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Sprint Vital launching on June 14 for $99.99, sports 5-inch 720p display and 13-megapixel camera

Android After popping up in a couple of different leaks earlier this year, Sprint today made its ZTE-manufactured Vital officially official. The Sprint Vital is slated to launch on June 14, aka this Friday, carrying a price tag of $99.99 with a...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 0

Samsung Galaxy Note III prototype unit allegedly photographed

Android Following the original Galaxy Note's launch in 2011, Samsung has turned the device into a family of S Pen-equipped products, including the Galaxy Note 8.0 and Galaxy Note II smartphone. That lineup is expected to grow later this year with...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 3

Nokia announces Glance Screen with double-tap to wake, launching in beta on Lumia 925

News After its initial debut nearly a month ago, Nokia today announced that its new aluminum-clad Lumia 925 is officially making its way onto shelves and into pockets in Germany. To celebrate, Nokia has revealed that the new Lumia 925 comes...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 5

AT&T extends upgrade period for subsidized pricing to 24 months

Business And Money Take note, AT&T customers, because your carrier today announced a major change to its upgrade policy. Over on its official AT&T Consumer Blog, the big blue operator has revealed that its extending its upgrade policy from 20 months to 24...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 18

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 leak in new 'gold-brown' color as well

Android Apparently Samsung really likes that "gold-brown" paint job that we saw the Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 in earlier this month, because a new leak shows that the Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 and Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 may be getting a similar treatment. Prolific...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 9

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Zoom leaks continue with alleged photos of the device in the wild

Android In the hierarchy of mobile hardware leaks, most folks would probably agree that renders of a device are on the bottom rung, followed by "in the wild" photos and then video showing a product in action. Yesterday a render of the rumored...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 4

Leak of internal Windows Phone software shows notification center and other new features

News Brace yourselves, Windows Phone fans, because a new leak may have just given us a glimpse at some big changes that Microsoft has in store for its mobile platform. Reddit user "chinaman28" claims that a Nokia Lumia 920 that he recently...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 4

U.S. Department of Justice finishes review of SoftBank-Sprint deal, says it has 'no objection'

News It looks like SoftBank and Sprint's weekend just got a little bit better, as the transaction involving the two companies has been cleared by the U.S. Department of Justice. Earlier this year, the DOJ asked the Federal Communications...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 1

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Zoom purportedly revealed in leaked image

Android Samsung has been cranking out the Galaxy S 4 variants lately, with both the original flagship, the Galaxy S 4 mini and Galaxy S 4 Active. Today we're getting a peek at may be another variant of the Galaxy S 4, dubbed the Galaxy S 4 Zoom....

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 1

SoftBank said to be in talks for possible T-Mobile deal as backup to Sprint transaction

News Japanese carrier SoftBank entered into an agreement with Sprint late last year in which it would drop $20.1 billion for a 70 percent stake in the U.S. operator. The situation has gotten a bit muddier since then, though, with Dish Network...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 2

iOS 7 banner hung at Moscone West, features simple look

Ios Apple's big Worldwide Developers Conference is kicking off Monday morning, and the company is getting things ready for the show by placing some banners around the Moscone Center. One of those banners has been photographed by MacStores,...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 1

Verizon's BlackBerry Q10 available online today for $199.99, hitting stores on June 10

Blackberry Os After initially going up for pre-order at the end of May, Verizon's flavor of the BlackBerry Q10 is officially available for purchase starting today, June 6. Pricing for the QWERTY-packin' BlackBerry 10 smartphone is set at $199.99 with a...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 2

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 with new 'gold-brown' paint job leaks out

Android Not totally feeling that white paint job on Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 3 7.0? Then you may be interested in the device you see up above. That's the same Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 that was first announced a little over a month ago, but according to...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 1

Apple and Sony Music said to have reached iRadio streaming deal ahead of WWDC

Ios Rumors of an Apple-made "iRadio" music streaming service have been swirling for months now, suggesting that the Cupertino firm is prepping a radio offering similar to Pandora. Apple hasn't made any official announcements regarding such a...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 1

Nokia EOS video leak offers close-up look at 41-megapixel camera

News Like the old saying goes, when it rains PureView camera goodness, it pours. After several image leaks that claim to show Nokia's "EOS" and its 41-megapixel camera surfaced earlier this week, a new video that purportedly shows the phone's...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 1

