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Thanks to Google, denizens of San Francisco will now be able to enjoy free Wi-Fi in 31 parks and public spaces as early as this November. Google has gifted San Francisco with $600,000 to purchase equipment, cover installation and maintenance costs for the free Wi-Fi hotspots. The “Free Wi-Fi In The Parks” program will not…
Rounding out the new Droid lineup that Verizon announced earlier today is the refreshed Droid Maxx, one of the most popular Android handsets in the carrier’s lineup. The devices’ refresh will be more than welcomed for those rocking the existing Razr Maxx HD, and with a whopping 48 hour battery life, stands to attract more…
Motorola and Verizon have officially joined the “Mini Wagon” with the Droid Mini, which sits alongside the Droid Ultra and Droid Maxx. The Droid Mini is an affordable handset that still manages to pack a punch with its set of specs. With a price point of $99 on a new two-year contract for Verizon, if…
Earlier today, Verizon and Motorola took the wraps off of the new Droid lineup, bringing a refreshed selection of handsets that aim at their own respective markets. Of the three new devices, the Droid Ultra may indeed be one of the most popular, as it’s ultra thin and ships with a very nice set of…
According to a screenshot obtained by 9to5Google, the new version of the Nexus 7 tablet will be arriving in Best Buy stores on July 30th. The new Nexus 7 is expected to be unveiled at a Google event tomorrow in San Francisco, and is rumored to come touting a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, a 7 inch…
Making good on its promise to update its Exynos 5 Octa processor, Samsung announced today the Exynos 5420. The new Exynos 5420 delivers twice the 3D graphic processing abilities of the previous Exynos Octa thanks to an architecture based on ARM Mali MP6 cores. The Exynos 5 Octa 5420 comes with two sets of four…
Well, the leaks just keep coming for the new Nexus 7, and this time around, it’s Best Buy’s doing. The guys over at PhoneArena spotted that a Best Buy ad not only claims that the Nexus 7 will become available next Tuesday, July 30th, but also confirms the tablet’s display resolution of 1920 x 1200…
While U.S. Samsung Galaxy S4 owners received a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC in their handsets, some global variants of the device were released with Samsung’s octa-core Exynos 5 Octa SoC. Samsung took to Twitter today to announce an upgrade to their Exynos processors, claiming, “a new Exynos 5 Octa is coming next week!” While we are…
HTC has finally taken the wraps off of its latest smartphone, the HTC One Mini. The new handset, which has been floating around in rumor-form for a while now, is finally here. The HTC One Mini ships with a 4.3 inch 1280 x 720p HD Super LCD 3 display, dual-core Snapdragon 400 CPU, 1GB RAM,…
Regional carrier Cricket Wireless will be offering the Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 and the Galaxy Discover starting on July 21st, available off-contract at affordable prices. Both of the devices will be available with Cricket’s 3G all-inclusive smartphone plans, which start at $50 a month, and top out at $70 a month. Both untis will offer…