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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 7:53 PMVerizon started-off the week by confirming the upcoming arrival of updates for the Droid 4, RAZR, RAZR Maxx, and Rezound that would allow those phones to roam internationally on GSM/UMTS networks, despite their CDMA pedigree. We'll be seeing those updates come out sometime this summer (with a good chance that global roaming and Ice Cream Sandwich will arrive simultaneously for at least some of the models), but if just the news of this forthcoming feature has you thinking about picking up one of the models early, Amazon Wireless has some pretty nice deals ready for you. Subscribers signing o...
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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 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 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 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 Stephen Schenck | May 18, 2012 4:05 PMMotorola has a fantasist list available for users who are interested in learning when Ice Cream Sandwich should be coming to their smartphone or tablet. Two months ago, we saw the company update that list with its latest data, advising that the international RAZR would be seeing ICS arrive sometime in Q2 2012. We already knew that ICS was a lock for the Droid RAZR on Verizon, as the carrier had published its own list of confirmed ICS updates just a few days prior. On Motorola's list, though, progress on that update was marked as still being in its "Evaluation & Planning" stage, without any...
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by Michael Fisher | May 17, 2012 2:37 PMEarlier this month, Verizon Wireless announced that it was targeting a date sometime in 2013 for delivery of a new service to its customers. The new feature isn't a high-speed data option or device upgrade policy, but something much more mundane or critical, depending on your perspective: an SMS-to-911 backbone. Developed in partnership with TeleCommunication Systems, the system will allow customers in the United States to send SMS text messages to emergency-response call centers. This is something that's been in the works for a very long time, and it makes a lot of sense: I've talked about ho...
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by Jaime Rivera | May 15, 2012 8:00 AMAs a geek, it's sometimes hard for me or many of us to leave the tech bubble that we're surrounded with in order to understand why the average consumer sees things differently. Our own passion for gadgets pushes us to swap phones constantly, where as the average user signs a contract for one phone they won't be able to change for the next two years. With such a huge commitment, it's still an illogical mystery to many how Apple was able to push their iPhone from complete in-existence to being the top selling smartphone in the world. I say illogical because it was significantly more expensive th...
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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 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 Anton D. Nagy | May 12, 2012 5:18 AMUsers of the Verizon LG Spectrum were looking forward to receiving the VS920ZV5 update even though it's not the official Ice Cream Sandwich update that should be rolled-out sometime in the future, according to the carrier's official upgrade list. Documents for a new update which should arrive over-the-air have been published and this time it's update VS920V6. Needless to say that it is still not Android 4.0, though the changes appear to be rather important. Android will be version 2.3.6 and your Google applications (Play, YouTube, Gmail, and Talk) will be updated, aside from all the changes...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2012 3:24 PMA little earlier this week we got to see a leak that seemed to reveal the coming arrival of a new color variant for the Motorola Droid RAZR, with a blue version of the handset tipped to launch on May 17. It seemed a little odd to be hearing about a new color option this long after the phone's initial launch, but it sounded good all the same; the more choices, the better. Today that new blue model gets officially confirmed by Verizon, and we get to see a new leak that hints at a nice price break on the horizon for the RAZR Maxx. It turns out that you may be able to get the blue RAZR even soo...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2012 12:13 PMThere may still be half-a-dozen weeks to go until summer is here in full effect, but with temperatures on the way up, and days getting longer, it sure can feel like it's just around the corner. For plenty of us, our thoughts are already drifting towards vacation-time, and if you're living in the Northeastern US, that can mean taking a trip down to the shore. Alongside beach blankets, coolers, and bodyboards, you can bet we'll be packing our smartphones and tablets, as well. If you're a Verizon subscriber, we've got some news that should make your vacation plans a little bit sweeter, with the c...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 10, 2012 3:20 AMThe 2.11.605.19 update for the HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon was leaked almost one month ago, bringing new radios and fixes, but unfortunately no trace of Ice Cream Sandwich. Still, the phone will receive Android 4.0 sometime in the future! Until then, the documents regarding the 2.11.605.19 refresh have been posted online which means that the roll-out process should start in a matter of weeks. According to the changelog, it brings improved data connectivity, improved device stability, improvements to the mail application as well as other fixes which you can see in the screenshot above. So...
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