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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2013
One downside to being the dude who's dead set against unboxings is that you occasionally find your self taking a phone out of a box and filming it for all the world to see. But seeing as how we&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 12, 2013
AT&T this morning confirmed what we've known for a couple weeks now -- Android 4.1.2 is pushing to the Sony Xperia TL. Noted is the addition of AT&T DriveMode, which at 25 mph can shut d...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 12, 2013
Yesterday we saw screenshots allegedly from a dual-SIM Samsung Galaxy S4 variant destined for the China Unicom carrier. Today we're getting an even closer look at the handset in question, c...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 11, 2013
Samsung's quite the tease lately. It's launched a campaign of bizarre teaser trailers for the upcoming Galaxy S4, but so far these have been devoid of any real information about the device. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2013
It's one of the more controversial moves a smartphone manufacturer has made in recent memory. HTC has pared down the out-of-box home screen experience, instead going with a single traditional An...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2013
Some folks want BlinkFeed -- HTC's home screen news reader -- to die in a fire. They don't like the idea of BlinkFeed. They think it's a bad idea (never mind not having actually used it)...
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by Casey Rendon
Mar 11, 2013
Good news for Sony Xperia J owners - the official rollout of Jelly Bean has begun. This will bump the Android OS up to version 4.1, bringing with it new features from Jelly Bean like Quick...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 11, 2013
Just the same, only different: The iPhone 5 and HTC One are worlds apart
"The HTC One looks just like the iPhone 5!" Those were the words out of many a mouth after HTC unveiled its new...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 11, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S4 guardian Jeremy Maxwell returns with his magical glowing box in the second teaser trailer for the upcoming handset. If you were hoping for any hint of actual information on wh...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 11, 2013
The Samsung Galaxy S4 rumor mill has been churning in the run up to Thursday’s big announcement event in New York City, but so far we’ve seen little to indicate what the upcoming handset...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 11, 2013
LG announced its LII Series of devices at MWC last month, and now we've got some details on the global availability of the Optimus L5II. As we covered when we had our hands on the devices a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 10, 2013
We're getting ever closer to the public release of the HTC One, with the all-new Sense 5, and we're putting this guy through its paces. There's quite a lot to go over, and we're g...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 10, 2013
Despite a name which almost screams low end, the Samsung Galaxy Pop is far from low end. Packing a quad-core processor, LTE, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and many of the software bells and whistles the Ga...
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by Richard Devine
Mar 09, 2013
The HTC One may not yet be on sale anywhere in the world, but that hasn't stopped the official OEM accessories arriving. UK retailer, Clove Technology, has already received stocks of three acces...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 09, 2013
Finally, we've got our hands on the HTC One for official one-on-one time. This is finished hardware, and nearly complete software, so it's time to get our official HTC One review under way.
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 08, 2013
The Optimus 4X HD was a really well built device with great 2012 specifications released in the middle of last year. But it had some severe software problems, and was locked down so t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 08, 2013
A T-Mobile store in Prague has found a way to make everyone interested in the Xperia Z -- putting it in the hands of swimsuit models. Taking advantage of the Xperia Zs water-resistant design, b...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 08, 2013
HTC's affiliation with the UEFA Champions League should be well-known to anyone who follows European football (all right, soccer, if you insist) and now British operator EE is offering a unique ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2013
A few folks have written in, asking about that weird symbol that's in the status bar of their AT&T HTC One X following the recent update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
The answer is a simple as...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 08, 2013
Rumors of a second HTC-built Facebook phone have been circulating since the middle of last year, and now there's further evidence to support reports of the new Facephone's eventual appe...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 08, 2013
In just six days Samsung will take the wraps off its next major smartphone, the Galaxy S4. We've heard numerous rumors in recent days, but there remains a lot we don't know about this new Sa...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 07, 2013
LG Optimus G users on Sprint have something to cheer about today, as the Jelly Bean OTA update has just started its rollout. As newer versions of the Optimus G have started to come out of the box wi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2013
A quick heads up for those of you in Korea with the U+ version of the LG Optimus G Pro -- there's a small update waiting for you that apparently improves messaging and camera functionality. And ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 07, 2013
We had some pretty interesting information regarding a Jelly Bean soak test for the original Motorola Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX, and now Motorola has made the update official. The support page h...
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by Casey Rendon
Mar 07, 2013
This has been an exciting couple of months for Google fans in Japan. First the Nexus 10 launches, then the 3G Nexus 7, and now finally the Nexus 4. The Japanese product page is up, giving a rundown ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2013
Update 2: Never mind AT&T's blog post ... the update most definitely is available now. It's a whopping 630 MB.
Update: And AT&T has pulled its blog post announcing all this. Figures...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 07, 2013
The folks in our Motorola DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX forums are all aflutter this morning, and rightfully so. A new software soak test -- wherein a few brave souls get in some final testing befo...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 07, 2013
ASUS is all about crazy devices that double as other devices -- take the Padfone Infinity and Fonepad, announced last week at MWC, for instance. Today the Taiwanese manufacturer has launched an equa...
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 06, 2013
LG has just officially taken the wraps off of the Optimus LTE III, which has made some appearances in leaked images recently. As a worthy successor to the Optimus LTE II, the latest version has a 4....
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by Andrew Martonik
Mar 06, 2013
Hot on the heels of the Jelly Bean update for the Verizon model, the Galaxy SIII (S3) on C Spire Wireless is receiving its own OTA starting today. The update will bring users up to Android 4.1.2 -- ...
