after 9pm
  • Call display
  • Voicemail
  • Unlimited SMS
  • Unlimited email and data
  • Unlimited BlackBerry Messenger and IM

To many living outside of Canada these plans might not seem like a lot, but in the pathetically uncompetitive and monopolistic Canadian wireless marketplace this is a huge leap towards progress. Huge!

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