The T-Mobile G2X is currently temporarily out of stock via the online store, leading many people to speculate that the carrier has taken the phone off shelves to work on a few bugs such as random resets. While we haven’t experienced these problems with our review units, we have heard a few comments from readers …
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Microsoft goes all tropical on us with the announcement of Windows Phone Mango, the next big update to the Windows Phone operating system. We discuss all of the Windows Phone news, the latest 4G markets, and a cavalcade of Verizon smartphones that include the Motorola Droid X2 and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 175: …
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Welcome to the 411, my column answering all your questions about cell phones and cell phone accessories. I receive plenty of questions about these subjects via e-mail, so I figured many of you might have similar queries, too. At times, I might solicit answers from readers if I’m stumped. Send your questions and comments to me at [email protected]. If you …
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We have the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Josh P. Miller/CNET We’ve seen the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play before at Mobile World Congress and have managed to play a game or two on it ourselves during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Now, we finally have our hands on the Verizon version of the phone that will be making it …
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Verizon extends its 4G LTE network. A week after Clearwire, Comcast, and Sprint announced their WiMax expansion, Verizon has continued the 4G fun with today’s news that its 4G LTE network is now live in what it calls nine new markets. These are Mobile and Montgomery, Ala.; Greater Fairfield and New Haven, Conn.; Gainesville, Pensacola, and Tallahassee, Fla.; Fayetteville-Lumberton, N.C.; …
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While Pantech has a relatively modest presence in the U.S., it has a number of impressive handsets in Korea. One such offering is the Vega Racer, which claims to be the world’s first 1.5GHz dual-core smartphone. That’s certainly a lot of power in a tiny device–it uses Qualcomm’s MSM8660 Snapdragon chip, 1GB of RAM, and an Adreno 220 GPU. It’s …
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May 26 is looking to be a big day for Verizon Wireless. Not only will the Motorola Droid X2 make its debut, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will come out to play as well. We’re now hearing from various sources that the LG Revolution might join in the party with its own launch that same day. We called Verizon for …
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Motorola Clutch +i475 Motorola Motorola has added three new phones to Boost Mobile’s offerings today with the Motorola Clutch + i475, the Motorola Theory, and the Motorola i412. The Clutch +i475 is an update to the Motorola Clutch from a couple years ago. The new Clutch has a larger display while still maintaining that candy bar design with a full …
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Google has finally launched Music Beta, a cloud service that stores your music and lets you stream it to any browser or Android-based device. It’s invite-only for now, but the beta version is free. It’s not without its limitations, but we think it will certainly become a viable competitor against Amazon’s recently released Cloud Player. Here, we present a chart …
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Welcome to the 411, my column answering all your questions about cell phones and cell phone accessories. I receive plenty of questions about these subjects via e-mail, so I figured many of you might have similar queries, too. At times, I might solicit answers from readers if I’m stumped. Send your questions and comments to me at [email protected]. If you …
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