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We touched upon the drag Microsoft’s mobile division had on its fourth-quarter earnings, but I overlooked the fact that the company had to write off at least $240 million for the ill-fated Kin phones. That $240 million could just be the baseline figure, as Engadget points out, because you could very well add on the…
The Motorola Droid X is the hottest Android phone on the Verizon network right now, but it’s more than just a pretty face and a power-packed feature set. Verizon has confirmed that the new Android phone is actually pulling down something like five times more wireless data than any other device on Big Red’s network.…
The Motorola Droid X has been such a huge hit for both Verizon and Motorola, that we can only expect the Droid 2 will be living up to expectations, too. Looking at the screen capture above, you might be thinking, “Wait, I thought this was about the Droid 2? That’s the Droid X!” You’d be…
You probably became extremely excited when you were heading home from Verizon or Best Buy with your brand new Motorola Droid X. It has an enormous screen, it’s thin and light and snappy overall performance. Things couldn’t get better, right? Well, they could certainly get worse, and for a small handful of Droid X owners,…
As its final, parting wave to the KIN lineup of pseudo-smartphones, Microsoft has pushed out updates to the small fleet of KIN One and KIN Two handsets that actually managed to make their way out of Verizon stores. Before you get excited – not that it’s actually possible to get excited for Verizon’s ill-fated handsets…
It looks like Qualcomm wants to get out of the mobile TV business, as its CEO said the company is looking for “a number of alternatives” regarding Flo TV. “It will get done in the next year but I don’t think I can be much more specific than that,” Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said in…
So remember how there was all that talk about how the Verizon Motorola Droid X could not be hacked, rooted, jailbroken, etc. because of a system protection technology known as eFuse? Well, while the blogosphere was busy passing around rumors that the Motorola Droid X would brick itself if you tried to gain root access,…
We heard rumblings that Verizon Wireless will be killing its unlimited data plans by the end of the month and the folks over at Droid Life have received the alleged script that Big Red is sending out to squash concerns. Thanks to “blog activity,” Verizon is coaching its customer service representatives to deflect customers who…
Verizon Wireless announced that its mobile app store, V CAST Apps, is now available on select BlackBerry smartphones, including the BlackBerry Bold 9650, Storm2 9550, Curve 8530 and Tour 9630. Moreover, during the next couple of weeks, the service will be rolled out to more RIM-made devices like the Storm 9530 and Curve 8330. As…
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to tell you that there is a whole lot more you can do with 5GB of data than 1GB, and the latter is the most Verizon is offering right now in its pre-paid bucket. Anything more than some casual browsing and a few e-mails here and there and you’ll…