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May

18

2012

Delaware Court Says Enough Fighting! Orders Apple And HTC To Discuss Lawsuit Settlement On August 28th

by Roy Alugbue
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It looks as if the courts are fed up with the squabbling between Android manufacturers and Apple. The U.S. District of Delaware ordered HTC and Apple to meet face to face with the goal of discussing a potential settlement for the long-standing patent infringment suits— which of course has a direct effect on certain anticipated [...]

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May

18

2012

Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile (SGH-T999) and AT&T (SGH-I747) get Bluetooth certified

by Robert Nazarian
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We know the Samsung Galaxy S III will hit the U.S. this summer, but we have no idea when or exactly what carriers. We’ve heard rumblings that it could land on all four major carriers. Meanwhile, at CTIA, they specifically told me that it would be on available in the U.S. as an HSPA+ device [...]

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May

18

2012

Samsung Gets 9 Million Preorders For The Galaxy S III Smartphone Worldwide, Expects Big Things For Q2

by Roy Alugbue
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Want to know excited the public is for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone’s release? Well according to Reuters, Samsung has gotten 9 million preorders for the device across 100 mobile carriers. In addition, Samsung plans on handling the high demand for the device by having its smartphone factory in South Korea run at full [...]

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May

18

2012

Best Buy backtracks on EVO 4G LTE release date

by Robert Nazarian
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Surprise surprise. I knew it the moment we posted it. It simply had “garbage news” written all over it. To recap, the U.S. Customs is preventing shipments of both the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE and the AT&T One X from arriving at their respective destinations. The result forced Sprint to cancel today’s anticipated launch [...]

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May

18

2012

Best Buy Updates Pre-Order Status Of HTC Evo 4G LTE To May 23rd

by Ed Caggiani
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The HTC Evo 4G LTE is currently stuck in U.S. Customs (thanks, Apple), delaying the May 18th launch on Sprint. Customers who pre-ordered from Best Buy are now receiving emails updating them of their order status, stating a new release date of May 23rd. Interestingly, HTC wasn’t as date specific as Best Buy in their [...]

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May

18

2012

Leaked images of Sprint’s upcoming LG Eclipse 4G LTE: NFC and removable battery on board

by Tony Rosario
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Whispers of an LG Android powerhouse heading to Sprint have been circulating on the web as of late. We have even seen some purported pics of the back of the LG Eclipse 4G LTE and now, courtesy of our friends at Briefmobile, we have some snapshots of under the hood. For a phone that is rumored [...]

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May

17

2012

Clove UK will Stock the Official 3-Pin GSM Galaxy Nexus Vehicle Dock Tuesday, May 22

by Stacy Bruce
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If you are a Galaxy Nexus owner chances are you have been wondering where in the H-E-double-hockey-sticks the 3-pin navigation mount is. It was only recently that the GSM version of the device received access to the other 3-pin accessories and until now the nav mount was nowhere to be seen.  UK online retailer Clove [...]

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May

17

2012

More LG Optimus LTE II Specs Revealed, Possible Summer Release for the U.S.

by Jack Holt
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Earlier this month we saw the announcement of the LG Optimus LTE II. While details on specs were fuzzy we did know that it would come with a whopping 2GB of RAM and a TRUE HD IPS Display. Other than that mum was the word in regards to the other specs. However that’s all changed [...]

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May

17

2012

Chameleon is Now a Kickstarter Project Looking to Make the Tablet UI Sexy Again

by Jack Holt
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  The great thing about Android is the fact that if you don’t like the way it looks, you can use a slew of various launcher applications  to change it to work for you. NOVA Launcher and Go Launcher are just a few of the launcher options you have. However the one thing I find [...]

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