All the stories tagged with: smartphones
Verizon 4G Network Starts This Sunday
12/01/2010, Tony Melone (Verizon CTO) has officially announced that Verizon’s 4G LTE* network will come online this Sunday, and will instantly cover 110M American customers, he says. That includes 38 metro areas and 60 airports with southern California being the largest [...]
Verizon Wireless 4G Phones Coming in February 2011
11/18/2010, In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon Wireless CEO Ivan Seidenberg talked about the company’s plans for tiered data pricing based on data speeds, much like the tiered rates on a home network, along with the fact that [...]
Windows Phone 7 Launch in NYC
10/11/2010, Today Microsoft introduced an enormous, beautiful boulder it will attempt to push up a hill with a $400 million marketing budget as a lever. That enormous beautiful boulder, of course, is the new Windows Phone 7 (WP7, the phone) and [...]
Samsung Transform Hands-On
10/06/2010, Sprint and Samsung have announced the Samsung Transform, an mid-range Android device that has all the basic functions of a modern smartphone, except for the high-resolution display (480×320 here) and possibly a fast processor (we’ll need to benchmark it). The [...]
Genuine Moleskin iPad, iPhone Covers Combine Bits and Atoms
10/01/2010, We’ve seen various incarnations of iPad and iPhone cases before, but now Moleskin is unveiling its official Moleskin case. The company, known for its paper notebooks allowing users to quickly jot down notes, is combining its famous paper notebooks with [...]
HipLogic Launches The *Spark Social Home Screen For Smartphones
09/16/2010, Not everybody likes the default home screen that they’re presented with when they purchase their smartphone, and if you’re one of the many folks out there who want something different, HipLogic has just unveiled their new *Spark homescreen system, which [...]
Acer Liquid Metal smartphone is real
09/13/2010, Remember the Acer Liquid Metal smartphone that we looked at last week? Well, it is not vaporware just in case there are some naysayers out there, as an Acer UK spokesperson has just confirmed the existence of this handset. In [...]
Droid X Review
08/11/2010, Droid X Review - The Motorola Droid X has arrived to augment Motorola's high-end smartphone offering. With an enormous screen and a fast hardware platform
LG Optimus Z smartphone hits South Korea
07/29/2010, LG’s latest smartphone to hit South Korea would be the Optimus Z, where it will be available via local carriers SK Telecom and KT. Running on Android 2.1 with the option to upgrade it to version 2.2 before 2011 rolls [...]
iPhone 4 Jailbreak Demoed by Saurik
07/26/2010, Saurik, of Cydia fame, has demonstrated the jailbreak app store running on an iPhone 4, so hopefully a jailbreak for Apple’s latest smartphone will be released soon. Now that the DMCA has been amended to permit jailbreaking legally, there shouldn’t [...]
Google Quietly Testing Android 3.0 Gingerbread
07/26/2010, It looks like Gingerbread is being quietly tested either by Google or its developers using a popular Android benchmarking tool called Linpack. GreeneComputing, the makers behind Linpack, saw Android versions 3.0, 3.0.1, and 3.2 being tested using their tool: “Android [...]
iPhone 4 Review
07/17/2010, This iPhone 4 review goes in-depth and leaves all the politics and fanboism behind to focus on the actual user experience of using an iPhone. Is the iPhone 4 for you or not?
Unlocked Nokia N900 going for $369.99
06/23/2010, The Nokia N900 is one of the more hackable smartphones out there in the market, but it has hardly reached near any iPhone sales figures simply because we believe it is too expensive for the masses and lack the sex [...]
