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Cricket has added another Android smartphone to its portfolio – LG Optimus Regard. The low-to-mid end device has somewhat strange specs, combining a 3.5-inch HVGA (320×480 pixels) screen with 1.2GHz dual-core processor, making for a snappy phone performance (since the same CPU is usually used with WVGA screens). In addition, the Optimus Regard also packs…
Back in September, we’ve told you that Samsung is working on a special version of the Galaxy Note II for the Chinese market. This model will keep all of the good things of the original device while adding a second SIM card slot to the mix. However, this doesn’t mean such a phone can work…
What’s better than buying a new phone? Winning one, of course! That’s why IntoMobile and AT&T will soon be giving away a brand new HTC One X+. Not only one of the most powerful devices available at AT&T, but across the globe, and that’s thanks to the 1.7 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 ‘4-PLUS-1’ quad-core processor. This handset…
Cyanogen Mod users rejoice! Over the last few days, the CyanogenMod team has been releasing a new “stable” build of CM10 for a variety of devices. The build, which is based on Jelly Bean, has been made available over the last few days for some of the more popular Android devices. Some of the devices…
Today T-Mobile started rolling out Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean updates to the Samsung Galaxy S III. Magenta has the update available through the over-the-air system and Samsung’s Kies application. The new upgrade brings a slew of fixes and improvements: Version: Android version 4.0.4/Software version T999UVLJA Approved 11/14/2012 New Features: Jelly Bean Improvements: Wi-Fi calling improvements…
Google+ has just rolled out an awesome feature that add Google Play links directly into stream posts. Just like other news on the giant search engine’s social network, users not only get to share Android apps directly from the Google+ feed, but buy them as well. This feature is closely integrated to the social platform,…
According to Horace Dediu of Asymco, there were only a few profitable smartphone makers in Q3 2012. Apple and Samsung combined to account for 99% of those profits, with operating profits of $7.95 billion and $5.1 billion, respectively. HTC accounts for about $168.8 million (using today’s currency exchange values) for about a 1% share. LG was…
People are ditching feature phones for smartphones en masse, largely to the benefit of Google’s Android operating system, according to the latest report from Gartner. Of the 428 million total mobile phones sold in Q3 2012, about 169.2 million (39.6%) were smartphones signaling the continued trend away from feature phones as smartphones become more powerful…
One of the hottest features of the Samsung Galaxy Note II is the ability to run two apps in the same window, the capability that’s made possible thanks to phablet’s big 5.5-inch screen. The same feature will soon be launched for the Galaxy S III, as part of the upcoming Android 4.1.2 update which will…
Evleaks has done it again. This time, however, they don’t have an impressive device to leak (like the Droid DNA) — rather, it’s US Cellular-bound mid-ranger. The soon to be launched Samsung Galaxy Axiom, model number SCH-R830, will come with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor (MSM8960), 4-inch WVGA LCD screen, 1GB of RAM, 4GB of internal…