While Verizon Wireless’s official $300 asking price for its flagship Droid Bionic smartphone is standard for a 4G LTE device, you can get more bang out of your buck if you shop around. We’re hearing some discounts at a number of reputable wireless dealers, including through Amazon, which is offering the phone for significantly less, [...]
If you’ve been waiting for a 4G LTE smartphone with a physical keyboard, it looks like your lucky day will arrive soon as the Samsung Stratosphere has passed through the FCC and lo and behold it has 4G LTE capabilities on board. The Stratosphere is certainly not going to turn heads like the Motorola Droid [...]
The Droid Bionic might be the best 4G LTE phone you can buy, but Verizon’s limits will prevent the device from living up to its full potential. Both Motorola’s Droid Bionic and Verizon’s 4G network are speed demons, but what’s the use if you have to worry about burning through your data allocation before the [...]
The Motorola Droid Bionic is finally official and Verizon will be releasing it tomorrow, September 8th, for $299 on a new two-year contract. Many of you have been waiting for the entire duration of 2011 for this phone to arrive and now that it’s finally here, you have a pretty big choice to make. Do [...]
Today is the big day folks. Verizon and Motorola have finally, at long last, made the Motorola Droid Bionic official and it will be arriving tomorrow, September 8th, for a cool $299 on a new two-year contract. And while we were absolutely thrilled with the device, you can read our review here, there are still [...]
Verizon 4G LTE offers amazing download and upload speeds in a growing number of markets, but as I discovered this week, it’s still finicky in a number of markets, especially when compared to Verizon’s 3G nationwide blanket of coverage. For the past week I have been spending a lot of time in the closest 4G LTE market, [...]
Last week, we got word that the Droid Incredible Gingerbread update had started rolling out. However, the roll out, if there even was one, was extremely small. Well, today, we’re happy to say that Gingerbread for the Droid Incredible is now available to all Droid Incredible owners, so if you own one, it’s probably worth [...]
The Motorola droid Bionic has had a storied launch, but after 9 months of waiting Motorola has finally delivered a new flagship phone to Verizon. The Bionic is a the first 4G LTE dual core smartphone to arrive on Verizon Wireless, just in time for millions of users to enjoy the fast 4G LTE speeds [...]
While 4G LTE technology is still nascent, Verizon Wireless has demonstrated how an LTE network should be deployed and handled with speeds exceeding the promised 12 Mbps and extremely low latency, Verizon is now talking about the future of 4G technologies and roaming. Currently, the biggest drawback with 4G LTE is that adopters who have [...]
With the imminent launch of the Motorola Droid Bionic on Verizon Wireless, users looking at fast mobile broadband data on the carrier’s 4G LTE network will have many choices. In this roundup, we’re going to take a look at the first generation of 4G LTE devices, including the Thunderbolt, Droid Charge, and LG Revolution, and [...]
We’re still unsure exactly what the Samsung Droid Prime and Nexus Prime are all about but it appears both of them are getting closer to release as Droid-Life is reporting that the Droid Prime received its Wi-Fi certification a short time ago and the Nexus Prime, not to be outdone, got its Bluetooth CIG certification [...]
The iPhone 4 has been out for over a year now and there are rumors swirling about a new iPhone launching later this month or at some point in October however it appears the iPhone 4 is still the best selling smartphone on both AT&T and Verizon Wireless. According to Canaccord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley, [...]
Ever since we saw the BlackBerry Torch 9850 show up in a Verizon retail poster back at the end of August we figured that a release date from Big Red was just around the corner. Well, today, Verizon announced just that. September 8th is going to be launch day for the BlackBerry Torch 9850, a [...]
Back on September 1st, Gingerbread started rolling out for the original Motorola Droid 2 so we figured that a roll out for the Motorola Droid 2 Global was probably not far behind and sure enough, Motorola has confirmed that the update is now available to Droid 2 Global users. Originally, we thought the update would [...]
We’ve seen the Motorola Droid Bionic pop up just about everywhere. Photos, a pre-launch review and a couple of videos. However, none of those have anything on what leaked out today ahead of its anticipated September 8th launch date. Android Central’s forums are rife with Droid Bionic videos as a user named bworely50 has leaked [...]
We’ve heard about the Pantech Breakout before as yet another addition to Verizon Wireless’s 4G LTE portfolio of Android smartphone, and now we’re beginning to see some official press photos for the device. The folks over at pocketnow had uncovered some official photos for the 4G LTE smartphone–a first for Pantech–that will join the company [...]
The Samsung Illusion for Verizon Wireless may be just that–an illusion–as the device may look like a high-end Galaxy S, but will be in reality an entry-level or mid-range 3G Android smartphone. The device is said to have an HVGA display, compared to the WVGA or qHD resolution of newer high-end devices, though there have [...]
