If you need your Android phone to be with you whether it’s rain or shine, with more emphasis on the former, you might be interested to read what Kyocera has to offer. The Kyocera Hydro is a mid-range Android phone that might not pack enough goodies inside to make it a stand out, except for [...]
A day after word spread that Sony’s Xperia Play had vanished from its list of incoming Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades, the company has come forward and confirmed that the gaming-centric handset will not be making the jump to Android 4.0. “After extensive in house testing with our developer teams and working with our partners, we [...]
UDS, the company that brought us Capta (which we loved) and now working on Vavo, has a limited quantity of pads made of what I called “magic alien goo” – a key ingredient used in its products. It’s sort of a weird material made in part with polyurethane (PU), which is both sticky and not [...]
Things are looking very good for Android on a global scale. According to data released by the International Data Corporation (IDC), shipments of Android devices ballooned between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012. Overall, during Q1 of 2012, Android had 59% of the world’s smartphone market share. Just a year ago, that number was just 36.1%. [...]
You may be looking at the greatest microUSB cable ever invented (at least on video). It’s called the Limb.al and is the latest KickStarter project to build up a ton of buzz across the web. As you can see from the image above, this bad boy is bendable yet sturdy, so that it can [...]
If you’re the type of customer that likes to follow the prepaid path rather then signing your life away for 2 years the folks from AT&T have just released what they hope will be an “appealing” phone. The new QWERTY slider smartphone called the Samsung Galaxy Appeal was just announced and is headed to their [...]
Aside from making and receiving voice calls, smartphones allow you to do a number of things that seemed impossible not long ago. You can snap high-quality photos, listen to music, browse the web, record videos, so on and so forth. However, if you try to do any of the things mentioned above while talking to [...]
An LG device with the model number VS930 has been on our radar for a few weeks now, most likely as Verizon’s version of the LG Optimus LTE2. The model number matches up to the naming scheme that Big Red has used in the past for LG phones – VS920 (Spectrum) and VS910 (Revolution). We [...]
You can add Germany to the list of countries lucky enough to be graced with the HTC One X One XL LTE smartphone. Vodafone Germany and HTC made a joint announcement one of the most popular smartphones in the game will be available in early June and will come in both black and white flavors across German [...]
If you think the Galaxy S2′s 20 million+ sales were impressive, it seems Samsung is just getting started. According to multiple sources, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has now received more pre-orders than any other smartphone in history. That’s right folks. For the first time it seems that pre-orders for an Android device may have [...]
AT&T is entering new territory with the announcement of the carrier’s first pre-paid side slider smartphone. The Sasmung Galaxy Appeal is an Android 2.3 handset with a 3.2-inch display, 3MP camera, and 800MHz processor. While the pricing of the handset hasn’t been revealed, the use of 80 percent recycled materials should help to further [...]
The age of the low-end Android handset is here: AT&T has unceremoniously announced that a new prepaid slider smartphone, the Galaxy Appeal, will debut with Android 2.3 on the carrier’s GoPhone service starting on July 15th. AT&T provided no photos or pricing for the device, but says that it will be available with AT&T’s data [...]
Well how about that a quad-core Exynos processor isn’t the only revision made to Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. According to a couple of pre-release photos spotted by Tablet Community (no relation), it’ll also get a slot for the S-Pen stylus built right into its slate body. The lack thereof was definitely noted when the device [...]
Droid-Life On Monday, we reported that a leaked Samsung Galaxy S3 ROM became available for download for all, packed with all the goodness of the smartphone’s great features. Not surprisingly, the full Galaxy S3 ROM came from XDA, everybody’s go-to site for all things amazing. As soon as the S3 ROM became available online, one [...]
First we saw T-Mobile and AT&T’s variants, then Verizon’s. Now Sprint’s Samsung Galaxy S III is putting a cap on the Bluetooth SIG’s look at the four major US carrier editions of the upcoming smartphone. The phone is listed with model number SPH-L710, one character off from the SPH-D710 designation of the Sprint Galaxy S [...]
While most of us are still waiting for the Samsung Galaxy S III to finally arrive, it appears that the much-anticipated smartphone is already on sale in Dubai. The news comes first from Reddit, where one user spotted a “now available” poster for the phone in a local mall, and spoke to a sales clerk [...]
Sidecar is launching a new app on iOS and taking it out of beta on Android today. It’s an ambitious attempt to rethink what CEO Rob Williams calls the most common and least innovative icon on a smartphone’s screen: the phone app. The basic premise is simple: when you’re on a call with another Sidecar [...]
