Alex Wagner

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Alex Wagner

Editorial Director of News and Content for PhoneDog Media. Arsenal, beer, video games. Can be followed on Twitter at @alw. I participate in the Amazon Associates program, which means I may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links.

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Best Buy to offer white Samsung Stratosphere, several other phones for free on Black Friday

Best Buy has been the source of a number of special, white-backed Android phones in the past, including a white HTC EVO 4G and white DROID Incredible 2. It looks like the big box retailer will be...

Amazon Kindle Fire to be available in Best Buy stores on November 15th

Amazon is set to begin shipping its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet on the 15th, but according to Amazon's site, any orders placed today aren't expected to ship for another three to five days. That's not...

New nano-SIM announced, measures 30 percent smaller than a micro-SIM

Micro-SIM cards have slowly been growing in usage since we first began seeing them last year, with devices like the iPhone 4S, Nokia Lumia 800, and some of Verizon's newer 4G LTE devices all using...

Samsung Galaxy Nexus training underway at Verizon, accessories appear on Samsung's site

Verizon still hasn't said much about its version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus since it officially announced the device back in October. That's kind of maddening to those of us (im)patiently waiting...

Best Buy offering Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch and free Blu-ray player in upcoming deal

Are you a Sprint customer? Are you in the market for a new smartphone? Do you shudder at the thought of subjecting yourself to standard definition movies? If you answered "Yes" to all three, then...

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime given an early hands-on preview

Earlier this week saw Asus officially take the wraps off of the quad-core Eee Pad Transformer Prime, which got the hearts of many an Android fan racing. Unfortunately, alongside announcing the Prime...

Google sends out invites for "These Go to Eleven" music event [UPDATED]

Music lovers, take note: today Google sent out invites to an event on Wednesday, November 16th with the title "These Go to Eleven." For the unaware, that's a reference to Nigel Tufnel, lead singer...

Apple still investigating battery problems after iOS 5.0.1 update

Yesterday Apple issued iOS 5.0.1 to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users that it said included fixes for the battery life issues that some users had been seeing. While the update has done the trick...

LG Nitro HD shows off its AT&T 4G LTE support in leaked product render

Not quite feeling AT&T's first pair of LTE-capable smartphones, the HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket? If so, you may want to give the device you see a good look-see. According to the...

Apple begins selling unlocked iPhone 4S, Sprint to begin SIM locking its 4Ss starting today

Apple said when it launched the iPhone 4S that an unlocked model would be available for purchase in November and, true to its word, the company today put the carrier-free models of its latest...

New BlackBerry with model number REA71UW caught passing through the FCC

Well what do we have here? It seems that a new BlackBerry device featuring the model number REA71UW recently passed under the microscope of the FCC, complete with AT&T-compatible 3G bands in tow...

Nokia Champagne spied in Windows Phone app logs

Ready for another rousing game of "What's that mystery phone?" Today a Nokia device going by the name "Champagne" was spotted in the logs of an app called "I'm a WP7," and what's more, the handset...

Motorola inviting DROID owners to participate in mysterious project

Still rocking an original Motorola DROID? If so, we've got some news tonight that you and your aging Android slider may be interested in. According to an email posted by the folks at Droid-Life,...

Verizon bringing 4G LTE to more new markets on December 15th

The 4G LTE network expansion that Verizon has planned for November hasn't happened quite yet (that'll be on the 17th), but that hasn't stopped the folks at Big Red from detailing its LTE plans for...

iOS 5.0.1 now available to download, includes fixes for battery life bugs

Just a hair over a week after Apple released the first beta version of iOS 5.0.1 to developers, the update is now available for download to the general public. The update is said to include fixes to...

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