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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 Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 7:02 PMLG's latest Android, the Optimus LTE2 with its hefty 2GB of RAM, launched in South Korea earlier this month. We're sure that many of you have been wondering what that sort of extra memory would mean for your own Android experience, and those of us in the West may soon be getting just such an opportunity to check-out the phone firsthand. Some new documentation reveals LG's works on its model VS930, which very well may be the LTE2 for Verizon. The VS930 appears in a new GCF listing, which would suggest plans for service in Europe, so where do we get Verizon from? Well, the "VS" in the model n...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 4:41 PMOn November 5, 2007, Google and the other new members of the Open Handset Alliance announced Android. Nearly five years later, we've seen the platform become one of the major players in the smartphone world, and dozens upon dozens of Android-running devices come to market. As that five-year anniversary draws upon us, could Google be planning some special to commemorate the event? A new rumor paints just such a picture, and connects back to some other claims we've heard about Google's plans for the fall. That number five popped-up in a recent rumor about how the next Nexus phone might arrive...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 1:30 PMNokia is now soundly invested in Windows Phone, but even with this new direction, we've seen some pretty substantial support for its erstwhile Symbian OS. Symbian Anna, and then Belle, arrived with new software features, and rumors looked to future Carla and Donna updates. Recently, Nokia started bringing Belle's Feature Pack 1 to certain models, which went so far as to raise phones' CPU clock speeds. All told, for a "dying" OS, Symbian seemed to be doing pretty darned well for itself. The tide may be about to turn, however, with reports that Nokia is about to put a stop to future updates like...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 12:10 PMThree months ago we heard a story claiming that Microsoft was working on a version of its Office suite for Apple's iPad. A picture accompanying the rumor (above) sure looked how we might imagine the app would appear on a tablet, piquing our interest and suggesting there might be something to this news. While a company like Apple might have been content to let the rumors play their course, Microsoft decided to address the claims, first outright denying the picture's legitimacy, but later retreating to a softer position where it claimed the news was based on "bad info". Well, Microsoft might wan...
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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 22, 2012 1:33 PMThere have been plenty of recent claims made about just how large the screen on Apple's next iPhone will measure, with a number of rumors looking at something very close to four inches. Though it measures-in just a hair under that mark, we looked at one-such rumor only a little while ago that says to expect a 3.95-inch display, and one with a more widescreen aspect ratio, at that. While that news had some nice details backing it up, like a specific claim as to the new screen's resolution, we're far from closing the book on this one. The latest attempt at nailing-down these specs comes from wha...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 22, 2012 8:29 AMIf you follow the Apple and "next iPhone" related news you probably already know that the vast majority of rumors circulating on the interwebs is related to the display on the iPhone 4S follow-up. From "larger-than-four-inch" to "four inch" we've heard them all, even that the late Steve Jobs was actually working on the next Apple smartphone himself. According to the most recent reports, Apple is testing at least two prototypes codenamed iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 (though the numbering might refer to color variants -- black and white -- as well as storage options). However, the interesting bi...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2012 4:17 PMOwners of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus on Verizon have been quite patient in waiting for updates to arrive for their phones. Granted, they've had little choice but to be, as despite the impressions they might have had of the Galaxy Nexus being a phone that would receive quick and frequent updates as Google made them ready, Verizon hasn't been updating the handset since its release. Reprieve may be just around the corner, as a new rumor claims that Verizon may just start delivering Android 4.0.4 to the GNex tomorrow, May 22. Tales of the Verizon Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0.4 go back several month...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2012 3:13 PMIs Tizen going to be the next big smartphone operating system upstart? We first heard of the project last fall, with news that Samsung and Intel were getting together to work on developing the open-source platform, after Nokia closed up shop on MeeGo. Things have been pretty quiet since then, although we have gotten the opportunity to look at a Tizen developer's handset (above), and examined rumors that Samsung might use devices running the OS as an opportunity to test the waters for its Super AMOLED HD Plus display tech. If any new smartphone platform is going to have a meaningful impact, tho...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 19, 2012 2:48 AMRumors about Amazon and it's highly anticipated Kindle Fire refresh are nothing new and extraordinary given how popular the initial tablet was (and still is) among customers and on the market, in general. According to reports, Amazon was preparing a follow-up -- actually, more -- which would have an 8.9-inch screen. We say was because new rumors have started surfacing according to which the 8.9-inch model will be skipped altogether. Instead, Amazon is allegedly preparing a 10.1-inch Kindle Fire successor to better compete with Apple's tablet offering -- while the originally rumored 8.9-inch...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 18, 2012 8:08 PMAs if the recent news regarding Motorola's struggles with the enforcement of software patents wasn't upsetting enough, there's now some further info concerning HTC and its own problems with import bans, and it doesn't sound good. Earlier this week, we learned that the One X and EVO 4G LTE were having their State-side arrival held up by the enforcement of rulings concerning software features of the handsets. It only seemed like it was going to be an issue for these new models, but tonight there are some signs that the effects of this ban may be far more widespread. HTC's Amaze 4G landed a...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 18, 2012 5:13 PMSigns started emerging late last year that Verizon was planning on bringing global roaming capabilities to a couple of its then-upcoming LTE-enabled smartphones. It wasn't long after that when a Verizon representative confirmed plans to bring just such a feature to a selection of the carrier's Androids. These phones wouldn't arrive with global roaming enabled, but the feature would be delivered at some point in the future – it seemed at the time like it might be closer to the end of Q2. It looks like Verizon could be nearly ready to flip that switch, as retail locations are updating their disp...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 18, 2012 2:21 AMRumors about the next iPhone are piling up, building the buzz, just like they did before the iPhone 4S launch event and more recently before the London Samsung Galaxy S III unveiling. The most controversial topic though seems to be the screen size of the next Apple smartphone, with The Wall Street Journal and Reuters already weighing in on possibilities of a four-inch display diagonal. According to Bloomberg, who seems to confirm previous reports with their own -- citing "three people with knowledge of the plans" -- the late Steve Jobs "had worked closely on the redesigned phone before his ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 17, 2012 7:59 PMAfter hearing earlier this month about LG's plans for bringing 2GB of RAM to Android smartphones with the release of its Optimus LTE2, we got word last week of what could be another-such 2GB handset, the LG LS970 "Eclipse 4G LTE". Even more so than the LTE2, the Eclipse sounds like it could be a real powerhouse, with a quad-core Snapdragon S4 at its heart. At the time, we got a quick look at what was supposed to be the phone's rear cover, and today even more imagery of the Eclipse emerges, giving us a peak under the hood. If you had any doubt that the phone's battery might not be removable,...
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