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Verizon just announced that its 4G LTE network is getting lit up in five new markets and expanding to three others on Jan. 19. The largest carrier in the United States has big plans for its 4G network, which includes all of its future smartphones to feature LTE starting this year. But in order for…
There’s no secret that Research In Motion’s future has been cloudy for awhile now, but underneath the fog is a company who’s quietly been equipping many of its devices with NFC capability. Although a chip resides in some of it devices, a mobile wallet application has yet to appear on the BlackBerry OS until now.…
The Motorola Xoom got some early Ice Cream Sandwich love last week but Motorola has officially announced that the WiFi version of the tablet is getting Android 4.0.3 right now. It will be rolling out in waves over the next few weeks, so check your notification on the device. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich…
It was another banner quarter for smartphones, as the latest Nielsen numbers said that over 60 percent of those who bought a phone within the last three months chose a smartphone over a feature phone and most of these users chose an Android or iPhone. Android still led the U.S. market for the latest period…
Do you remember that rumor yesterday about Samsung wanting to buy Research In Motion? Well, turns out that was horse apples, as Samsung is officially stating that it doesn’t plan to buy RIM and that it never planned to. “We haven’t considered acquiring the firm and are not interested in (buying RIM),” Samsung spokesman James…
Recently, we wrote about the progress the folks over at CyanogenMod were making on baked ROMs for the extinct HP TouchPad. Today the super hackers released CM9 for the TouchPad, but in alpha form. This is awesome for owners who are stuck with a tablet that’s no longer receiving any major firmware updates for its…
Microsoft owns quite a few patents, enough that they’re getting a check from 70% of the Android devices being sold in the United States. That’s right, for every 10 smartphones or tablets that get sold running Google’s operating system, Microsoft makes money on 7 of them. We don’t know the exact amount of money they’re…
Late last year, with less than two weeks to go until the calendar read 2012, AT&T announced that they were no longer interested in purchasing T-Mobile. Anyone with a hint of common sense knew that the deal was a bad idea since the moment it was announced back in March 2011. Thanks to the contract…
Now that it has the new DROID RAZR MAXX, it’s only natural Verizon will slash the price of the original DROID RAZR. And that’s exactly what the carrier did, offering the thin-smartphone for $199.99 with a two-year contract. At the moment, only the black version is available, with the white and purple one set to…
This isn’t the first time we’re writing about the LG Optimus Pad LTE — it was leaked roughly a month ago — but this time we have the official press release with all the details. The LTE version of LG’s tablet comes with the same-sized (as the original Optimus Pad) 8.9-inch screen which is now…