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On Sunday AT&T officially launched their 4G LTE network, nearly 1 year after Verizon Wireless launched theirs. AT&T’s network only works in 5 cities (Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio), but they promise that by the end of the year they’ll cover 70 million Americans in 15 different markets. Verizon, as of today, covers…
Earlier this month a pair of HP memos surfaced saying that the world’s largest PC maker is going to split the Palm team. The software folks will join the Office of Strategy and Technology under Shane Robison, while the hardware guys would join Stephen DeWitt in the Personal Systems Group that we’re all expecting to…
HTC has an event that’s due to kick off shortly where we expect to hear about several new Android smartphones. One of those smartphones might be the “Explorer”. Funny name for a handset that’s aimed at the budget end of the smartphone space. It’s expected to feature a 3.2 inch half VGA screen (320 x…
Samsung and Apple are embroiled in 23 different lawsuits. Some over patents, some over designs, some just because a Samsung employee told an Apple employee a Yo Mama joke that was so offensive that lawyers had to be called in and handle the situation. After Apple’s success at getting the Samsung Galaxy Tab banned in…
At Intel’s recent IDF conference, Andy Rubin, the “father of Android”, got up on stage and announced that all new versions of Google’s Android operating system are going to be optimized for not only ARM processors, but Intel processors as well. Considering how long Intel has been talking up their chips being used in pocketable…
We’re in the final stretch, just mere weeks away until we find about Apple’s next generation iPhone. Now until Tim Cook gets on stage though and breaks his keynoting cherry, there’s going to be a flurry of rumors surround the next Jesus Phone. One of the more popular rumors that’s been floating around is that…
Boost Mobile recently announced a device called the Samsung Transform Ultra. At the very bottom of the press release detailing said product, buried in the hopes that we would miss it, Boost also revealed that starting on October 6th they’re going to charge new customers who join the network and use Android an extra $5…
According to DigiTimes, one of our favorite rumor sites since they have an above average track record when it comes to getting things right, Apple has just signed a deal with TSMC to manufacture the as yet to be announced A6 and A7 processors that’ll end up in future generations of iOS products. The rumor…
South Korean handset vendor LG surprised the world back in February of this year when they became the first company to release a dual core smartphone. Since then we’ve seen a slew of dual core handsets hit the market, all arguably better than the Optimus 2X that started it all, but that’s besides the point.…
At a Qualcomm press event held in Istanbul, the company outlined their future S4 class of processors that’ll end up in devices shipping in 2012. First and foremost, compared to the current 45 nanometer S3 class (seriously Qualcomm, these names stink!) of processors, the S4 chips will be built on a 28 nanometer process, meaning…