The Cell Phone Junkie

RootMetrics scores the US carriers, WhatsApp starts sharing data with Facebook, and Google’s WiFi assistant comes to the Nexus line.

Android and iOS devices top 99% of worldwide market share, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint dramatically revamp their data plans, and Google releases Duo. 

Sprint reaches nearly 300Mbps with 3-channel carrier aggregation, nearly a billion Android devices could be effected by a recently discovered security vulnerability, and what happens when wireless radios start to wear out.

Samsung announces the new Note, Google starts work on a standard password manager, and there might be hope for blocking unknown callers.

Verizon buys Yahoo, quarterly earnings reports roll in, and Google builds in spam blocking to the Android phone app on Nexus devices.