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Microsoft, Nokia, and AT&T are spending hundreds of millions of dollars pushing the Lumia 900 Windows Phone. They’ve held huge marketing events in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, and signage for the Lumia 900 is blasted across AT&T stores. A report from CNET suggests that retail stores could ultimately be to blame if the Lumia…
Rogers has already started accepting preorders for the HTC One X, though we still don’t know when the device will start shipping. Actually now we do have that information as well thanks to the leaked document pictured above. So if everything goes as planned, the first One X units will go out on April 20th.…
We’ve already told you Verizon is preparing to launch a new Incredible device, this time with LTE connectivity. Thanks to the good folks of AndroidPolice, we now know how the Incredible 4G will look like (as you can see from the image above0. It is said that the forthcoming smartphone will rock a 4-inch qHD…
Vodafone UK users with the Samsung Galaxy S II should get their Ice Cream Sandwich update later today! Although the date (April 12th) could change, something tells us the Big Red carrier doesn’t want to play too much with its user base’s nerves – and this is especially true since pretty much all other British…
I love it when people mix Legos with technology in a fun and intriguing ways. Above is an example of a Nokia Lumia 900 dock that’s made from the classic building blocks. It’s not a child’s toy, the Lego dock has a sturdy design lets you charge your Lumia and dock/undock hundreds of times. There’s no block list or building diagram, but the creator of this Lego model does provide some close-up shots at different angles. With a little…
Verizon Wireless has announced plans to start charging a $30 upgrade fee for new handsets as of April 22nd. It was the last main US carrier to have an upgrade fee in place, but alas, now everyone must suffer henceforth. Verizon is supposedly making up for the decline in profit margins last quarter due to…
T-Mobile is sending out invitations to a press event on the night of April 18th. The headline for that shindig will the HTC One S, a 4.3-inch phone with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Details about the launch date and pricing are not available, but a recent rumor pegs the 25th as the date the One S…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note may be headed to our favorite underdog carrier Sprint. This juicy tidbit comes from an advertisement spotted on Sprint’s website that appears to contain the Galaxy Note (the ad has been removed as of the writing of this post). Neither Samsung nor Sprint have announced that the device will launch with the…
Nokia confirmed today on its Conversations blog that the Lumia 900 has a memory management problem which may cause the handset’s data connection to drop. There is a growing number of users who claim their handset loses its data connection and won’t reconnect even after a restart. Rather than ignore the problem, the Finnish company…
Are smaller carriers on the rise? One analyst seems to think so. Iain Gillott is the president and founder of iGR, a mobile industry consultancy group, and a study from his firm suggests that smaller carriers will make key gains in the mobile industry over the next few years. Regional carriers such as U.S. Cellular,…