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by Stephen Schenck | February 14, 2013 2:46 PM
Read OnIt's seeming more and more likely that HTC's M7 will make its debut at the HTC One, and with just five days to go until the company's press event, the full story on the phone will be available very soon. In the meantime, some new rumors have arrived to help give us an idea of just how the smartphone will ultimately go up for sale, where you'll find it, and how much you could hope to pay. Last week, we saw some evidence suggesting that the handset could come to Europe on March 8, but today we look at its US release. According to this new info, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T could get the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 30, 2013 11:17 AM
Read OnWe were just getting our hopes up about the chance of seeing BlackBerry 10 hardware available immediately after today's platform kick-off event, but that's sadly not going to be the case everywhere. Indeed, while the UK gets the Z10 as of tomorrow, and Canada will get it next week, the US will have to wait until mid-March. We had heard that March date rumored earlier, but after having that followed up by all these other rumors of earlier launches elsewhere (now confirmed), we grew optimistic that everyone would be seeing the new hardware sooner rather than later; clearly, that's not the ...
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by Jaime Rivera | January 29, 2013 2:10 PMRead OnWell this seems to be the season where underdog carriers just can't merge with anybody. We remember how the whole T-Mobile + AT&T merger never went through, and now it's Sprint's turn. Recently it was all over the news that the Japanese company Softbank would be nice enough to take hold of Sprint, but it seems that even that endeavor is going down hill. Bloomberg has just reported that the DOJ has requested that the FCC should delay the merger between the two companies due to some national security concerns. This doesn't necessarily mean that it won't happen, but once you get the DOJ ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 25, 2013 9:57 AMRead OnAfter a dry spell of almost unprecedented proportions, it looks like Windows Phone is finally making its way back to America's number-three carrier. That's not necessarily the biggest news of the quarter, but there's a few reasons this new development should have fans of Microsoft's platform cheering. First, some back-story. Sprint may be the last nationwide carrier to get on board with the current version of Windows Phone, but it was there for the last go-round. The carrier launched the Windows Phone 7-powered HTC Arrive -the CDMA version of the HTC 7 Pro- way back in March 2011. While ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 23, 2013 1:45 PMRead OnLife frequently defies our expectations. For example, if it's your first full season covering mobile-technology trade shows, sometimes you find your expectations for a nice, quiet lull between CES and MWC completely upset -toppled, really- by reality. For this editor, that reality came fast and fierce, delivering an unbelievable bounty of rumor and speculation at his doorstep on the morning of this week's Pocketnow Weekly podcast. The bright side: you get to hear all the latest news and gossip surrounding Galaxy S IV and Note 8.0 speculation; HTC's Droid DNA upgrade with a very James ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 20, 2013 8:44 AMRead OnThe LG Optimus G, announced on September 18, made its way to the U.S., alongside other markets like Canada, Japan, South Korea; a company spokesperson unveiled plans for the phone to officially land in China and several countries in Europe in the first quarter of the year. Ever since its launch, LG managed to sell one million Optimus G units. The number refers to worldwide sales and was unveiled by the South Korean company on Friday. Given that this is by no means a full, worldwide device roll-out, the one million number looks like a great figure. It is far from Samsung's or Apple's best ...
