Yesterday, we reported that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 update had touched down and landed. Well, as it turns out, Sony made the announcement prematurely and the update is, in fact, not currently available and won’t be for at least a couple of days. In a blog post from Mattias Holm who is Sony Ericsson’s [...]
We knew that an official Gingerbread update for the T-Mobile G2 was in the works and for those of you who have been waiting patiently for the update, your patience is finally being rewarded as T-Mobile has just announced that Gingerbread is rolling out now. It’s going to be rolling out in waves which means [...]
There have been rumors swirling around about an August 4th release date for the Motorola Droid Bionic much to the excitement of the Android community. However, in addition to the early August date, there have also been whispers about a release at some point in September. Over the weekend some physical evidence surfaced indicating that [...]
A short time ago we learned that Verizon’s variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II might be coming with 4G LTE and now, we have definitive proof that Sprint’s version is definitely going to be of the 4G flavor as it has passed through the FCC with WiMax on board. The filing, which was discovered [...]
We knew that Asus was in the middle of testing the Android 3.2 Honeycomb update for the Eee Pad Transformer and that meant that a release was close. How close? Well, Asus just announced that it will be rolling out the latest version of Honeycomb to its popular tablet starting tomorrow, July 28th, and even [...]
Updated: Verizon has, obviously, started to perform damage control on the situation. False alarm? Possibly, but there is definitely still hope. About 40 minutes ago, Verizon support tweeted out something that probably is going to get a lot of you extremely excited, especially in the wake of the Motorola Droid Bionic’s possible September release. Heck, [...]
Last night, Chuong posted some evidence that seemed to point to a possible Motorola Droid Bionic release date on August 4th, a date that we’ve seen leak out a few times and a date that many people are banking on. That evidence unfortunately didn’t sit too well with me. Maybe it was the brevity, the [...]
It was reported earlier that the Motorola Xoom’s 4G LTE software and hardware upgrade will be coming–free to current Xoom 3G owners–in September, the carrier is now beginning to email customers about the upgrde. Other than confirming that the 4G LTE upgrade will be coming in September, the email was vague in details. It did, [...]
Verizon Wireless is readying the over the air software update for the Motorola Droid X2 that will deliver the Android 2.3 Gingerbready operating system to the 3G smartphone. While the Droid X2 was launched with Android 2.2 Froyo with a newer and sleeker version of the MOTO BLUR user interface pre-loaded, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread [...]
A new Samsung tablet with the SGH-T859 model has recently gotten WiFi certification. Little is known about the device, other than that it will support WiFi, at this time. It is known that this Samsung-made device will be a tablet, and given that it will be coming to T-Mobile, it would support GSM/HSPA+ networking capabilities [...]
At a special event in Japan, Toshiba-Fujitsu had announced the IS12T smartphone, which will be the world’s first Windows Phone 7 device to ship with Microsoft’s Mango software update out of the box. The smartphone will be available in September and will boast some neat and innovative features that will set the device ahead of [...]
Given that Verizon Wireless had leaked the Blackberry Bold 9930 training video earlier this week, rival Sprint’s version of the Bold flagship phone may not be far behind. It’s unclear if the new BlackBerry Bold 9930 for Sprint will be a 3G CDMA-only model–perhaps with world-phone GSM capabilities for international roaming–or if the device will [...]
Research in Motion may be building itself a quiet ‘Storm’ as it moves its Verizon-branded BlackBerry Storm franchise to a more carrier-agnostic edition of the touchscreen slate BlackBerry Torch 9860 smartphone. The Torch 9860 is most recently seen with an AT&T-branded wallpaper, though AT&T branding isn’t found on the hardware. Given that AT&T has a [...]
There are now two camps for the launch date of the Motorola Droid Bionic, a device widely believed to be Verizon’s flagship 4G LTE smartphone. One camp seems to think that the device will be launching sometime in September, while a second camp optimistically believes that the Droid Bionic will land in early August. The [...]
Now that the T-Mobile G2X has re-appeared on T-Mobile’s portfolio of Android smartphone, the carrier is running a promotion through July 28th that will make the dual-core offering from LG for free with a two-year contract. The phone was initially plagued with some random rebooting problems initially, but it seems that the carrier and LG [...]
A mysterious device has popped up on the Developer Center with little information known except that the device would be packing a 720p HD display and will be running Google’s Android Gingerbread operating system. While it’s still unclear if this will be a tablet or a smartphone, we do know that the WXGA resolution display [...]
Earlier today, we got our first good look at a phone that supposedly is AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II. Surprisingly, the device employs a physical QWERTY keyboard, something that Galaxy S II that’s been released worldwide does not have. This likely led to many of you, who aren’t big fans of physical keyboards, to denounce [...]
