According to a new report by BBC, engineers at Northwestern University are working on lithium-ion batteries that house the potential to charge a wireless device 10 times faster, and hold a charge 10 times longer than current batteries found in today’s market. Northwestern University engineers claim that the method could result in a […]

AT&T’s annual Black Friday deals are looking particularly aggressive this year. The company has confirmed that as part of their Black Friday smartphone deals, they will offer up “all” of their Windows Phone 7 devices for just one cent on contract. The carrier’s holiday discount will even include brand new phones like

Whenever we start to see marketing posters or advertising materials for a unreleased device pop up, we know we are getting closer to an official launch. According to Droid-Life, Galaxy Nexus posters for 3rd party Verizon dealers have arrived to help promote the highly anticipated Android 4.0 sporting smartphone. With most of the blogosphere speculating that

The Samsung Fascinate seems to be one of the few original Galaxy S variants that have the misfortune currently of still hanging on to Froyo – courtesy of Verizon – while most other versions of the device have had Gingerbread for a while now and are looking forward to the

Simply known internally as the ‘Zeta’, HTC’s future smartphone seems finally ready to show its face out in the wild. The folks over at Engadget were able to snag a clear press shot of the handset in all its humpback glory. Reportedly, the Zeta is expected to rock a 2.5 GHz

Verizon Wireless is still on track to flip the switch on for 14 new 4G LTE markets tomorrow, bringing their total market count up to 179. The carrier will also expand in 4 other current markets. In just under one year, Verizon has managed to provide 4G LTE coverage to approximately 186 million customers, and plans to cover

In an announcement today, T-Mobile confirmed that their 4G network is now twice as fast, and has expanded to cover more locations than ever before.The network expansion includes coverage in 208 markets across the U.S. and reaches more than 200 million consumers. The wireless company plans to launch HSPA +42 service

With just the already available SuperOneClick method, a user from XDA Forums has blown the doors wide open for development on the $199 Amazon tablet.  The dual-core device has been successfully rooted by XDA member, death2all110, with just a few changes to an ADB ini file before using SuperOneClick. With

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Verizon Wireless has officially revealed the rugged Casio G’zOne Ravine 2 device along with launch dates and pricing. As expected, the flip-phone meets military-spec 810G standards for resistance to water, shock, dust, vibration, salt, fog, humidity, in addition to  holding up in extreme altitude and temperature

Sony Ericsson​ has promised today to bring Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) to its entire lineup of  2011 Xperia handsets. As part of their new Ice Cream Sandwich mission, the company plans to modify their custom interface to the new OS regardless of the device’s size. Handsets will range from the Xperia mini all the way to the

Despite HTC’s Droid Incredible being discontinued for a few months now, users have reported that the handset has finally started to receive some long awaited Gingerbread love. It appears that Verizon Wireless has decided to roll out the Android 2.3(Gingerbread) upgrade as an over the air update. HTC originally promised the Gingerbread

Initially scheduled for an October outing, the Gingerbread update for LG’s first 3D smartphone, the Optimus 3D, has been delayed yet again to later this month – November 21st to be more specific.  The update will start rolling out initially in Europe and that too for unlocked devices only, with

It’s time to switch over from the SDK-based ROMs and get straight to the good stuff – ROMs based on the actual Ice Cream Sandwich code.  The entire code is available for any enterprising developer via Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP) servers to try their hand at developing or

Amazon released a short press statement today that their Kindle Fire slab has shipped a day ahead of schedule (which is today), in order to get the device into user’s hands by the scheduled launch date (which is tomorrow). Reportedly, some consumers have already received the tablet. The Android 2.3 tablet is available in an

After a significant delay, Apple has officially released their iTunes Match service alongside iTunes 10.5.1. iTunes Match, is a $25 annual subscription service which enables Apple users to maintain an iTunes music library mirrored on Apple servers. Users can upload songs that are not available through the iTunes Store, and once synced, tracks