When the new iPad was officially unveiled to come to Verizon and AT&T’s LTE networks in the U.S., many were left wondering what this meant for Sprint, which is building out its own LTE network starting this year. As Sprint has a fairly expensive agreement with Apple to sell the company’s iPhones over the next…
Archives for 2012
iPad shipment dates now 2-3 weeks, demand “off the charts”
Demand for Apple’s new iPad is off the charts, according to a statement made to the USA Today by an Apple company spokesman. Apple has already blown through the preorder stock it set aside to be delivered on March 16th, and on Friday we reported that the shipping date had slipped to March 19th for…
Instagram for Android coming “very soon”, claims to be better than the iPhone app
Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram, announced something at SXSW yesterday that many of you guys have been waiting for since … hell, since the beginning of time. Instagram is finally coming to Android. When? There’s no exact date, all we know is that it’s going to be “very soon”. Here’s where things get interesting though.…
Intel Medfield benchmarked, again, results confirm it destroys everything on the market
After years and years of teasing press folks at various trade shows, Intel is finally going to enter the mobile space in 2012. They’re going to do it with Medfield, which is just a fancy way of saying a mobile platform that uses the Intel Atom Z2460 CPU, PowerVR SGX 540 GPU, and the XMM…
AT&T to roll out LTE to 12 new markets in the coming months
AT&T announced its bringing 4G LTE to a handful of new cities in the next few months. There’s no precise timetable, only a rolling launch schedule that includes April, May and the early summer. The short list of cities includes: Cleveland, Akron and Canton, Ohio Naples, Florida Bloomington, Lafayette, and Muncie, Indiana Baton Rouge and…
Prototype Sony Ericsson (yes, Sony Ericsson) Windows Phone found on eBay
Sony Ericsson, the company that’s now known as just plain Sony, can’t keep their prototypes from escaping their labs apparently. A device that’s codenamed “Julie” has not only been snuck out of Sony’s offices, but someone was actually dumb enough to put it on eBay. The auction has already been pulled, of course, but it…
Rumor: Nokia to release a Qualcomm powered Windows 8 tablet in Q4 2012
Way back in November of last year, Paul Amsellem, the former Head of Nokia France, said that the Finnish handset maker would be releasing a Windows 8 tablet in June 2012. Seems that he was off by a quarter if this latest rumor from DigiTimes is to be believed. Our favorite Taiwanese rumor site says:…
T-Mobile’s Unlimited Any Mobile add-on to offer contract-free unlimited calls to mobiles on April 4th
T-Mobile is about to unveil a neat add-on called “Unlimited Any Mobile,” providing its users with unlimited calling to any domestic mobile number plus Puerto Rico for just $10 per month. The new scheme will go live on April 4th, and is as far as I see suited for a number of different user groups.…
Google Play client gets a small update to fix broken Market links on some Moto smartphones
Google has recently renamed Android Market to Google Play, but not all folks are happy with the change, namely those with select Motorola smartphones who got crappy links included with the brand new app. The update to the application (now in version 3.4.7) has been promptly released by Google to fix the issue users around…
AT&T bundles Sony Tablet P and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play and offers them for $299.99
Good news for the fans of “everything PlayStation” living in the U.S. with AT&T offering two PS-certified device, Sony Tablet P and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, for $299.99. Both devices are somewhat niche products and honestly I don’t see any of them selling like hot cupcakes. The Tablet P is a very specific tablet with…









