By Lynn Shannon
If you thought the ultra-thin Motorola Razr (Motorola Mobility Holdings, NYSE:MMI) was cool but a little light on the battery life, then the Motorola Razr Maxx, available as of Thursday through Verizon Wireless (Verizon Communications, NYSE:VZ) may be the next phone for you. Read More
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By Ben Wong
Looking back at 2011, it was hard and volatile year to be investing in the market. As I started building our portfolio, I leaned towards stocks with high dividend yields.
One of our main positions is a telecom company Frontier Communications (NASDAQ:FTR), which is 22% of our portfolio. As we continue onto 2012, I expect Frontier to finish integrating Verizon (NYSE:VZ) landlines they acquired back in 2010. I believe this should result in a significant rise in earnings for 2012. Read More
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By Amy Gilroy
“This is easily the best smartphone to ever hit Verizon Wireless,” said the Boy Genius Report (BGR) Wednesday while Mashable called the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Verizon ”the best Android phone ever produced.”
Available as of Thursday, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the first smartphone running Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS. That feature, plus its 4G LTE speeds help make it comparable to or better than the Motorola Droid Razr and HTC Rezound, said reviewers.
The Galaxy Nexus provides Internet speeds similar to your home desktop on a broadband connection. It’s super thin (though not as thin as the Droid Razr), and it uses the first 4.65-inch HD Super AMOLED display. Resolution is 720p.
The Nexus uses a 1.2GHz dual core processor and has a 5MP camera with pictures not quite as sharp as the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 4S, said reviewers. Read More
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By Daniel Beckerman
I visited a Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) store recently, as my wife was looking for a new phone. She had little desire for a smartphone and felt as that a regular cell phone without the web would best suit her needs.
When we entered the store, we were struck by the large interactive displays featuring music, GPS and videos utilizing the smartphones. We walked past the vast collection of Droid (Motorola Mobility Holdings, NYSE:MMI), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Blackberry (Reasearch in Motion, NASDAQ:RIMM) phones and asked to see the regular phones. The Verizon represented looked puzzled, but nevertheless directed us to a small area in the back of the store where there were two basic phones. One was a rugged phone that featured walkie-talkie functionality, so that perhaps a worker could quickly communicate on a job site. The other was an old flip phone design that looked like it was not redesigned since the nineties. Why put R&D into a section of the store that only attracts us — or someone’s great grandmother? Read More
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By Amy Gilroy
As leaked, a new Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone 4S will offer a voice capability that lets your phone “understand you” through advanced voice recognition that could change the interface for smartphone use in the car.
The new iPhone 4S with the “Siri” voice feature will be available October 14 starting at $199.
It includes an “intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking,” said Apple at its much anticipated press event Tuesday.
In a demo, Apple execs asked the phone “What is the weather like today,” and the phone’s new “Siri” feature issued a forecast by voice. Read More
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By Jim Van Meerten
Verizon (NYSE:VZ) has begun to act like a real blue chip stock with it terrific price stability persistence even as the rest of the market falls. Compare how Verizon is up and the Value Line Index of 1700 stocks is down over the past year in this Barchart graph.
Verizon Communications, (VZ) formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, is one of the world’s leading providers of high-growth communications services. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States. Verizon is also the world’s largest provider of print and on-line directory information. Read More
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By Amy Gilroy
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) finally sent out press invitations for an event next Tuesday, October 4th to ‘talk’ about a new iPhone.
Also at the event, Facebook is expected to announce an iPad app and a newly designed iPhone app as it strives to become the social network of the mobile universe, reports Mashable.
We still don’t know whether Apple will introduce more than one phone (including a lower cost version of the iPhone 4), and if it will support 4G. Rumors persist that the new iPhone will be offered by Sprint (NYSE:S), in addition to AT&T (NYSE:T) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ). Read More
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By Amy Gilroy
On Monday, Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) announced it will carry its first 4G LTE smartphone to break the $100 price floor.
The Pantech Breakout will hit the market Thursday, September 22 for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate, bringing it to about half the cost or less of some of Verizon’s key LTE smartphones such as the HTC Thunderbolt or Samsung Droid Charge. Read More
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By William Damsky
iPhone 5 Mockup by MacRumors
If you live in Germany, you may be able to preorder the iPhone 5, even though Apple has not officially announced the product, nor its name, features, or price.
That hasn’t stopped German phone carrier Deutsche Telekom (PINK:DTEGY) from preparing for what could be huge demand for the anticipated device by accepting preorders, said Bloomberg News Monday. There’s no word whether this move is approved by Apple, but Bloomberg suggests Deutsche Telekom is simply readying for a “supply bottleneck.” Read More
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By Amy Gilroy
A Citadel Securities analyst reports it is ever more likely that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will sell the iPhone through Sprint (NYSE:S), especially now that Verizon (NYSE:VZ) is moving to tiered data plans.
Analyst Shing Yin notes that Sprint will be the only remaining carrier with an unlimited data plan, which is something that Apple favors, he claims. Read More
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