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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Analyst: Samsung places large Tegra 2 order for use in smartphones and tablets

Samsung has already announced that they've got their own dual-core processors in the works, but if a couple of analyst reports are correct, they won't be using it in their upcoming tablet and...

HTC Knight, aka EVO Shift 4G, listed as PG0610 in Best Buy system

Not long ago we saw an HTC device with the model number A7373 show up on a leaked Sprint document with a January 9th launch; we all assumed that the EVO Shift 4G's release date had been revealed,...

Study finds several popular apps secretly transmitting user data to advertisers

Usually if an application wants to transmit data to an outside source, you have to give it permission to do so.  According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, though, some rather popular...

ITU caves, says LTE and WiMAX can be referred to as 4G

Up until now, the International Telecommunications Union has only considered LTE-Advanced and WiMAX 2 to be "true" 4G, but it looks like something has made the organization change its stance. ...

Report finds that 92 percent of RIM's sales growth taking place outside of U.S.

RIM threw out quite a few nice statistics yesterday in their Q3 earnings report, but perhaps the most interesting ones came today in a report released today from Horace Dediu of Asymco.  During the...

Motorola said to be working on two more rugged, DEFY-like products

Motorola's DEFY is one of the more attractive ruggedized devices we've seen in recent memory, and it's not a bad all-around handset either.  That's why it shouldn't come as a surprise that Motorola...

Verizon Pre 2 shows up on eBay before its carrier's shelves

We're still waiting for the Palm Pre 2 to make its way to Verizon's network here in the U.S., but it looks like at least one person has already spent some hands-on time with the device.  The device...

Rumor: Palm's tablet codenamed Topaz, new low-end webOS phone on the way

It's been quite a while since we've heard any information about Palm's entry into the tablet market, except that it might be launching in March, but that drought has come to an end today.  There's...

LG Optimus 2X set to arrive on T-Mobile early next year?

So the LG Star is now the LG Optimus 2X and, although it's going to be launched next month, the U.S. has so far been left out of the dual-core Tegra 2 fun.  According to the folks at RCR Wireless,...

Samsung Intercept gets updated to Android 2.2

We heard yesterday that the Samsung Intercept would finally be updated to Android 2.2 and, right on cue, Sprint has announced the arrival of a new maintenance release for the device.  Included in...

BlackBerry PlayBook launch date hinted at by RIM

Now that we've seen the BlackBerry PlayBook demoed a handful of times, many of us are eager to know exactly when we can plunk down our hard-earned change for a RIM tablet to call our own. ...

Best Buy offers free overnight shipping on all Nexus S orders

The Nexus S is finally available, but some of us may not be able to get our hands on Google's newest baby for whatever reason.  Luckily, Best Buy Mobile is offering the Nexus S online and, to make...

Rumor: Honeycomb set to arrive as Android 2.4 in the middle of February

Now that Gingerbread is finally available, it was inevitable that we'd start seeing rumors about just when the next version of Android, aka Honeycomb, would arrive, and today we've got one of the...

Dell Venue Pro certified to play nice with AT&T's 3G network

Dell's been having some trouble launching the Venue Pro for T-Mobile, but that hasn't stopped them from getting the handset ready for a second carrier at the same time.  The portrait QWERTY-fied...

HTC 7 Pro spotted in the wild with GSM innards and early 2011 launch

Up until now, we've really only ever seen the Windows Phone 7-powered HTC 7 Pro with a Sprint tattoo on its body.  However, the more CDMA-averse of us will be happy to see the photo above, which was...

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