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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 7:24 PMAlong with the Galaxy Nexus, Sprint offered subscribers their first chances to grab an LTE-capable phone (in anticipation of the carrier starting service) with the LG Viper 4G LTE. We saw the Android launch back in April, sporting a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon, a four-inch WVGA screen, and a gigabyte of RAM. If all that sounded good to you, but you look for phones that are on Team QWERTY, you might want to check out the LS860 Cayenne, tipped for future arrival at Sprint. The Cayenne is, based on what leaked specs are available, a duplicate of the Viper, with the addition of a sliding QWERTY...
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by Joe Levi | May 22, 2012 6:22 PMIf you're looking for a smartphone on Sprint’s website you'll find enough options to make your head spin. By my count there are 42 devices: four of them are iPhones, 19 are running Android. HTC is in comeback mode. It's put a fresh face on Sense UI, brought out some new devices, and shown us some very impressive specifications. The latest Android-powered smartphone to join Sprint's ranks is the HTC EVO 4G LTE, essentially a modified One X. Like its AT&T sibling, the EVO 4G LTE has a gorgeous display, unique design, and feels like a very well-built device. Inside the Box The box itself...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 22, 2012 5:16 PMYesterday, we saw Verizon clear up a few things about upcoming updates for some of its Android lineup that would bring these CDMA phones the ability to roam globally on GSM-based networks. All told, the carrier committed to getting this feature out to the Droid 4, RAZR, RAZR Maxx, and Rezound sometime over the summer. Today we get a hint of just how this roaming might arrive, thanks to a recently-leaked ICS ROM for the Droid RAZR. While it's not clear exactly what software build we're looking at here, the takeaway seems to be that the update that will enable global roaming will likely be th...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2012 5:56 PMLate last week, we started hearing some new rumblings about Verizon's plans for bringing global roaming to some of its Android lineup. We already knew that both the Motorola Droid 4 and LG's Spectrum would make the cut, and Verizon would activate their roaming abilities at some point in the future. The new leak that brought the issue back to the forefront last week concerned HTC's Rezound, with an in-store display advertising the pending arrival of global roaming as one of the handset's features. There were also rumors accompanying that find that Motorola's Droid RAZR (Maxx) would join this gr...
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by Michael Fisher | May 21, 2012 4:31 PMWhat's more annoying to a mobile-phone user than not having service? If you answered "nothing," you're right. And never is that truer than when a user is trying to share something. Like the awesome photo they just snapped from their courtside or ringside seats as the ... puck hit a ... home run ... through the fullback's legs. Okay, I don't do sports. But according to my basketball-savvy friends, we're in the midst of something called the "2012 playoff season," which I gather is a pretty big deal. In an effort to avoid butchering any sports terminology, I will put this succinctly: The Bosto...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 21, 2012 7:19 AMSamsung announced the Focus 2 Windows Phone on May 7 and promised to make it available starting May 20 so if you want to start your week off by getting a new device you should really look into this one. There's a four-inch Super AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution, five-megapixel camera with HD 720p video recording capability, and VGA webcam for video calls and Skype but the most important bit is that the phone supports 4G LTE connectivity. You can get all this for $49.99 given that you sign a two-year contract with AT&T if you somehow don't fancy the Nokia Lumia 900 or the HTC Titan II,...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 17, 2012 3:14 PMWith the major US carriers already on-board with LTE or transitioning to it, you might think that we'd be seeing a new era of inter-carrier roaming and growing interest in unlocked handsets. After all, with LTE replacing HSPA+, EV-DO, and WiMAX, it should be easier than ever to find a phone that will work on multiple carriers, right? Unfortunately, that hasn't really transpired, and radios with incompatible frequency coverage continue to get in the way of the dream of a world where choosing the best smartphone has nothing to do with which carrier supports it. Things might be looking up in the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 15, 2012 4:42 PMNVIDIA's been talking for a while now about the SoCs it plans to introduce as follow-ups to the quad-core Tegra 3 we're now seeing in phones and tablets. There have been two distinct phases of these next-generation chips that