Archive for September, 2011

HTC Amaze 4G Starts Arriving In T-Mobile Stores

September 30th, 2011
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We're still a little more than a week away from the HTC Amaze 4G's pre-order date of October 10th however in store demo units have started to arrive.  As Droid-Life reminds us, with all the hubub surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S II coming to T-Mobile we seem to have ignored this great HTC Android phone. Just ...

Bricked Your Droid Bionic? Never Fear XDA Is Here

September 30th, 2011
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Have you bricked your brand new Motorola Droid with a root/rom flash gone wrong? Well don't worry it seems that the fine developers over at XDA have come up with an oneclick unbrick solution for you. Omgdroid is reporting that XDA hacker dhacker29 has come up with the solution for those bricked Droid Bionics.  In most ...

Gingerbread Update For HTC Thunderbolt Halted

September 30th, 2011

It was here, and now it's gone, the Gingerbread update for the HTC Thunderbolt has been halted by Verizon and HTC. Voicemail notifications are being blamed as the reason that the update was pulled.  Apparently, once HTC Thunderbolt owners took the over the air update to Android 2.3, they began experiencing problems with Voicemail notifications. This ...

AT&T Files Motions To Get Sprint & CSpire Suits Dismissed

September 30th, 2011
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AT&T is trying for dear life to hang onto the proposed buyout of T-Mobile. Today, AT&T filed motions to have the lawsuits filed by CSpire (formerly Cellular South) and the nation's third largest wireless carrier, Sprint, dismissed. Sprint responded to AT&T's motion with the following statement: “There’s nothing surprising about AT&T’s motion to dismiss this litigation. AT&T ...

HTC Flyer Gets Price Reduction To $299 Starting This Weekend

September 30th, 2011
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    If you've had a hankering to go pick up a 7", digital pen active, HTC Flyer tablet than now may be the time to do that. Best Buy is reportedly dropping the price of the HTC Flyer, permanently, to $299 starting Saturday.  This is $200 off the original price, and we're hearing that this ...

Lightsquared CEO GPS interference now only affects 1/1000th%

September 30th, 2011

Lightsquared CEO states they’ve eliminated over 99% of GPS interference with Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial 4G LTE network

Samsung’s New Category Galaxy Note Clears FCC Headed To AT&T, Excited! YES!

September 30th, 2011
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Earlier this month at IFA Samsung wow'd the crowd with a device that no one saw coming.  Prior to the IFA conference in Berlin the first week in September Samsung had issued an "unpacked app". Within the contents of the app was the logo for the Samsung Galaxy Note.  Nobody knew what this was until ...

Sprint Ends Premiere Program Altogether.

September 30th, 2011
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Internally Sprint is promoting a "season of change" to both their employees and dealer partners. Earlier this week we reported that Sprint was doing away with their "bill to account" feature and now it looks like they're premiere program. Sprint's premiere program allowed Sprint's best customers to get an annual upgrade rather than having to wait ...

Unboxing/Quick Review Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9

September 30th, 2011
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Back in March at CTIA in Orlando Samsung Mobile introduced two new tablets. They were the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 was released back in June and the Galaxy Tab 8.9 will be here Sunday at Best Buy. We've been testing out the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 ...

US Cellular Grabs Up 3 HTC Android Devices

September 30th, 2011

US Cellular isn't being the least bit shy about their aggressive Android strategy. It shows this week as they've announced the addition of 3 new HTC devices to their Android portfolio. The HTC Hero S, Wildfire S and HTC Flyer are all headed to US Cellular. According to a US Cellular press release all three devices ...

Toshiba’s 7″ Thrive Is Going Down Under First For $450

September 30th, 2011
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Earlier this week Toshiba announced a new 7" version of their highly productive Toshiba Thrive tablet.  The honeycomb beast of a 7" machine will reach the United States in December, according to Toshiba's US Press folks, however it looks like it's heading to Australia first. Unwired is reporting that the 7" Thrive will be released in ...

Forget Android Phones With Camera’s The Panasonic Lumix Phone Is A Camera With An Android Phone

September 30th, 2011
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Panasonic is introducing a new Android phone, based on their highly successful Lumix cameras.  Just as the headline says, we've seen a lot of Android devices with great cameras, this is the opposite, a great camera with an Android phone. First off the Panasonic Lumix Phone is going to bravely go where no smartphone camera has ...