Archive | 2011

Is The Nexus S Randomly Rebooting?

I can’t say I’ve heard much about this before the last 24 hours but according to the boys at Androidandme a real deal problem exists with the Nexus S. As it stands, it can happen on the phone, listening to streaming radio or playing a game and the Nexus S will just reboot. You’ll find yourself staring at the reboot … [read full article]

What Is The Motorola Alpha?

Let me just put up a quick disclaimer here, I have every reason to believe the Motorola Alpha is the Cliq 2.  As I’ve come to learn, phones of similar make and model are usually lumped together on internal documents such as this and the retail pricing is the same. I know I’m trying to connect dots that might not exist, but … [read full article]

Verizon, The iPhone And You – An Editorial

If you have been on the Internet at all over the past four days you probably know about the latest announcement.   Verizon held a rather exclusive press conference today to announce their partnership with Apple, allowing them to carry a CDMA version of the iPhone.   Guess what?  The sky hasn’t turned red, the earth hasn’t opened up, pigs aren’t flying and, most of … [read full article]

Verizon CTO Calls Out T-Mobile HSPA+

Verizon is showing its usual arrogance over its network via an interview with CTO Tony Melone from Cnet. While I’ll be the first to admit, Verizon really outshines the other carriers, including our Magenta at CES, hands down that doesn’t mean they have the strongest offering of all. With that in mind, we won’t deny that they came out swinging with their selection of LTE offerings but … [read full article]

T-Mobile Wants To Keep Smartphones Cheap

T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm told the Wall Street Journal that T-Mobile plans to sell a number of Android devices for $100 or less. Explaining that not all customers want expensive, high end devices T-Mobile is looking to capture that demographic. “We are working with our vendors on this one to drive the price of smartphones down,” T-Mobile won’t be the only carrier hoping to attract new customers … [read full article]