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Almost missed this… Virgin Mobile has recently added a new smartphone to its portfolio, ZTE Awe. The entry-level Android smartphone is available for $99 sans any strings attached, and as such – it doesn’t pack the latest bells and whistles under the hood. The Awe comes with a 4-inch IPS display with WVGA (480×800 pixels)…
Motorola and Google’s Moto X recently began rolling out to eager customers, and Engadget recently got to visit Motorola’s Moto X assembly factory in Fort Worth, Texas. While the Moto X isn’t the fastest or biggest smartphone on the market today, it does offer competitive specs and pricing. The Moto X is also customizable through…
Ever since Edward Snowden leaked classified NSA files a few months ago, new revelations of the government spy agency’s questionable tactics are a daily occurrence. A new infographic helps explain the extent of the NSA spying program, as it pertains to tracking the mobile devices of American citizens. The infographic starts out by explaining the…
If new leaked photos are to believed, the days of QWERTY slider phones may not be over. We’ve seen a few pictures of the rumored Motorola Droid 5 before, which may be sporting NFC and wireless charging. The device is expected to be touting a 4.3 or 4.5-inch touchscreen, and will be coming to Verizon,…
Best Buy is offering a sweet trade-in deal for Nexus 4 owners. Best Buy is offering up to $262.50 for an 8 or 16GB model of the LG Nexus 4. As long as the device is in decent condition and has all of the required peripherals, the trade-in could net you a decent chunk of…
Due to increasing public pressure and suits from privacy advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Director of National Intelligence released a stack of declassified internal FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) documents and court rulings today. Buried in the documents are details of what Clapper refers to as “compliance incidents,” over 15,000 instances of the…
The month of September continues to roll along with big news, as Apple lead the way yesterday during its event. Today, however, Amazon is front and center thanks to leaked photos of its next generation Kindle Fire HD courtesy of tech site BGR. We’ve been hearing many reports on what kind of features we can…
You may not have realized it, but Google has been steadily improving its Google Now service over the past year. If you haven’t used it, Google Now is the company’s intelligent assistant that mixes search with voice command. You tell Google Now what you want and the service will find it for you. It’s available…
In an interview with Reuters, Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside said that 100,000 Moto X devices are being shipped out of the company’s Dallas factory every week. Woodside said that this is only the beginning, and that everything is going according to plan. When you set up to ramp a factory you need a plan, and…
ASUS will unveil the new PadFone Infinity next Tuesday (September 17th), Engadget is reporting. The slightly updated version of the smartphone/tablet combo will sport a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip (rather than Snapdragon 600), microSD card slot and there will also be an all-white version available. And that’s about all we know at this stage.…