Sony CEO Kaz Hirai showed up at D11 and made an exciting announcement, if not a vague one. The Sony Xperia Z is their flagship, and has been for a while, but Hirai says that it will be coming to a US carrier soon. It’s taken a long while, but better late than never. He didn’t say what carrier, as he wants to give them the chance to make their own… Read more
Google announced the Samsung Galaxy S 4 with stock Android at Google I/O, and it looks amazing. It’s top of the line hardware with stock Android. What more could you want? Don’t say a cheaper price tag. But if you were excited for it, this might be a slight damper on your mood. Google has decided that this device will launch only in the United States…. Read more
We previously reported that LG was hosting an event in New York City on the first of May, but they never said why. We guessed that it was to announce the LG Optimus G Pro, and it seems that we were right! LG released a follow up to their initial announcement of the event, stating that the Optimus G Pro will be announced. It’ll also include a concert… Read more
If you’ve been waiting for the Jelly Bean update on your trusty Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, today is your lucky day. While the UK has had this update for quite a while, US customers have been left out. No longer, as you can download the update via both OTA or Kies. With this 311MB update, you get the Jelly Bean experience with TouchWiz on top. This means… Read more
Google Music is a great service, but uploading your entire library takes forever. Amazon and iTunes have offered a service that scans your local library and adds those songs to your online library from their servers instead of making you upload everything. It’s a useful feature, but at $25 a year for both competitors, it’s a bit hard to justify. Today,… Read more
Verizon has been spreading LTE coverage across the country at an incredible rate, and they’ve just added 19 more cities to their planned rollout on Thursday. Those cities are: Hastings, Neb Kearney, Neb McCook, Neb Oskaloos, Iowa Mason City and Charles City, Iowa Marshalltown, Iowa Clarksburg, West Virginia Farmington, NM Gallup,… Read more
A CyanogenMod team member has been building an open source security app, and it has been released today. Unlike the many other options out there, this one is simple and beautiful. Basically, you set a trigger for the device, and when you text it that trigger, it will react according to your settings. It can sound an alarm, locate your device (text you… Read more
Once again, Consumer Reports has put Verizon on the #1 spot, saying that their customers were the happiest of any of the four major US carriers. And of course, AT&T has been ranked the worst. This has been an unending trend for a while. Consumer reports bases their data on consumer surveys, so you know that this is people talking, not just a company… Read more
According to Kantar Worldpanel, iOS actually overtook Android late October. On the 28th, iOS hit 48.1% market share in the US, dropping Android to 46.7%. With the iPhone 5 launch, it seems that iOS popularity went through the roof, blowing past Android (which had a very sizable lead). This happened last year too. With the launch of the iPhone 4S,… Read more
We knew that LG’s new flagship phone will be coming the United States, but now we know what carriers it shall grace. AT&T and Sprint are going to be selling the quad core device. Just as a refresher, the Optimus G has a 4.7″ True HD IPS display, a brand new Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 quad core processor, 2GB of RAM, a 2,100 mAh battery, 32GB of storage… Read more
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