Sentences with phrase «phones at carriers»

Sure, most people still buy their phones at carriers, but some don't — especially now that the two - year contract is dead.

Shopping for a new phone at a carrier store was usually seen as a long transaction.

Not exact matches

The carrier is selling the phones for the same price as Samsung, starting at $ 720 and $ 840.

Each phone is available at its full price, or a subsidized one through a carrier or company, so be sure to shop around for the best deal.

The shift, which now covers the vast majority of new phones sold, has helped improve the carriers» profit margins while cutting into upgrade sales at phone makers, including Apple (aapl) and Samsung.

Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the company's director of marketing solutions.

Both of these phones have begun to chip at carriers» ability to charge hefty fees for the latest Android devices.

Unlike purchase arrangements at other carriers, Sprint's leases require the customer to turn their iPhone in at the end of the 18 - month term or make a lump sum payment (customers can also upgrade their phone after 12 months).

Cell phone adoption grew exponentially as carriers innovated ways to bring costs down for consumers — at a rate much faster than even McKinsey could predict.

In the U.S. market, the vast majority of smartphones are at a price heavily subsidized by wireless carriers, along with a two - year service contract — which further obscures the effect of licensing fees on phone prices.

Until, of course, you remember the culture - induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical maPhone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical maphone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass...

Even if Google wanted to release it software updates to every single Android phone at once it would not be possible since smartphone manufacturers add their own modifications to a version of Android and the update needs to be approved by each individual carrier in many countries.

And drones are not the only evidence of our expanding, and dangerous, surveillance state ***************** Congressional investigators have gotten, for the first, some data on how many law enforcement requests are made to the 9 major cell phone carriers for information on citizens.Hang on to your hats and bonnets, and sit down!It appears that there were at least 1.3 million cell - phone demands from law enforcement last year... and all without a court order.

While it doesn't have support for Verizon and Sprint, it does still support GSM carriers, and for this price, the OnePlus 3 is definitely a phone worth taking a look at.

Every other carrier has what, maybe 1 or 2 at most, high end phones?

When Windows Phones got broad carrier release, they sold better (look at the Samsung Ativ S, a minor player globally, but a major player in the Windows Phone scene in Canada due to being released on all of the «big three» carriers).

But to be fair... only T - mo offers cheaper plans if you get your phone at full price... So blame both the dumb customers and greedy carriers to help make the wireless industry in USA the way it is now...

At the time of this review it has yet to be announced by any US - based carriers, though in Canada pretty much everybody has picked up the phone (Rogers, Telus, Bell, SaskTel, Koodoo, Virgin, etc.).

The handset is part of the carrier's 2013 spring portfolio which is rounded off at a dozen gadgets inclusive of phones, tablets and a Wi - Fi router for mobile use.

The last 3 windows phones I had, took forever for the carrier (at & t) to release the update (if at all).

An executive at carrier partner AT&T admits the Priv phone is «really struggling» and suffers a disappointing rate of returns.

I'm highly disappointed that 4 months later T - Mobile still doesn't have a single phone with a 720p display when all the other carriers have at least one, and Verizon has three.

I'm not sure about Nationwide, but the Walmarts in Austin and Houston price their phones at the same rate other carriers price them for T - Mobile.

glad it's coming to tmobile, even tho tmo always getting phones at the last minute when other carriers been had it.

For some comparison, HTC phones need to sell to carriers at $ 243 to generate a 30 % gross margin, says Mahaney.

Similarly, Microsoft has said that Windows Phone 7 handset makers sold 1.5 million phones to wireless carriers in the first six weeks — actual useful information that can be used for at least ballpark comparisons with other stats such as Google's claim of 300,000 Android activations per day.

To look at it a little differently, that means that the Kindle Fire, Nook Color, Nook Tablet, and other devices built off AOSP code without access to the typical «Google experience» apps definitely are not being included — but virtually every phone and tablet sold by a carrier in the US and Europe should be.

The phone is rumored to be testing with AT&T, but neither the carrier nor Samsung have confirmed the phone at this time. If the phone were to be released through AT&T, this would make it the first non-Nokia Series 60 powered device available on an American carrier.

