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The official Twitter account for the Windows Phone team dropped a bombshell for WP7 fans on Verizon Wireless. According to a recent tweet, WP7 handsets may land on Big Red in time for the holiday season. This date is surprising as both Microsoft and Verizon confirmed shortly after the Windows Phone launch that handsets for CDMA…
The next generation Apple iPad may be a world device with both GSM and CDMA radios integrated into the tablet device. According to analyst Brian Blair of Wedge Partners, Qualcomm will supply the multi-mode chip that will allow the iPad to be carried by both Verizon and AT&T in the U.S. This is good news…
It almost sounds like something a street racer would do, but there may be a very slim chance that Apple will use carbon fiber for the iPad in the future. One of the main complains of the iPad is that it’s difficult to casually hold. While its shape, design and construction is a thing of…
Apple’s highly anticipated iOS 4.2 update is landing in November but the actual release date is a moving target. In the recent weeks, iOS 4.2 was rumored for launch on November 12th, November 16th, and November 24th. Another rumored launch date comes courtesy of a tweet from 9to5Mac which hints that the 4.2 update will…
We first really caught word of the HTC Knight back when its release date was leaked, but didn’t know a whole lot about the handset. Recently, a trademark application was uncovered showing HTC’s intent to grab hold of the name, “HTC Shift 4G.” We didn’t think much of it in terms of its relation to…
Dual-core processors are one of the next wave of hardware improvements to hit the mobile platform. While several manufacturers have dual-core processors under development, NVIDIA and its Tegra 2 processor may be the first to dual-core hardware to land in consumer devices. According to DigiTimes, Motorola, LG, and HTC have all placed orders with NVIDIA for Tegra…
As expected, the Apple iPad has made its way to Sam’s Club stores and is now available for sale from the discount retailer. Surprisingly, Sam’s Club will be selling the tablet device with a slight discount. The WiFi version is available for $488 which is $12 less than the suggested retail price. The WiFi+3G version…
LG is kicking it up a notch with its upcoming Optimus smartphones. The latest entry to be unofficially introduced is the LG Star, a dual-core Tegra 2 offering that runs unknown flavor of Android. Android purists will be happy as this initial rumor suggests the handset will run an untampered version of Google’s mobile OS. The exact…
The master of the popular sport “I get to try this phone before the rest of the world,” Eldar Murtazin, uses its Twitter account to torment gadget freaks, myself included, around the world. He gets to play with the latest toys before anyone else and is for that reason only hated by many. Then again,…
Mac hackers and tech journalists are in high gear snooping through lines of code and calling up contacts ad infinitum trying to discover the what, where, and why of tomorrow’s big iTunes announcement. At the end of the day, we have two prevailing theories from the two different camps of sleuths. The first suggests that…