A smattering of hardware specs for the rumored HTC One X+ arrived online courtesy of an anonymous XDA developer known as Football4PDA. According to his unconfirmed tweet, the faster and more powerful One X will run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with HTC Sense 4.5 and offer a 1.6GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor. Like the original …

HTC may have two Android tablets for its upcoming September 19 press conference, if recent chatter is to be believed. According to rumors making the rounds this week, HTC is working on a 7-inch Flyer/Evo View 4G successor that will be based off Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and likely feature a custom HTC experience with support for the Scribe digital …

Verizon Wireless today announced that the Samsung Galaxy Stellar will join its smartphone roster in but a few days time. Offered for free after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year service agreement, the handset arrives online and in retail stores on September 6. As we’ve learned over the last few weeks, the Galaxy Stellar runs Android 4.0 and features …

commentary Take a look at the recent Android smartphone announcements from the middle of 2012 and you’ll see quite a few devices at $99 or below. Does this mean that consumers are being subjected to a barrage of shoddy hardware with poor specifications? Hardly. Funny how fast things move These days, a dual-core smartphone with a 960×540-pixel display counts as …

A pair of images surfaced over the Labor Day weekend that could prove to be the first glimpse of HTC’s rumored 5-inch Android smartphone. The Chinese forum on which these shots made their debut has since removed the pics, but not before The Verge caught wind. The two photos show a svelte, black HTC device trimmed in red with the …

Sony used the the IFA tech extravaganza in Berlin this week to introduce a trio of new Android-based smartphones. Called the Xperia T, J, and V, they run the gamut from low-end to top-tier and should be enough to tide the company over until CES in January. In addition to the three handsets, Sony also unveiled its Android-powered Xperia Tablet …

It clear that the Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy Camera won’t be the last we hear of Samsung in 2012. Indeed, the first details of another three models have bubbled up to the surface, some of which could arrive in the near term. This week a Samsung-focused blog SamMobile told us that we should be on the lookout for a …

ZTE today used the IFA consumer electronics show to announce its first smartphone to employ Intel’s Atom Z2460 “Medfield” mobile processor. Called the Grand X IN, the handset runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and features a single-core 1.6GHz processor, a 4.3-inch qHD display, and 8-megapixel camera. Like most higher-end Android phones, the ZTE comes with 1GB RAM, 16GB internal …

Sprint today announced that it has launched LTE service in four new markets across four states. Bringing the total number of major markets to six, Sprint’s new 4G technology arrives in Baltimore, the site where the carrier first deployed its WiMax (Xohm) service nearly four years ago. Acknowledging that it put its eggs in the wrong basket, Sprint has had …

MetroPCS has released its second 4G LTE Android smartphone in as many weeks, today announcing the Coolpad Quattro 4G. The $150 handset runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and can be paired with the carrier’s new $55/month rate plan. Specifications for the Coolpad Quattro 4G include a 4-inch display, 1GHz processor, 3.2-megapixel rear camera, VGA front-facing camera, and 4G LTE support. Nothing …