January, 2012

• 5 January

  AT&T’s official 4G LTE pretty speedy in San Francisco

  

  Earlier today, AT&T officially turned on its 4G LTE network in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and eight other cities. The move comes almost a month after LTE was first spotted on compatible smartphones in San Francisco and elsewhere, before AT&T had begun supporting it in full. Trials like that are not unusual for …

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• 5 January

  Frosty white Samsung Galaxy S II coming to Sprint

  

  Just when I thought the white smartphone craze had died down, Samsung says it plans to bring a pearly version of the Galaxy S II to Sprint for $199 on January 8. Of course I should have known that milky-hued handsets are here to stay. First popularized by Apple’s iPhone and then adopted by its Android competition, many of this …

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• 5 January

  Prepaid carriers see humdrum results in fourth quarter

  

  MetroPCS and Leap Wireless’ growth in the fourth quarter could be summed up with one word: meh. Both prepaid wireless providers offered up an early look at their customer growth and the results were mixed. Leap Wireless, which sells service under its Cricket Wireless subsidiary, released its figures yesterday and narrowly beat expectations. MetroPCS reported its customer growth today, which …

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• 5 January

  Cheap, eco Samsung Replenish sprouting up at Boost Mobile

  

  It’s earning eco cred with its lower-impact packaging and build, but tree huggers aren’t the only ones who will eye the Samsung Replenish for Boost Mobile. Budget-followers will also gravitate toward Boost’s first smartphone priced at about a hundred bucks, a rock-bottom cost for a market where prepaid smartphones typically cost between $200 and $300. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread device …

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• 5 January

  We’re most likely to lie in a text

  

  Everybody knows a text message saying ‘I’m on my way’ means ‘Bargain hunt finishes in 5 minutes and then I’ll jump in the shower. See you in an hour, maybe?’ And new research bears this out, suggesting we’re more likely to lie in a text than when talking on the phone or face-to-face — while video chat is most likely …

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• 5 January

  Sprint’s flippin’ Samsung M370 will cost just $20

  

  Every once in a while, a carrier and manufacturer will pause the parade of superphones to nod to their humble roots. Today, Samsung and Sprint introduce the modest Samsung M370 flip phone. The pewter gray handset has a clamshell design, a 2.4-inch internal display, and a 1.3-megapixel camera. There’s also Web browsing, Bluetooth support, and speakerphone support. Beginning on Sunday, …

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• 5 January

  Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Y Pro Duos pack two SIMs each

  

  Hello hello. Mobile mobile news news. Why are we saying everything twice twice? Because the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos are Samsung’s first dual-SIM Android smart phones dual-SIM Android smart phones. The Duos phones get their two-faced name because they each hold not one but two SIM cards. Two SIM cards?! Has the world gone …

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• 5 January

  iPad 3 to receive front

  

  Now that we have ushered in 2012, the hot topic for the next couple months will be rumored specs and release dates for Apple’s iPad 3. The latest rumor comes from editor in chief at iLounge, Jeremy Horwitz, who claims that the iPad 3 will get a high-definition, front-facing FaceTime camera. Apple Horwitz’s rumored spec for the front-facing HD camera, …

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• 5 January

  Samsung, HTC to build BlackBerrys?

  

  Electronics manufacturers Samsung and HTC have been name checked in a US analyst’s report suggesting that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) could soon license its BlackBerry operating system to interested third-party hardware companies. A Samsung tab running BlackBerry 10 OS may already be on the drawing board. (Credit: Samsung/CBSi) Boy Genius Report is crediting industry analyst Peter Misek with …

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• 5 January

  Ice Cream Sandwich on 0.6 per cent of Android devices

  

  0.6 per cent of Android devices are running Ice Cream Sandwich, while the older version 2.3 Gingerbread now owns 55 per cent of the Android pie. Is that good news for the latest version of Android, or not? Let’s take a look. The figures come from the Android developer site, which collects data by monitoring Android devices that access the …

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