Comedian Mark Malkoff wanted to test the limits of just how “nice” Apple Store employees can be. He may have to keep trying. The video, first dug up by Gothamist, shows Malkoff push the boundaries of what one can get away with in an Apple Store before getting kicked out. His list of over-the-top tactics [...]
We hesitate to cover yet another alleged “leak” of iPhone 5 details, but this one has some images to go along with it, so why not? This latest bit of iPhone 5 “news” is based on tips (delivered by Mobile Fun) that are supposedly from multiple Chinese case manufacturers. The supposed new look happens to [...]
Going to war and coming home from war are incredibly stressful events. The Pentagon knows that PTSD and other stress-related disorders are a major obstacle for soldiers returning to civilian life. Now, soldiers have another tool to help deal with stress and PTSD. Unlike a therapist, this tool is always with them. These tools are familiar [...]
Update: Sadly, it had to do with the launch of the 4G LTE Galaxy Tab 10.1. We’re pretty sure that the Samsung Galaxy S II is going to be launching next month in the United States. And we’re also fairly certainly that it’s going to be launching on AT&T and Sprint at the very least. [...]
With the release of the HTC EVO 3D we knew it would only be a matter of time before Sprint decided to put the HTC EVO 4G down but we had no clue when it would be doing so. Today, SprintFeed has supplied us with what amounts to a smartphones eulogy as a leaked document [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is about to become the first tablet to run on Verizon’s LTE network. Launching this Thursday, July 28, the LTE Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be waiting in Verizon stores. The prices, however, may make you think twice about jumping on board. While the WiFi-only version of the Tab 10.1 is [...]
On July 21st, Verizon rolled out its 4G LTE network to 28 new cities and expanded it in six other markets. Today, Big Red announced that its next big 4G LTE roll out will take place on August 18th and will bring 4G LTE to several new markets and expand it in a ton of [...]
Update: Or not. Sony Ericsson surprised Xperia X10 owners when it announced that it would be rolling out an update to Gingerbread after saying that the device would never see the upgrade to Android 2.3. And now that announcement has become a reality as Sony has made the update available for those of you that [...]
Alright, so we have just learned that the Motorola Xoom will likely be getting its 4G LTE upgrade in September. That’s great. However, you may recall that Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha stated back in April that the Motorola Droid Bionic would be launching alongside the upgrade. So, unless plans have changed it appears that the [...]
Droid-Life has uncovered some evidence that points to a September release of the 4G LTE upgrade for the Motorola Xoom, something that Motorola promised would be coming out at some point this summer. This news comes after we saw what is probably the Xoom’s 4G LTE module pass through the FCC with flying colors which [...]
Just a short time ago, we told you that the T-Mobile G2x had returned to T-Mobile’s online store after being absent due to “inventory issues” for two months. We all know that the real reason that the phone was out of action was because of the numerous software bugs that it was plagued with and [...]
It has been gone for over two months but the T-Mobile G2x has made its return to T-Mobile’s store and until July 28th, you can snag the device for free from T-Mobile’s online store. The deal that T-Mobile has going on is for new and add-a-line customers only so those of you who are on [...]
We told you yesterday about how the Facebook for iPad app was leaked via hidden code inside the Facebook for iPhone app. Today (as the folks at iDownloadBlog tell us) anyone with a jailbroken iPad can transform the Facebook for iPhone app into the unreleased iPad version. There was a previous (more complicated method) that [...]
Yesterday, we found out that there was something RIM-related in the pipeline for today and it turns out that it’s likely going to be Verizon’s BlackBerry Bold 9930 that will be the phone that is announced today. How do we know this? Well, Verizon took it upon itself to release a lengthy little preview video [...]
Now is the perfect time to do some back-to-school notebook shopping if you are in the market for a notebook that will survive the harsh existence that is college. Typically the biggest back-to-school notebooks sales hit in August, but Lenovo is cutting prices on their ThinkPad notebooks a week early. Instead of paying thousands of dollars, you [...]
We’re all lazy enough that you have wished for the ability to pay for something by holding our credit card up to the screen instead of tying it out again and again. If you’re lucky, you may not need to type in your credit card information ever again. Netswipe is a new online payment platform [...]
Aside from Amazon’s tablet, one of the most-aniticipated upcoming Android slates is HTC’s 10-incher, codenamed “Puccini.” Today, courtesy of BGR, we have our first real glimpses of what the tablet will look like. Fans of HTC will feel right at home here, as the slate has the familiar style of the Taiwanese manufacturer. The front [...]
Yesterday, a mysterious image of a Samsung Android QWERTY slider that appeared to be destined for AT&T leaked out. The phone, which was unnamed, appeared to be a variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II. I debated back and forth with a few people on whether or not it was AT&T’s Samsung Galaxy S II [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
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