Some disappointing news hitting the interwebs this weekend for Verizon fans as a @HTCUSA tweet indicated Verizon has no plans to carry the HTC One. Interestingly enough, this tweet comes after a number of reports had indicated the exact opposite, including a Walmart doc showing a Verizon launch and an All Things D report also stating Verizon would… Read more
Think back to a more simple time, one where the iPhone was the dominant smartphone. Android was barely a blip on the radar, T-Mobile and Sprint, the two smallest carriers, were the only ones to offer handsets running the green little robot. Then, in the fall of 2009, Verizon and Motorola teamed up to jump start what would later become the most popular… Read more
HTC’s DROID DNA is Verizon’s new flagship, but for those who don’t want to spend the full $199 Amazon has a solution. The retailer has already bumped the phone’s price down $50, bringing it to only $149. That’s right, you can get one of Verizon’s hottest phones at a nice $50 discount. The best part? It works for both new lines and upgrades. There is… Read more
Employees are just as important as customers in the phone world, so a little token of gratitude is well deserved. Verizon employees may be in for quite the treat, as a photo of the supposed Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX HD has leaked, and does it look good. Featuring Verizon’s combination of red and black, the device is sure to turn a few heads. This isn’t… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MUATeqKzIJ4 Here is an interesting feature: HTC decided to put a notification LED on the back of their new DROID DNA. It’s something I never really thought about, but how useful is that? Notification LEDs are useless when the phone is face down, so they threw another one on the back. There is not… Read more
Verizon has been releasing phones with GSM radios for a while. Being a CDMA carrier, their hardware prevented people from traveling with their phone outside of the US. So Verizon started including GSM hardware in their devices, often locked away. They eventually updated the phones to unlock the GSM radios for international travels. The HTC DROID DNA… Read more
One of the best parts of Android is the fact that it’s so open, and Verizon Wireless has decided to take full advantage of that. Along with the announcement of HTC’s DROID DNA, Verizon has announced that they will be partnering with Amazon to provide their whole ecosystem in phones, starting with the DROID DNA. That’s right, a whole extra ecosystem on… Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R512phD0it4 The first ad shows off the features of the upcoming device. With a 5″ screen with a massive 1920×1080 resolution, you get 440 pixels per inch. When HTC calls that game-changing, I’m tempted to believe them, something they made clear today during the joint announcement with Verizon. It also shows off the quad… Read more
If you’re still up in the air about the DROID DNA specs hours before Verizon and HTC are expected to make the device official, a preview of a Verizon Wireless landing page for the device should help. According to this page, which we expect to go live sometime after today’s announcement, the 4G LTE DROID DNA by HTC will feature a 5″ HD 1920×1080… Read more
Though it’s been quite a while since the HTC DROID Incredible 4G LTE has been released, it’s been locked down this entire time. It’s a sad existence. However, salvation has come. Developers are known to get around almost any lock, and the Incredible 4G LTE is no exception. Owners of the device now have a way to unlock the bootloader unofficially. S-OFF… Read more
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