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Breaking news from the Wall Street Journal who is reporting that Verizon Wireless has offically reversed its plans to charge customers a $ 2 convenience to pay bills online. This news comes right after the FCC announced they would be investigating the matter. Verizon Wireless CEO Dan Mead said in an official statement, "At Verizon, [...]

Some evidence has cropped up showing that the Samsung DROID Charge Verizon’s first Samsung LTE phone, will be getting an upgrade to Android 2.3 this Tuesday, November 29th. Alongside the gingery features we know Gingerbread brings, we’re also expected to see the following changes, improvements and additions: Updated Download Manager app – from where you [...]

Verizon has a couple of updates queued up as we head into the Thanksgiving holiday. Both the HTC Rhyme and Samsung DROID Charge are in line for updates, as revealed by recent changelog postings to Verizon’s support site. For the Rhyme, an 8.89MB update moves the handset’s softwrae to build number 1.26.605.11, which brings several [...]

Following a leak of Android 2.3.4 for the Samsung DROID Charge earlier in the month, an even newer build known as EP1H has been uncovered and made available to all courtesy of p3droid. The leak is most likely not the final software build, though initial reports are that the update feels fairly polished. There is [...]

Sprint’s Fared Adib is the go-to-guy on Sprint leading the charge of making pre-installed carrer apps removable by the user. Speaking with Engadet at a Sprint campus walkthrough, he stated that it’s his mission to not only make these apps removable by the user but minamalize the ammount of carrier bloatware that goes into a [...]

I posted an article a few weeks back talking about Verizon’s plans to increase the regulatory charges for all current customers. While it was only a paltry $ .03 cents, TheConsumerist was letting people know that an increase in charges (no matter how small) after someone had signed a contract was considered “material adverse” thus [...]

The guys at Teamblackhat are at it again. This time they’ve managed to get their hands on an unofficial leaked version of Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread for the Samsung DROID Charge The process seems a long and arduous requiring the user to downgrade firmwares and have extensive knowledge when it comes to flashing (and using Odin) [...]

All you DROID Charge owners out there should be looking forward to an update soon as Verizon has just given the green light for its distribution. Build EE4 is not the biggest update at 9.9MB, but it brings with it some important enhancements. The most notable of which is improved 3G and 4G data connectivity. [...]

Evening, ladies and gents. We have a pretty good Android Overload for you here tonight. Couldn’t squeeze all this Android goodness onto our front page so these are the things that leaked out. Tonights roundup full of deals, contests and the all too common, ghetto tablets. Enjoy! Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 keyboard dock gets caught [...]

Looking to make it up to customers affected the 4G outages a couple of weeks ago, Verizon is extending their free mobile hotspot program until June 15th. It was mainly a friendly gesture toward DROID Charge users who were unable to try out mobile hotspot features because, well, the phone wasn’t out. (It’s out now, [...]