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Casio G’zOne Brigade C741 Now Available At Verizon

March 12th 2010

Verizon has recently released another rugged clamshell phone from Casio namely the G’zOne Brigade C741. This particular handset meets the military’s 810F standards for dust, water and shock resistance

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Verizon’s Rugged Casio Brigade C741

March 10th 2010

Word has it that the Casio Brigade C741 is now available in various Verizon retail stores, although there is no official announcement from Verizon so far. Verizon offers the Brigade C741 for $249 on contract (after a $50 mail-in rebate)

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FCC Has Approved CDMA Nexus One

February 26th 2010

The Almighty FCC has finally approved the CDMA HTC-made smartphone with the model name PB99300. This CDMA version of the Nexus One should be launched via Verizon soon via Google’s online store, just like the Nexus One for T-Mobile. Additionally, Verizon should also launch the HTC Incredible Android 2.1-powered smartphone in the near future.

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BlackBerry Storm2 Coming To Verizon On October 28

October 26th 2009

The much awaited BlackBerry Storm2 is finally making its way to Verizon Wireless on October 28th. This smartphone will be sold for $179.99 with a 2-year contract agreement and after a $100 mail-in rebate (it requires “a voice plan with an Email and Web feature or an Email and Web for BlackBerry plan”). As a reminder, the handset offers a large 3.25-inch 480 x 360 capacitive touchscreen display, a 3.2MP camera with autofocus and flash, a 2GB of onboard memory, a microSD/SDHD card slot (16GB card included), GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headset jack, BlackBerry OS 5.0 and supports both UMTS/HSPA (2100Mhz) as well as quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM connectivities

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Motorola Barrage Coming To Verizon

September 27th 2009

Looking for a new rugged clamshell phone? If you do, be sure to check out Verizon’s upcoming Motorola Barrage. Featuring a black-rubberized exterior, this handset meets the military’s 810F standards for extreme temperatures, dust and shock resistance.

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Verizon Samsung Rogue: not a smartphone, but we’re still drooling

July 31st 2009

What happens when you take the Samsung OmniaPro , improve its keyboard and the general look of the device, then strip it of its smartphone OS? You get the Verizon Rogue. For those looking for the smartphone package without the smarts, it’s a nice piece of kit

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Prankster tracks down Verizon CEO, yells at his house

July 22nd 2009

When John Hargrave of Zug.com (otherwise known as “ that one site that allegedly pranked the SuperBowl “) found out that the wireless carriers were doing a whole lot of nothing to keep the data store in cellular customer accounts safe, he decided to do what any good angry person does: grab a bullhorn.

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Review: BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon)

July 22nd 2009

Short Version: As it stands, the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is the best smartphone available for Verizon Wireless customers. It’s a mash-up of the AT&T BlackBerry Bold and T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 . One would think that this would lead to the perfect BlackBerry, but it has one glaring flaw and it isn’t one that you can get over quickly, if ever

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Review: BlackBerry Tour 9630 (Verizon)

July 22nd 2009

Short Version: As it stands, the BlackBerry Tour 9630 is the best smartphone available for Verizon Wireless customers. It’s a mash-up of the AT&T BlackBerry Bold and T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve 8900 .

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BlackBerry Thunder appears in VZW’s system

July 22nd 2009

Everyone, even your mom probably, knows that there is a new BlackBerry Storm coming soon from Verizon .

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Rural Cellular Association agrees: Verizon’s new exclusivity deal sucks

July 21st 2009

Just a few days ago, Verizon announced a change to the way they’d handle exclusive handset deals: rather than holding on to all of their exclusive handsets for years and years, they’d let any small carrier (defined as any carrier with under 500,000 customers) offer the same phones after a 6-month absolute exclusivity period. It was a move in the right direction, but it was still pretty terrible.

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Review: Casio EXILIM 5.1MP camera phone

July 18th 2009

Lets get a few details out of the way first. The Casio Exilim is one of the most expensive Verizon phones available at $279 with a 2-year agreement.

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Verizon intros the 2-in-1 Novatel Wireless PC770

July 17th 2009

So your personal notebook has an ExpressCard slot, but your work-issued notebook is older and therefore equipped with a PCMIA slot. Oh noes. What’s a person suppose to do

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Verizon loosens up their exclusive deals – sort of

July 17th 2009

According to the Wall Street Journal , Verizon has announced a change to their policies on exclusive handset deals. Under the terms of the new policy, Verizon will allow handset manufacturers to sell otherwise VZW-exclusive models to small wireless carriers (those with less than 500,000 subscribers) after a 6-month period

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Hands-on with the Samsung Omnia 2

June 18th 2009

Announced on Monday, the Samsung Omnia 2 is making its way onto Verizon very soon and we sat down with it for a little groping session.
The first word that comes to mind when looking at the Omnia 2 is wow. That 800×480 3.7-inch AMOLED screen is bright. It’s still a resistive screen, which I’m not [...]

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