Sony Xperia Z reportedly getting 'Google Edition' treatment as well

Android Looks like the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S 4 may soon be joined by a third "Google Edition" smartphone. According to reports from Android Central and AndroidGeeks, Sony is working on a version of its Xperia Z that features a "Nexus user...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 7

Boost Mobile's Samsung Galaxy S III launching on June 12 for $399.99

Android After Boost Mobile teased us all with the news that it would be launching an LTE-capable Samsung Galaxy S III in June, the prepaid operator today finally came forward with the all-important availability details of that device. Boost has...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 6

BlackBerry 10.2 and some of its new features previewed on video

Blackberry Os Last month, a BlackBerry employee took to his new BBM Channel to tease some of the features that are coming to BlackBerry 10 with the OS 10.2 update, such as support for standard unicode emojis and multiple alarms. Today some more...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 2

AT&T axing some GoPhone data plans on June 20, says new options are on the way

Business And Money Just a couple of weeks after AT&T began allowing its prepaid GoPhone customers to access its HSPA+ and LTE networks, the carrier has revealed that it's got another big change in store for GoPhone. AT&T has told CNET that it plans to...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 4

Facebook Home gaining favorite apps tray with new update, folders and widgets coming soon

Android When Facebook Home was first made official, Zuckerberg and Co. promised that the software would receive frequent updates. One of those updates is arriving today as part of an upgrade to the main Facebook for Android app, and the update is...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 1

Apple rumored to be planning iPhone trade-in program

Ios Well, this is interesting. According to a tweet just sent out by Bloomberg, Apple may be planning to allow consumers to trade in their iPhones in an attempt to boost its sales. Details of Apple's trade-in program are light right now, but...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 3

HP announces webOS update that will allow for continued access to cloud services

News Today is a big day for the webOS faithful, as it was exactly four years ago that the original Palm Pre slid its way onto Sprint shelves. Things are nearly as joyful in the webOS community today as they were on that date, but there is some...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 0

BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iOS slated to arrive on June 27 [UPDATED]

Android BlackBerry hasn't yet revealed when it plans to launch BlackBerry Messenger on Android and iOS, saying only that the service will arrive on those platforms sometime this summer. We may not have to wait for an announcement from BlackBerry...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 1

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LG Optimus F3 officially landing at Sprint on June 14 with 4-inch display, $29.99 price tag

Android Looks like Sprint's got itself a brand new Optimus. Sprint this morning announced that it plans to begin selling the LG Optimus F3 through its website on June 14, with a launch in all Sprint channels (like its stores) slated to happen this...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 0

Samsung Galaxy S 4 update rolling out with ability to move apps to microSD card, other improvements

Android After the Galaxy S 4 was the subject of a kerfuffle last month that involved its storage space and the amount that's available to users fresh out of the box, it appears that Samsung has begun rolling out an update that ought to help users...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 5

Nokia EOS poses for more leaked photos wearing black and red outfits

News Hot on the heels of some images that claimed to show parts of the Nokia EOS and its 41-megapixel camera sensor, two new sets of images have surfaced that purportedly offer peeks at a completely assembled black unit that's just casually...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 3

T-Mobile's Samsung Galaxy S III LTE now available online with $69.99 down payment

Android After originally teasing a new 4G LTE-capable version of its Samsung Galaxy S III way back in January, T-Mobile officially added the device to its online shop today. The Galaxy S III LTE is now available for purchase through T-Mobile's...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 0

Google Keyboard now available for download in the Play Store

Android The list of official Google apps available in the Play Store has grown by one today, as the company just added its Google Keyboard app to the shop's virtual shelves. As the name suggests, Google Keyboard gives users the stock Android 4.2...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 10

BlackBerry exec says other manufacturers are interested in preloading BBM onto their devices

Android BlackBerry used its BlackBerry Live conference last month to make several announcements, including the new BlackBerry Q5 device and its new BBM Channels. One of the biggest and most surprising pieces of news to come from the show, though,...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 3

BlackBerry A10 tipped as Z10 follow-up, said to be hitting Sprint in November

Blackberry Os BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins teased earlier this year that his company had a new product in its pipeline that he was "really excited about," piquing the interest of BlackBerry fans everywhere. However, the executive declined to offer any...

2 weeks ago by Alex Wagner 4