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This Week In The Life Of DROID: 1/6/2012

Tim January 6, 2012 2

It was a great week leading up to our departure for Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronic Show. The Galaxy Nexus continues to receive tons of developer love and even the HTC Rezound has some excellent custom ROMs available thanks to HTC's unlocking of the...

Kellen January 6, 2012 54

Since Motorola is in the process of finalizing its merger with Google, they are apparently not ready to give us a full Q4 earnings report and have instead issued a "business situation" update. According to the release, they had sales of $3.4 billion with "...

Kellen January 6, 2012 17

Each year at the beginning of January, the tech world gathers in Las Vegas to put it all on the line at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). New products are unveiled, parties remove years off of everyone's lives, and we (the media) attempt to cover it all...

Tim January 6, 2012 25

According to a job posting, Microsoft is looking to bring Xbox Live to other mobile platforms besides their own. Along with the posting, a developer who works closely with Microsoft confirmed the info to Business Insider. If this pans out to be true, then we...

Tim January 6, 2012 19

What else could you possibly need to know about this phone? The answers lie within the pages of the LG Spectrum User Guide which we have posted below for everyone's pleasure. We have already broke the news about the phone's release date and a full set of...

Tim January 6, 2012 61

Both Samsung and HTC released their Q4 earnings today and the results are no where near similar. Thanks to shipping over 32 million smartphones and a hefty $1.38 billion dollar deal for their hard drive business to Seagate, Samsung's operating profit jumped an...

Eric January 6, 2012 94

An interesting report out of the New York Times today reports that the top percentage of mobile users in the world are consuming a huge amount of the world's mobile broadband bandwith. Arieso, a company in Newbury, England, that tracks these kinds of...

Tim January 6, 2012 56

Last time we posted about the Transformer Prime being available online, they sold out as soon as we clicked publish. Well, Best Buy's online store now has the Asus Transformer Prime in stock. Demand sure does seem high, but fittingly so. For $500, you can...

What’s Your Carrier’s Device Unlock Policy: T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T

Kellen January 21, 2026 56

One of the hottest topics of the moment for the US wireless industry is device unlock policies or SIM unlock policies. With...

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Verizon Wastes No Time Switching Device Unlock Policy to 365 Days

Kellen January 20, 2026 56

When the FCC cleared Verizon of its 60-day device unlock policy a week ago, we talked about how the government agency, which...

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Samsung Makes New Bixby Official in One UI 8.5 With Perplexity AI

Kellen January 20, 2026 56

The betas of One UI 8.5, as well as supposedly leaked screenshots, showed a potentially renewed investment in Bixby from...

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How to Claim the $20 Verizon Outage Credit

Kellen January 15, 2026 56

Verizon announced today that it would give all of its customers a $20 credit after experiencing a 10-hour outage yesterday....

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Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 Just Released for Pixel Phones

Kellen January 14, 2026 56

Google has released Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 for all of its still-supported Pixel phones, tablets, and foldables. After...

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Google Just Gave Gemini “Personal Intelligence”

Kellen January 14, 2026 56

Google's Gemini now has Personal Intelligence and can reason across your data, assuming you give it access. For AI as an...

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2026 January Pixel Update Available for Your Pixel Phone

Kellen January 12, 2026 56

We've entered 2026 and the first Google Pixel update of the year is here. For those with a still-supported Pixel phone or...

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Apple to Use Gemini to Power New Features on iPhone

Tim January 12, 2026 56

Google and Apple released a joint statement today, announcing a multi-year collab which will bring Gemini to Apple's...

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Kellen May 6, 2025 2

The iPhone 17 won't arrive for months, likely after Google releases its Pixel 10 series. For the most part, all talk around...

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Kellen October 11, 2023 2

Some of you have been lucky enough to receive your Pixel 8 or Pixel 8 Pro pre-orders a day early, thanks to Google's wildly...

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Pixel Watch 2 Unboxing and Tour!

Kellen October 11, 2023 2

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Tim July 27, 2023 2

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Kellen May 10, 2023 2

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Tim February 3, 2023 2

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Tim October 13, 2022 2

Fancy new Pixel 7 or Pixel 7 Pro just show up at your doorstep? Perfect, then this video is for you. As is tradition, we've...

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Kellen October 13, 2022 2

The day that most of you will receive your Google Pixel Watch from pre-orders is here. It's time for you to slap Google's...

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This Week In The Life Of DROID: 1/6/2012

Motorola Provides Update on Business Situation – Showed “Modest Profitability” in Q4, Will Introduce “Several” New Products at CES

CES 2012 Starts on Sunday, We’ll Be There Covering It All

Microsoft To Bring Xbox Live To Android and iOS Devices?

Download: LG Spectrum User Guide

Samsung Puts Up Record Numbers This Quarter, HTC Falters For The First Time In Two Years

Advances In Smartphones Causing Top 1% Of Mobile Users To Consume Half The World’s Bandwith

Best Buy Has The Asus Transformer Prime In Stock Online