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Verizon finally made it official – the recently announced Motorola DROID RAZR HD and DROID RAZR MAXX HD will land on retail shelves starting October 18. Both the RAZR HD and the RAZR MAXX HD feature a 4.7-inch display, an 8-megapixel camera, NFC, LTE connectivity and either 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage.…
CyanogenMod, the wildly popular Android team of developers, announced that new M2 builds of CM10 are ready for download. This is the second monthly build of the Jelly Bean-based CyanogenMod 10 ROM. All of these builds are considered “essentially stable” and “ready to use as your daily driver.” M builds are way more stable when…
Tech site Onliner has purportedly gotten its hands on a prototype LG Nexus device (codenamed Mako), and has posted pictures and specs for all the world to see. The Mako is running the hot-off-the-presses Android 4.1.2 build of Jelly Bean, and carries a quad-core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4, a 4.7″ 1280 x 768 display, and 2GB…
You may think Apple will kill it with the forthcoming iPad mini (I think that, too), you/we may be wrong. According to a small survey involving more than 1,330 people, conducted in August by TechBargains.com, the iPad mini is less desired than the iPhone 5 and the new iPad (the one currently selling). Here are…
Next year, NASA will launch mini satellites into space, one powered by the Nexus One and other by Nexus S. The launch comes as part of the PhoneSat program, which wants to create small, low-cost “nano-satellites.” Version 1.0 — powered by the original Nexus device — will first go “online” and if proven successful, Nexus…
Looks like Alcatel is preparing to jump into the Windows Phone game with a low-to-mid end device of its own. The phone pictured above, which will most likely get the “One Touch something” name, is said to come with Windows Phone 7.5 and will be upgradable to version 7.8. Specs wise, we’re hearing it will…
British phone retailer Phones4u is offering the decent HTC Radar for just 79.95 GBP (about $128). As I’m writing this, the deal isn’t available online — it costs 99.GBP at Phones4u’s website — and you’ll rather have to visit a local Phones4u store to get it. Moreover, we’re not sure whether it’s available across the…
HTC Desire X, you know the Android smartphone that sits somewhere in the middle of HTC’s range, is now available in the UK for just 218 GBP (about $350) from Unlocked-Mobiles. That money gets you a decent, SIM-free device that packs Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor clocked at 1GHz, 4-inch WVGA screen, HSPA and Wi-Fi…
Although it has been announced in August, you still can’t get the Samsung Ativ S. The reason is obvious – Windows Phone 8 hasn’t been officially announced and as far as we know, it’s still not be ready for use by the general public. However, now you can pre-order Sammy’s Windows SuperPhone in the UK,…
Samsung has started updating the Galaxy S III with Jelly Bean in its own backyard. Initially, the new software is released for the 3G model but the 4G one (with LTE connectivity support) should follow shortly. Moreover, the Galaxy Note will also be included in the update soon. According to the Korean company, the updated…