Google announced it will be extending carrier billing services to include all types of content on Google Play. Carrier billing is a “convenient” way to charge digital content directly to your carrier phone bill versus having to use a credit card or separate payment method. While it can be seen as more convenient, it’s also a dangerous road to go down. Our phone bills are already mini-car payments and adding digital content purchases to it can result in astronomical monthly bills.
Yesterday saw quite a few device launches, but for Sprint customers, only two really mattered. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the LG Viper 4G LTE made their debut on Sprint yesterday and while the Viper is a quality device at $100 less than the Galaxy Nexus, it was the Nexus and its Ice Cream Sandwich that had Sprint customers clamoring.
Starting tonight and running until April 30, Amazon Wireless will be offering all Sprint 4G phones for a penny. Yep, those things you throw in water fountains or put in your loafers can score you a brand new 4G Android phone from Sprint. While they say “all Sprint 4G phones,” I didn’t see the Galaxy Nexus or LG Viper 4G LTE listed, so perhaps LTE devices aren’t included in this sale (bummer).
While we wait for Sprint to release their first ever duo of 4G LTE devices, Wirefly has gone ahead and offered them up for pre-order — and at a much lower cost too. Don’t let the fact that Sprint doesn’t yet have an LTE network up and running stop you from pre-ordering your Samsung Galaxy Nexus or LG Viper 4G LTE. Wirefly is now offering the Sprint Galaxy Nexus for $149.99 — that’s $50 dollars cheaper than what Sprint’s asking for. If that’s still too expensive for your blood, you can always pick up the LG Viper 4G LTE from Wirefly for a measly $19.99. While you most likely won’t be using the LTE, we’re sure you’ll have no problem finding a use for these two quad-core, 4″+ display, NFC packing devices.
Just about every major carrier seems to boast the “fastest network speeds,” while bombarding us with acronyms like LTE and buzzwords such as “lightning fast.” When it’s all said and done, we’re left confused and none the closer to the truth of which network actually has the fastest speeds. So how do we find out the truth? Well, it’s not as simple as we’d like it to be and there are near infinite variables to the equation, but one way to get a general idea of how fast a network’s speeds will be in a real-world environment is to test them out.
