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I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for the HTC G2, the hefty aluminum clad physical keyboard touting Android smartphone. The follow-up to the first Android smartphone ever, the HTC G1, T-Mobile’s HTC G2 helped usher in the second generation of Android devices at a time when smartphones were still quite a novelty…
Google has been busy updating their Google Wallet service. Earlier today, the company announced that customers in the U.S. will be able to obtain a Google Wallet card, complete with a MasterCard logo. Google has added some Holiday deals to its Wallet app today for both iOS and Android, bringing tons of savings and reward…
Ars Technica put the Galaxy Note 3 to the test and discovered something fishy about the device’s benchmark scores. Despite having almost the same internals as the LG G2, the Note 3 blew the G2 out of the water. This discrepancy caused Ars Technica to take a closer look at how the Note 3 handles…
Google has made its Quickoffice app free for iOS and Android users, allowing users to edit and produce Microsoft Office documents on their mobile devices. Quickoffice offers seamless Google Drive storage, where users can upload their documents and have them converted to the Google docs format. In addition to being able to edit and create…
The LG G2 is now available for order online via three of the nation’s top wireless providers, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. LG’s massive 5.2-inch smartphone will run $199 with a new two-year contract on AT&T and Verizon, and can be picked up on T-Mobile with $99 down and a handset payment program. Off contract pricing…
Verizon announced today that it will start selling the LG G2 on September 12 in stores and online. LG’s flagship handset was announced late last month and is packing some beefy specs. It will definitely be giving the upcoming iPhone 5S and the Galaxy Note 3 a run for their money. The LG G2 includes…
Samsung held its Unpacked Episode 2 event today and used the occasion to announced the Galaxy Note 3 as well as its companion the Galaxy Gear and a 10.1-inch tablet, the Note 10.1 2014. As expected, the successor to the Note 2 sports more distinct lines with squared off edges and a more blocky look…
In an unsurprising move, Sprint is no longer selling iDEN phones that run on Nextel’s network. The carrier has removed the iDEN handsets from Boost Mobile’s website and calls to several Sprint locations by Phone Scoop suggest the carrier is no longer stocking the phones in its stores. Earlier this year, Sprint began to accelerate the timeline…
Clearwire may not be the strongest company financially, but it does have one thing going for it — spectrum. The wireless service provider has a lot of spectrum and it hopes to use this wireless asset to produce big, fat mobile pipes capable of download speeds as high as 168 Mbps. Much of the spectrum…
It’s not much of a surprise at this point but it looks like the quad-core Samsung Galaxy S III will be landing at Verizon with just a dual-core processor. While four is larger than two, I wouldn’t be too worried about this change. The news comes from a benchmark from Droid-Life and this indicates that…