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by Jaime Rivera | January 18, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we go through the Samsung Galaxy S IV benchmark rumors that were recently made public. Then we move to Windows Phone 7.8 as apparently the update will reach devices before the month ends. Then we go through the rumors of a Sprint Windows Phone 8 in the works. Believe it or not, we later talk about BlackBerry 10 since the first US carrier to use it will apparently be Verizon. We end today's show as we talk about the recent UK experiment that will not ship you phones with a charger. All this and more after the break. Stories: - Should We Believe These Samsung ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 18, 2013 4:31 PMRead OnWindows Phone news has been hot this afternoon, and the stories keep right on coming. Lately, Sprint has finally started warming up to Windows Phone 8, after taking a very hands-off approach for the platform's launch. We've already heard the carrier talk about its intentions to bring some WP8 models from both HTC and Samsung to its subscribers this summer. Today, there are some new FCC certification documents available for us to peruse, and while they look like they could show an HTC Windows Phone model getting ready for Sprint, they also bring up some questions regarding just what we're ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 16, 2013 4:22 PMRead OnNews arrived last month of a potentially serious hole in how Exynos-based Android handsets let apps access system memory, giving them essentially free rein. Samsung responded to the discovery within a matter of days, promising software updates to correct the situation with affected devices "as quickly as possible". Now, less than a month later, we're beginning to see some of those updates arrive for Samsung users in the States. Samsung already got the ball rolling on this a couple weeks back, when users in the UK started receiving fixes for their Galaxy S III handsets. Now that we're ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 14, 2013 11:32 AMRead OnThis year's Consumer Electronics Show from Las Vegas has come and gone. As usual, we've been both on-site bringing you coverage from events as well as the show floor, and here on Pocketnow, keeping you up to date with what's going on in the mobile world. For some the show has been excellent; for others it has been a letdown. We can't compare CES to a specialized mobile event like MWC (maybe with IFA); still, our experience from past years has taught us to expect certain things to happen at CES. They might or might not have happened in a straightforward way but there was a lot of innovation ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 13, 2013 5:10 AMRead OnVeni, vidi, vici! We were looking forward to CES 2013, pretty much like we're always looking forward to trade shows where there's a possibility of seeing new and exciting things from and related to the mobile world. Good or bad as it was, this year's Vegas show is just one of many to come and, probably the biggest problem related to CES is the fact that it is followed shortly by MWC, a show related to mobile and only mobile. We're seeing companies slowly moving away from shows to announce their gadgets, following Apple's lead, but even those companies who are show-centric have probably ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 9, 2013 6:45 PMRead On"The Snowball, the 6-Inch Mate, & the In-N-Out Experience." That's the summary that led us out of our most recent podcast, and it narrowly missed becoming the title of this here episode, number 26 in our weekly series. This is a very special episode, coming to you straight from the luxurious Pocketnow suites overlooking the blink-tastic Las Vegas strip. For the past few days, we've been covering the happenings from CES 2013, bringing you video after video of devices from manufacturers of all stripes. It hasn't been the most hardware-heavy show in memory, but that doesn't mean we don't ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 9, 2013 1:49 PMRead OnLittle by little, we've been learning more about Sprint's plans to catch up with the rest of the big US carriers and start offering Windows Phone 8 devices later this year. First, the carrier clued us in that WP8 phones would be available "soon", followed then by news that "soon" meant more like "sometime this summer". That far out, we had to wonder if Sprint would be selling this past fall's Windows Phone 8 hardware with Sprint-compatible radios, or if was waiting on second-generation WP8 models. Today, a few comments form a Sprint exec strongly suggest that Sprint won't be dragging up ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 9, 2013 3:55 AMRead OnSprint has announced that the company has reached a preliminary agreement with representatives of the American radio industry; as a direct effect, during the next three years, select Android and Windows smartphone users will be able to listen to FM radio stations on their handsets. These stations will be delivered either via tuner applications like NextRadio -- to be available later in 2013 -- or other radio titles and services. Additionally, the Now Network also announced the launch of Entertain Me, an application bundle and service which is offering Sprint TV, Movies, Music Plus as ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 7, 2013 7:23 PMRead OnLast night we heard from Sprint that it would "soon" be offering Windows Phone 8 smartphones, but just when, exactly, and which models? The picture isn't quite 100% complete, but this afternoon Sprint filled-in a couple more blanks, giving us a better idea than ever of its WP8 plans. The bad news is that Sprint doesn't seem to be in any hurry to start offering Windows Phone 8 devices, and its first won't arrive until sometime this summer. As for just which phones the carrier has its eye on, it neglected to name any specific models, nor explain if we're talking about all-new devices, or ...
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