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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Samsung DROID Charge launch delayed, Verizon slowly restoring LTE across the country?

Today was supposed to be a big day for Android lovers on Verizon, with the Samsung DROID Charge, HTC DROID Incredible 2, and the Casio G'zOne Commando all hitting Big Red's shelves. Now it's looking...

Samsung Epic 4G's Gingerbread update in testing, due to arrive in June? [UPDATED]

The Samsung Epic 4G only recently got a stable update to Android 2.2, but according to a new rumor that's emerged today, and update to Gingerbread could be coming in the next month and a half or so...

BlackBerry 6.1 is now BlackBerry 7, will debut at next week [UPDATED]

BlackBerry 7: it's the operating system that's supposed to combine the best aspects of BlackBerry 6 and the PlayBook's QNX-based OS and form the one OS that'll power all of RIM's smartphones and...

HTC Surround's NoDo update enters Scheduling phase, due out soon

Just a little over a week ago, the Samsung Focus and the LG Quantum finally received their update to NoDo, leaving HTC's Surround as the only Windows Phone 7 device in the U.S. without the March...

T-Mobile: G2x doesn't have quad-band HSPA+, won't work with AT&T 3G

Shortly after the T-Mobile G2x was announced, one eagle-eyed user was looking over the device's list of specs on T-Mo's site and saw that it sported compatibility with AT&T's 850/1900MHz 3G...

Verizon makes Unleashed pre-paid plans and pricing official

Interested in signing up for Verizon's Unleashed prepaid service that we first learned about earlier this month? You may want to mosey on over this page on Verizon's website, where they've finally...

Verizon's 4G LTE network experiencing some problems

As I'm sure many of you HTC ThunderBolt owners out there have noticed by now, Verizon's been having some LTE network problems since late last night. Big Red confirmed the issues on its Twitter...

Apple responds to iOS location tracking situation with official Q&A

Last week, we told you about iPhones and 3G iPads running iOS 4 were quietly tracking the locations of their users and storing all of that data in an easily accessible file stored, unencrypted, on...

White iPhone 4 finally launching tomorrow, April 28th

It's certainly been a long time coming, but the white iPhone 4 is finally almost here. Apple just announced that the frosty white handset will be coming tomorrow, April 28th, in both Verizon and AT...

Acer ICONIA SMART and its 4.8-inch display sneak through the FCC with AT&T 3G compatibility

Remember the Acer ICONIA SMART, the 4.8-inch mini-tablet/giganto-phone that was made official last February? We haven't heard much about the device since then, but it was recently spotted hanging...

Amazon issues a response to Apple's "App Store" lawsuit

Last month, we saw Apple sue Amazon for using the term "Appstore" to describe their newly-created marketplace for Android apps, which it believed infringed on the name of its own App Store for iOS...

Sony S1 and S2 tablets coming this fall with Android 3.0 preloaded

It's certainly been a while since we've heard anything about the Sony S1 and S2, the company's unique entries into the Android-powered tablet market. Over two months after sketches and a few details...

HP Pre 3 spotted in the FCC with webOS 2.3 in tow [UPDATED]

There's still no word on exactly when HP will launch the Pre 3 outside of a vague "summer" window, but they took one step toward that release date recently with an appearance in the FCC. One of the...

HTC Doubleshot to come in three colors and launch in early July?

Yesterday we saw some of possible HTC Doubleshot spec information leak out and, as is often the case with leaked smartphones, more rumored details on the device have trickled out today. According to...

Casio G'zOne Commando braving the elements to join Verizon's lineup on April 28th

Hot on the heels of the HTC DROID Incredible 2's announcement earlier this morning, the Casio G'zOne Commando has also been made official by the folks at Verizon. The ruggedized G'zOne Commando will...

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