Chase Bank has announced that they’re increasing mobile deposit limits from $1,000 per day and $3 ,000 per month to $2,000 per day and $5,000 per month. That’s still not enough for some of us, but we can’t complain about progress. If your mobile check cashing aspirations have been hampered by these limitations see if [...]

Consumers vote with their wallets and over the last 6 months, the majority of smartphone voters are checking Android when they drop their credit card into the ballot box. Nielsen reports that in the United States, Android has reached 43% marketshare for smartphones but when polling those who purchased within the last 6 months, 56% [...]

Samsung already produces some pretty stunning smartphone displays but they’ve just upped the ante in Korea by announcing the Samsung Galaxy S2 HD. The Galaxy S2 HD shares almost identical specs as the Galaxy S2 LTE already announced for the region – including a 1.5GHz dual core processor, 8MP camera, and NFC chip – but [...]

Another HTC phone that’s been making the rounds lately is the HTC Runnymede. It’s poised to be one of the first Beats headphones after HTC acquired the company. Inside will be a 1.5GHz single-core processor and a 4.7 inch display, according to rumored specs. It will also be bundled with Beats headphones (different sets depending [...]

Our friends at Big Red Verizon have chimed in on Apple’s attempts to get Samsung products temporarily banned from being sold here in the United States. They say taking Samsung and their products off the market is bad for business as it hurts their goals for high-speed wireless adoption. In a court filing, Verizon stated [...]

T-Mobile just took the wraps off a smartphone aimed to set a new standard for picture snapping with the HTC Amaze 4G. At 8MP the camera specs are inline with other top smartphone competitors, but that’s not why they’re calling it “the most advanced camera of any smartphone”: The Amaze 4G also records video in [...]

The last carrier to announce their plans for availability and pricing for the Galaxy S II, T-Mobile, have done just that in an announcement today (which they teased they’d be making on Twitter earlier). The Galaxy S II has been dated for October 12th and users can by the devices for $230 on a new [...]

Samsung has announced that they have reached the 10 million sold milestone for the Samsung Galaxy S II. It took them four or five months, but they can consider it a hit (for their standards, anyway). “In just five months the GALAXY S II has seen tremendous growth, reflecting its tremendous popularity with customers around [...]

More leaks for you today. This time, it pertains to the HTC Vigor that should be seeing a launch on Verizon sometime soon. Droid-Life got their hands on some profile shots of the device all its glory. There’s not much to see here – it’s your typical HTC design, but you can see a bit [...]

It wouldn’t be a Monday without some juicy leaks to sink our teeth into. This is My Next have gotten their hands on a press shot of a supposed Motorola Android phone that is said to have some pretty interesting features. It’s said to be getting LTE radios – meaning either AT&T or Verizon could [...]

Here it is, folks! The first leaked pics of the upcoming Motorola Xoom 2 (MZ617). As you can see the device looks very similar to the original Moto Xoom ‘cept this time with more angled corners (ala Photon 4G). You can expect things to remain largely the same with standard rear and front facing cameras, [...]

3 years may not sound like much in people years but in smartphone years — that’s like Clint Eastwood status. It was 3 years ago to this day that T-Mobile officially announced the G1. It was the smartphone that started a revolution. T-Mobile made a booboo today when they tweeted that the G1′s birthday was [...]

Edmunds has finally updated their car information app in the Android Market to include the number one user requested feature: used car information. This should make potential car buyers on a budget pretty happy. Take a look at some of the comments in the Market and you’ll see this was the only thing holding the [...]

The boys over at Citizen have just received these press images of Korea’s upcoming LG Optimus EX. We saw the device leaked a single pic a few days but now we get the full specs of the device as well as a nice back-shot to boot. The LG Optimus EX comes in at only 9.6mm [...]

Now, I don’t know if you guys have heard but there is a 6-ton dead satellite that is currently hurtling towards Earth and will make contact sometime tonight or over the weekend. In effort to keep our readers safe from a horribly (funny) demise, I thought I’d bring to your attention an app currently available [...]

If you recently purchased the “near perfect” Samsung Epic 4G Touch on Sprint and were toying with the idea of rooting your device, you now have one more reason to take the plunge. Or rather — one less reason to not take the plunge. The stock kernel for the Epic Touch has finally been made [...]

Madfinger Games has released the trailer for their upcoming third-person shooter, Shadowgun. The game has come a long way since we got our hands-on time with it back at E3 ’11 and it’s shaping up to be one of the year’s blockbuster titles. Built using Unity3D, Shadowgun will launch for iOS devices on Sept. 28th [...]

Some Samsung Captivate owners on the Rogers network in Canada are being notified that the Android 2.3 update is now available for their device. The update is applied via Kies and should fix a number of issues the device has been plagued with for awhile now, namely — Android 2.2. The update being ready for [...]

Some new images of the LG U+ LTE have surfaced online. Korean site Cetizen was able to gather these pics of LG’s upcoming flagship device in the wild, giving us a clearer picture on the device’s aesthetics and build quality. The chrome metal band around the sides of the device look an awful lot like [...]

Get your MKV’s, AVI’s and ANIME’s ready! Android developer/modder extraordinaire, CVPCS, was able to compile a working pre-Alpha version of VLC media player for Android. If you’re unfamiliar with VLC, it’s essentially a open-source (we like those words around here) media player for Windows, Mac and everything in between that allows you to play virtually [...]