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A device that could be the LG Optimus G 2 has been revealed through a benchmark filing today, showing benchmarks that outperform both the HTC One and iPad 4. The filing details a device with a model number of LG D801, which has a Snapdragon 800 processor and a screen resolution of 1794 x 1080…
Are you a US Cellular customer than just can’t wait to send your Galaxy S III to join the Night’s Watch so you can get your hands on the Galaxy S 4? Well, you don’t have much longer to wait, as US Cellular has announced that you’ll be able to pre-order the hot new handset…
Andy Rubin left his position as Google’s head of Android earlier this month and was reportedly headed to another position within Google. Google has been mum about Rubin and where he is working, which has lead to all sorts of speculation about the former Android chief’s whereabouts. The latest theory comes from Fortune, which hypothesizes…
Rumor has it Sony is planning to unveil at some point in 2013 two new Xperia Android smartphones that mix in another one of Sony’s famous brand names. There’s the possibility of an Xperia device with a Cyber-shot branded camera built in as well as another Xperia smartphone with a Walkman music player. The Sony…
If you haven’t heard about or played Ingress, congrats, you’re not a total geek. That said, you’re missing out, and this might be a chance for you to get in on the action. After a brief outage yesterday, Ingress agents (players) that are level 6 and up found invitations within the application, allowing for new…
A report in the Wall Street Journal this morning claims that the Facebook Android announcement next week is not a Facebook phone, but Facebook software that’ll run on Android devices. The social network has been developing new software for mobile devices powered by Google’s Android operating system that displays content from users’ Facebook accounts on…
We’ve been hearing rumblings of a purported Google chat service coming soon, and today Droid-Life has shed some more light on the situation. The service, which has been dubbed Babble in the press but known as “Babel” internally, is set to merge all of Google’s current voice and messaging services in one cross-platform solution. Google is grooming…
Sony has confirmed that the Xperia Tablet Z will indeed be facing shipping delays in the U.K. by pushing back shipping dates on its website. The tablet, which was unveiled at MWC this year, was originally slated to ship in April, and now has been postponed until late May at the soonest. The only country…
Shortly after the unveiling of the new Samsung Galaxy S4, we found out that Samsung would be going with a Snapdragon 600 in lieu of its new Exynos 5 Octa for its release of its Galaxy S4 variant, the GT-I9505. This puzzling news came with no explanation, leaving many to speculate that perhaps the Exynos 5 did not…
On Thursday evening, Facebook sent out press invitations to an April 4th event that invites journalists to “Come See Our New Home On Android.” Facebook didn’t provide any details on their invite, but the Android theme did kick up a bunch of fresh Facebook phone rumors like this one from TechCrunch According to the rumor,…