Sprint Announces New "iPhone Forever" Plan to Always Keep You Up to Date
In the never ending parade of changes to cell phone carrier plans, Sprint has announced a new plan aimed at ensuring you always have the latest phone. Provided that phone is an iPhone, that is. The new plan, from the America's fourth largest carrier, allows customers to pay $22 a month to always guarantee a new iPhone. This is on top of the normal $60 individual plan, for a total of $82/month. Once you’re on this plan, if you have an older iPhone and want a newer one, you just walk into the store and get one. Right now, Sprint is also running a promotion that allows customers to trade-in any smartphone and get on the plan for $15/month. This promotion ends in December. After that, you’ll keep the $15/month plan price until you upgrade to a new iPhone again. This plan is technically a lease, much like T-Mobile’s three-upgrade-per-year plan that was announced in June. That means you’ll never technically own any of the iPhones you get from Sprint—and presumably will have to pay for if you break them—but you will be guaranteed a fresh device every time Apple has one available.
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ASUS’ higher end ZenPad S 8.0 model is finally here
If you've been waiting for ASUS to finally show its hand in the premium Android tablet market, then wait no more. After what might have felt like an eternity for ASUS fans and interested buyers, the manufacturer has finally launched the highest end ZenPad S 8.0 model, specifically the Z580CA. This handy 7.9-inch slate bears what is probably the best of the best components in a tablet this size, perhaps with the exception of the cameras, and has some pretty interesting accessories to match as well. To give a little recap, in June ASUS announced a new line of tablets, the ZenPad family, that covered a range of sizes and specs. At the top of this list was the ASUS ZenPad S 8.0, which, among other things, sported a 7.9-inch display with a commendable 2048x1536 QXGA resolution and a 64-bit quad-core Intel Atom chip. Last month, the tablet appeared on Best Buy but, alas, it was a slightly lower variant of the ZenPad S 8.0, the Z580C, with half the memory capacity and a slightly slower CPU. Now the real flagship tablet is hitting stores. The ZenPad S 8.0 Z580CA boasts of that same resolution, a fast 2.3 GHz quad-core Intel Atom Z3580, and a whopping 4 GB of RAM. Storage is only 64 GB, which is high as far as Android tablets go, but it can be supplemented by a microSD card up to 128 GB in size. The rear camera is an 8 megapixel shooter, though the front 5 megapixel camera might appeal to selfie fans. More than just the specs, ASUS is advertising the ZenPad S' premium look and feel that supposedly takes its inspiration from the fashion world, with a diamond hairline pattern on the back to complement the metallic finish. The tablet is also only 6.6 mm thick and 298 g light, making it very portable and easy to carry around. The tablet is also compatible with ASUS' Z Stylus, a pressure sensitive input tool that fans of the Samsung Galaxy Note line will be familiar with. All of this comes at a less than flagship price of $299
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FCC says Dish Network Corp can’t use $3.3 Billion credit in airwaves auction
The Federal Communications Commission says Dish Network Corp. can’t apply $3.3 billion in small-business credits toward the purchase of airwaves it gained in a government auction. The government sells spectrum to carriers like AT&T and Verizon so they can add more capacity for wireless Internet. Dish is a satellite TV company that has stocked up on airwaves although it has no cellphone business. In the latest auction that ended in January, Dish won $13.3 billion worth of spectrum through two small companies it invested in. The small-business credit saved it $3.3 billion. The FCC said Monday the two companies aren’t eligible for credit. That means they are on the hook for the rest of the money. They can also appeal.
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