Refresh Roundup: week of January 23, 2012

Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging to get updated. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it’s easy for …

Verizon to sell $200 Droid RAZR, 16GB microSD card not included this time

The question of the day: is a 16GB microSD card worth $100? Verizon Wireless said it will sell the Droid RAZR for $200 with a two-year contract — a $100 discount off the original price, but one that forces you to give up that complimentary 16GB micro…

Verizon confirms latest LTE outage restored, again claims 3G operated normally

Verizon Wireless appears to be standing behind its claims of operating “the nation’s largest, most reliable 3G network and the nation’s largest 4G LTE network,” following this month’s latest nationwide data outage. A Verizon spokesperson wrote in to…

Justice Department antitrust division probing Verizon cable spectrum deals

Looks like AT&T isn’t the only major carrier having issues with the guv’ment lately. Remember that 20MHz AWS spectrum that Verizon got from Cox Communications for a cool $315 million this month? How’s about that juicy spectrum Big Red scored from C…