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MetroPCS has put into effect a price hike on its top-tier data plan. A plan that once costed $60 per month to receive unlimited calling, texting, data including 4G LTE, email and either MetroStudio on-demand video or Rhapsody now costs $70 but it throws both the MetroStudio and Rhapsody music. Considering all you get, it’s still…
Perhaps you can recall the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablet line that the aforementioned vendor announced in February and promised to ship in March. Today is April 3rd. Still no Galaxy Tab 2. Samsung finally confirmed today the tablet will be delayed all the way until the end of April, but it is still…
Shazam is out with what is self-described as a “major update” to the app, version 5.0. It delivers a groundbreaking new feature thanks to rewritten software that enables users to tag audio and Shazam will identify it within a single second. Now, you can launch the Shazam app, put your phone up to a speaker…
While most of you may be waiting on the upcoming HTC One X and Galaxy Nexus for Sprint, we just got word about the carrier’s other LTE-enabled handset, the LG Viper 4G LTE. If you’re not looking to shell out the big bucks for a new smartphone on Sprint but want all of that LTE…
Render me this, render me that, is this a Nexus tablet, or are we full of crap? Honestly, we can’t answer that one, as the render above looks like any other Android tablet we’ve seen before. While we do know the tablet is very real, we still can’t say for sure that we know anything…
Android Ice Cream Sandwich has been out for more than four months now but it’s still only on 2.9 percent of Android devices out there, according to stats from Google. Android 4.0 adds a lot of features but it also changes a lot of the user interface elements, which can make it difficult for handset…
Photo filter and sharing-service Instagram, which has amassed over 30 million iOS users to date, has officially released the Android version of Instagram onto Google’s Play Store. Users of Android can now apply retro hipster filters to their pictures and share these images to various social networks. While there have certainly been multiple Instagram-like services…
Motorola’s RAZR Maxx, affectionally known as the Droid RAZR Maxx in the United States, is arguably the company’s flagship device. It has a dual core 1.2 GHz Texas Instruments processor, 4.3 inch AMOLED screen (which sadly only does 540 x 960 pixels), 1 GB of RAM, and an 8 megapixel camera. What separates the Maxx…
We’re quickly approaching Google Wallet’s 1 year birthday. Announced on May 26, 2011, Google hasn’t exactly accomplished their goal of replacing the various plastic cards you carry with you on a daily basis. Why? At the end of the day it comes down to politics. Who establishes the relationship with the consumer, who gets to…
Samsung’s known for their smartphones and televisions, but did you know that they’re also one of the largest producers of memory and microprocessors? Last summer there was a piece in The Economist that highlighted the fact that 26% of the bill of materials of the iPhone goes straight into Samsung’s pocket. The screen, the RAM,…