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HTC Thunderbolt users, it’s your lucky day. Verizon has officially announced that the Android Gingerbread update is set to hit its first LTE device and you can check and see if you have it waiting for you now! While it’s anything but he expected “end of June” date we heard a while back, we’re glad…
Earlier this month both Samsung and LG announced Android smartphones that pack screens that can pump out an an impressive 1280 by 720 pixels. Now it’s HTC’s turn. Over the summer we got wind of a device called the HTC Vigor that was rumored to ship with a 4.3 inch 720p screen and a blistering…
Before Apple announced the iPhone back in January 2007 (can you really believe it’ll be 5 years since that happened in just 3 short months?!) there existed an iconic handset that most people didn’t enjoy using, but they had no shame carrying it around since it defined what a sleek and sexy mobile phone should…
Roughly two weeks ago we told you Amazon has an awesome deal for the Motorola Droid Bionic, offering the smartphone for $179.99. Like that’s not good enough, they are further slashing the price for another $30, asking only $149.99 with a two-year Verizon Wireless contract. But that’s not all, along with the device purchase you…
Verizon has some interesting statistics on the success of in-app purchases on iOS. So are they successful? In a word, yes. In fact, Verizon has revealed that 72 percent of revenue from iPhone apps comes from in-app purchases. This is based on the 200 highest-grossing applications in the app store as of July 2011. Only 4…
The good news is that Verizon and HTC haven’t forgotten about the Incredible 2 users. As a matter of fact, the two companies have just issued the Android 2.3.4 update, which mostly deals with weird roaming performance. For instance, users will now be able to dial the “+1” prefix when roaming internationally in CDMA markets.…
LG and Verizon have announced a new, simple slider called the Enlighten. It runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, has a 3.2 320 x 480 touchscreen, 800 MHz processor, a 3.2 megapixel camera on the back, and of course a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It’s not quite the slim Optimus slider announced in Japan, but the reasonable pricetag,…
Verizon Wireless is unstoppable. After turning on 4G LTE coverage in 26 new markets last week, today they’re announcing that 21 additional markets are going to go live on the 20th of October. See the full list below. Their goal is to be in 175 markets by the end of the year, which is impressive…
We told ya’ RadioShack will launch a special deal on Verizon Wireless smartphones and voila – they’re doing it as we speak. But that’s not all – when we first talked about that, we told you they will offer $100 off of select devices. The deal is actually even better, allowing you to save up…
The HTC Rhyme was announced this morning and it looks like a great mid-range phone for fashion-conscious users. And though it boasts mid-range specs – Qualcomm 1GHz processor, 800 x 480 touchscreen display, Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, 5MP rear and VGA front cameras, HTC Sense 3.5, 3.7-inch display – it will run the average cost of…