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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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'BlackBerry Classic' is the new official name for the BlackBerry Q20

The BlackBerry Q20 is a throwback to the BlackBerry 7 phones of old, featuring a trackpad, physical keyboard and a set of Menu, Back, Send and End buttons. Those features led many folks to give the...

Google Glass Explorer program will reportedly be opened up to everyone in the U.S. for a single day [UPDATED]

Google has expanded its Glass Explorer program multiple times, but invitations to join the group can be somewhat hard to come by. That may change soon, though, as newly-leaked documents have...

Google updating Android's 'Verify apps' security feature to constantly monitor for trouble

Remember that improved version of Android’s “Verify apps” security feature that I told you about at the end of February? Today Google made it officially official, going into detail on the feature on...

Samsung Galaxy S5 to lack Download Booster feature on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon

Just like its predecessors before it, the Samsung Galaxy S5 includes many new hardware and software features. One of those is Download Booster, which combines Wi-Fi and LTE connections to achieve...

T-Mobile's 'Operation Tablet Freedom' includes more free data, discounted 4G LTE slates

Yesterday T-Mobile said that it had three days of Uncarrier announcements to make, and today the second move of the trio has been revealed. T-Mobile has announced what it calls “Operation Tablet...

BlackBerry CEO says he has no plans to sell handset business

BlackBerry has had a bit of a rough go of it lately, posting losses in its recent earnings reports and revealing that its older BlackBerry 7 phones are outselling its new BlackBerry 10 models....

Google releases Project Ara MDK, gives preview of modular smartphone effort

Just days ahead of the Project Ara Developers Conference, Google has released the first version of the Module Developers Kit (MDK). The 81-page MDK goes into detail about the three sizes of endo...

Motorola Credit program may gain rewards

Last year, Motorola introduced its own credit program that enabled consumers to buy a new device and spread its cost out over several months. Now it appears that Motorola is considering making the...

Facebook to drop Messenger support from main app, require standalone app for chatting

Facebook has an official app on just about every mobile platform out there, but it’s also launched several standalone apps for its various services. One example of this is Facebook Messenger, which...

Firefox OS 2.0 screenshots leak, give preview of upcoming design changes

Interested in getting a peek at a design makeover that’s coming soon to a mobile operating system? Of course you are! Several screenshots that purportedly show Firefox OS 2.0 have made their way...

Dropbox announces Mailbox for Android, new Carousel app for iOS and Android [UPDATED]

Mailbox made waves last year when it launched on iOS and used a reservation system to grant access to the app on a steady basis. Now the app is finally making its way to other platforms, as Dropbox...

Refreshed Calendar app for Android shown off in leaked screenshots

Remember that refreshed Gmail app for Android that leaked out earlier this month? Apparently it’s not the only Google app that may be getting a makeover, as a new version of Android’s Calendar app...

T-Mobile's new 'Simple Starter' plan is the first of three upcoming announcements

Well, that didn’t take long. Right after we told you about T-Mobile CMO Mike Sievert’s tease that his operator had “another big throw-down” coming soon, T-Mo has officially announced brand new rate...

T-Mobile exec teases that 'another big throw-down' is coming soon

T-Mobile has made a number of big moves over the past year and a half, including giving its tablet customers 200MB of free data and paying the early termination fees of consumers that switch to it...

Nokia 225 official, will be available in single SIM and dual SIM variants

A week after introducing us to the Lumia 930, Lumia 630 and Lumia 635, Nokia today announced something a bit more basic. The Nokia 225 and Nokia 225 Dual SIM are now officially official, becoming...

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