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by Joe Levi | May 22, 2012 8:22 PMI'm "Joe the Android Guy". I do a weekly show for Pocketnow called the Android Guy Weekly. Needless to say, I like Android. I've been with the operating system since the T-Mobile G1 and Android 1.6. It might come as a surprise to many of you to hear me talk negatively about Android, so when I talk about my frustrations with Android, it's not blasphemy, it's reality. Lack of Accessories I look at all the Apple minions with their cute little phones in their cute little cases and their cute little keyboards -- and I'm jealous. In my world, a tablet needs a case and a phone needs a dock. I've been...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2012 11:52 AMFor about the past month or so, owners of HTC's Amaze 4G on T-Mobile have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the update that would bring their phones Ice Cream Sandwich. T-Mobile first tipped subscribers off to the news that updates for both the Amaze 4G and Sensation 4G would be here quite shortly; that seemed to imply that the previously-rumored June dates for the arrival of these updates might be off. Sure enough, we soon got word of a confirmed release date for the Sensation, but found ourselves waiting just a little longer for news on the Amaze. Last week, though, the carrier finally sp...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 21, 2012 7:38 AMThe AT&T HTC One X and Sprint EVO 4G LTE (plus probably the T-Mobile Amaze 4G) were affected by U.S. Customs reviews and were delayed from the shelves because of an ITC ban imposed in defense of an Apple patent. The ban came into effect on April 19 and the manufacturer as well as the operators couldn't tell anything specific regarding a timeframe for resolving the issue. According to recent reports, HTC has issued a statement in Taiwan that brings some relieving information: "Some of our products have passed the review and have been delivered to our telecoms operators’ clients in the US...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 18, 2012 7:33 PMWhen we first heard of Samsung's SGH-T999 for T-Mobile, early on in the year, it seemed that the Android might end up released as the Galaxy S Blaze 4G. That didn't come to pass, but the model number recently popped-up again, and this time along with some circumstantial evidence that made it seem likely to be T-Mobile's version of the Galaxy S III. Later, we looked at some sample images from the cameras of various Galaxy S III carrier editions, including the T999 again. Now we're one step closer to the phone's release, upon the FCC publishing the handset's certification paperwork. The docum...
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by Jaime Rivera | May 17, 2012 2:01 PMAfter two months since the original release of HTC Sense 3.6 with Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich, T-Mobile finally shares the love with Sensation 4G customers. The upgrade includes a ton of great changes for current Sensation customers, so we don't recommend you ignore the opportunity. Surely this upgrade is not the same experience that HTC One customers receive with Sense 4.0, nor will it make your one-year-old Sensation loose a few millimeters in thickness like the it's new successor, the One S. That may be something positive for many of you though since the Sensation and the One S are...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 16, 2012 9:39 AMT-Mobile promisedan official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for its HTC Sensation 4G to land today and make no mistake it is now available for you to pull and apply. The software version is 3.32.531.14710RD, approved as of today, and contains Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich with HTC Sense 3.6 on top of it. For a complete list of new features, improvements and instructions, check out the source link below. To grab the update (in case you didn't get the notification), make sure to manually check for its existence by going into Settings, About phone, HTC software updates, Check. If ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 15, 2012 11:05 AMThree weeks ago, we saw Samsung publish a list of just which of its Android devices would be seeing Ice Cream Sandwich updates arrive in the US. We already had our suspicions that many of those devices would be getting ICS thanks to news about updates for their international versions, and others we had already seen confirmed by the carriers themselves. Still, it was good to see confirmation in those cases where we previously lacked it, as well as get the chance to see the status of all these Samsung models in a nice carrier-by-carrier breakdown. At least, that's largely what we got, but at the...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 14, 2012 12:44 PMJust a few weeks back, it looked like owners of the HTC Sensation 4G on T-Mobile weren't going to get their official upgrades to Ice Cream Sandwich until well into June, at least according to a leaked roadmap. Since then, though, comments made by the carrier have suggested a much sooner release date for the update, with news that its requisite testing had successfully been completed. While T-Mobile said the update would be here "very soon", it hadn't committed to any particular date. Today, we see T-Mobile update its support pages for the Sensation 4G, announcing the arrival of Ice Cream Sandw...