There were rumors surrounding the release of the Samsung Stratosphere as a possible Samsung Galaxy S 1 or Galaxy S II variant, and now we are beginning to get more details about Verizon’s ‘Epic’ smartphone release. Unfortunately, however, epic in this case may not be of epic proportion, as that description would be reserved for [...]
Verizon Wireless is running a special promotion right now to get some if its customers to upgrade to a smartphone by offering a $100 gift card. The deal runs through November 15th and would cover some of today’s hottest devices–including the Motorola Droid 3, Droid X2, the HTC Thunderbolt, LG Revolution, Droid Charge, and more–as [...]
If you haven’t joined the 4G LTE revolution that’s being championed presently in the U.S. by Verizon Wireless and soon to be joined by AT&T, 2012 may be the year when LTE takes off with devices no longer commanding a premium. Right now, with the technology for faster mobile broadband being nascent, smartphones are commanding [...]
I think we’ve exhausted the pricing and the release date for the Motorola Droid Bionic for today so lets move onto some other stuff that actually might be a little bit more exciting for some of you. Some clear, crisp photos and a pre-launch review from someone who has his hands on a Droid Bionic. [...]
The avalanche of Motorola Droid Bionic news continues as its release date has been confirmed for the billionth time and its on-contract pricing at Best Buy has also been confirmed. We’re pretty sure the Droid Bionic is going to be launching on September 8th, the evidence is just too strong, and Engadget has pulled a [...]
We’re not exactly sure why Motorola and Verizon continue to be mum on an official release date for the Motorola Droid Bionic especially when a video teaser essentially confirmed the release date and Big Red is currently holding a contest for its first dual-core 4G LTE smartphone. Sadly, they’ll also probably remain silent today even [...]
The HTC ThunderBolt is an impressive phone, as long as it is powered on when you want to use it. I detailed all the reasons I bought it earlier this year, but I failed to take into account the horrible battery life that it has become known for. How bad is battery life on the [...]
Normally you need to wait two years to get a new phone at discount pricing, but it appears that Verizon is giving out early upgrades to long-term customers in order to tempt them to upgrade to the Motorola Droid Bionic and iPhone 5. Droid Life’s Kellex reports that he received an email telling him that he [...]
We’re still waiting for the Motorola Droid Bionic‘s pricing from Verizon. We have a pretty good feeling it’s going to be $299 on a new two-year contract which, for most of you, is too expensive. But what about full retail pricing? We’ve heard $590 before but a sleuth from Phandroid has discovered that that price [...]
A new commercial for the Verizon 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot 4510L hit the airwaves and the company’s YouTube channel touting the benefits of a 4G hotspot for users. The updated MiFi will deliver both 4G and 3G connections to up to five devices through the Verizon network depending on your location. What you get is [...]
Late last night, a miracle occurred. Verizon and Motorola finally began pushing out the Gingerbread update for the Motorola Droid 2. And it’s not an OTA update either. No sir. It’s available for Droid 2 owners, what’s left of them, to pull this very minute to get up and running. Unfortunately, it’s Android 2.3.3 and [...]
Yesterday, we told you that the September 8th release date for the Motorola Droid Bionic was all but confirmed. And today, a teaser video unearthed by Droid-Life pretty much puts the nail in the coffin. Motorola and Verizon have yet to announce anything but the end of this video, unless it’s doctored somehow and it [...]
The Motorola Droid Bionic is practically here. There’s no official release date from Verizon just yet, but new leaks and information from a trusted source leads us to believe that you’ll be able to go buy a Droid Bionic on September 8th. The new information comes to us by way of Droid-Life, which posted up [...]
The Motorola Xoom‘s long awaited upgrade to 4G LTE is close. We know that for sure. Exciting times to be sure for those of you that have held onto your Honeycomb tablet since it was released in February. However, up until today, we hadn’t really had a clear glimpse of 4G LTE’s capabilities on the [...]
The Droid Bionic is almost here. With the Motorola Droid Bionic Release bearing down on us, the massive marketing blitz has started with a contest and viral augmented reality game going on at the Verizon owned DroidDoes.com domain. If you head over to DroidDoes.com’s Bionic landing page, you’ll be greeted with an odd landing page [...]
Just in case you needed a reminder about the upcoming Motorola Droid Bionic‘s features, Android Central has unearthed a trove of documents that seem to come from an online training document. The manual is similar to the previous Droid Bionic manual we saw and reveals tons of Droid Bionic features only this time around we [...]
Yesterday saw the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S II, a device that many of you have been weighing against Verizon’s upcoming Motorola Droid Bionic. And while the Galaxy S II devices for Sprint and AT&T have firm release dates (T-Mobile’s does not), the Droid Bionic’s is still in the dark to those that are [...]
Leaked pricing suggest that Motorola and Verizon Wireless may be pricing the unique LapDock laptop dock accessory at $300, a far cry from affordability considering that users can get a full netbook that is capable of so much more for the same price. The LapDock garnered a lot of attention at CES earlier this year [...]
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