HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy SIII Bring Next-Gen CPU Tech in Latest Devices
The impending sales juggernaut that will be “iPhone 5” is rumored to be coming this Fall with a bigger screen, but a sinking HTC and rising Samsung are looking to finally stretch their noses past the seemingly unbeatable iPhone 4/4S with their latest flagship devices. The last time HTC and Samsung went head-to-head was their previous […]
AT&T Makes It Official: 4G LTE has Arrived in the Lou
This morning St. Louis joined the ranks of 31 other markets with 4G LTE coverage from AT&T. [View the Press Release] As we reported about a week ago, AT&T began rolling out LTE to 12 new markets on Easter Sunday. Although quite a few LTE symbols were popping up on devices in the area before […]
AT&T 4G LTE Arriving Sunday April 8th for the St. Louis Area
So I have this friend. He bought the new Galaxy Note, and I must say I’m very smitten with the phone. We were out partying this past weekend for his wife’s birthday, and he started asking me about the LTE logo in his notification bar. “WAIT, WHAT?! LTE?!?! DO A SPEEDTEST!!!!” He ended up pulling […]
Instagram for Android! The Photo App for iPhone Finally Makes It’s Way to Droid
Apple users of the iPhone and iPad have come to love the little photo editing app of Instagram. It allows users to apply digital filters to their photographs and give them a heightened, often vintage style. Since October of 2010, Instagram has only been available in the Apple App Store. However, within the last year […]
Hands-On: AT&T LG Nitro HD (Video and Review)
The LG Nitro HD is AT&T’s branding of the LG Optimus LTE, sharing some DNA with the Verizon LG Spectrum and the upcoming Sprint LG Viper. AT&T’s LTE service has not yet been switched on in St. Louis, but they recently announced that their 4G spectrum will be up and running this April or May. […]
Hands-On: AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket (Review and Video)
The Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket… *inhale*… is AT&T’s sequel to the wildly successful Samsung Galaxy S II. It all started with the Samsung Infuse 4G back in May 2011. Taking advantage of AT&T’s newly operational 4G/”Faux-G” HSPA+ network, the Infuse was introduced as a pre-Galaxy S II update to replace the Samsung Captivate from […]
iPhone 4S Arrives, October 14th U.S. Release Date
Apple announced today that the next iPhone is indeed scheduled to hit the market this month. Coming into today, this was a huge launch for Apple. After missing the usual Summer iPhone refresh, a lot folks began to worry. When Steve Jobs resigned as CEO, they began to worry even more. After all, Android hasn’t […]
Mobile Market Steady, Apple Poised to Explode with iPhone 5
ComScore released their latest U.S. Smartphone Market Share data today. In a way, it is not terribly surprising when comparing my projected values with July’s actual results. Still, consistently failing is not good for anyone. RIM might want to take note and come up with something big before they end up in HP’s situation. With […]
Sprint Serving Up Almost Twice the Data of Competitors
A recent study performed by Validas has crowned Sprint as the new King of Bandwidth Hogs. When compared amongst the Big Four, the results from 47,000 phone bills spanning the last twelve months put Sprint’s numbers at almost twice the average per month than the competition. It should come as no surprise: Sprint is the […]
Android Wins in June, iOS & WP7 Steady, RIM & webOS Still Falling
ComScore finally released their U.S. smartphone market share data for June. It’s definitely an interesting set of numbers and leaves so many questions unanswered. Google’s Android operating system scored the only gains from the previous month. Essentially they were the only operating system that managed to steal subscribers from the competition. Both iOS and WP7 […]