In recent weeks, some have suggested that Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone was designed by lawyers specifically to work around Apple’s ongoing patent infringement case. When the question was put to Samsung design VP Chang Dong-hoon earlier today, though, he denied any such thing. At the 2012 Seoul Digital Forum, he told reporters that the [...]
Developers are continuing to make the Galaxy Nexus a classy device for all users. Since Ice Cream Sandwich is an OS made to operate on both tablet and smartphone devices, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to toggle between whichever layout you want. Being an Android user, if you want your phone to have [...]
Sprint had previously announced that the original release of the Evo 4G LTE was delayed, thanks no doubt to those pesky customs issues that HTC is facing in its International Trade Commission patent dispute with Apple. It’s possible that the issue has been resolved, however, as Sprint has just announced that it expects that it [...]
Verizon, looking to sweeten the deal for anyone ready to grab a new 4G smartphone, has begun a promotion that offers customers a $40 bill credit when buying a new 4G LTE smartphone from either Amazon Wireless or Wirefly.com. The promotion, which is open to new or upgrading customers, began at 12am today and will [...]
Just in case some of you are unfamiliar with what happened, some of HTC’s devices were slapped with a fairly disheartening moniker that caused US customs to delay their release. The concern was that they had infringed upon some of Apples patents. The devices known to be involved were the HTC EVO 4G LTE and [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is to this date one of the best Android phones available today. So it’s surprising that Canadian mobile carrier Telus has decided to prematurely retire the pure Android device. It’s reason for doing such a thing? Well— it’s not exactly certain, but there’s increasing speculation that the mobile carrier is clearing [...]
Last week, we first heard about the LG LS970, another high-end smartphone from LG with a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 13-megapixel camera, and more. Based on the images that were leaked last week, some thought that the upcoming phone from LG would feature a sealed design, making the battery [...]
We mentioned recently that Motorola did update its timeline for when some of its premium devices would get ICS— even though you know, it was first found in December 2011. If you own a smartphone or tablet such as the DROID RAZR/RAZR MAXX, Atrix 4G or XYBOARD series of tablets, then you have a lot [...]
We all know the benefits of rooting your smartphone. By rooting your device, you can unlock a world of potential benefits such as operating on custom ROMs as good or better than stock Android OSes and improved overall performance of your device for starters. While the Android community needs rooting, there are certain entities that [...]
A little over two weeks after officially announcing the Optimus LTE2′s coming, LG has already put the new smartphone up for sale in its native land, South Korea. The Optimus LTE’s successor is not the most affordable handheld out there, but it will come with some great tech specs, including one that pushes that really [...]
The Samsung Galaxy S III has been rooted ahead of launch…sort of. A developer going by the alias of Chainfire has successfully achieved root with the device’s release candidate firmware but never even had GS3 in hand. Instead he took advantage of a leaked software build and did the rooting virtually. The good news is [...]
Oh boy— if you’re like me and an owner of a premium Motorola device released in the last 12 15 months, then this news is for you. Motorola has updated its ICS update timeline for select devices. Within the next month and some change, MOTO devices will begin receiving Android 4.0 with a (MOTO)BLUR topping, [...]
Here’s a fun – and potentially lucrative – something for you all. If you happen to like Chili’s and Android – if you’re here you like Android, right? Well, you might well be in luck if you’re looking for a new phone. To celebrate the launch of their new Android app Chili’s are offering its [...]
Back at CES, Verizon told us that select 4G LTE devices like the LG Spectrum and DROID 4 would eventually become “global” phones thanks to international radios embedded deep inside. According to our sources, there may be more than just those two devices and the change to make them global could be happening very soon. [...]
Want to know excited the public is for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone’s release? Well according to Reuters, Samsung has gotten 9 million preorders for the device across 100 mobile carriers. In addition, Samsung plans on handling the high demand for the device by having its smartphone factory in South Korea run at full [...]
Last week, we heard about a new LG smartphone with some pretty hefty specs, including a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor, a 13-megapixel camera, and 2GB of RAM. Now, BriefMobile has gotten its hands on another image of the rumored LG LS970 – this time with the battery cover off, confirming that the phone in fact [...]
ZTE has confirmed reports that that its Score smartphone has a security hole that allows anyone with the device’s hard-wired password to access its root directory. Once in, it’s possible to add, remove, or copy any data that you want. It’s the sort of route into a device that manufacturers would use in development, and [...]
Whispers of an LG Android powerhouse heading to Sprint have been circulating on the web as of late. We have even seen some purported pics of the back of the LG Eclipse 4G LTE and now, courtesy of our friends at Briefmobile, we have some snapshots of under the hood. For a phone that is rumored [...]
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