We knew it was in the works, but today Sprint has officially confirmed that the iPhone 4 and 4S will indeed be landing on Virgin Mobile on June 29th, making Virgin Mobile the second prepaid carrier to offer the iPhone. Cricket Wireless, a subsidiary of Leap Wireless, announced earlier this month that they would carry…
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Video: So how much slower is Windows Phone Tango compared to Mango?
Anton Nagy from Pocketnow has produced an incredibly informative 18 minute video where he pits Nokia’s new Lumia 610 against the year and a half old LG Optimus 7. The Lumia 610 is the first device on the market to run Windows Phone Tango, which is a version of Windows Phone that supports devices with…
Rumor: HTC One V to land on Virgin Mobile later this month for $200
Announced back in February at Mobile World Congress, HTC’s One V is a “low end” Android 4.0 smartphone with a single core processor that’s targeted at people who want something that’s affordable, yet not a piece of junk. It’s already out in the UK and if you want it it’ll run you roughly $385. That’s…
Sprint finally stops selling iDEN devices
Sprint, like every other operator around the world, owns a finite amount of spectrum. Some of that spectrum is currently being used for iDEN, which was briefly popular several years ago because it came with a “walkie-talkie” feature that annoying assholes loved to use so everyone could hear their conversations. Now that practically no one…
Samsung Galaxy S III launching on all 3 major carriers in China on June 9th
Samsung is eager to repeat the success it had with the previous Galaxy S smartphone and is therefore cornering mobile operators all around the world as we speak. Parts of Europe already got the Galaxy S III, while the U.S. citizens will get it later this month with 5 major carriers — including Verizon Wireless,…
Video: Intel demos a laptop charging a smartphone wirelessly
Computex is taking place in Taiwan right now and it’s the mother of all trade shows when it comes to the PC industry. Intel, whose chips power four out of five personal computers, was at the event demoing several of their latest technologies, but one thing that caught our eye was their wireless charging enabled…
ASUS has a docking monitor for the Padfone!
ASUS is showing off a docking monitor for the Padfone, allowing users to place their smartphone-turned-tablet into a dedicated place and access all of the apps on a big screen. The way I see it – that’s what the future holds, with majority of Office folks using their computers this way. After all, today’s smartphones…
Acer showing off sub-$200 7-inch quad-core tablet at Computex Taipei
Android tablets are getting better and cheaper with the day. We’ve been telling you that Google and Asus may team-up on the first Nexus tablet, offering a 7-inch device for less than $200. And now we have Acer joining the low-cost tablet party. At Computex Taipei, the Taiwanese company is showing off a sub-$200 7-inch…
Over 1,000 Foxconn employees stage a riot in Chengdu, China
Chances are you own something that was made by Foxconn. The Chinese company is famous for making Apple products, but it should be noted that they also have many additional customers, including Nintendo. The way Foxconn operates is by building what’s effectively a small city around an incredibly large factory. This city has apartments, cafeterias,…
Angry Birds Space downloaded 100 million times in just 76 days
Rovio, the Finnish company that brought you Angry Birds, has just tweeted that their latest space themed title has been downloaded over 100 million times. According to The Next Web, that milestone was achieved in just 76 days. Our back of the envelope calculations say that’s an average of 1.32 million downloads per day, which…









