Anyone who visits MD regularly knows that I am a bit obsessive when it comes to battery usage/drain. I long ago gave up trying to conserve power and instead enjoy my phones to the fullest, while keeping a charging source nearly. I am also somewhat boring (unless you want to talk tech) so my routine … Read more
Do you have the hots for the newly annoced Droid RAZR M? Did that name manage not to turn you off? Well, how about some unboxing porn? If you’re a verizon customer, this is pretty much the extent of the action you’ll be having, so enjoy! Video comes courtesy of the folks over at technobuffalo
Was checking my data usage so far this month and noticed that AT&T appears to have some really high expectations for users on their grandfathered LTE Unlimited Data Plan. So how exactly do you say 10,238,976 MBs. Oh wait, I looked it up. That would be 10.239 Terabytes. Looks like I have a way to … Read more
A new phone comes to Verizon, but is it really a new phone? I don’t know, I Like Android but there’s just too many of them out there and it seems there’s more coming out all of the time. How does one pick, I know I couldn’t afford to buy every phone as it hits … Read more
Looks like Sprint customers are getting a new choice when it comes to Android phones. Coming April 12th the new Viper 4G LTE from LG will be available for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate. The phone will be running Android Gingerbread and it has a1.2Ghz dual core CPU with 1gig of ram and a … Read more
Sony has belted out their first LTE device and it is headed to AT&T. The HD powerhouse XPERIA ION, will not only be 4G LTE powered , but also feature two HD Cameras with a 4.6 inch HD Screen with HDMI out support. I am always surprised about the amount of traffic that comes to … Read more
Last week we got tipped from Paul Thurrott that we would see an announcement from AT&T about their LTE enabled Windows Phones coming in 2012 at the CES show in Las Vegas. As a matter of fact, the Nokia ACE, the HTC Radiant, and the Samsung Mendel will be the LTE trifecta for Microsoft. Originally … Read more
About 45 minutes. That’s what it would take, at the low end (5Mbps) theoretical range of Verizons 4G LTE network, to burn through your allotted data. Here’s the figures. 5 Megabits = 5,242,880 bits Total seconds in a 30 day month = 2,592,000 Maximum total of data transferred given the above = 13,589,544,960,000 bits, or … Read more
Mobile Musings is a weekly column where I take my thoughts on several subjects and basically think out loud. LTE WINDOWS PHONES ARRIVING IN 2012 In a rather obvious “rumor” its astonishing to see tech bloggers reporting that LTE flavored Windows Phones would be arriving in 2012. It was already announced that the platform would … Read more
The next GSMA Mobile World Congress will be held between February 27th and March 1st, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. This year the MWC has introduced the new and improved “My MWC” event portal for MWC. In addition to social networking, My MWC has the new Deal Accelerator tool which lets you connect with potential business … Read more