BGR Interview: Motorola’s Alain Mutricy on resurrecting the RAZR
Verizon Wireless on Friday released a class-leading smartphone that combines two of the biggest cell phone brands of the past decade into a single device. …
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iPhone owners report even worse battery life with iOS 5.0.1
Apple on Thursday released an update to iOS 5 that addressed issues many users were having with poor battery performance. The Cupertino, California-based company had …
Motorola DROID RAZR on sale today, $111 from Amazon
Verizon Wireless’ flagship smartphone for the holiday season, the DROID RAZR, will finally become available Friday at 11:11 a.m. local time. The 7.1-millimeter thin smartphone …
Over half of net new Sprint subscribers utilize government-sponsored ‘Lifeline’ service
More than 50% of Sprint’s net new subscriber additions at any given time utilize a government subsidy program called “Lifeline,” which provides low-income Americans with …
Nokia Champagne surfaces with Windows Phone ‘Tango’
Nokia just launched its first two Windows Phone handsets and it appears the Finnish phone maker isn’t letting off the gas any time soon. According …
Apple reportedly has no plans to bring Siri to older devices
Apple will not bring its virtual personal assistant Siri to older devices, a new report claims to confirm. MSComputerVideos founder Michael Steeber on Tuesday posted an …
Apple releases iOS 5.0.1 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Battery life with iOS 5 eating away at you? Apple’s software update, and the first update since iOS 5 was released, is finally out. Changes …
AT&T and Nokia may announce a 4G LTE Windows Phone at CES 2012
AT&T may announce a Nokia Windows Phone during the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, WinRumors said on Thursday. Here is where it gets more interesting, though: The …
Apple is trying to make iOS autocorrect less horrible
Apple is working on solutions that will help to improve the text input experience on its iOS devices. The Cupertino, California-based company has been discovered …
Tango video chat app now available for Windows Phone 7.5 [video]
Tango, the popular cross-platform video calling application for PC, Android and iPhone, launched on Wednesday as the first video-chat application for Windows Phone 7.5 devices. …
NVIDIA officially unveils quad-core Tegra 3 chip [video]
NVIDIA has finally announced its quad-core ARM Cortex A9 Tegra 3 processor, previously codenamed “Kal-El,” that will deliver “PC-class performance” for tablets and smartphones. NVIDIA …
Australian judge demands that Apple show carrier contracts to Samsung
Australian Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett has ruled that Apple must show Samsung its contracts with Vodafone, SingTel and Telstra if it cannot reach an agreement on …
RIM’s BBX-powered BlackBerry devices won’t resemble Bold, will support BES
Speaking with PCMag recently, RIM’s vice president of developer relations and ecosystem development Alec Saunders said that the company’s early BBX-powered smartphones will not resemble the popular …
AT&T still home to majority of U.S. iPhone owners, report says
Verizon Wireless and Sprint have yet to knock AT&T off of its throne as the most prominent iPhone carrier in the United States. According to …
RIM investigating BlackBerry message delays
RIM acknowledged that many its users have reported delayed message deliveries on Wednesday, although it remains unclear what the culprit might be. “We’re getting reports that some …
AT&T to launch HTC Titan on November 20th for $199.99
AT&T announced on Wednesday that it will launch the HTC Titan Windows Phone on November 20th for $199.99 on contract. The carrier touted the Titan …
HTC Edge may launch in March or April featuring Android 4.0, Tegra 3
BGR on Tuesday reported exclusive details surrounding the HTC Edge, a next-generation Android handset that may be one of the first smartphones to launch with …
Adobe confirms plans to dump Flash Player for mobile devices
Adobe on Wednesday confirmed that it is ceasing development of Flash Player for mobile devices. Instead, with regard to mobile platforms, the software company will …
Apple reportedly slashes Q4 iPhone 4S orders on weaker than expected demand
Apple sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S handsets in the smartphone’s first weekend of availability but according to a new report, Apple thinks demand for …
HTC Ville detailed: HTC Sense 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, thinner than iPhone
We just got the scoop on another brand new HTC handset, which will be part of the company’s Mobile World Congress announcements alongside the HTC …
Flash in the pan: Adobe to dump mobile Flash efforts
Adobe will soon discontinue development of Flash Player for mobile devices according to a recent report. Citing sources with knowledge of Adobe’s future plans, ZDNet’s …
AT&T’s planned T-Mobile merger will create 96,000 jobs, CWA says
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union said on Tuesday that AT&T’s planned $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA will create 96,000 additional jobs in …
‘AT&T Call International’ VoIP app launches for Android, BlackBerry, iPhone
AT&T recently launched its new “AT&T Call International” VoIP application that, exactly as its name implies, allows its customers to place international phone calls from …
Apple seeds iOS 5.0.1 beta to end users to test battery life improvements
Apple has already released two beta versions of its iOS 5.0.1 software to developers, but now it is beginning to seed the software update to several …
Microsoft chasing down Huawei for Android patent license agreement
Microsoft is chasing down Huawei in search of a patent licensing agreement, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. “Yes, Microsoft has come to us,” Huawei Devices chief …
iOS 5 now on nearly 40% of iPhones, study finds
Following the highly anticipated launch of Apple’s latest major iOS revision, iOS 5, Chitika Insights found that the new build accounted for 20% of iOS …
HP may decide fate of webOS tonight
HP is reportedly holding a meeting Tuesday night during which it may decide the fate of its webOS mobile platform, The Verge reported on Tuesday. The …
Ex-Motorola employee charged with espionage after attempt to sell trade secrets to China
Former Motorola software engineer Hanjuan Jin, a 41-year old naturalized United States citizen, is standing trial for stealing trade secrets from Motorola with plans to …
HTC Edge to lead the smartphone pack with quad-core CPU, optically-laminated display and unibody design
Renders of the HTC Edge appeared online yesterday with some hugely impressive specifications that included a quad-core 1.5GHz NVIDIA processor. We have received some more details …
Hacker uncovers major iOS security flaw [video]
A major security flaw in Apple’s iOS operating system that could allow hackers to remotely gain unauthorized access to an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad …
