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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Nokia smartphones outselling the iPhone at a rate of 2 to 1

Nokia's N8 is receiving less-than-stellar reviews and AT&T just activated 5.2 million iPhones in Q3, but it turns out that Nokia is still the king of the smartphone hill.  The folks at MSNBC are...

AT&T Q3 results: 2.6 million new subs, 5.2 million iPhones activated

AT&T just posted their earnings for Q3 of 2010, and boy did they move a lot of iPhones. During the third quarter, AT&T activated 5.2 million iPhones, the most iPhone activations ever in a...

AT&T to cover 75 million people with LTE by the end of 2011

AT&T has already said that they'll be launching their LTE network in mid-2011, a bit later than any of their competitors.  The question, though, is just how widespread will AT&T's 4G...

Nokia's first MeeGo device arriving in 2011

Nokia may have just released the Symbian^3-powered N8, but the company is looking forward to its first MeeGo device, too.  Speaking on the company's Q3 earnings call, newly-appointed CEO Stephen...

Rumor: T-Mobile jumping on the tiered data bandwagon on Nov. 3rd

AT&T has already done it, Verizon will be doing it on October 28th, and now T-Mobile will be doing it on November 3rd.  Doing what, you ask?  Moving to tiered data, of course!  Yes, according to...

HTC Bee and Desire dummy units popping up at Alltel

A little under two weeks ago we saw a render for the HTC Bee leak out, along with the device's ROM that contained references to Alltel.  Many thought that, because Verizon purchased quite a bit of...

Clearwire LTE tests result in blazing fast 90Mbps download speeds

We knew that Clearwire, which is currently busy deploying WiMAX across the country, would be conducting LTE tests in Phoenix, AZ some time this fall, and now the results are in.  Clearwire tested...

FaceTime for Mac allows video calling from a Mac to an iPhone 4 or iPod Touch

Apple's "Back to the Mac" event today was, as you could probably guess, largely Mac focused.  There was one portion of the event that concerned mobile, though: the addition of FaceTime to all Mac...

Motorola DEFY rolling into stores on Nov. 3rd for $99.99

Motorola originally announced the rugged, Android-powered DEFY early last month, saying that it would launch "in time for the holidays."  Thankfully, T-Mobile got just a touch more specific today on...

Rumor: Prototype Verizon iPhone photos leak out

A couple of days ago, we heard a rumor that Apple's CDMA-compatible iPhone was in its final stage of testing before production.  After that news broke, blog Richy Rich posted photos of what they...

AT&T spotted in Palm Pre 2 web page's source code

When HP/Palm announced the Pre 2 yesterday, they stated that the new device would be launching in the U.S. on Verizon and in an unlocked, UMTS model.  It looks like non-developer GSM customers may...

Rumor: LG enV Pro arriving on Verizon November 11th, too

Yesterday we heard that there would be a plethora of new handsets arriving on Verizon on November 11th, and now another device is rumored to be launching on that date.  The folks over at Phandroid...

Lenovo has no plans for an Android tablet until Honeycomb

Google has said in the past that Android 2.2 is not designed for use on a tablet device, and Lenovo seems to agree.  Although the company is releasing the Android-powered LePad tablet in China in...

Verizon launching Samsung Galaxy Tab on Nov. 11th for $599.99

Ever since the Samsung Galaxy Tab was announced, we've all been waiting with bated breath to see just how much the device would cost stateside.  Verizon has finally come forward with their Galaxy...

AT&T ups some off-contract smartphone prices to match new early upgrade fees

There was quite a bit of outrage when AT&T decided to jack its early upgrade fee for smartphones all the way to $200.  Things have gotten worse, though, as the carrier has also increased the...

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