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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Rumor: iPad 2 to feature a thinner case and new "wide-range speaker"

So Apple is going to release a new version of the iPad next year, and as with any hotly-anticipated new product, it seems like new rumors about the device pop up at least once a week.  The latest...

AT&T Android users can now charge app purchases to monthly bill

It was only a couple of weeks ago that the Android Market got a fresh new look to better show off its over 100,000 applications, but Google isn't done upgrading their app storefront just yet.  AT...

Incredible HD may come to market as the Thunderbolt [UPDATED]

So you've seen the Mecha/Incredible HD from just about every angle and are jonesing for some more information about the device, right?  I don't blame you, I am too.  Luckily, the folks at Droid-Life...

Nexus S already getting its first update

The Nexus S hasn't even been out for a month yet, but it's already getting its first update today (and no, it's not Honeycomb).  Weighing in at 1.9MB, the update will bring the system to GRH78,...

Samsung 4G Android phone (SCH-I520) for Verizon leaks, too

HTC has been dominating the headlines lately with its Incredible HD leaks, but now Samsung is getting in on the fun, too.  The photo you see above is a Samsung-made device running TouchWiz (but no...

Samsung sells 9.3 million Galaxy S devices worldwide

It wasn't long ago that Samsung was named the top Android provider in the U.S. after shipping 3 million Galaxy S devices stateside, and now the company is letting everyone know that they're doing...

Sprint and Motorola team up to support iDEN through 2013

Sprint has said several times now that they plan to slowly phase out their iDEN network and completely shut it down in 2013, but a new announcement from Sprint shows that they're not ready to...

Verizon-branded Windows Phone 7 apps infiltrate the Marketplace

We've heard rumblings that Windows Phone 7 would be arriving on Verizon soon, possibly next month, and today we got more evidence that it's actually going to happen.  After perusing the Windows...

Motorola Software Upgrade timeline revised, CLIQ XT Eclair pushed back

Most major Motorola Android phones have been updated to Android 2.1 or 2.2 at this point, but there are some users still waiting on their upgrade to come.  Good news for those customers: Moto has...

Motorola selects "Xoom" as the name of their Android tablet?

So Motorola's going to show off a Honeycomb-powered tablet at CES, that much we know.  But just what is the thing going to be called?  The name Stingray has been kicked around, but that's just a...

Sprint 4G going live in San Francisco Bay Area on Dec. 28th

The holidays are coming and the year is almost over, but Sprint has at least one more expansion planned for their WiMAX network before 2010 is up.  Sprint announced today that they'll be lighting up...

HTC EVO Shift 4G spotted in the wild

The EVO Shift 4G has been slowly but surely revealing itself to us, but tonight it seems that just about all has been revealed.  A set of images of the EVO Shift in the flesh has been sent to Phone...

Verizon exec confirms that a Motorola LTE handset is coming

Verizon has hinted in the past that they'll have several LTE-capable devices to show off at CES and we know that at least one of them will be powered by Android.  Today we got another piece of the...

HTC Mecha, aka Incredible HD, poses for a close-up photo shoot [UPDATED]

Itching for more photos of that HTC Mecha/Incredible HD that we saw accessing Verizon's 4G network recently?  If you answered yes and/or love super close-up shots of unreleased phones, then today is...

Analyst: BlackBerry Torch could arrive on Verizon early next year

Ever since the BlackBerry Torch launched exclusively on AT&T back in August, RIM fans everywhere have been wondering when they'd be able to get in on the BlackBerry 6 slider fun on a carrier...

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