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Only recently Nokia revealed that it is going to conduct an event on October 22nd. The company is expected to unveil as many as six new devices at that event, one of those devices is said to be a Windows Phone 8 powered phablet called Nokia Lumia 1520. Both AT&T and Verizon are rumored to carry it when it launches. An alleged press rendering of the Verizon Nokia Lumia 929, that’s what the phablet is believed to be called on the Big Red, has already been leaked. According to a new rumor, it is possible that the Verizon variant might launch on November 6th.

It is also said that Verizon will only offer the Lumia 929 in black and white, when the device becomes available in its retail stores on November 6th. This is a move away from tradition for Nokia which has offered its Lumia devices in a wide variety of colors. A major difference between the Lumia 929 and Lumia 1520 is said to be the display size, Verizon’s variant is said to have a 5 inch full HD 1080p display as opposed to the 6 inch display the AT&T and international/unbranded version will have. Other specifications are said to remain the same, such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor. Verizon will reportedly sell the Lumia 929 for $499.99 up front, without a two year contract.

Verizon Nokia Lumia 929 Reportedly Launching On November 6th original content from Ubergizmo.

Apparently, now is the time to upgrade your Verizon phone if you want to keep your grandfathered unlimited data plan in tact. According to tips we’ve received, along with reports from Droid-Life and Android Central, the aforementioned type of users are not being forced into a tiered Max data plan during the upgrade process. There doesn’t seem to be any bit of trickery required to make it happen either — folks just go through usual upgrade motions to get a brand new phone on subsidy, and come out with an order confirmation that has all-you-can-eat data still onboard (see above). We’ve reached out to Verizon to find out whether this is an issue with its website or a shift in policy, and will post an update if we hear more. Let us know your results if you’re brave enough to try it out.

[Thanks to Minji and everyone who sent this in.]

Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Verizon

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We have to hand it to Nokia: the company faces an acquisition by Microsoft in the very near future, but it’s still got a few tricks up its sleeves. The FCC just approved a mystery device known as the RX-114, and Nokia’s team did an incredible job of dressing up the paperwork so as to hide all clues of what it really was — that is, right up until the last page of a 167-page document full of bland measurements and technical graphs. What you see above is official confirmation that Nokia is indeed working on a tablet, complete with diagrams of the device along with specific references to its slate-like state. (Forgive the fuzzy print; the diagrams are pretty small, so we enlarged them.)

What else do we know? The docs confirm that the tablet features LTE with support for bands 2, 4, 5, 13 and 17, along with a full suite of HSPA+ and GSM / EDGE. This means that regardless of which carrier actually picks up this particular device (frequency support doesn’t guarantee carrier coverage, and no networks have confirmed that they’ll be selling it), it technically will work on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. Of course, we’ve already seen purported leaks that show the Windows RT device with Big Red branding, so it’s not a far stretch to believe this is still in the works for one or more US providers. We’ll continue to parse through the paperwork for other cleverly hidden clues, but this at least confirms what we already suspected — and if we had to guess, we have a strong suspicion that we’ll be seeing this beaut in the flesh at Nokia World in Abu Dhabi on October 22nd.

Filed under: Tablets, Wireless, Microsoft, Nokia, Verizon

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Source: FCC

The BlackBerry Z30 phablet was announced not too long ago and we know that the handset will be making its way onto Verizon at an undisclosed time and price. Well hopefully it won’t be too long before an official release date and pricing will be revealed, but in the meantime thanks to a leaked photo, a photo of the Verizon BlackBerry Z30 has been caught in the wild and we’re hoping that this translates into an official announcement in the near future.

For those who missed out on the news, the BlackBerry Z30 will be BlackBerry’s latest handset. It will sport a 5” Super AMOLED HD display, a quad-core chipset clocked at 1.7GHz, BlackBerry Natural Sound to help boost audio quality, a 2,880mAh battery which should allow it to last a decent amount of time, and of course will come with BlackBerry 10 running the show, although we’re not sure if it will come with the latest BlackBerry 10 update or the current version which is running on available BlackBerry 10 devices. Last we heard Verizon could be getting an exclusive version as well in white, and in the photo above, the sides appear to be white, but it’s either that or the lighting that gives off that effect.

BlackBerry Z30 For Verizon Caught In The Wild original content from Ubergizmo.

Verizon Wireless, along with Novatel Wireless have announced the immediate availability of the 4G LTE Broadband Router with Voice. Similar to older model LTE routers, this one will allow the user to share Verizon LTE connectivity throughout their home. This router, as the name implies, brings the additional voice support. And in this case, Verizon […]