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Jan

5

2011

Tegra 2 Allows Higher Caliber Gaming On Mobile, Verizon Lends LTE Devices To Demonstrate

by Joe Sirianni
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As expected, Nvidia made a powerful presence on stage today at CES and after discussing a number of their products, they finally got around to their powerful and highly anticipated Tegra 2 processor.  They demonstrated some of the gaming graphics and quality utilizing the LG Optimus 2X, LG’s first dual core smartphone to run the chip [...]

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Jan

4

2011

Verizon Drops Galaxy Tab By $100 Bucks, Adds $60 Worth Of Free Movie Rentals

by Joe Sirianni
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Well, if you initially thought about waiting on purchasing Verizon’s Galaxy Tab, it looks like that wisdom is about to pay off, literally.  Right now, if you head in to Verizon and grab a Samsung Galaxy Tab, they’ve dropped the price from $599.00 to $499.00.  And to better sweeten the pot, they are tossing in $60 bucks [...]

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Jan

3

2011

Verizon expected to announce multiple 4G smartphones and an Android tablet at CES

by Dustin Karnes
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It’s no news that Verizon should be announcing the HTC Thunderbolt LTE phone this week at CES. However, according to sources, we could be expecting more from Big Red this week. The Wall Street Journal has already stated that Verizon’s presence will be “unusually heavy” this yea, and I can personally confirm that. According to [...]

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Dec

31

2010

Motorola Olympus To Debut At CES?

by Joe Sirianni
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Well, it looks like Motorola is spreading the love and not just making super phones for Verizon as of late.  In addition to their honeycomb tablet, Motorola is definitely gearing up to steal the show this year.  And thanks to a tipster over at IntoMobile, there is definitely a possibility that we can see the [...]

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Dec

28

2010

Best Buy’s Photoshop Fail: Droid Eris running Windows Mobile? Not so much

by Dustin Karnes
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In the latest in the “why can’t people photoshop ANYTHING” series, it looks like we’ve got a Droid Eris running Windows Mobile. To make matters worse, It also appears to be running on some kind of HSPA network, as seen by the big “H” in the signal bars there. Verizon, I think it may be [...]

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Dec

24

2010

Verizon Expecting Froyo On The Fascinate By The New Year?

by Joe Sirianni
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A warning to the wise, take this one with a grain of salt.  It looks like the guys over at Android Central caught wind of an internal spec’s comparison sheet, detailing expectations of the Fascinate receiving Adobe Flash by the end of 2010.  Well, that’s about a week away and the device requires at least 2.2 to run the [...]

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Dec

23

2010

Samsung 4G LTE Phone Headed for Verizon

by Joe Sirianni
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On December 5th, with high hopes and aspirations, Verizon launched their long awaited 4G LTE network.  Since the launch, we have all been waiting for them to reveal their arsenal of LTE capable devices.  Well, it looks like the guys over at Gizmodo received news from a tipster, with the leaked photo above, of what appears to be [...]

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Dec

22

2010

Verizon Begins Rolling Out Droid 2 Global Update 2.4.330, Fixes Global Calling Bugs

by Joe Sirianni
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Verizon Wireless recently announced that they will begin rolling out their newest update for the Droid 2 Global, improving upon a number of enhancements and issues with the company’s global calling features.  The update, v2.4.330, is supposed to address a number of bugs reported by unhappy global phone users.  As to whether or not this update [...]

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Dec

20

2010

Is Verizon going to unveil Android based LTE hardware at CES?

by Dustin Karnes
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Oh, look… more Twitter news! According to the @VerizonWireless Twitter account, there’s some pretty cool LTE stuff coming up at CES in two weeks. To quote: Jan. 6 at #CES: #Android and #LTE – could it be like peanut butter and chocolate? YUM! While this doesn’t make anything official, it’s pretty obvious. Verizon should – and probably [...]

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