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Verizon Wireless confirmed the HTC Thunderbolt will arrive on March 17th. The Android LTE handset will debut for $249 with a two-year customer agreement and will require you to sign up for an unlimited LTE data plan which costs $29.99 per month. This pricing matches the current 3G smartphone data plan and put to rest…
We’ve had our eye on the HTC Merge for some time but now we’re finally getting some hands-on love from the sexy Sense device. This dual-mode handset should be making its way to multiple carriers this year. The Merge is basically a Desire Z with a different hardware design, which looks to match up with…
The end is near. The end of waiting for the HTC Thunderbolt to arrive, that is. Apparently, those who had put down a deposit for Verizon’s first 4G LTE Android handset are receiving calls from Best Buy and are getting an ETA of March 17th. Best Buy has been sending out e-mails and calling customers…
When Sony Ericsson released its first Xperia Play TV spot last month, the ad was nothing short of the word “creepy.” What was initially thought to be an ad just to grab some attention now looks to be just the beginning, as Sony Ericsson’s new ad continues the story of the opposable thumb-toting Android guy…
Do leaked, candid images of smartphones still excite you? Perhaps you’ll be thrilled to know that the successor to the HTC Incredible, the Verizon HTC Incredible 2, has been spotted in the wild and photographed for your viewing pleasure. We’ve seen the HTC Incredible S at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, and the…
Verizon announced today that it is making all postpaid wireless and landline calls to Japan free. Customers can call loved ones in the Tsunami-ravaged country between March 11 and April 20th without using any plan minutes or incurring any additional monthly charges. Wireless customers can also send free text and multimedia messages to friends and…
When word of the Motorola Xoom shipping without Flash was released, most of the tech world were baffled at the move. After all, Android’s one big advantage over iOS was its Flash support. So why would a flagship Android tablet ship without Flash support? Adobe responded that it would be arriving some time in the…
The iPad 2 is launching today March 11th and consumers looking to grab an iPad may be wondering which model to buy. When the iPad launched in 2010, there were two basic models, the WiFi-only and the WiFi+3G, Each model was available in black and your choice of capacities including 16 GB, 32 GB and…
Ubuntu has been successfully ported to the Motorola Xoom. The tablet device will be the playground of many hackers and tinkerers who can easily unlock the bootloader and root the device. For Ubuntu, the process requires you to run the Linux OS in a virtual mode that is similar to a Virtual Machine on a…
Many folks are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the HTC Thunderbolt, but the 4G handset may launch at the end of the carriers target launch window, not the beginning. Earlier this year, Verizon promised its first LTE handsets would be arriving in the first half of 2011. The official unveiling of the hardware during a…