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The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note for AT&T is an interesting beast because its 5.3-inch screen really pushes the boundaries of how big a phone can be and not be ridiculous (it’s also brought the dreaded “phablet” into the lexicon) and Samsung even spent its Super Bowl airtime to officially show this thing off. Our review…
Just selling computers isn’t good enough for Dell. The company wants a piece of the ever-growing VoIP market and has launched its own such offering in Canada. Dubbed Dell Voice, the new service is powered by Fongo, providing users with a Canadian phone number and the ability to make free calls to numbers in 30…
Vodafone announced its plans to release Germany’s first LTE smartphone, called the HTC Velocity, slated to hit store shelves in Germany. The new HTC offering will use the 4G network only for data services as Voice over LTE has not yet been implemented. Besides that, the Velocity carries Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is powered by a 1.5…
Sprint is finally beginning to phase out its less attractive half, Nextel, as the company enters the first stage of transitioning customers off its iDEN cell towers. The Now Network put up a site that maps out where and when towers are being shut down. So for instance, if you live in my area of Hartford,…
Samsung in an Apple-like way has cut its cost for components, with the installation of a cheaper LTE baseband chip that went into the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. This dirty little secret was exposed when the wildly popular phone was stripped down to its innards, revealing the newer chip. The new chip has the same high-speed data performance as…
HTC recently announced that its found a security flaw within a handful of its Android phones and has already issued a fix on its website. While its nice to see that HTC has already identified and fixed the issue, we’re wondering how long the security flaw was around before it was made known to the…
US Cellular has officially announced its first two LTE devices for its yet-to-be-born network in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy S Aviator. The devices will launch in March and April, with no shred of pricing details to be found. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is easily the most popular…
On Monday, Rogers announced that it expanded its LTE coverage area in Montreal to now reach Laval, Terrebonne, Brossard, Longueuil and Vaudreuil. The Canadian-based wireless provider also plans to expand 4G coverage to more than “25 additional cities this year”. The company’s goal is to see its LTE network reach 20 million customers by the end of…
Canadian TELUS will soon join the LTE race, at the moment dominated by Rogers and Bell, both of which have been rushing to be the “first” LTE network in various provinces of Canada. According to leaked document MobileSyrup got, TELUS will start offering LTE-enabled SIM cards version 3 starting on February 1st. The specific wording…
The LG Spectrum is now available for Verizon and we’ll review this 4G LTE smartphone soon but we wanted to give you a few pictures of the unboxing and give some initial impressions. Fundamentally, the LG Spectrum isn’t much different than the LG Nitro on AT&T and that’s not necessarily a bad thing because both…