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Sprint is currently issuing out a minor over-the-air (OTA) update to the phone with perhaps the longest name in history, the Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch. The OTA update, also known by its technical name of software build D710.10S.FH13, is supposed to address one simple thing: battery life enhancement. Battery life is easily…
Samsung will soon release a new smartphone onto the US Cellular carrier. The Galaxy Metrix 4G will debut this Friday, August 24th as a typical mid-range Android smartphone with LTE and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. There’s nothing particularly exciting about it. It does have the aforementioned physical keyboard for folks who are still adamantly…
Yesterday, news broke that the fourth largest carrier in the U.S. were misleading folks about its latest myTouch brand of phones. The word came from Consumer Reports, when the agency discovered the rear facing cameras on the myTouch and myTouch Q devices were being misrepresented as carrying 5 megapixels. In fact, the handsets were found…
HTC announced today that for the first time, it will sell a smartphone on regional carrier Cricket Wireless. The handset of choice is the HTC One V, part of HTC’s One series, and it will be available starting September 2, 2012. The HTC One V has a 3.7-inch super LCD screen with an 800×480 pixel…
With the Optimus 4XHD still one of our favorite Android handsets around right now, LG looks to be readying another incredibly powerful handset in the near future. Said phone would be the Optimus G, and while we only have a few base specs of the rumored device, that’s all we need to get excited for it.…
Spotify, the wildly popular music streaming application, may be headed to our neighbors up in Canada, according to a report. The publication who broke the story, The Wall Street Journal, claims to have gotten its hands on a filing made by Spotify Technologies, which shows the company’s intentions of launching in Canada. As of late,…
Facing stiff criticism over its decision to limit FaceTime over 3G/4G to Mobile Share customers, AT&T took to its Public Policy Blog to defend the decision this morning. AT&T’s Senior Vice President-Federal Regulatory and Chief Privacy Officer Bob Quinn published a post this morning in response to claims that AT&T’s decision violated the FCC’s net…
Last week we learned of Motorola officially filing a suit against Apple for patent infringement. Though, at the time, we had no idea what the claims were. Now details have surfaced from the ITC on each of the patents the Google subsidiary owned company is going after Apple on, which is information that has been…
Yesterday evening Square suffered an hour long outage, which caused some payments from going through. Not only did the company’s mobile application get hit with the outage, but so did its site Squareup.com. This news comes after the company recently struck up a partnership with coffee giant Starbucks. The Next Web reached out to Square…
On September 5th, Nokia will be unveiling its next generation of Windows Phone, running on the upcoming Windows Phone 8 platform. Several carriers have expressed interest in Windows Phone as a platform alternative to Android and iOS, but to date no carriers have announced plans to carry Windows Phone 8 devices. A Bloomberg report this morning…