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At the New York Sprint and Motorola press event today, Motorola confirmed that they would be making their first Sprint 4G device available this summer. The Photon 4G, a modern styled device, lives up to it’s futuristic sounding name sporting a glossy bezel, angled corners, and a soft touch rubberized back. The device will be running Android 2.3 Gingerbread in addition to its highlighted features listed below. 4.3-inch qHD display 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor 16GB of storage 4G WiMAX Sprint ID and worldphone capabilities Front facing 8 megapixel camera with support for Motorola’s webtop solution The Motorola Photon 4G has an […]

Need a Father’s Day gift? Or maybe you’re just in the market for a Windows Phone. This may be the ideal sale for you. Microsoft is now offering three  Windows Phones for just a penny each through three major carriers via their online store. Users can now purchase either Sprint’s HTC Arrive, Verizon Wireless’ HTC Trophy, or T-Mobile’s HTC HD7  for a penny each with a smartphone data plan and a 2 year contract. This Microsoft promotion will last until July 2nd. Source

Apple appears to be extremely busy by unveiling plans to build a spaceship-like office compound with room for 12,000 employees. The single office building on the new campus will look “a little like a spaceship landed,” Steve Jobs announced during a council meeting on Tuesday. Jobs continued to explain that Apple will maintain their existing headquarters located in Cupertino, California, but will utilize the new space to accommodate their growing employee force. Apple originally bought the land from Hewlett-Packard while HP was incurring a downsize. Jobs remarked that this land held sentimental value to him as HP offered him a summer job

While Nokia’s financial troubles are well documented, a new industry bidder may be quietly in the works. The Wall Street Journal reported that Samsung is under “market speculation” for a piece of Nokia. At the end of May, Nokia announced that they were lowering their outlook for the second quarter of 2011. To make matters worse Nokia expects net sales to be “substantially lower” as well. The numbers looking so dismal, Nokia will not be providing annual targets to their investors at this time. As of this report, Nokia’s stock market share is down $0.28 to $6.26. For the time being, in

Sprint confirmed the rumors that they will now offer the 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook for $499.00. Sprint is anticipating a summer launch of their WiMAX version of the PlayBook for consumers who want 4G speed on the move. Users who already have a BlackBerry Smartphone can utilize the BlackBerry Bridge to connect to the PlayBook wirelessly over BlueTooth (while running an OS 5.0 or higher). Here’s a quick re-cap of the PlayBook’s highlighted features. 7-inch 1024×600 WSVGA capacitive LCD touch screen 0.9 lbs (425g) and 5.1″ x 7.6″ x 0.4″ (130mm x 194mm x 10mm) 1GHz dual-core processor Support for high

 After spending some quality time with the new iOS 5, I’d have to remark it’s the most stable beta iOS Apple has yet to release. It looks like Apple took their user’s feedback seriously and took note of the key features that other mobile operating platforms offered rolling it all up into iOS 5. The first thing I was drawn to was the notification center. Before, users couldn’t do anything inside their phone without being annoyed by a pesky notification. You can now customize how and what you want to be notified by. You can select the type of alert, the number of messages, and

Word of the jailbroken iOS 5 hit the Twitter stream less than 24 hours after Steve Jobs and Apple unveiled their newest iOS 5. MuscleNerd proved he was the first to suceed by uploading some pretty telling shots. MuscleNerd is well known in the iOS jailbreaking scene and also part creator of the Dev-Team Blog. The pictures depicted a jailbroken version of iOS 5 running on a 4th generation iPod Touch. MuscleNerd proved he had gained root access to the device and had already installed some jail break only apps. The new jailbroken iOS 5 only works when tethered to a PC each and

We just caught a peek at the first images of the new Motorola DROID BIONIC and they don’t disappoint. Motorola introduced the device during CES 2011, but disclaimed that the world would have to wait until summer for it’s release. Well, summer is here and so are the first shots of the device. From what we can decipher it appears to have a redesigned version of Motorola’s MOTOBLUR interface. Additionally, it features a 4.3 inch qHD display and a 8 mega pixel camera with 1080p recording ability. The DROID BIONIC also has support for Verizon’s 4G-LTE network. We’re still in the dark

Steve Jobs agreed that for Apple users the need to keep all devices in sync was a necessity. “We’ve got a great solution to this problem. We’re going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device. We’re going to move the digital hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud.” Jobs continued to explain that the iCloud will store all your data content and push it to each of your devices. The process will be seamless to the user and will replace MobileMe. The iCloud demo continued on to highlight the App store which will re-download

A new camera is coming soon as part of the monstrous iOS 5 update demo that was unleashed today at WWDC. Users can look forward to controlling the picture taking process including editing right from their device without having to rely on 3rd party photo apps. iPhone’s current camera lacked basic options and settings found in well know apps like “Camera+” or “Photoshop”. Users will now be able to correct lighting issues like flash over exposure. More exicting is that the new camera will actually have a shutter for the first time. You will be able to utilize the volume up button to snap

The anticipation was almost too much to handle as more than 5,200 people lined the streets to attend this year’s sold out WWDC. Wasting no time, Steve Jobs kicked off the festivities and the keynote started with a demo of their newest OS X Lion. This all leading up to the meat of their presentation being the mobile operating system future with iOS 5. Apple reported holding a staggering 44% of the mobile share with 200 million iOS devices sold while Android fell in the number two slot with 28% of the share. The first issue addressed being those pesky notifications that

During an interview at the D9 conference last week, AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega agreed that a smaller SIM card was a “no brainer”. He confirmed that AT&T was “working with the industry” on the possibility of smaller SIM cards. In late May, France Telecom CEO Stephane Richard acknowledged during an interview that Apple and other wireless companies had reached an agreement to move towards the smaller SIM card versus the embedded chip Apple showed interest in before. Another executive at Orange, a subsidiary of France Telecom, confirmed that Apple has already submitted new requirements for a smaller SIM card. We can’t help but remember

Up until now, all we have been able to get our hands on were a few spy shots of the Motorola DROID 3. Today, PhonePads leaked three how-to videos which appear to be manufactured directly from corporate. What we can deduce from the videos is that the Droid 3 sports a 8 megapixel camera that shoots 1080p video, a five row QWERTY keyboard, and HDMI output. Still under speculation is what kind of processor Droid 3 will house. Also rumoured amongst enthusiasts is a completely revamped version of MotorBlur with 3D effects. Check out the tutorial videos for yourself. Source

Apple will shovel out between $100 million and $150 million for advance payments to the four music label giants to secure it’s upcoming iCloud launch. According to the New York Post, Apple has agreed to pay each music label between $25 million to $50 million for their services. The music labels will then share the cost with Apple; 30% will go to Apple, 12% will go to the music publishers, and the remaining will be left to the labels to pay out their artists. The enormous advance payments are what allegedly has been the source of Google’s inability to get their own cloud

Just when you were getting used to the idea that that the Motorola Xoom was breaking speeds of 1.504GHz, our reliable friends at XDA-developers introduced an updated Tiamat kernel capable of 1.7GHz. Could this actually be reality? Testimonies straight from XDA developers forums suggest that once you turn over the switch on your Tegra 2 it will most likely reboot regrettably. However, if you’re part of the serendipitous ones to experience this benchmark status, you can look forward to 70 MFLOPS in Linpack, 1480ms runs in SunSpider, and Quadrant scores reaching a sleek 5,000. XDA-delevopers disclaim while the 1.7GHz has been rigourously tested, safe does not imply stable. To read more on