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Samsung squashes hopes of Galaxy S III debuting at March 22 event
Contrary to the wishful thinking of many, Samsung confirmed it will not introduce the Galaxy S III smartphone at its March 22nd event in France. The vendor announced plans to hold a special event yesterday and it immediately sparked rumors for an unveiling of the Galaxy S II successor. Instead, a spokesperson for Samsung told The Next Web that the event will just be a regular day of talking about the company’s current line of products. How fun. Last week, Samsung also shot down rumors of a Galaxy S III debut … Read more
George Tinari
How to solve the spectrum crisis? Get rid of some carriers
We keep on hearing about this looming spectrum crisis and if you ask the carriers, the answer if for the government to make more spectrum available. But what if the real solution is to reduce the amount of carriers? A study from The Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies (got all that?) finds that reducing the number of mobile carriers would help ease the strain on wireless spectrum. The outcome specifically concludes that when there’s less competition among carriers, prices drop and thereby allow for more … Read more
George Tinari
BlackBerry App World more profitable than Android
Today at BlackBerry’s DevCon Europe event, executives from Research in Motion got to the chance to spin the company’s current state. According to Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, the Canadian phone maker is grabbing six million daily downloads from the BB App World, totalling 174m per month, for an overall tally of over two billion. This wasn’t the comment that grabbed the most attention, instead, it was the company’s assertion that its apps were profitable. More profitable than Android, even. Saunders claims BB’s App World generates 43 percent more daily downloads … Read more
Charles West
Sprint’s releases its plan to phase out IDEN
Sprint is finally beginning to phase out its less attractive half, Nextel, as the company enters the first stage of transitioning customers off its iDEN cell towers. The Now Network put up a site that maps out where and when towers are being shut down. So for instance, if you live in my area of Hartford, CT, reduction is planned in late May of this year. This is something we’ve known since late 2011, and it’s an important part to Sprint’s “Network Vision.” The third largest wireless provider plans to shut … Read more
Charles West
Samsung used low-cost LTE chip in the Galaxy Nexus
Samsung in an Apple-like way has cut its cost for components, with the installation of a cheaper LTE baseband chip that went into the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. This dirty little secret was exposed when the wildly popular phone was stripped down to its innards, revealing the newer chip. The new chip has the same high-speed data performance as the older version. Now what’s the big deal, you ask? Well, the newer LTE chip inside the Galaxy Nexus is substantially cheaper than the previous version, as the latest model is estimated to cost half as … Read more
Charles West
Google releases Chrome Beta for Android
While we assumed it would be out some day, Google has officially released its Chrome browser for Android. While still in beta (surprised?), Chrome for Android brings some great features to the table and we’ll likely never look at another mobile browser again if it keeps it up. As you’d expect, the browser is hardly perfect but Google has added some truly nice features and implements some interesting takes on simple tasks you’d find on any browser of its kind. First off, much like the desktop version, Chrome for Android … Read more
Blake Stimac
Norton Safety Minder for Android keeps kids safe, monitored
Norton is out with a new mobile app for Android smartphones – Norton Safety Minder, allowing parents to keep track of what their kids are doing on their mobile phones through Norton Online Family. Although the application itself is free to download, Norton Online Family does come with a price tag, offering such benefits to the Norton Safety Minder users as: Ability to track who kids have been exchanging text and MMS messages with and check their contact lists. White and black list creation tool with approved and not-approved friends, … Read more
Dusan Belic
Droid RAZR MAXX temporarily out of stock on Verizon’s website
The DROID RAZR MAXX is obviously selling like hot cupcakes these days with Verizon Wireless at one point listing the popular devices as out of stock (along with the LG Revolution and Motorola DROID X2). However, the carrier and Motorola must’ve been working round the clock to fix this “injustice” and now the DROID RAZR MAXX is back with a small label that says “Will ship by 2/9.” That’s two days from now, so if you want the thicker version of the RAZR (with bigger 3300 mAh battery), you may … Read more
Dusan Belic
Sprint’s ZTE Optik 7-inch tablet now available for $99.99
Sprint’s affordable 7-inch tablet, ZTE Optik, is now available for $99.99. The device is pretty capable, delivering quite a bang for the buck. It comes with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 2-megapixel front-facing one, 3G (EV-DO Rev. A) and Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS, Bluetooth, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, while Android 3.2 Honeycomb is running the show. Don’t want another two-year contract? Sprint lists the Optik with the regular price of $350, though you can’t seem to buy it without committing to the carrier’s plan. Guess they … Read more
Dusan Belic
Big Bluetooth speaker Jawbone BIG JAMBOX coming soon
Like Jawbone’s JAMBOX Bluetooth speaker? If you’re not carrying it around that often, you may like the soon-to-be-announced BIG JAMBOX even more. As you can imagine from its name, the new speaker will deliver all of the benefits its smaller brother does (wireless music streaming) in a bigger package that is able to “fill up any room with unbelievable sound.” This speaker already got FCC’s seal of approval, so I guess now it’s all about the timing, to unveil the new device at a proper time. To that end, it’s … Read more
Dusan Belic
Gameloft LIVE! keeps gamers connected with avatars, allows them to earn virtual currency
Third-party social networks for games are cool, but big publishers want to control the end-user experience more closely. To that end Gameloft launched the Gameloft LIVE! app for Android, allowing players to keep up with their friends across a number of Gameloft titles. Here’s what you can do with the free to download application: Stay in touch with your friends – invite them to games, send messages and chat in real time. Create your avatar and hub just for you. Build your gamer score and earn XP and virtual Gameloft … Read more