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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Redbox Instant by Verizon is now available for Android on the Google Play Store and for iOS on iTunes (iPhone, iPad). The movie streaming app is currently in Beta form and won’t go final until 2013, so an invite is required for access – simply sign up with an email address on Redbox to...
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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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In this video, we benchmark the Samsung Galaxy Note II and HTC Droid DNA Android smartphones, both of which are available on Verizon Wireless, using the standard benchmarking utility known as Quadrant. The Droid DNA clearly wins that round convincingly; however, if you take a look at the benchmark results using other apps, like...
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The HTC Droid DNA is the first smartphone in the U.S. to feature a 1080p Full HD display. The Super LCD3 display with 1920×1080 resolution and 440ppi is also complimented with a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, an 8 megapixel rear camera, a 2.1MP front-facing camera, and 4G...
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Shoot, edit and share images on the go! Verizon Wireless just announced the Samsung Galaxy Camera, the World’s first 4G LTE digital camera that also happens to run Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. It’s essentially the same point-and-shoot that debuted on AT&T last month, however, that device only had access to a 3G data network,...
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The DROID RAZR M (XT907), DROID RAZR HD (XT926) and DROID RAZR MAXX HD (XT926) smartphones for Verizon Wireless all received their respective Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates, but what about other Motorola devices of past and present? Well, Motorola recently updated their upgrade plans and it seems Q1 2013 will be the time-frame...
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In this video, we unbox the Samsung Galaxy Note II for Verizon Wireless (SCH-i605). This Android smartphone-tablet hybrid, or “phablet,” is also available on all major US carriers, including Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile, as well as many worldwide mobile providers. It’s the same device showcased in a recent Samsung commercial featuring NBA superstar LeBron...
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The recently released TomTom app for Android has been updated to support smartphones with higher resolution displays. The initial launch of the app included exclusive compatiblity for WVGA and FWVGA resolutions, but now it fully supports up to 1280×800 HD screens. That means popular handset like the Samsung Galaxy S III, Samsung Galaxy Note...
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The Motorola Droid RAZR HD and Droid RAZR MAXX HD smartphones for Verizon Wireless are officially in the midst of receiving an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. We mentioned that the 9.1.41.XT926.Verizon.en.US upgrade would be arriving over the air this week, but we didn’t exactly expect it so soon. Users should keep an...
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Beginning next week, Verizon Motorola Droid RAZR HD and Droid RAZR MAXX HD users will receive a firmware upgrade to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The 9.1.41.XT926.Verizon.en.US update will be pushed out in phases starting early December, according to an official statement from a Big Red representative. It looks like it’s a slightly newer build...
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Verizon Wireless took top honors among major carriers in Consumer Reports’ 2012 wireless subscriber survey, which is based on participation from over 63,000 readers. Sprint and T-Mobile were next in line, respectively, while AT&T, the second largest carrier in the nation, finished last of the big four. It’s important to note, however, that AT&T...
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The Android 4.2.1 OTA update has started rolling out to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet, courtesy of Google. The build JOP40D software upgrade is quite minor, as it mainly fixes the “December Bug” that prevented users from accessing the month for birthdays and anniversaries in the People App, but it...
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