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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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HP: new webOS phones coming "early next year"

Palm has already detailed webOS 2.0 and all of its new features, but the company has been rather quiet about any new hardware that may be coming to run the new OS.  HP's Senior VP Eric Cador thought...

Motorola Bravo, Flipside, and Flipout for AT&T announced

Verizon wasn't the only carrier getting in on the Android fun today, as AT&T has also announced three of their own Motorola Android smartphones.  First we have the Bravo, which is the most high-...

AT&T introduces USB modems upgradeable to HSPA Plus and LTE

AT&T took another step in the move toward 4G by announcing two new USB modems that will work with HSPA+, one of which can be upgraded to work with LTE.  First up is the AT&T USBConnect...

DROID Pro and Citrus unveiled by Verizon and Motorola [UPDATED]

Today Verizon and Motorola teamed up to announce two new phones and, while we've heard about them both in the past, one has completely caught us off guard.  That device is the DROID Pro, which...

T-Mobile no longer accepting G2 pre-orders due to high demand

T-Mobile is officially launching their speedy new G2 tomorrow, and it looks like all of you couldn't be more excited about it.  T-Mobile has announced on their site that, "due to overwhelming demand...

Toshiba bringing its own tablet to the U.S. in early 2011

There are already a multitude of tablets coming next year from manufacturers like RIM, HTC, Motorola, and HP, so why not have Toshiba join the fray, too?  The company announced that they plan to...

Samsung Transform user guide leak: vanilla Android and Sprint IDs? [UPDATED]

Speculation has been surrounding Sprint's upcoming Android device from Samsung, the SPH-M920 Transform, and just what the device would be.  Today things have been made much clearer, though, as the...

Rumor: Walmart to begin selling the iPad, too

Now that Amazon, Best Buy, and Target have begin selling the iPad, the question is which retailer will pick up Apple's tablet next?  The answer, according to the folks at TUAW, may be Walmart.  Gary...

Android most popular among recent smartphone buyers

Nielsen has just released the results of a survey of new smartphone owners spanning the six months between January and August 2010, and if there's one thing to take away from the study, it's this:...

Skype now available to all Android devices at 2.1 or higher

If you've ever wanted to use a Skype app on your Android device, you were out of luck unless you happened to be toting a Verizon smartphone.  Thankfully that all changes today, as Skype has made...

Ari Jaaksi resigns from Nokia's MeeGo team

Nokia's list of departing executives has become pretty lengthy over the past couple of months, and today we can add another name to the list of former Nokia execs.  Ari Jaaksi, who was Nokia's Vice...

Nokia N9 hardware described as "near perfect"

Nokia's N8 may finally be arriving in the hands of eager Symbian fans (and our own Noah Kravitz), but that doesn't mean that the N9 can't get a little love, too.  While the device hasn't even been...

Rumor: Palm Mansion has an 800x480 display and no keyboard

While Palm is hard at work perfecting webOS 2.0 and all of its new features, rumors have been flying about potential new hardware that could along with the software.  We haven't really seen much...

Android distribution updated, Froyo on over one-third of devices

Once again, Google has updated their Android version distribution chart, this time for the two weeks ending on October 1st.  Just like the last time we saw these numbers, Android 2.1 is the most...

Verizon refunding $90 million to subscribers for wrongful data charges

In this age of powerful smartphones and apps with required data plans, sometimes we forget that there are still plenty of customers that don't have any need for Internet access on their phone. ...

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