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Today’s Your Last Chance to Utilize Verizon’s Free 5G Phone Upgrade

Tim July 21, 2021 15

For the past month and a half, Verizon has been running a campaign to get more and more people onto its 5G network and an Unlimited plan. To do this, it's been handing out free phones left and right, though, they're free in the sense that the carrier is...

Tip: Turn Off RCS “Chat” When You Switch Phones or Else…

Kellen July 20, 2021 32

Now that Verizon has committed to RCS with Google, the three major US carriers are all onboard. RCS is here (unlike 5G) and will be a big part of your messaging experience going forward, assuming you have an Android phone. And while RCS is great and a big...

Verizon Joins AT&T, T-Mobile in Switching to Google Messages and RCS

Kellen July 20, 2021 48

Google has done it. It might have taken more years than any of us predicted, but here we are. Google won the RCS battle in the US. All three big US carriers have now announced that they will pre-load Google Messages on their Android phones and use Google's RCS...

Is Truly Unlimited Data With No Throttling a Thing You Want?

Kellen July 19, 2021 67

When 4G LTE arrived, US carriers realized that data was the new way for them to milk customers out of extra cash. That led to the end of truly unlimited data plans and the introduction of tiered data, where you paid by the GB. Once they built those networks...

Samsung July Updates: Galaxy Note 20, Galaxy Note 9 Grab the New Patch (Updated)

Kellen July 16, 2021 4

Another day, another batch of updates are headed to Samsung's best phones, and not just the new ones. Today, we've got updates for both the Galaxy Note 20 line and the quite-old Galaxy Note 9. We keep mentioning this, but this is once again the July Android...

Who Has the Best Unlimited Plan: Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile?

Kellen July 13, 2021 62

There has been a good amount of talk around here lately involving unlimited data plans from the top US carriers. I recently shared my move to one of Verizon's newish unlimited plans, plus AT&T just announced a handful of important upgrades to its best...

Verizon Home Internet Gets Big Expansion, Fancy New Router

Kellen July 12, 2021 15

Verizon announced a big expansion of its home internet service today in both the 4G LTE and 5G varieties. In addition to the larger footprint and availability, a new router will also soon be able to take advantage of all that C-Band spectrum they bought...

Verizon’s New Spam Call Filter is Your New Best Friend

Kellen July 12, 2021 17

In recent years, as the number of spam and robocalls have flooded my phone lines, I started to notice a pattern. Many of them showed up with an area code and middle 3-digits that matched my own phone number. It was obvious that this was a trick to get you...