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Embarrassed Verizon Launches Second LTE Smartphone
After an embarrassing delay due to “unexpected” problems, Verizon Wireless has launched its second smartphone capable of using its newly minted high-speed Long Term Evolution data network. The Samsung Droid Charge was scheduled for release in late April before the LTE network briefly crashed in some areas, preventing new activations and slowing data speeds, but [...]
For Computer Chip Builders, Only One Way To Go: Up
In the race to build a faster computer chip, there is literally nowhere to go but up. Today’s chip surfaces are packed with the tiniest electronic switches the laws of physics allow, but Intel Corp. says it is blowing past those limits with a breakthrough, three-dimensional transistor design it revealed Wednesday. Analysts call it one [...]
MetroPCS LTE Samsung Galaxy Indulge available this week
Samsung’s MetroPCS LTE phone isn’t called the Forte as we may have previously thought, but the rest of the information we’ve been hearing about the phone for the last few weeks was pretty dead on. Officially called the Galaxy Indulge, the 3.5-inch, Android 2.2 smartphone isn’t quite as well spec’d as the rest of the [...]
Nielsen: U.S. smartphone ownership higher among minorities
Almost a third (31 percent) of all mobile phone users in the United States own smartphones, but their adoption is higher among specific minority groups, says a report out today from Nielsen. Based on a survey conducted in December, Nielsen found that 27 percent of white mobile phone users in the U.S. currently own smartphones. [...]
LG gearing up to launch 3D line of smartphones
LG has started sending out invitations to an event at next month’s Mobile World Congress. Though it stops just shy of unveiling a device, LG says that it plans to take us into a “new dimension” on February 14. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the company will be showing off [...]
Apple’s new iPad will have security issues
Apple’s new iPad device looks like it will have some of the same security issues that affect the iPhone, such as weak encryption, a mobile security expert said on Thursday. For one, if the iPad employs encryption the same way the iPhone does, sensitive personal data, including phone numbers and e-mail addresses, could be retrieved [...]
Forehead Texter for a better social experience
How many times have you been caught texting on your phone while someone else is talking to you at a party or social setting? Well, the Forehead Texter ought to be just perfect, thanks to Demetri Martin’s latest gadget which will project your text onto a person’s face in order for you to look the [...]