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Samsung will soon release a new smartphone onto the US Cellular carrier. The Galaxy Metrix 4G will debut this Friday, August 24th as a typical mid-range Android smartphone with LTE and a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard. There’s nothing particularly exciting about it. It does have the aforementioned physical keyboard for folks who are still adamantly…
HTC announced today that for the first time, it will sell a smartphone on regional carrier Cricket Wireless. The handset of choice is the HTC One V, part of HTC’s One series, and it will be available starting September 2, 2012. The HTC One V has a 3.7-inch super LCD screen with an 800×480 pixel…
A Verizon Wireless employee that TechCrunch considers trustworthy confirmed to the publication today that Verizon has indeed blocked out vacation days for all of staff, meaning during these days no one is allowed to take a vacation. Guess which days those are. Yup, September 21st all the way to September 30th. September 21st has been rumored…
It’s quiet. Too quiet. Nexus rumors have been awfully few and far between this year, so it’s no surprise that plenty of people are beginning to think there may not even be a Nexus device for 2012. Wait a minute though, here comes a rumor seemingly contradicting that theory. There may not be one, not…
Sony confirmed yesterday a pretty badly kept secret known as the Xperia SL smartphone. Sony Mobile’s website proudly displays the features and specifications for the new device, including the touted dual-core 1.7GHz processor and ultra-high resolution 12MP rear camera. The Xperia SL features a 4.3-inch scratch-resistant touchscreen with a 1280×720 pixel resolution. The aforementioned 12MP…
We’ve seen iPhone leak after rumor after leak after rumor throughout much of 2012 and while the iPad mini was always a possibility, the rumors were sporadic and rarely substantial — until now, that is. Ahead of the launch in September or October, finally the iPad mini leaks are starting to appear. This one happens to…
There’s two dates we keep hearing as affiliated with the launch of the next iPhone: September 12th and September 21st. September 12th is looking like the date Apple has scheduled to make the big announcement and the 21st is the likely release date in most of the top countries around the world. Now iMore is reporting…
Apple has long been rumored to be replacing the 30-pin dock connector that has been an essential hardware component in every iOS device with a smaller 19-pin dock connector, which would create more space inside for other hardware parts. Now leaked images put out by Cult of Mac suggest the dock connector might be even smaller…
The rumors today are all about the Samsung Galaxy Note II, the sequel to the phone/tablet hybrid device people tend to either love or hate. Korea IT Times reports the Galaxy Note II could use a new flexible AMOLED display technology. Samsung showed off prototypes at CES 2012 so it clearly has the resources in place.…
There it is, the 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook from RIM. It’s not a mockup; it’s the real deal. Someone from Vietnam got their hands on it and posted it along with a full gallery of other photos in the Tinh te online forum. Nobody knows when or even if RIM will ever launch the 10-inch PlayBook, but…