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Data Plans Clarification from Verizon Highlight Issues in Wireless Today

Data Plans Clarification from Verizon Highlight Issues in Wireless Today

Yesterday had quite it’s fair share of drama as Verizon dropped a proverbial bomb on its customers when it was let slip that Verizon’s customers were going to be forced into tiered data at some point, even if you are grandfathered in with unlimited data. Speaking at the 40th annual J.P. Morgan Technology, [...]

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HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE Stopped From Entering the US Due to Apple Patent

HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE Stopped From Entering the US Due to Apple Patent

Breaking News, EVO 4G LTE, Featured, HTC Devices, News, One X Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 8:58 pm 1 comment

Apple’s patent infringement has become very real, as reports from the Verge indicate that HTC’s sexy One X and Evo 4G LTE are being held up at the border while customs investigates claim that Android’s messaging and browser violate Apple patent #5,946,647. The patent has to do with phone numbers that are [...]

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Sprint Rumored to Lose 14 Day Early Upgrade

Sprint Rumored to Lose 14 Day Early Upgrade

Carriers, Sprint Nextel Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 8:43 pm 0 comments

Seems like the belt tightening that is prevalent across the carriers in the US is striking again. Sprint customers looking to upgrade are currently able to get that upgrade up to 14 days early. Seems like this little lagniappe is going away June 1st, according to an article over at technobuffalo. So [...]

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Samsung Galaxy 3 Official Commercial

Samsung Galaxy 3 Official Commercial

Android Smartphones, Galaxy S III, Samsung Devices Monday, May 14, 2012 at 7:09 pm 0 comments

Did you miss the circus official Samsung Galaxy 3 event in London? Our Dave Thornton traveled there and live blogged the event. To put it lightly, it was…odd. To view a condensed version of this event, tune into the official commercial.   Source: Android Central

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Kyocera’s Rise and Hydro Handsets

Kyocera’s Rise and Hydro Handsets

Hands On, Reviews, Uncategorized Monday, May 14, 2012 at 6:56 pm 0 comments

There wasn’t a lot of hardware to show off at CTIA last week, but Kyocera was there with a display that included two ICS phones. The rep was quick to point out the main features, a waterproof enclosure and a qwerty slider, but not so forthcoming with any details as [...]

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Droid Rzr Maxx Price Drop

Droid Rzr Maxx Price Drop

Carriers, Motorola Devices, RAZR, Verizon Wireless Monday, May 14, 2012 at 10:43 am 0 comments

Looks like the Droid RAZR MAXX, Veirzon’s 3300 mAh monster of a phone is getting a price drop. Prices online for the 1.2 ghz dual core, LTE phone are running $199 on contract. It is a great price for a top of the line phone, but Verizon doesn’t ever seem [...]

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Are Smartphone Cameras Ready to Replace Regular Cameras?

Are Smartphone Cameras Ready to Replace Regular Cameras?

Android General, Android OS, AT&T, Carriers, Featured, Fun, HTC Devices, One X Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 9:58 pm 7 comments

  After spending some time with the camera on the HTC One X, I have to say that it is a huge improvement over every camera that I have ever used on a smartphone, and a tremendous step forward from the 5 MP shooter in the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Over [...]

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Verizon Shows off DNA Wall at CTIA

Verizon Shows off DNA Wall at CTIA

Android General Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 12:47 pm 1 comment

While news from Verizon Wireless wasn’t much to write about at this year’s CTIA show in New Orleans, they did have a couple of tech demonstrations that were pretty impressive. One of the demos was a huge wall that responded to touch. The DNA Wall is nine panels fused together [...]

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CTIA 2012 Wrapup

CTIA 2012 Wrapup

Android General, CTIA 2012 Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 12:09 pm 1 comment

Well, it has been a wild couple of day at CTIA, and as things come to a close here, we have to look back at all the news that came out of this action-packed event. Here’s a rundown of what was new at CTIA 2012: Verizon showed the world the [...]

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LG Optimus 4X HD

LG Optimus 4X HD

The LG Optimus 4X HD is the sexy in the LG line. It is sporting Tegra 3, four plus one core phone. This is one heck of a phone, and it has an eco boost mode that can scale the 4 cores down and run on a low wattage core [...]

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