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A rumor is spreading that Verizon has canceled plans to offer a Nokia Windows Phone 7.5 device. This handset, codenamed Om, was shelved by Big Red following concerns over Windows Phone’s lack of LTE support. Speculation of an imminent launch of a Verizon Windows Phone has been swirling for weeks, with the company rumored to…
One of the most groundbreaking downloadable titles on XBLA, PSN, PC, and Mac has got to be Playdead’s Limbo as its simplistic gameplay mechanics and graphics delivered an experience that everyone who played it understood and loved from beginning to end. It kept the player guessing what would happen next as it didn’t reveal itself…
File this under “rumors,” cause we don’t have this officially confirmed, but it seems next T-Mobile myTouch devices will be made by Huawei, as illustrated by the image above. It is said that the Magenta carrier will be adding two Gingerbread phones, U8680 and U8730, both with a WVGA touchscreen with one of them also…
Google has something called the Nexus program whereby every year they partner up with a hardware maker and release one device that runs Android the way Google thinks Android should be run. It started with the Nexus One, then there was the Nexus S, and now we have the recently launched Galaxy Nexus. Rumor has…
It seems that Sprint and one of its prepaid MVNO brands, Virgin Mobile, will get their own versions of the LG Optimus Net. Dubbed LG Optimus Elite, it is said that it’s an NFC-enabled smartphone with low-to-mid range specs that include a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen, 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with flash,…
Obviously there’s something about bars that lead us to discover new phones. Could it be that handset testers get drunk enough to forget that the device is supposed to be incognito? Whatever the case, first it was an iPhone, but now it’s a prototype HTC phone that was left in a bar and now found.…
Anyone remember Paul Amsellem? He’s the Nokia employee who a little over three months ago gave an interview to the French newspaper Les Échos and spilled the beans on two of the company’s upcoming devices. The first piece of hardware he leaked, and I’m using the term “leak” very loosely here, was the Nokia Lumia…
Mid October 2011 is when we first heard rumblings that Apple was working on a 7.85 inch iPad. The report came from the Taiwanese news agency Economic Daily News, who said suppliers have sent Apple 7.85 inch LCD panels to play around with. Two months later, almost to the exact day, DigiTimes said the iPad…
Specs for the Samsung Galaxy S III, the rumored successor to one of the most popular Android devices to date, have been obtained by Boy Genius Report. Sources are reporting the upcoming device will feature a 1.5GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos processor, which is a faster clockspeed than my 13-inch MacBook Air. A spacious 4.8-inch 1080p HD display…
Apple’s going to come out with two new devices this year that will make huge waves in the mobile industry. One of them is the third generation iPad, the other is the sixth generation iPhone. Traditionally whatever chip Apple put inside the iPad would eventually end up in the iPhone. Case in point, the A5…