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AT&T vs Verizon vs Sprint: Which iPad carrier should you choose?

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Oct 25, 2012 a 6:28 pm

If you're in the U.S. it's probably not so easy deciding which carrier is best for your iPad or iPad mini needs, AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint. Price is always a huge factor to consider when choosing a carrier, but coverage should be just as, if not more, important when making a decision. Since the iPad and iPad mini support LTE cellular technology, you're going to want to take a close look at which carriers offer the best LTE coverage in your area.

Is your Verizon or Sprint iPhone 5 displaying the wrong date and time?

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 a 11:00 pm

We are receiving reports from Verizon iPhone 5 users that their iPhones are randomly displaying the incorrect date and time causing iMessage to fail, and even worse, alarms not going off in time to wake up for work. There is a thread in the Apple Support Community with many users, including a few Sprint users, reporting the same issue.

Verizon sells 3.1 million iPhones in Q3 2012

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 a 9:45 am

Verizon has reported that Q3 2012 results, including over 3.1 million iPhones sold, over a fifth of which were Apple's latest generation iPhone 5. That compares to 3.4 million Android phones. That's an interesting mix given the iPhone 5 launched less than a month ago, and iPhone sales in general were greatly reduced prior to that.

How to stop Verizon from anonymously tracking your iPhone usage

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 a 6:36 pm

Verizon collects a ton of usage and behavioral data on their customers, anonymizes it and then leverages it for marketing and partner programs. If you just signed up with Verizon, say to get a new iPhone 5, you have 30 days to opt-out of the data collection.

Verizon iPhone 5 carrier update looks to solve glitch which used cellular data even when connected to Wi-Fi

By chrisoldroyd, Monday, Oct 1, 2012 a 8:15 am

Apple has released a small update for Verizon iPhone 5 users after it was discovered that the iPhone 5 may be using cellular data even if the device is connected to a Wi-Fi network. The update started rolling out last night and was in response to a number of complaints from Verizon iPhone 5 users who noticed that their data allowances were shrinking even when using a Wi-Fi data connection.

The Verizon iPhone 5's SIM slot is unlocked, as it turns out

By Simon Sage, Friday, Sep 21, 2012 a 5:05 pm

Some preliminary tests are showing that users can pop an AT&T or T-Mobile SIM card into a Verizon-branded iPhone 5, and you can get HSPA+ service as normal (assuming, of course, the GSM SIM is active). This is great news for T-Mobile customers that worried about having to unlock the SIM slot on their shiny new iPhone 5, as well as frequent flyers that regularly swap out SIM cards for local service. You can always shave down your own nano SIM cards, though it's generally not recommended.

Verizon LTE network expansion goes live in many U.S. cities, more on the way

By Chris Parsons, Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 a 1:49 am

With the announcement of the iPhone 5 bringing LTE, we expected to hear a lot more about carriers rolling out or extending their LTE coverage and to no surprise, they've done just that. Verizon has announced plenty of new bring their claimed LTE coverage to 75% of the U.S. population.

AT&T clearly doesn't want to keep me as a customer

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Sep 13, 2012 a 6:31 pm

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Until now, AT&T has always made exceptions for early iPhone adopters by qualifying these customers for full upgrade prices before their contract technically allowed it. I took advantage of this when upgrading from the iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS, from iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4, and from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S. Not this year. Those glorious days are now over.

iPhone 5 reportedly does not support simultaneous voice and LTE data, or any at all on Verizon and Sprint

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Sep 13, 2012 a 6:00 pm

Yesterday after the Apple event, we received a tip saying the iPhone 5 wouldn't be able to do simultaneous voice and data over LTE, which mean Verizon and Sprint wouldn't be able to do voice and data at the same time at all, and AT&T and other GSM carriers would have to drop data down to HSPA in order to do it. It sounded strange to us, because almost every other LTE phone launched to date has been able to do simultaneous voice/data.

iPhone 5 splits into two models, one for US GSM+LTE, another for CDMA+LTE and everybody else

By Derek Kessler, Wednesday, Sep 12, 2012 a 7:45 pm

During today's iPhone 5 press event, they made a point of paying special attention to the new radio chip at use in the new smartphone. Like iPhones before it, the iPhone 5 uses a single chip to manage all of the various radios and bands it has to address in order to be used on networks around the globe. Problem is, throwing LTE into the mix makes things a little more complicated. LTE actually adds seven - yes, seven - new bands into the mix, nearly doubling the number of bands needed to be supported between the 4G standard, HSPA, GSM, and CDMA.