It's been rumored since the original 920 debuted last year, and now it feels like a Verizon version of that smartphone could finally be just around the corner. We've been talking about this so-called Laser for weeks now, and recently saw both an unknown Verizon Nokia smartphone pop up at the FCC as model RM-860, and saw a mention of the Lumia 928 on a leaked Verizon doc. Now it's time to get specific, and the latest rumor says that this 928 will be hitting Verizon sometime next month. There have been rumors of an upcoming Nokia model codenamed Catwalk that might switch to aluminum from ...

Everybody loves getting an Android update; they remind us that our phones aren't yet completely out-of-date, and that our manufacturer and carrier have at least some passing interest in keeping us happy. We get to check out the latest Android features that it seems like everyone else has been enjoying for six months, and briefly feel like we have a modern handset again. That's all fine for what it is, but with so many phones out there tasked to get their updates, it's difficult for us to get very excited about any one in particular. At least, that's usually the case, but the new update ...

The rise of LTE has brought alongside it a dream we've yet to see realized: that some day pure-LTE phones will be the norm, and we might finally get smartphones with radio support so broad that they could function on any carrier in the US. As things stand, we still have a long way to go, and all the currently-available LTE phones also have 3G and legacy voice support that can be carrier-dependent. Still, we've seen progress towards this goal, like the recent news of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile trying a spectrum-sharing experiment. The latest development that has us hopeful comes from ...

'Laser' is what the allegedly upcoming Lumia Windows Phone made by Nokia has been rumored to be called. There has been a lot of speculation regarding this phone, with some going as far as claiming that the Laser might be the PureView Lumia we never saw at MWC. According to the screenshot above, allegedly taken off of Verizon's system, we can see a Lumia 928 in there. That's about it when it comes to info. Whether it will be a Lumia 920 -- same internals and aspect -- we've seen on AT&T or not is yet unknown. Some claim that it will look nothing like the 920 and, as far as specs are ...

Earlier this week we learned about some data Alan Mendelevich from AdDuplex had uncovered about new Nokia models through connection info collected from those devices, and now he's back at it, sharing some more data on some and spotting what just might be a Nokia tablet. That model RM-860 we saw earlier, the one identified as running on Verizon's network, is now identified as having a 1280 x 768 resolution. As a result, it could be the carrier's Lumia 920 that we've heard so much about. If not, it's clearly another higher-end model. The most interesting device here could be the RX-108, ...

We've recently seen both some benchmark results attributed to Samsung's Galaxy S IV, as well as a couple images apparently snapped by the phone's camera, and tonight we have a little more of both to share with you. First up, we've got some NenaMark figures for what appears to be the Verizon version of the Galaxy S IV, model SCH-I545. Once again, like those last benchmarks we saw, this one's raising some concerning questions about the phone's chipset. The Adreno 320 GPU mentioned here, the same as with the SHV-E300S from earlier, implies a Snapdragon SoC rather than an Exynos 5. Could only ...

We've got a few updates on phone updates (no pun intended) which we've already talked to you about before, concerning the long-awaited Ice Cream Sandwich update for the HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon and the lack of Windows Phone 7.8 for Nokia's Lumia 710 on T-Mobile. Right at the end of January, we got a big surprise when we saw that Verizon had posted documents on its HTC Thunderbolt support page indicating that the phone's Android 4.0.4 update was finally going to arrive. The update was supposed to come to the phone last summer, and after going absent for so long, we had really started to ...

We're hoping that in just a little over two weeks, at HTC's February 19 press event, we'll finally get to see the M7 publicly announced (although after Peter Chou chanting the phone's name at a recent company event, the M7 is already pretty much official). Until that happens, there are still plenty of new M7 rumors and leaks pouring in, and we've got quite a few to share with you today. First up, the M7 has been spotted in the retail computer systems at Carphone Warehouse, not only serving as further confirmation of the phone's name (as if that was in doubt), but giving us a little more ...