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It’s summertime, and Motorola is celebrating the sunshine with a hot deal on last year’s Moto X smartphone. Motorola is knocking $100 off of the 32GB off-contract Moto X, bringing the price down to $299. The deal is good tomorrow, June 4th and Thursday June 5th. The Moto X may not be the hottest handset…
Android 4.4.3 will be rolling out to some Nexus devices on T-Mobile beginning today. The Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and 2013 edition of the Nexus 7 will be receiving the update, which is said to bring security enhancements and bug fixes. In other words, it’s not a very exciting update, but an update nonetheless. The…
Motorola Mobility made a bold move last year by opening up a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, tasked with assembling and the company’s new Android device, the Moto X. That factory is set to close at the end of the year, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The factory opened in May…
T-Mobile will offer the LG G3 this summer, opening up pre-registrations for the device today. Customers who pre-register for the G3 will not only get up to the minute updates on the status of the T-Mobile LG G3, they’ll be entered into sweepstakes to win an advance-release beta model of the LG G3. T-Mobile will…
T-Mobile will soon launch a new low-cost Windows Phone, Nokia Rise. According to EVleaks, this will the carrier’s version of the upcoming Lumia 530, which is an entry-level Windows Phone 8.1 device that supersedes earlier Lumia 520 and Lumia 525 models. While we’re not sure what this unit is all about, we’re guessing it will…
For the first time in three years, Apple didn’t make the list of the most valuable brands in the world. Google claimed the #1 spot, knocking Apple down to #2. While Apple is no means down and out, Apple is experiencing a stagnation in market growth, commanding only 15.5 percent of the global mobile market…
T-Mobile rolled out VoLTE service to the Seattle area today, allowing T-Mobile customers who own a LG G Flex, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 or Galaxy Light the ability to experience clear voice calls like never before. VoLTE – or Voice over LTE if you will – routes voice calls over the same radio frequency, opening…
T-Mobile’s Samsung offerings just got a little better. T-Mobile announced today that the Gold Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition will be available for purchase from the magenta carrier in the coming weeks. The Gold GS5 will be landing on all major U.S. carriers including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless and…
Motorola’s Moto E was rooted over the weekend, according to XDA Developers. Motorola’s budget device, which ships with Android 4.4 KitKat, an unlocked bootloader and a minimal amount of bloatware can now be rooted by way of an unofficial TWRP recovery. Now Moto E owners can install custom ROMs just by performing a few steps. Ready…
Motorola has been on the budget device train for a little over a year now, and the Moto E proves that the company has found the perfect balance between performance and price. We just got our hands on our Moto E review unit, and while we haven’t had much time to mess around with it,…