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Want to root your Verizon Galaxy Note II? Thanks to xda member droidstyle, all you need is a few files and about fifteen minutes of your time. The process is pretty easy — just install Odin and use it to flash a rooted stock Odin image to the device. It’s also easy to revert back to…
According to a rumor from Sammobile, Samsung may be working on three new devices for 2013. The most impressive of the rumored devices is a phone code-named Project J. Project J is allegedly the next Galaxy S handset and may include a 5-inch full HD AMOLED display, a quad-core processor, a 13-megapixel camera, and the…
News Corp announced today in a press release that it is shutting down The Daily, its ground-breaking iPad-based newspaper. News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch said this about the iPad-based venture: “The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a…
A recent Nokia job listing for a Principal Software engineer to work on Embedded Linux Middleware kicked off a flurry of posts suggesting the Finnish handset maker might be pursuing Android. Though many would love to see an Android-based Lumia 920 phone, this isn’t going to happen in the foreseeable future, says the head of…
SMS technology turns twenty today. The messaging service is wildly popular among mobile phone subscribers worldwide, but it wasn’t always the go-to service for communication. The idea for SMS was conceived in 1984, but the service didn’t go live until 1992. It remained obscure until 1999, when it finally took off. The idea for SMS…
Apple announced today that its latest iOS products are slated to debut in China starting in December. The Cupertino company will kick off sales with the iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad, both of which will hit retail shelves on Friday, December 7th. The iPhone 5 will arrive two weeks later on December 14th.…
VoLTE may promise digital-quality calling, but it may drain smartphone batteries at a rate that’s twice as fast as CDMA-based calls, says a study by Metrico Wireless that was first reported by GigaOM. The study measured the power consumption of voice calls placed over a CDMA network and compared it with voice calls that were transmitted over…
Did you know that the first smartphone was introduced at Comdex twenty years ago this week? The phone to hold that illustrious title as the world’s first smartphone is the Simon Personal Communicator from IBM. Introduced on November 23, 1992 as a prototype, the Simon was the first cellular phone to combine telephone and PDA features…
Verizon may be ranked among the best wireless carriers in the US, but the company has a shoddy track record when it comes to updating its Android phones . As pointed out by Droid Life, the prime example of this lackluster performance is the Galaxy Nexus. The Galaxy Nexus was the first Nexus device to…
According to a report in CNET, Sprint will be adding $10 to the monthly bill of iDEN customers who don’t switch to the carrier’s CDMA push-to-talk service. This charge will be levied starting January 2013. Sprint hopes this extra fee will encourage customers to move off the iDEN service, which Sprint is slowly shutting down.…