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Earlier today, Samsung announced the Galaxy S III will land at five US carriers starting this month. Now that the cat is out of the bag, carriers are chiming in with their individual launch details. Verizon already announced it would start taking pre-orders on June 6. And now, T-Mobile and Sprint both confirmed the flagship…
Verizon has just announced that customers lusting after the Samsung Galaxy S III will be able to preorder the device starting June 6th at 7am EDT. The U.S. version of the Galaxy S III will feature largely the same specs as the international version, but will ditch the quad-core processor for the dual-core Snapdragon S4…
Not all Android smartphone makers are equally dedicated to update their devices. Samsung and HTC are known to provide a decent support to its customers, while the likes of Motorola and LG could certainly do a better job and release their updates a bit faster. As we stand today, Ice Cream Sandwich is installed on…
Viper SmartStart 3.0, which was announced at this year’s CES, is finally available for download. Promising to serve as a “cloud-connected remote start system,” it brings several handy features to the table, including: SmartSchedule – which sends smart behavior-based alerts when it’s time to remote-start your car. Vehicle Status – so you can locate your…
How many times have you stumbled across an interesting article on the internet, but then decided not to read it because it was too long and you didn’t have enough time to go through the whole thing? That’s a problem that Marco Arment solved by creating Instapaper. In a nutshell, it’s an app that stores…
HTC just launched the One S in Taiwan. Normally Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon S4 would be inside, but they put the S3 in there instead. There’s nothing wrong with the S3, it powers millions of 2011 flagship Android smartphones, but the S4 is a totally different beast. Despite having just two cores, the Krait…
Chances are that if you’re reading this article, you’re probably a geek. And because you’re a geek, you’ve likely spent your childhood taking things apart while your parents watched in horror. Doing that is a lot harder these days because gadgets are now basically tamper proof, but that hasn’t stopped the folks at iFixIt and…
One month ago, on May 3rd, Samsung announced their 2012 Android flagship device, the Galaxy S III. Three weeks later it hit store shelves in Europe, and now it’s time for it to cross the pond and land in the United States. The South Korean handset vendor just issued a press release saying that their…
LG Prada 3.0 was pretty sexy device when it was originally announced and even today it looks pretty cool with that Prada logo, which I’m sure is well appreciated by fashionistas all around the world. Its problem, however, was the price, which at one point was north of 400 GBP. Now it’s down with online…
Vodafone UK is launching a successor to the Vodafone Smart smartphone. Simply called Vodafone Smart II, it’s a slightly beefed-up version of the original device that still caters toward the first time smartphone buyers. Specs wise, Vodafone’s baby rocks a 3.2-inch screen (we guess it’s HVGA), 3.2-megapixel camera, 800MHz processor, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, 150MB of…