Verizon Wireless remains king of customer care, according to J.D. Power and Associates. It’s the fourth consecutive time Verizon has claimed top honors in the bi-annual wireless customer care full-service performance study. The 2013 volume 1 survey results are based on responses from 7,332 wireless subscribers from July through December 2012. Verizon scored 766...
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Curious to see photo samples from the upcoming Galaxy S IV Android smartphone’s camera? Thanks to what’s likely a mistake by an employee in Samsung’s camp, Hyunsuk Park, a few test photos that were posted to Google+ are currently visible to the public. The following images were taken with three different devices and grouped...
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Another day, another HTC M7 leak. This time, we have word of a potential release date for Europe: March 8. The information comes by way of a leaked distribution document from Phone House, which also lists the upcoming Android smartphone at an unsubsidized price-point of 649.90 euros. The image also confirms some of the...
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Sprint has updated the HTC EVO 4G LTE Android smartphone with a new software update, version 3.16.651.3, that brings some minor stability improvements and finally activates the MHL port for mirroring content to HDTVs. The OTA update should arrive automatically on your EVO 4G LTE over the next week. Check out the list of...
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Sprint has started rolling out the Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean upgrade to the Google Galaxy Nexus smartphone by Samsung. The software update, L700GA02, bumps the OS from Android 4.1.1 to 4.2.1 and offers a bevy of improvements, including a redesigned camera UI with new Photo Sphere feature, enhanced notification shade, lockscreen widgets and more....
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HTC is holding a press conference on Tuesday, February 19 in New York just prior to the start of MWC 2013. It’s likely that the Taiwan-based company will announce the highly rumored and leaked M7 Android smartphone. This lines up with a recent rumor that the M7 would be announced on the same date,...
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Sprint flipped the switch to its 4G LTE network in some additional markets today. Subscribers of the Now Network can officially access lightning-fast LTE data speeds in the following areas: Boston and Framingham, Massachusetts; Austin and Bryan/College Station, Texas; Columbia, Tennessee; Fort Wayne, Indiana, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Emporia, Kansas; and Western Puerto Rico (including Aguadilla, Isabela, Cabo Rojo, Mayagüez)....
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Sprint announced a new, ultra-rugged Android smartphone with 4G LTE connectivity today. The Kyocera Torque can withstand blasts of water and can be submerged up to one meter underwater for up to 30 minutes. It’s also protected against extreme temperatures, blowing rain, solar radiation, salt fog, humidity, low pressure situations, dust, shock and vibrations....
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The upcoming HTC M7 Android smartphone with the new Sense 5.0 user interface was previously rumored for Verizon and Sprint in the US, however, a reliable source now claims we can add AT&T to the list. Serial leakster evleaks confirmed on Twitter that the beastly handset will be released on the top three carriers...
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We first caught wind of the Motorola X Phone late last year and now it looks as if more details are starting to emerge. According to a trusted source on the DroidRzr forums, the Motorola X Phone will be announced at Google I/O 2013 in May and a tentative release date is scheduled for...
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Samsung announced two new color options for the popular Galaxy Note II Android smartphone. Amber Brown and Ruby Wine variants will join the already available Marble White and Titanium Grey models. The Amber Brown option is immediately available in South Korea while the Ruby Wine color scheme is scheduled to be released next week...
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Now that Christmas is over, it looks like Samsung is adjusting its Galaxy Note II marketing efforts from regular consumers to business men and women. In the company’s latest TV commercial, titled Office Upgrade, Samsung features the Galaxy Note II in a comical office scene in which two employees discuss the usefulness of the...
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UPDATE: Winners have been selected and contacted by email! Congratulations to: S. Baranco, L. Imutan, S. Rener, Asa, A. Baroudi, D. Hansen, G. Ries, and R. Jeffries. Thanks to everyone who participated and stay tuned to our YouTube channel and smartkeitai.com for more giveaways. We, at SmartKeitai, want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas,...
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The successor to the HTC One X will apparently be a smartphone currently codenamed M7, according to evleaks. Due to be announced at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona in late February, the HTC M7 reportedly features an impressive 4.7-inch “SoLux” display with 1080p resolution and a pixel density of 468ppi. The leak also...
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Remember Samsung’s sexually suggestive “Work Trip” commercial for the Galaxy S III Android smartphone? You know, the one where a husband is leaving for a business trip and his wife surprises him with a last-second NFC sharing of what’s hinted to be a homemade sex-tape as she warns him not to watch it on...
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