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Sprint and HTC Giving Away Official TPU Cases Along with the EVO 4G LTE and a ‘Sorry’ Letter
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N.O.V.A. 3 Trailer Released, My Mouth Is Watering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UZIcFNBiadc For those who don't know me, I'm a big gamer. I think the N.O.V.A. series of mobile FPS titles are the best available, offering a fluid experience on mobile devices. I'm also a huge fan of Halo, and have put countless hours into the series. What happens when you combine the two together? You get... Read more » Samsung Galaxy S III For Verizon May Not Use The Quad-Core Exynos
The Galaxy S II had a major flaw in its native Exynos chipset, and that was lack of LTE support. AT&T had to swap out the Eyxnos for a Snapdragon S3 processor in its LTE variant of the SII, and Verizon passed on the handset altogether, instead opting for the Galaxy Nexus. We now have word that there's a good chance that the new Exynos does not support LTE either,... Read more » Is It Really Acceptable That Ice Cream Sandwich Is Only On 5% Of Android Devices?
Every month the Android Developers release the Android distribution charts. These charts contain statistics on where Android is at, and one of the most important is what Android version is powering devices. Back in November of last year, Android 4.0 was released to manufacturers. Now, almost 6 months later, we learn that Android 4.0 is only on 5% of all Android... Read more » Ice Cream Sandwich Now Holding 5% Of Android Devices
Google's latest update to Android, known as Ice Cream Sandwich, was released all the way back in December. Many months later, and we are now just entering May. That means it's time for the latest distribution charts. How is Ice Cream Sandwich looking? It's made a huge improvement over last month. It is now sitting at a whooping 5% of all Android devices, up from last... Read more » Samsung In No Shortage Of New Device Names, Files Many New Trademarks
With the number of Android devices hitting the market increasing every month, manufacturers need to stay ahead on the name game with plenty of trademarks. Samsung is doing just that, and has filed a couple of new device names. They include: Galaxy Lift Galaxy Sire Galaxy Perx Galaxy Variant As far as what kind of devices these will be, we aren't 100%... Read more » Verizon Suffers Outage, Not The “Most Reliable Network” Anymore
Everyone always gives Verizon credit for being the nations most reliable network, but is that really the truth? Other than some random LTE outages, the carrier has lived up the is claim. However, we have now heard from our own sources that Verizon's voice and text network went down for awhile in the last 24 hours. Data appeared to be fine, but calling and texting was... Read more » AOKP (Android Open Kang Project) Milestone 5 Released
The angry pink unicorn gods have once again parted the clouds and shined their majestic rainbow upon us. Milestone 5 of the popular AOKP ROM has been released for all supported devices! With it comes a plethora of fixes and improvements. AOKP is a stock based Ice Cream Sandwich ROM with an incredible amount of customizable options and themes. If you'd like to see... Read more » Android 4.0.4 Update For Verizon Galaxy Nexus Starting Limited Rollout
Through all the update woes surrounding the various models of Google's flagship phone and the resulting criticism, Google and Verizon have been working together to fix it. Slowly. A few people have gotten a notification for a new update on their Verizon Galaxy Nexus. The update, build IMM76K, is based on Android 4.0.4. Keep in mind this is currently a limited... Read more » Android Now Tips Scale At 51% Of US Smartphone Market Says comScore
Surprise surprise, the March smartphone market totals are in and you'll never guess who continues to reign number one in the US market. Android is still top dog jumping almost four full points to 51% of new American smartphone buyers. Apple's still riding its own wave jumping to 30.7% giving the two top platforms close to 80% marketshare. As seems to be the... Read more » Got A Problem With AT&T? Wake Up, This Isn’t 2008 Anymore
Note: This is coming from a loyal AT&T customer, feel free to call me a fanboy all you want, but everything below are my experiences with the network. Yours may vary, but this isn't about you, is it? You know what really grinds my gears? When people complain about AT&T being a bad network. Sure, back in 2008 when they were getting overloaded by a thing... Read more » 
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