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AppNation Is Less Than 10 Days Away We Talk With Founder Drew Ianni

May 7th, 2012
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If you're an app developer on any operating system and at any level you need to get to an AppNation conference. AppNation holds a giant annual conference every year in San Francisco and several boutique events like the AppNation conference and  TV 3.0 Summit happening May 15th and 16th in New York City. This year's New ...

Verizon Employees Pushing Android Over iPhone, Here’s Why

May 7th, 2012
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A CNN Money report over the weekend has really got the interwebs chatting about iPhone vs Android and why in the world Verizon Wireless is back to hawking Android first. It was almost three years ago that Verizon Wireless and Motorola teamed up for the original Motorola Droid. With all the marketing, fanfare and promotions surrounding ...

HTC One X Now Available From AT&T

May 6th, 2012
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One of the best Android phones we've seen in a while is the brand new HTC One X. We've had it in our office for about two weeks now and we'll have a complete review shortly. Early on we can tell you that the screen is absolutely brilliant. The phone is very light and feels great ...

Verizon First To Commit To 911 Texting

May 6th, 2012
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Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest carrier, has announced that they are going to roll out the ability to text 911 in early 2013. The FCC suggested this of all carriers back in 2010 and Verizon Wireless is the first to announce that they will support it. There are so many different instances where the ability to ...

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse Bets Part Of His Salary On iPhone

May 6th, 2012
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If you've been a long time reader of thedroidguy then you know how much we like Sprint CEO Dan Hesse. Here's very approachable, he treats his employees well and he's a great speaker. In fact, we normally refer to Hesse as the CEO Next Door because he seems like he could be your next door ...

Best Buy Loses 4th Key Executive, Let The Worrying Begin

May 5th, 2012
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Growing up in the Baltimore/Washington area my first experience with big consumer electronics stores was Luskins. That was quickly followed by many a night and weekend day spent at Circuit City. I could have easily been that little kid who wanted to get the difference back on my headphones. Then there was Best Buy, where ...

iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S III Side By Side Comparison

May 4th, 2012
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In case you were wondering how the Samsung Galaxy S III stacked up against the iPhone 4S, the folks at Business Insider did this great little spec comparison. If you're an iPhone fan you may be on the wrong website, however if you are an iPhone fan, here is the one advantage the iPhone 4S has ...

Apple And Samsung Account For 99% Of Mobile Profits?

May 4th, 2012
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With the constant patten court battles between Apple and Samsung, we learned a few days back that Samsung and Apple may account for 90% of the mobile profits. This number seems a little outlandish, however we are hearing now that the 90% figure may be wrong. According to the latest research from Asymco Apple took in ...

Samsung Galaxy S III Walk Through Video

May 4th, 2012
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Thedroidguy was in London for the launch of the brand new Samsung Galaxy S III we have plenty of great coverage from the launch. Here is our hands on walk through video from the massive Samsung exhibition area at Earl's Court in London. As we reported earlier the Samsung Galaxy S III sports a huge 4.8" ...

TDG Live: Samsung UnPacked London: Samsung Galaxy S III

May 3rd, 2012
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8:02pm: quick run trample time. We'll have some exclusive video up shortly!!! bye for now. Thanks to Sam, James and everyone else on the location team. Thanks to Elijah at home for being awesome. Thanks to my mom, the academy and the producers, Thanks to old aunt nettie, thanks to the man who sat next ...

RIM Takes Responsibility For “Wake Up” Protest

May 3rd, 2012
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This was a big story over the weekend. A flash mob of all black wearing protestors showed up at an Apple Store in Australia, waving signs that said "Wake Up. It was originally blamed on Samsung. We all know that while Samsung supplies Apple with chips that make their iOS products run, they are also brutal ...

Motorola Ships 5.1 Million Smartphones In Q1, China Holding Up Google Merger

May 2nd, 2012
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Motorola Mobility released their Q1 2012 earnings yesterday. The highlight of the earnings call was that Mobile device revenue was $2.2 billion, which was good enough for a 3% increase over same quarter last year. Motorola shipped 8.9 million mobile devices in the quarter and 5.1 million of those were smartphones. There was no breakout ...