The demand for 4G LTE connectivity has never been greater, and companies are pulling out all the stops in an effort to try to fulfil the high demand. Yesterday, Sprint announced that it has turned on high-speed 4G LTE data in an additional 34 locations. Giving Sprint a total of 185 markets nationwide in which it offers its 4G services.
T-Mobile has officially announced that it will begin accepting pre-orders for Samsung’s much-anticipated flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note III, starting tomorrow, Wednesday, September 18. The Note III was announced just three weeks ago, and will be available to purchase with a down payment of $199.99 on any of T-Mobile’s Simple Choice plans.
Samsung’s latest handset, the mammoth 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega, has been available in both Europe and Asia for the past couple of months now, and it recently launched in the U.S. on AT&T. And now, U.S. Cellular has announced that it will start selling the Mega 6.3, as from today.
Mobile start-up Bump just announced that it has been acquired by Google in a blog post on Monday.
The company was founded in 2008, making a name for itself on the hot technology of bumping phones together to share contact data. The app has been downloaded over 100 million times, and continues to get updates. The same team released a fairly popular photo-sharing app called Flock last year, as well.
The acquisition was reported on AllThingsD as netting the company somewhere between $30 and $60 million.
Ever since Ice Cream Sandwich was released, beautifully designed apps started making their on the Play Store. Now, it has become a norm, rather than an exception to find beautifully designed apps and widgets on the Play Store. However, even with so many agenda widgets available on the Play Store, I have never been able to find one that looked as good as the stock HTC Sense calendar widget.