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by Evan Blass | May 14, 2012 11:30 AMWith the highly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III practically confirmed for all four major US carriers, we thought it would be fun to gather up test shots from their respective eight-megapixel cameras. Don't expect anything you can print out and frame, though: the pickings here were decidedly slim, with most of the variants only offering up a handful of examples -- none of which apparently took into account the subject nor quality of the image. Still, as with the first iPhone 4S test photo, there's something fun about checking out images from unreleased devices that will soon sweep the country ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 14, 2012 10:31 AMAfter wondering for months what Samsung's SGH-T999 Android for T-Mobile might be, we recently started considering that it could represent the carrier's version of the Galaxy S III. That's far from confirmed at the moment, but it certainly seems like a decent possibility, considering both that we were expecting T999 to be quite the high-end device, and how it showed-up grouped with other GS3 models in a recent video. Even if we can cross that mystery off our lists, we're far from done with identifying unknown phones, as some new evidence shows another similar model in the works. Once again, ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2012 5:37 PMThe United States is set to see the Samsung Galaxy S III arrive sometime this summer. As was the case with the first- and second-generation Galaxy S handsets, we're expecting to see this phone hit the majority of carriers, especially the big players. In the coming weeks, we hope to learn more about specific plans for how the carriers intend to bring the phone to market, and what name-changes they might have in store for the Android. Today, we get our first hint of T-Mobile's role in the US GS3 launch. Back in the first weeks of 2012, we looked into the possibility for Samsung releasing a ph...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 8, 2012 11:35 PMAt the CTIA expo in New Orleans this afternoon, the CEOs from Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile all gathered together for a roundtable discussion to talk about about wireless data, LTE, and what innovations we'll be seeing next. Verizon's Dan Mead took the stage first, where he talked about his company's perception of a coming spectrum crunch. By Mead's estimates, Verizon subscribers will be demanding more wireless data than the company can provide by sometime in 2014. Dan Hesse from Sprint followed Mead, discussing the need to improve the reputation of carriers in the eyes of consume...
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by Joe Levi | May 8, 2012 1:45 PMBefore we dive too deep (after all, love is such a strong word) people like Android. About 51% of smartphone users are running Android on their device. By February 2012 there were over 300 million Android phones (not including tablets) in the hands of consumers, with an additional 850,000 phones and tablets being activated every day. Obviously Android is doing something right. But that's just people who like Android. Some of them may not even know they're running Android, but it gets the job done and they're not at all worried about the nuts and bolts of what make their gadgets tick. ...
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by Evan Blass | May 7, 2012 4:11 PMEverybody loves a bargain, right? Especially when it comes to smartphones, it doesn't get much better than inexpensive handsets -- or does it? From the consumer's perspective, low-priced hardware can be seen two ways: either it represents a good deal or, sometimes, simply a cheap and low-quality product. Certain brands go out of their way to avoid the appearance of being cheap and mass market, even if it means lower sales on higher margins: think Nokia sub-brand Vertu. Other companies, however, embrace the low-cost model, hoping to make their money on volume -- although perhaps at the expen...
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by Brandon Miniman | May 6, 2012 4:42 PMNo US availability has been announced for the Samsung Galaxy S III, but should you have the proper amount of dollars to import a Galaxy S III on May 29, you'll be able to use Samsung's new flagship over AT&T's HSPA+ network just fine. We've increasingly been seeing unlocked European handsets coming with the 850 and/or 1900MHz bands, which is what is required to use a phone over AT&T's 3G network here in the States. Some online retailers like Negri Electronics are even showing the Galaxy S III as having the 1700MHz band, which would allow the phone to also work on T-Mobile (making it pentaband,...
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