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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T-Mobile eliminates its Even More Plus plan options [UPDATED]

One of the biggest complaints in the cell phone industry is that if a customer chooses to buy a phone for full retail or brings their own device to a carrier, they don't get any sort of discount on...

LG Quantum completes the AT&T-Windows Phone 7 trifecta

After kicking off the Windows Phone 7 launch with the HTC Surround and the Samsung Focus, today AT&T started offering their third WP7 device to the masses.  The QWERTY-fied LG Quantum is now...

Motorola finalizing the Mobility and Solutions split in January

We heard all the way back in June that Motorola would be splitting itself into two divisions, one focused on mobility and the other on wireless tech for businesses and government, and big changes...

HTC Trophy bringing Windows Phone 7 to Verizon early next year

Verizon told us that they'd be excited to offer Windows Phone 7 devices once Microsoft was able to crank 'em out, and now it looks like they've got something to get excited about.  As you can see in...

Galaxy Tab (AT&T) Arriving Nov. 21st for $649.99, U.S. Cellular on Nov. 19th for $399.99

AT&T may have waited until after T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint released their own branded Samsung Galaxy Tabs, but today the carrier finally made the Galaxy Tab official for their network. ...

Verizon "excited" to offer Windows Phone 7 whenever Microsoft gets it ready

While AT&T and T-Mobile customers are enjoying the new Windows Phone 7 goodness, Sprint and Verizon have exactly zero WP7 devices, and they won't until early next year.  When that time comes,...

LG Vortex launching with Android 2.2 on November 18th for $79.99

Wow.  Yesterday we saw a leaked Verizon ad showing that the LG Vortex would be "coming soon," and they weren't kidding.  Today Verizon and LG teamed up to announce the Vortex, an "accessible"...

Samsung Galaxy 2 outed with a dual-core processor

Samsung had the Nexus S leak repeatedly last week, and now another one of their handsets has been outed by famed mobile blogger Eldar Murtazin.  The Samsung i9100, also referred to as the Galaxy 2,...

Motorola MOTOPAD to be the first device with Android 3.0

We've seen a multitude of leaks surrounding Gingerbread and various devices that it may be running on, but Google's tablet-centric version of Android, aka Honeycomb, has been in the spotlight far...

Rumor: Gingerbread to debut Monday at the Web 2.0 Summit

On Friday we saw Google tweet that its cafes have been "baking something sweet," and included a photo of a ton of Android Gingerbread cookies.  So what are they going to do with all of those treats...

HTC EVO Shift 4G gets trademarked by HTC

We haven't heard a peep about any sort of successor to the HTC EVO 4G, but a recent trademark filing shows that HTC may have something up their sleeve.  As you can see in the image above, HTC's...

LG Vortex spied in Verizon ad, listed as "Coming Soon"

The LG Vortex still hasn't been announced by Verizon, which isn't surprising considering how little notice they give us about new smartphones these days, but it's looking likely that it's going to...

Android 2.2 Hacked on the iPhone 3G, sans computer

A few months ago we told you about an iPhone 3G that had been hacked to run Android 2.2, but not everyone wanted to dedicate the time to get the hack to work on their devices.  The process is now...

T-Mobile Galaxy Tab hacked to make phone calls

While Samsung's Galaxy Tab is able to make voice calls over WiFi with Skype, the ability to call over cellular networks is absent.  While some might not really care about the feature, it could be...

Rumor: Original Nexus S scrapped in favor of a dual-core model

Yesterday we were bombarded with Nexus S leaks, concluded with an image of the real deal in the wild and as well as some specs for the device.  Today the folks at Android and Me have brought us a...

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