Earlier today I published a piece highlighting some benchmark numbers from HTC’s One X, the version with Qualcomm’s S4 Snapdragon inside. For those of you who don’t know this, there are two One X variants. The Europeans and the Asians are going to get the version of the One X with a quad core NVIDIA…
Verizon iPad lasts 24 hours as an LTE hotspot
In case you haven’t yet thrown your hard-earned cash at Apple for the 3rd-generation iPad, AnandTech may just have discovered one more tick for the “Pro” column of your pros and cons list. While the overall battery life for the new iPad falls between 8.5 and 9.3 hours depending on whether you have the LTE or…
Instagram Android web page live, no app in sight
The wildly popular photo sharing application Instagram is finally on its way to Android. We knew Instagram was coming to Android some weeks ago, but no one had a clue when the application was going to release. Well, the good news is the photo sharing company has put up an opened registration page for Android…
Early HTC One XL benchmarks show two Qualcomm cores can most definitely hold their own
NVIDIA’s marketing department is desperately trying to convince the world that their quad core Tegra 3 chip is the pinnacle of human achievement. The thing is, it isn’t. The Tegra 3 uses four ARM Cortex A9 chips. Qualcomm’s new S4 Snapdragon on the other hand uses a pair of custom made Krait cores that deliver…
Apple will not seek royalties for their nanoSIM standard if it gets approved
Chances are that if you’re reading this you know what a SIM card is; it’s that tiny little piece of plastic that you shove inside a phone so that it can connect to a wireless network. The smallest SIM card standard currently on the market is the microSIM. Apple was the first to use it…
Also Official: HTC Titan II coming to AT&T on April 8th for $199 [4G LTE, 16 MP camera]
AT&T’s Windows Phone portfolio is going to grow by two on April 8th. The first device, the Nokia Lumia 900, we covered earlier today. It’s basically the Lumia 800, but with a 4.3 inch screen and 4G LTE connectivity. Not bad for $99. The second device though, the HTC Titan II, is a beast. It…
Android user wins the “Smoked by Windows Phone” challenge, Microsoft fails to pay up
Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone advertising campaign, “Smoked by Windows Phone“, is an interesting little idea. Some Microsoft marketing guy will give you a task to perform on your smartphone. The adman will perform the same operation on his Windows Phone. Both of you then simultaneously try to achieve this arbitrary goal while being recorded for…
Official: Nokia Lumia 900 coming to AT&T April 8th for $100
Though rumors of the Nokia Lumia 900 landing on AT&T on April 8th for $100 have been swirling for a while now, CNET has received an official confirmation straight from the mouth of an AT&T spokesperson that this rumor is true. Those of you waiting to get your hands on Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone device…
Canada’s Fido to launch its LTE network?
Canada’s Rogers Wireless said it has no plans to offer LTE services through its sub-brand Fido, though things could change or are changing as we speak. When Fido employees click on the screen to activate/upgrade a customer the option of “LTE Voice and Data Sharing Bundles” pops up. That, of course, doesn’t prove anything though…
LG Optimus LTE P936 heading to Europe?
A new version of the LG Optimus LTE has been caught in the wild, as reported by GSM Dome. The model number P936 is not the same device offered in South Korea and North America, so we think this little fella may be heading to Europe. Of course, that’s pure speculation at this point but…