the company's been preparing for, known by their codenames Wayne and Grey. As NVIDIA continues to share details about these chips, it's indicated a desire to branch out from Android and see Tegra-series components come to Windows Phone devices. One of the several differences between Wayne and Grey chips will be how they work with 4G data. Wayne will supposedly support ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 13, 2012 2:35 AMWhile we didn't find any deal-breaking bugs on the AT&T HTC One X with the occasion of our review, some users who grabbed their unit early experienced issues related to WiFi connectivity and speed. There were also some messaging notification problems with the phone (and not only) but HTC seems to have acted quickly with regards to the WiFi issue. "In regards to the wifi issue your running into, this is currently an issue that has been brought to our attention and we are actively working on a fix for this. We don't have an ETA on the release of the fix yet, but we do have a work around in th...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 13, 2012 2:25 AMThe Samsung SCH-I535 popped up in a user agent profile recently and, while there was no indubitable proof that the phone is going to be Verizon's variant of the Samsung Galaxy S III, the specs indicate that it might be a strong possibility. As hinted, the i535 will pack a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor instead of the Exynos quad-core SoC on the International version. The findings in the user agent profile seem to be backed up by recent benchmark results found on NenaMark where the Samsung i535 popped up with the dual-core CPU and its Qualcomm Adreno 225 GPU. The carrier is clearly ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 12, 2012 8:16 AMIf you haven't noticed, AT&T has really turned up the heat in advertising its latest smartphone heavyweights. Now feeling the pressure from two other iPhone-carrying competitors, it's working hard to maintain a diversified smartphone portfolio, and it's doing a pretty good job of it, too. In line with that goal, AT&T has been heavily marketing its version of the HTC One X, as well as the Nokia Lumia 900. Of course, those of us who make the mobile industry our occupation, hobby, or obsession know the differences between these two high-end devices, but most people don't. So if you're ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 11, 2012 3:10 PMHTC's EVO 4G LTE for Sprint is shaping up to be one of the highlights of the manufacturer's latest series of Android handsets. The carrier confirmed earlier this week that the smartphone will make its retail debut next Friday, on May 18. Sprint's got pre-sales of the EVO 4G going for $200 on-contract, but if you've put off placing your order, there's now an even better deal available, with Amazon pre-orders costing $50 less. Amazon Wireless has the EVO 4G LTE on two-year contract for a hair under $150. Right now the site is showing the phone as backordered in addition to being up for pre-or...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 11, 2012 1:24 PMSouth Korean carrier KT just announced a few new LTE-enabled Androids that will be gracing its stable of models, including one that looks like it could be a slightly-lower-end version of the recently-revealed Galaxy S III. Model SHV-E170K (above, left) looks a bit similar to a GS3, from its general design to the same software. It may be more squared-off than that phone, but it appears to be running the same TouchWiz that Samsung demonstrated when debuting the GS3. While they're not quite official, some specs for the E170K are available on GLBenchmark. The 1.5GHz dual-core S4 MSM8960 remi...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 11, 2012 3:32 AMThose of you rocking a New iPad with iOS 5.1 on it will be happy to find out that an untethered jailbreak is in the works. According to the video teaser below, by pod2g, the project is in a rather advanced stage but it's not just yet available for the public. Aside from the fact that you will see Cydia and the truckload of applications listed you will definitely notice that the Apple tablet is booting up on its own, with no help from a computer. Whether the full untethered jailbreak will be released soon or held back in order for Apple not to patch anything in iOS is yet unknown but fingers...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2012 8:08 PMLG's Optimus LTE2, with its 2GB of RAM, has recently been revealing to us the manufacturer's latest efforts to step-up its Android game. While the phone sounds like it will have more than enough memory, some users might have been disappointed that the rest of the phone's rumored hardware isn't quite up to that same level of excess. Well, if that's what you're into, we might have just the LG phone for you, as some new leaks make the company's model LS970 out to be quite the Android powerhouse. The LS970 will apparently come with a Qualcomm APQ8064 under its hood. That's one of the company's ...
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