Verizon Wireless today announced the availability of the BlackBerry Curve 9370 at Verizon Wireless stores and online for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new contract. The Curve 9370 supports Verizon's 3G network in the U.S. and is a global device that can roam onto the GSM/EDGE networks overseas. The 9370 also included support for near-field ...
The European Union will make a decision regarding Google's acquisition of Motorola on February 13. It was scheduled to make a decision earlier this month, but postponed while it waited for additional materials from Google. Google has since supplied the requested items. Google announced plans last August to purchase the handset maker for $12.5 billion. ...
Sprint has begun distributing system updates to the HTC EVO 4G, Samsung Epic 4G, and HTC EVO Design 4G smartphones. The updates remove Carrier IQ's software, as well as fixes bugs, boosts performance, and resolves security issues. The updates are being distributed over the course of the next 10 days.
According to a Bloomberg report that cites 3 unnamed sources, the next version of Apple's iPad, the iPad 3, will arrive in March sporting an HD display and LTE 4G data.
The DEFY MINI is a new, smaller version of Motorola's rugged DEFY smartphone. It was announced the week before CES started, and it features the same tough body, Corning Gorilla Glass, and water-resistant body of the larger DEFY. We caught up with it at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show.
Motorola's MOTOLUXE, which was announced the week before CES began, is a device that will not get as much love as it probably should. That's largely because it will get slammed for having an 800MHz processor even though it has a nice suite of otherwise high-end specs.
Today Motorola issued a statement on the favorable ruling it received in its International Trade Commission battle against Apple. The administrative law judge in the case found that Motorola did not infringe upon any of the three patents named in Apple's suit. Scott Offer, senior vice president and general counsel of Motorola Mobility, had the following ...
A Samsung executive has been quoted as saying that his company plans to merge its own bada smartphone operating system with Intel's Tizen Project, which is based on the remnants of the the MeeGo OS that Intel developed with Nokia.
According to Reuters, ZTE has set some lofty goals for its 2012. The company, which is generally considered the fourth largest phone manufacturer in the world, has said that it plans to at least double the number of phones it ships in 2012
Samsung vice president Kevin Packingham has said that his company intends for the batteries in all of its 2012 smartphones to be able to last at least a full day, from wake-up until bed, with average to moderately
HTC recently announced that the bootloader unlock tool that allows users to load custom versions of the Android operating system on their devices is now available for more smartphones in the HTC family. The new phones added to the compatibility list for the tool are the HTC Desire Z, ChaCha, Aria, DROID Incredible, Status, and T-Mobile G2. As before, ...
Microsoft today announced that LG has signed a patent licensing agreement covering Android products. Microsoft holds a variety of patents that it claims Android infringes on. HTC, Samsung, and eight other companies have already signed similar agreements with Microsoft. With the addition of LG, Microsoft now has agreements with companies that account ...