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The Samsung SCH-i200 Jasper was first brought up in the middle of the summer as a mid-range phone hitting Verizon. It has now sneakily made its way into Best Buy Mobile under the name of the Galaxy Stellar. Strange thing is, both Verizon and Samsung failed to mention this in any announcement. Besides the secretive…
Lenovo has been working sneakily behind the scenes on a smartphone/tablet like device. The chinese based manufacturer has been rumored to launch a phablet called the K860, with a quad-core CPU and 5-inch HD (1280×720 pixels) display. Well, the rumors are no more. Lenovo has finally confirmed that the handset will be hitting stores tomorrow,…
Last week was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Samsung. The company expected at least some successes in its counter suit against Apple Inc. in the patent infringement case in San Jose, yet were handed a lopsided loss, including in the all important 3G wireless technology patent Samsung holds. Company executives were…
In the first day of trading since the $1.05 billion ruling in Apple’s favor in the patent infringement case with Samsung, Apple’s stock is trading up around 2% at around $675, giving the company a market cap of around $635 billion, or $15 million more than it’s record-setting day last week. Meanwhile, shares of Samsung…
The late Steve Jobs swore that he would destroy Android; He accused Google of creating an outright copy of Apple’s ridiculously successful iOS. “I’m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this,” he promised, and while he didn’t live to see the recent ruling of the Apple v. Samsung case citing patent infringement on the part…
By now everyone knows that Verizon Wireless will add LG Optimus Vu to its portfolio later this year. What we didn’t know, however, is that the Big Red carrier will change the name of the phone, offering it as LG Intuition. Why they want to do that is beyond me. Guess the idea is to…
The upcoming LG Optimus G has been caught in the wild, with Mexican website AndroidMX posting pictures of it on its website. Here we’re sharing those photos so you know what to expect. In a nutshell, if released soon – the Optimus G will be the best smartphone ever, boasting a quad-core processor (Qualcomm Snapdragon…
Mobile users in Germany will be among the first ones on the Old Continent to try out the LTE-enabled version of Samsung Galaxy S III. Such a device will reportedly hit Europe’s biggest economy at some point in October. And while we don’t have the exact launch date, we do know that the phone will…
Japanese NTT DoCoMo is launching a special version of the LG Optimus Vu for hard-core fans of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Only 15,000 of these devices will be sold, featuring custom wallpaper and illustrations from the creators of the popular manga series. Of that number, 1,500 will be available online, 750 on August 30th and another…
Remember the Samsung Galaxy Stellar, which we’ve first seen leaked a month ago? Well, we now have another proof it’s heading to Verizon Wireless as you can see from a leaked pamphlet, pictured above. The mid-end device will most likely be unveiled any day now, and what’s interesting about it is that it will come…