Verizon and Motorola have just announced that the 4G LTE upgrade promised to those who purchased the XOOM tablet via the wireless provider will begin tomorrow for all existing owners. The upgrade, which was initially offered to a small group of test users, requires owners to ship their tablets back to Motorola for the installation [...]

US Cellular is adding a few new HTC devices to its stable of Android offerings including two new smartphones and a tablet. In the high-end category we have the HTC Hero S features a 4-inch Super LCD display with qHD resolution, Android 2.3 with HTC Sense, and a 5MP camera (1.3MP front-facing). The HTC Wildfire [...]

After Samsung became the latest Android handset manufacturer to agree to a licensing deal that will see them paying Microsoft a fee on every smartphone sold, Google wasn’t too pleased. Strongly believing that legal battles, patents, and licensing deals do nothing but stifle innovation, the technology giant behind the Android OS issued a statement chastising [...]

When the HTC Rhyme launches on Verizon come the end of this week, Target will be the exclusive third-party retailer of the handset. The exclusive period will last for three weeks, as learned from this internal document provided to us by a friendly neighborhood tipster. During that time, Target will offer a guaranteed “Trade and [...]

When Samsung introduced their Galaxy S II flagship, one of the biggest enhancement over its predecessor was the inclusion of a Super AMOLED Plus display. The differentiating factor between the two was the move from a PenTile matrix display to a screen that featured true RGB pixels, providing a much smoother representation of color and [...]

An update is being pushed to the Asus Eee Pad Transformer bringing its software build number to 8.6..5.13. Most notably, the update raises the tablet’s Android version to 3.2.1. It also brings about bug fixes, updates to pre-installed applications, and enhanced WiFi stability. New Farsi language support and improved language translation also come along with [...]

After unveiling their 4G LTE service in Ottawa a few months back, Rogers is spreading their next-gen network to three new cities and detailing plans for the release of their first compatible tablet and smartphone offerings. Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver have all received their taste of LTE love, bringing high-speed cellular services to a large [...]

So the big Amazon Kindle Fire announcement day comes to a conclusion. We have the announcement, the specs, the first TV spot, information about a cool new cloud-based browser and a collection of hands-on impressions. Are you convinced enough to preorder one yet? Sure, there’s no Honeycomb and it doesn’t have the bells and whistles [...]

If there are any country music fans out there who are simply crazy for the genre and would like to transform their phones to reflect that, Sprint has released the CMT ID pack for their Sprint ID-enabled phones. It comes with the following collection of apps: •          CMT Insider: CMT Insider gives access to country [...]

T-Mobile’s confirmed via Twitter that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 certainly is headed for their store shelves, but “coming soon” is all they could offer in the way of details. They didn’t mention if this would be WiFi-only or have support for their 3G or 4G networks. They just ant you to know that it’s [...]

Now that we’ve gotten all the juicy details on the Kindle Fire (specs, announcement, Silk Browser, TV advertisement) it’s time to check out some opinions and impressions. We weren’t able to attend the event ourselves, unfortunately, so we’ve rounded up impressions from some of the outlets that were. BGR says it’s an incredibly compelling offer [...]

We were waiting to see the promo that everyone at the live event saw, but it’s now up on YouTube and ready for the world’s eyes. Look for this one to reach the airwaves closer to launch. I don’t know about you guys but this looks like this alone could get many people very excited [...]

As Amazon chose to focus on the experience rather than the specs (well played) in their unveiling for the Kindle Fire, we were left to find the specs on our own. They’ve listed most of the specs we care about on the device’s page at Amazon, though, so let’s see what we’re getting with the [...]

If you haven’t heard, Amazon’s Kindle Fire will be coming November 15th for $200. Their preorder page for the device has finally gone live on their website. As with any product shipped, sold or fulfilled (or all of the above) by Amazon, this one doesn’t require you to pay any cash upfront. Also remember that [...]

Alongside this morning’s announcement of one of the Amazon tablets we’ve been waiting for – the Amazon Kindle Fire – the eCommerce giant has announced a new browser technology and the first implementation will be on the Kindle Fire itself. They’re calling it Amazon Split and it’s essentially a two-part browser – Amazon’s EC2 super [...]

Amazon has officially (FINALLY) announced their 7 inch Android tablet – the Kindle Fire. Keeping up with Amazon’s reputation of affordable devices (and prices all around) they’ve committed to debuting the Kindle Fire at $200. At this price point, they look to undercut a ton of competition. The name alone will drive interest but is [...]

Samsung and Microsoft have settled on an agreement for patent royalties and cross licensing. In short, Samsung pays Microsoft money for every Android smartphone sold to use their patents and Microsoft also gets free access to Samsung’s patents. Kind of lopsided if you ask me. Microsoft also has HTC to bring money in for every [...]

MetroPCS has officially announced their high-end LG Esteem smartphone. Specs start off with a 4.3 inch WVGA display, a 1GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, a 5 megapixel HD rear camera with a 1.3 megapixel front camera, 8GB of internal storage, a micro-HDMI port and more. We’ve also got 4G radios inside. Metro’s offering this [...]

ISIS – the mobile payment NFC-based joint venture between T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon – have added a stable of new OEMs to the list of those who will implement ISIS technology into their future NFC-enabled phones. Even with how exciting Google Wallet looks, ISIS seems to be generating a ton of carrier and OEM support. [...]

Firefox 7 has been released, and while we’re always glad to see Mozilla making progress, I can’t help but to point out that many people aren’t using this browser due to the lack of Flash. It’s still not quite as smooth as other browsers. The features, while nice, are quite useless to me if I [...]