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Motorola was rumored to be holding a private press event on July 11, and early intel suggested the American handset maker would use the occasion to unveil the rumored Motorola X smartphone. Those hopes were squashed today by a report out of Android Community. According to the latest information, Motorola will not hold an event…
U.S. Cellular has a new Windows Phone to add to its smartphone lineup, the Samsung ATIV Odyssey. The device has until now only been available to Verizon customers, and is a mid-range smartphone which runs on Windows Phone 8. The device is available for purchase today online, and will land in stores on July 11th.…
The upcoming HTC 8XT is set to hit Sprint shelves at the end of the next week, July 19th. The HTC 8XT rocks a 4.3 inch WVGA display, 1.4Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400, 8 megapixel rear camera, 1.6 megapixel front-facing camera, 8GB storage, micro SD card slot, 1,800 mAh battery, and more. What really makes the…
Sprint announced today that it now owns all of Clearwire. According to the press release, Clearwire shareholders approved the merger in a special meeting of stockholders that was held July 8, 2013. The acquisition was first announced in December of 2012 and was waiting for approval by Clearwire. Now that Clearwire has agreed to the merger, Sprint…
The hot new HTC Butterfly S may not sport a metal body like HTC One, but it has comparable (read: pretty much the same) specs and a slightly larger 5-inch screen (vs 4.7-inch one). That’s why we’re glad to see it hitting few stores in the US and Taiwan, offering yet another option for today’s…
We know ZTE may be one of the first vendors to launch an NVIDIA Tegra 4-powered smartphone and we tend to think that could be the device you can see on the image above. Marked as ZTE U988S, it may get a new name when it officially launches at some point closer to the end…
Sprint and Samsung have started rolling out an update for the Galaxy S4 that includes a number of changes. The 357MB-heavy download packs several important capabilities alongside few smaller tweaks, including: Ability to move select (though not all) apps from internal memory to the microSD card The addition of Samsung Knox – to make the…
As Beats Audio is gearing towards launching its music streaming service Daisy, the company is apparently talking with AT&T to help it get instant audience. According to CNET, Beats co-founder and CEO Jimmy Iovine is trying to made a deal with carrier that would offer its subscribers a free trial period as part of data…
Another week is behind us and another batch of apps has been submitted to our mobile app site, Appscovery. Here are the titles worth checking out: Prot-On Keep control of your files wherever they are New Rebtel for iOS Features New Design to Help People Stay Closer to Their Loved Ones protoAnt – Task Collaboration…
NTT DoCoMo doesn’t want to look like a fool and simply watch its rival’s expansion in the U.S. And while we have hard time imagining a deal of the size of SoftBank’s Sprint acquisition, we also must note that DoCoMo is a bigger company and can thus spend more money if needed. However, it is…