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News November 6, 2012

AT&T Will Have the Nokia Lumia 920 for $99.00 and the 820 for $49.99; Preorders Begin November 7th

After attending the Windows Phone launch event last Monday, I came away with an idea of which new devices I would most enjoy using, and my first choice was the Nokia Lumia 920. I’ve got an HTC 8X in hand (review coming soon), and now we have solid availability information from AT&T. Today, Nokia has [...]

A Visual Guide to the Freakin’ Huge US Cellular Samsung Galaxy Note II

In my review of the US Cellular Samsung Galaxy SIII (SGS3) last month, I noted that “there is no doubt about it – the Galaxy S III is HUGE. As in ‘sticks out of my pocket like a pocket protector’ big”. I have had the SGS3 fall out of my shirt pocket several times leaning [...]

Windows Phone 8 Launch Event

I’m at the Windows Phone 8 launch event this morning in San Francisco, waiting in the lobby of the Bill Graham Civic Center with roughly 150 other members of the media. There are probably fewer in attendance than originally intended, due to Hurricane Sandy’s grip on the Eastern states, but the mood here is upbeat [...]

This Week’s Entertainment Weekly Has Tina Fey and a Free Phone

Grab the latest Entertainment Weekly edition (the one with the lovely Tina Fey doing her best Audrey Hepburn on the cover), and you’ll also get a bonus inside. An active LCD screen which when freed from the magazine reveals … a working phone? Check out this video where Christina and Lance, from Mashable, tear apart [...]

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Reviews September 21, 2012

by Judie Lipsett Stanford

The Verizon HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE Review

note that the volume rocker is on the right side You can just make out the front-facing VGA (640×480) camera on the edge of the screen, here. Just beyond it is a subtle red grill over the ear speaker, and the Power/screen-wake button is done in a matching red. Along the top edge, there is also a [...]

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News September 21, 2012

by Joel McLaughlin

Just say NO to Verizon Add-On Services!

My cubemate at work asked me a question about his wife’s phone, a Samsung Android device. See, his wife dropped her phone and her screen shattered, of course. When the replacement arrived, we switched the SIM over, and everything was set … or so we thought. All of her contacts were missing. To make sure [...]

Sprint Readies the Samsung Galaxy Note II for Release This Fall, Reports 1 Million 4G Devices Sold!

As noted before, this morning we heard from Samsung that they have coordinated with all five major U.S. carriers to bring the massive Samsung Galaxy Note II to market; now Sprint has followed up and announced that they will be launching the 16GB version of the device later this fall on their ‘Truly Unlimited’ network! [...]

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News September 19, 2012

by Michael Anderson

U.S. Cellular Announces Availability of Samsung Galaxy Note II in ‘Late October’

This morning we heard from Samsung that they have coordinated with all five major U.S. carriers to bring the massive Samsung Galaxy Note II to market; now we have heard plans from U.S. Cellular to launch the phone in late October! U.S. Cellular is planning to have the 16 GB Titanium Gray device, and it [...]

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Events September 19, 2012

by Dan Cohen

A week ago, HTC summoned the press to an event they will be holding in NYC this morning. Will it be the reveal of a new Windows Phone? The Flyer 2? Something completely different? We’ll there be there and we’ll bring it to you live … Right here. If you would like to view this event [...]

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News, Outdoors, Quickies September 11, 2012

by Will Herbert

Emergency Cell-Phone Lasts 10 Hours On A Single ‘AA’ Battery

Picture yourself stranded alone during a hurricane. The rain pelts the windows with oppressive vigor. A howling wind lifts lawn chairs off the patio. You reach into your pocket and grab your smart-phone. You’ve never been more desperate to check your twitter feed, but the battery’s already down to 5%. Four minutes later, that one [...]

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News, Quickies September 6, 2012

by Michael Anderson

Motorola Adds Three New Razr Smartphones on Verizon!

Yesterday was a smartphone lovers delight, to be sure. Piling on earlier announcements from other companies, Motorola had an event where they announced three cool looking new smartphones to add to their wildly popular Razr line-up. They updated the Droid Razr with Here are the basics: • DROID RAZR M: An impossibly compact smartphone that [...]

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News August 24, 2012

by Francis Scardino

T-Mobile Announces Wallet Friendly ‘True’ 4G Unlimited Data Plans; No Really, Coming Sept 5th

Images courtesy of T-Mobile Magenta had a nice little press release the other day announcing nationwide unlimited 4G plans coming next month. Now we all know what carriers call “unlimited” is usually capped at about 5 GB, but this one is really an all-you-can-eat data plan. The best part is that it’s only going [...]

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Reviews August 22, 2012

by Joel McLaughlin

The Safetag.me Review

Have you ever lost your keys and not found them? How about your cellphone? Safetag.me aims to make it easier for you t connect you back with your misplaced keys or phone or anything else you can attach a tag to. Does it work? Let’s find out. The Safetag.me kit comes in a kit of [...]

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Reviews August 13, 2012

by Carly Z

How Nokia Wants to Create the Perfect Smartphone for Women (and Everyone Else!)

Several years ago, I owned the worst phone in the world, the Samsung Epix. Seriously, it was an evil, possessed phone. After sending one Epix after another back to AT&T because of all the issues, they finally relented and let me exchange it for a different phone. I ended up with a Nokia E71x, and [...]

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Editorials August 4, 2012

by Christopher Gavula

In an Apple and Everything Else Funk

Lately I’ve been in a funk. I thought, at first, it was an Apple funk. I thought it might be about the fact that Apple today doesn’t seem to have the same excitement and vision as it did under Steve Jobs. I thought it might be about a sequence of products that is becoming very [...]