All of this is priced at a very reasonable $ 99.99, though that's the price listed for the Sprint variant of the phone and could be higher for the unlocked, carrier - free variant.

This 4G LTE - support phone offers two SIM card slots to give owner of handset can use it with two different carriers at same time.

For some reason, the phone is on backorder despite having gone live on the carrier's website only a few hours back, but if you do want to grab one, you can expect it to start shipping in the next two days (at least that's what Verizon says.)

By the time the carrier gets around to updating it (if it does at all), you may have a perfectly stable ICS update waiting for you if you were to root your phone.

We have been informed by a very reliable source at a major carrier that RIM has been putting an enormous amount of pressure on carriers to approve the upcoming BlackBerry smartphones like the BlackBerry Bold 9900 — phones that have to hold RIM over until its next - generation platform launch in 2012 — and that certain carriers will be approving the devices, «no matter what — with bugs and problems.»

It would be entering at a time when the smart phone market has shown it can generate an incredible amount of profits — not just for Apple and Samsung, but also for wireless carriers and also for anyone who can deliver the hot new smart phone.

There is currently no pricing or availability informnation at this time, but the phone is currently available from regional carriers Bluegrass Cellular, Pocket Communications and Revol.

Seeing how it usually takes years for Samsung and the mobile phone carriers to release these updates for older devices this probably means GS3 users will be able to get them at some point in 2015 or 2016.

High - drain thin phones that are at the top of a carrier's lineup should bundle both standard and extended batteries.

We're told carriers balked at the idea of carrying a BlackBerry 7 phone so similar to the BlackBerry Torch at this point in time.

As the phone's exclusive carrier, Bell is offering the HTC 10 smartphone at price of $ 899.99 no - term.

Priced at less than $ 20, new Android phone takes the worry out of choosing the ideal phone for kids and parents alike OVERLAND PARK, Kan. and RICHARDSON, Texas — March 9, 2012 — Recognizing the importance of providing a wide variety of devices to fit the needs of families with children, Sprint (NYSE: S), and ZTE Corporation («ZTE») today announced the upcoming availability of ZTE FuryTM, a family - friendly Android - powered device that doesn't skimp on features and comes matched with the only truly unlimited data pricing plans on all phones from a national wireless carrier.

No word on North American or European sales at this stage, though European carrier Orange is expected to begin selling a Medfield phone of its own in the near future.

Yonhap news says that Korea's three largest carriers distributed only 180,000 GS9 phones, while at the same time last year these three companies distributed 260,00 GS8 phones.

The Galaxy Tab from Samsung, which runs Froyo and was warmly received at IFA, is a bit larger at 7 inches, but also allows phone calls and will be available through carriers.

First global 3G phone from a US carrier (Verizon's / Sprint's EVDO is 3G, but not GSM 3G), fastest 3G network in America (operating at full capacity and, more importantly, when you can get a signal, which is rare with at & t) and «hands down the best international coverage of any carrier» (I particularly love this wording because of the recent JD Power rankings which raped at & t on national call quality).

The other Windows Phone 8 was launched by Verizon, HTC Windows Phone 8X is now available for $ 199.99 at carrier's online stores and in retail stores.

Although nothing is solid at the moment, there are great chances that the HTC Hero will finally make its way to AT&T's offering at the beginning of the next year, since the carrier will soon remain the only large wireless service provider in the US without an Android phone in its lineup.

Verizon Wireless still offers the DROID BIONIC for $ 299.99 with a new two - year contract and, even at that price, we called it «one of the best phones the nation's top carrier has ever carried.»

Damn, I'm pissed enough at TMobile that the first cut rate carrier that offers an Android based phone will get my business.

«AT&T offers our customers the broadest Windows Phone portfolio of any carrier, with three 4G LTE Windows Phones — the only 4G LTE Windows Phones in the U.S. — now at a variety of price points and form factors,» AT&T SVP of devices Jeff Bradley said.

At Mobile World Congress they are showing the new FON router that will be used by 3G carriers to give to consumers and upgrade the software functionality of smart phones to be...