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Samsung Galaxy S II in the U.S.A

By Tiago Santos - [31/8/2011 - 09:47] - 0 - Phones

Our friends over in the United States of America can have some relief after last week’s news that Verizon would not sell the all new and shiny Samsung Galaxy S II, since AT&T has the new smartphone scheduled for a September r[...]

Apple starts selling an unlocked iPhone 4 in the US

By Tom LESKIN - [16/6/2011 - 11:04] - 0 - Phones

I’m sure many of you already know about this, but if you visited Apple.com anytime in the past day or so, you probably noticed that Apple started selling unlocked iPhones in the US, which they had done in other parts of the world[...]

Apple starts selling an unlocked iPhone 4 in the US

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LG officially announces the Revolution for Verizon’s LTE network

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [26/5/2011 - 11:08] - 0 - Phones

This morning LG Korea has made it official slightly ahead of Verizon by introducing the LG Revolution. The LG Revolution is another LTE or 4G wonder that comes with a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 4.3” 480×800 screen, Android 2.2 (Wait W[...]

LG officially announces the Revolution for Verizon’s LTE network

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New Acer and Samsung Chromebooks coming June 15

By Tom LESKIN - [12/5/2011 - 04:44] - 0 - Laptops

These last couple days of Google I/O news have certainly been exciting. Today Google unveiled something I’ve been waiting to hear about for quite a long time, notebooks running Chrome OS. The first is an 11.6-inch Chrome OS netbo[...]

New Acer and Samsung Chromebooks coming June 15

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White iPhone 4 coming April 28, goodbye fake parts

By Tom LESKIN - [28/4/2011 - 04:40] - 4 - Phones

I promise to keep the stories about products from American companies to a minimum, although I am also American, but love them or hate them, everybody talks about Apple. Today Apple revealed through their site that the white iPhone 4, w[...]

White iPhone 4 coming April 28, goodbye fake parts

Via Apple

Android goes industrial with the Casio G’zOne Commando

By Tom LESKIN - [28/4/2011 - 12:40] - 0 - Phones

In the past Casio has made a couple rugged phones for Verizon, which are so industrial they look like they could survive being thrown off a building, but please don’t take my word for that and attempt it. Tomorrow they are jumpin[...]

Android goes industrial with the Casio G’zOne Commando

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Droid Charge, Verizon’s second 4G LTE phone coming April 28

By Tom LESKIN - [24/4/2011 - 12:32] - 2 - Phones

If Verizon‘s HTC Thunderbolt wasn’t enough, another 4G LTE phone is joining Verizon’s DROID family April 28, the Samsung Droid Charge. This powerful smartphone will feature a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, 1GHz [...]

Droid Charge, Verizon’s second 4G LTE phone coming April 28

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CDMA iPhone 4 coming to Japan

By Akihabara News Team - [14/1/2011 - 04:53] - 7 - None Phones

According to Digitimes, Apple has begun shipping the CDMA iPhone 4, originally designed for Verizon, to many asian countries, including Japan. KDDI’s AU will soon be the second japanese company carrying the iPhone4, along with Softbank.

Via KDDI

[CES 2011] LG Revolution a new LTE Android phone form LG

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [7/1/2011 - 05:48] - 1 - Phones

Available via the US Verizon carrier, the LG Revolution is a 4G LTE or Long Term Evolution Android 2.2 Phone with a stunning 4.3” touchscreen and tethering mode supporting up to eight Wi-Fi devices. This device is also DLNA compliant c[...]

[CES 2011] LG Revolution a new LTE Android phone form LG

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Samsung announces the Continuum dual Screen Smartphone on Verizon

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [9/11/2010 - 10:45] - 0 -

Samsung Continuum is the company latest smartphone from its Galaxy S line-up and now available in the USA through Verizon. Running Andorid 2.1, the Continuum particularity is its dual display with a 3.4” (800×480) Super AMOLED Scr[...]

Samsung announces the Continuum dual Screen Smartphone on Verizon

Skype, KDDI to Pull Same Sh*t As Skype, Verizon

By Akihabara News Team - [1/11/2010 - 01:01] - 1 - Phones

While us iPhone users worldwide were using Skype – first on wifi, then on 3G – with little to no problems aside from the usual problems that crop up from the code obfuscations they place in all of their software, Skype prev[...]

Skype, KDDI to Pull Same Sh*t As Skype, Verizon

[Rumor] iPhone 3,2 in testing

By Akihabara News Team - [20/10/2010 - 01:32] - 0 - Phones

As far as we can tell, Apple is currently field testing a 4th-gen iPhone variant code-named iPhone 3,2. Rumored to be a CDMA-ready, Verizon iPhone 4, there are speculations as to whether it might simply be a repackaged standard iPhone [...]

Via Apple

Sharp is also working on e-Books tech

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [20/7/2010 - 02:32] - 2 - Press Conference E-book

Sure, today’s conference is slightly, well, definitively disappointing for the geek in us, and when we received an invitation from Sharp to talk about e-Books we were expecting to see Sharp’s answer to Apple, with an iPad killer, nope [...]

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enV, LG’s Latest Phone for Verizon Wireless

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [2/6/2009 - 02:16] - 0 - Phones

Already announced in the USA last Friday here are two new LG Smartphones for the US carrier Verizon Wireless. -The enV TOUCH (LG-VX11000) features a 4” WVGA LCD with a 3.2Mpix camera module and AF (Intelligent Shot), as Dolby Audio for[...]

enV, LG’s Latest Phone for Verizon Wireless

Verizon Debuts Samsung Alias 2 With E Ink Mutable Keypad

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [12/5/2009 - 06:03] - 2 - Phones

Here’s the Alias 2, a new dual-hinge phone with transformable / mutable E-ink keypad. Depending on your phone configuration, landscape or portrait, and screen position, the Alias 2 provides a matching keyboard thank to a dedicate[...]

Verizon Debuts Samsung Alias 2 With E Ink Mutable Keypad

Three New Mobile Phones from LG at Verizon

By Akihabara News Team - [11/6/2008 - 09:46] - 0 - Phones

LG unveiled three new mobile phones at Verizon: the LG Dare, LG Chocolate, and LG Decoy. The touchscreen LG Dare features 3G, V CAST, VZ Navigator and 3.2Mpix camera, and will be available from June 16th. The LG Decoy is the world̵[...]

Three New Mobile Phones from LG at Verizon

LG VX9100: Now Officially Official and with Cute Girls

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [5/5/2008 - 01:50] - 2 - Phones

LG just announced their VX9100 designed for the US operator Verzion. Our little device features a newly designed dial-pad, and when open a nice QVGA screen that proudly displays the words “Initial Programming Needed” (Ooops). Alo[...]

LG VX9100: Now Officially Official and with Cute Girls

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A couple new cellphones from LG

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [5/10/2007 - 04:37] - 0 - Phones

Good news from LG for the Americans with the arrival of two new cellphones: the “Voyager” (LG-VX10000) and the “Venus” (LG-VX8800), both available at Verizon’s. As you can see on the pictures, design is gr[...]

LG-VX9400 for Verizon is now at the CES

By Daimaou - G.G-B - [8/1/2007 - 05:50] - 1 - Phones

Behold the latest wonder from LG, the LG-VX9400. This nifty little phone will be sold in the US for the Verizon network, and it will feature the MediaFLO (equivalent to the DMB, 1Seg or DVB-H). Our American friends will be now able to [...]