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Sprint is extending the deadline for LightSquared to gain FCC approval on its proposed LTE network by 30 days. Both companies signed a 15-year agreement this past summer, that was expected to receive the go-ahead from Washington no later than December 31st. If this partnership gets the thumbs up, the company gets its goal of a…
LG unveiled some details on its website about its upcoming handset, the LG Optimus 2 and it will be the sequel to the entry-level Optimus One that was introduced in 2010. This new version isn’t that different from the original, it still carries a lot of features you’d find in a typical mid-range phone. Specs…
Verizon is having quite a month, as the company’s LTE network has suffered three outages, shutting down access to smartphone and wireless hotspot customers across the country. Verizon went on a PR offensive and said that sometimes being the pioneer leads to growing pains. In an interview with GigaOm, Verizon’s VP of network engineering Mike Haberman…
BlueStacks, the folks behind the Android app player for Windows, conducted this interesting study called “Mr. Android” and the data – collected between December 12 to December 19 – was able to find what an Android user looks like. Additional data was used from Nielsen Media Research along with a survey of Bluestacks’s 145,000 Facebook…
Everything seems to be on track for Sprint to roll out its LTE service, a service that will cost somewhere north of $715.5 million. The Now Network announced earlier this week that it has built its first cluster of multi-modal base stations that are LTE-ready. The cluster of base stations were planted in Kankakee, Illinois, and follows…
Well, it’s about time. HTC has decided to unlock the bootloaders on every phone launched since September 2011. The announcement came quietly in the sidebar on HTC’s Developer site, and in addition to the newer phones the company is also working to expand unlocking to older phones as well: All HTC Android devices launched after…
This whole thing with the Samsung Galaxy S and Tab getting the Ice Cream Sandwich update has been a roller coaster to say the least. Remember, Samsung last Friday announced the two devices wouldn’t get the ICS bump, to then only backtrack on it yesterday thanks to scrutiny from the Android community. Now the latest rumor…
Well, that didn’t take long. Samsung is backtracking a bit on its Friday announcement that said that the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab will not receive an upgrade to Android 4.0 ICS. This of course drew a lot of criticism from the Android community, who thought it was unfair that Samsung’s first big-time Android phone would get…
Layar, one of the innovators of mobile augmented reality, recently announced the release of its new social experiment called Stiktu, an application allowing Android and iOS smartphone users to leave digital postings on real-world images and share them with each other. The social app lets users add text, images, stickers and sketches to objects around…
It’s been a month since the Kindle Fire launched and no one knows the exact sales figures (except for Amazon) but a new report from Millennial Media sheds some light on the success of the Amazon tablet. Millennium, a company which bases its monthly data on mobile ads distributed across its multi-platform network, says that…