February 4th, 2012 
Anthony Domanico 
The LG Spectrum is Verizon’s version of the LG Optimus LTE, LG’s latest high-end smartphone that’s done particularly well in other parts of the world. Verizon is the second US carrier to feature the Optimus LTE; AT&T began offering the Nitro HD in December.
Verizon has released a barrage of high-end smartphones over the past [...]
February 4th, 2012 Taylor Wimberly 
Are you a lover of QWERTY keyboards? Verizon’s Motorola Droid 4 is scheduled to launch this week and the guys from Wirefly spent some hands-on time with the device this weekend. Highlights of the Droid 4 include an edge-lit, 5-row keyboard, dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, 4-inch qHD display, 1 GB RAM, dual cameras, [...]
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No Comments » February 4th, 2012 Zachary Lutz Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This week, we’ve spotted a leaked Android 4.0.4 ROM for the Nexus S 4G, and we’ve also come across …
Posted in News Tags: Android, Android 4.0.4, Android4.0.4, app, Apple, Apps, Canada, ClockworkMod, clockworkmod recovery, ClockworkmodRecovery, droid 4, Droid4, england, Galaxy Nexus, GalaxyNexus, google, htc, HTC Rezound, HtcRezound, Ice Cream Sandwich, IceCreamSandwich, iOS, iPhone, koush, Lumia 710, Lumia710, mm, mobile miscellany, MobileMiscellany, mobilepostmini, mobilicity, motorola, Motorola Droid 4, MotorolaDroid4, nexus s 4g, NexusS4g, Nokia, Nokia Lumia 710, NokiaLumia710, Peter Alfonso, PeterAlfonso, price, pricing, release date, rezound, Sprint, Sprint Zone, SprintZone, UK, Verizon, verizon wireless, VerizonWireless, Videotron, wind, wind mobile, WindMobile No Comments » February 4th, 2012 Todd Haselton Vantiv, a provider of mobile payment solutions, announced a new point-of-sale product on Friday that it will be rolling out in partnership with Verizon Wireless. The product, which is currently in field testing, includes custom tailored applications and an Android-based point-of-sale solution for accepting payments. The applications will be available in Verizon’s Private Application Store for Business. “Merchants and consumers are seeking greater mobility, control and timely access to data,” said Bill Weingart, Chief Product Officer of Vantiv. “We’ve teamed with Verizon to combine our payment and security expertise with Verizon’s ability to tailor development of mobile technologies to address those needs.” Verizon Wireless is also a member of ISIS, an initiative in which it has partnered with AT&T and
Posted in News Tags: Bill Weingart, Business, Mobile, mobile payment, payment, Point-of-Sale, POS, Private Application Store, small business, Vantiv, Verizon, verizon wireless No Comments » February 3rd, 2012 Dustin Earley 
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. The number one reason you should buy a Nexus device is because your updates come directly from Google. Meaning you have first dibs and the lastest and greatest Android has to offer.
When we learned that some GSM Nexus devices were not going to be [...]
Posted in News Tags: android developers, Devices, lte, samsung galaxy nexus, Updates, Verizon No Comments » February 3rd, 2012 Kevin Krause UPDATE: The Android Team’s Dan Morrill has posted an explanation for the removal of the Galaxy Nexus and other CDMA devices from the official developer support page. This has nothing to do with Google Wallet (we never thought it did) and everything to do with the way the Android code is compiled for CDMA devices. In [...]
Posted in News Tags: Developers, featured, Handsets, motorola, Motorola Xoom, Samsung, samsung galaxy nexus, samsung nexus s 4g, Sprint, Tablets, Verizon No Comments » February 3rd, 2012 Terrence O'Brien Some of you may have noticed that the Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus is no longer listed as a supported, official developer device by Google. Despite rumors to the contrary, it doesn’t appear this has anything to do with the kerfuffle over Wallet…
Posted in News Tags: Android, android open source project, AndroidOpenSourceProject, aosp, apk, apks, CDMA, Galaxy Nexus, GalaxyNexus, google, google android, GoogleAndroid, mobilepostcross, Nexus, signing, support, support pages, SupportPages, Verizon No Comments » February 3rd, 2012 Dan Graziano Verizon, AT&T and any other LTE providers currently rely on 3G networks to carry voice phone calls. In the future, carriers hope to use voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) technology, and Qualcomm recently reached an important milestone on the road to making VoLTE a reality. Qualcomm announced on Thursday that the company had successfully completed the “first voice call handover from an LTE mobile network to a WCDMA network using Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC).” The company, while working with Ericsson, used its own MSM8960 Snapdragon S4 chipset to power the test hardware, and the technology will be demonstrated live at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read on for Qualcomm’s press release. Qualcomm Chipset Powers First Successful VoIP-over-LTE Call with
Posted in News Tags: 4G, AT&T, ericsson, lte, Mobile, qualcomm, Snapdragon S4, Verizon, voice over lte, VoLTE No Comments » February 3rd, 2012 Kellex Our instructions for installing Google Wallet to your Verizon Galaxy Nexus were giving people enough trouble earlier that one of our readers made a quick video to help everyone out. He went with the lengthy version that the majority of folks have had l…
February 3rd, 2012 Taylor Wimberly 
After much hoopla Google Wallet finally launched on the Nexus S last September, but it was only available on Sprint’s version of the phone and not T-Mobile’s. Then when Verizon announced their Galaxy Nexus, it was soon discovered that they would not support Google Wallet. Verizon claimed that Google Wallet “needs to be [...]
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