Alex Wagner

Alex Wagner's picture
Alex Wagner

Editorial Director of News and Content for PhoneDog Media. Arsenal, beer, video games. Can be followed on Twitter at @alw. I participate in the Amazon Associates program, which means I may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links.

Author's latest articles, videos, reviews and more...

IDC: smartphone shipments have grown 55 percent, Symbian still king

As smartphones have become more powerful and accessible, they have slowly been stealing marketshare away from their messaging and flip phone brethren.  The folks at International Data Corporation...

Samsung announces Orion chips: dual-core, 1080p video capture

Hot on the heels of LG announcing that they will be using NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra 2 chips in their upcoming smartphones, Samsung has uncovered its own dual-core chip, named Orion.  Inside the Orion...

BlackBerry Style 9670 tutorial videos leak

Research In Motion's new BlackBerry 9670, which we now know will be called the Style when it's released, combines the tried-and-true BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard with the popular flip phone form factor...

Official: Samsung Fascinate available online tomorrow for $199.99

Yesterday we broke the news that Samsung's Fascinate would be launching on September 9th thanks to a Samsung commercial, and now Verizon has come out and made the date officially official.  The...

LG to debut NVIDIA Tegra 2-powered Optimus smartphones in Q4 2010

It wasn't long ago that we said we'd keep you updated about LG and their plans to use NVIDIA's Tegra 2 processors in their upcoming smartphones, and now here we are.  LG has announced that they plan...

Clearwire to begin LTE testing in Phoenix this fall

The folks of Phoenix, AZ may not have access to any sort of 4G network right now, but in the near future the city will be a 4G record-setter.  Back at the beginning of August, we reported that...

Windows Phone 7 ad claims that "the revolution is coming"

It's not often we bring you news from a company's commercials and other ads (ok, maybe we do every once in a while), but today we've got a Microsoft ad touting its new Windows Phone 7 OS.  Shown off...

Samsung Galaxy Tab to feature Super TFT display rather than Super AMOLED

Samsung often touts the Super AMOLED display used in its Galaxy S line of phones as being the best, most battery-conserving display on the market.  Unfortunately, they won't be using a Super AMOLED...

Confirmed: Samsung Fascinate launching on September 9th

Samsung's Fascinate has been rumored to be coming on September 9th for some time now, but we haven't heard a peep from either Samsung or Verizon about the official release date.  That changes today...

Adobe updates Flash Player requirements, DROID's 600 MHz chip excluded

Flash on an Android phone is still somewhat of a rare thing to see, with only a few handsets officially capable of running Adobe's Flash Player.  Motorola's original DROID is one of the lucky...

Nokia N8 launching on September 30th

Nokia's N8 is one of the company's most anticipated handsets in recent memory, and now those of us that pre-ordered the device last month have a release day to circle on our calendars.  Tapani...

Samsung Galaxy Tab to cost between $200 and $400 in the U.S.

So we've seen Samsung pull the wraps off of its Android-powered Galaxy Tab and we've learned that it'll be headed to Verizon and possibly even Sprint, so what's left that could make or break sales...

HTC's dual-mode Android slider stops at FCC en route to Verizon

Back at the beginning of August, a new HTC Android phone headed to Verizon leaked out and wowed us with its CDMA/GSM capabilities, sliding keyboard, 1.2 GHz processor, and 4-inch screen.  The...

DROID 2 has the lowest smartphone return rate on Verizon

Motorola's DROID was a pretty big hit when it launched on Verizon last year, and now the DROID 2 seems to be even popular with customers.  After its launch almost a month ago, the DROID 2 now has...

BlackBerry Curve 3G hitting Verizon in two colors

After the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 was announced for T-Mobile, we all kind of expected it to hit Sprint and Verizon in a CDMA form, as well.  RIM outed the Sprint 9330 in a knowledge base article,...

Pages