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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SwiftKey Note app for iOS launches with next-word predictions, Evernote syncing

SwiftKey has officially made its way onto iOS! The only thing is that it's not exactly the SwiftKey that you may be thinking of. SwitftKey today announced its new SwiftKey Note app for iOS, a note-...

Sprint Spark LTE service expands again, now live in Kansas City

Just a couple of days after rolling its 4G LTE network out to an additional 45 markets, Sprint today announced that its Spark tri-band LTE service is growing as well. Dan Hesse and Co. said this...

Facebook Paper app to deliver news from friends and other sources with focus on big visuals [UPDATED]

Remember that Facebook news service that was rumored last year? Well it's finally (almost) here, and it's called Paper. Paper is meant to show news stories both from a user's friends as well as from...

HTC says KitKat update for U.S. One models will be late as AT&T One X starts getting Android 4.2.2

Looks like there's some bad news and some good news for HTC customers this afternoon. Why don't we get the bad news out of the way first so that we can wash the taste out with some good news...

Lenovo reportedly in 'final stages of talks' to buy Motorola from Google [UPDATED]

Well, this is surprising. According to sources speaking to Reuters, Lenovo is close to striking a deal with Google that will see it purchase Motorola for nearly $3 billion in cash and stock. The...

Samsung may scale back custom Android UI and apps at Google's request

Many Android manufacturers choose to lay a custom user interface on top of their devices running Google's mobile operating system, and for years Samsung has relied on its TouchWiz overlay to make...

iOS 7.0.5 update rolling out, includes network provisioning bug fix

Most iOS users are patiently awaiting the public release of iOS 7.1, which has been in the beta testing phase for a few months now and is expected to bring with it some UI tweaks, performance...

Geeksphone Revolution shown in new images with Android, Boot2Gecko

  Geeksphone has steadily been revealing more and more details of its OS-switching Revolution phone in recent months. First we learned about its support for both Android and Mozilla's Boot2Gecko...

AT&T announces $100 add-a-line promo, 4G LTE network expansion

AT&T's got some big news to share this morning, announcing that not only is it kicking off a new $100 credit offer for new lines, but that it's also expanding the footprint of its 4G LTE network...

Samsung to launch more than 60 standalone stores in Europe with help from Carphone Warehouse

Looks like Samsung is spreading its retail presence once again. After rolling out its "Samsung Experience Shops" to more than 1,400 Best Buy locations in the U.S. last year, Samsung today announced...

LG G Pro 2 poses for some leaked photos ahead of February debut

LG recently confirmed that its G Pro 2 will debut sometime in February, but the company hasn't offered up any actual details of the device. The rumor mill isn't quite as tight-lipped as the Life's...

Samsung SM-Z9005 caught on camera with Tizen in tow

Samsung's Tizen-powered SM-Z9005 in the wild. pic.twitter.com/47dVVz108i — @evleaks (@evleaks) January 28, 2014 We expect to see some new Tizen hardware in a little over a month at Mobile World...

AT&T reports 1.2 million postpaid smartphone sales in Q4 2013

Next in the earnings report line is AT&T, which just revealed how the final months of 2013 went for it. The big blue carrier says that the fourth quarter of 2013 brought with it 1.2 million...

Motorola pushing Android 4.4.2 updates to Boost Mobile Moto G, Canadian Moto X models

The Moto G for Boost Mobile has been available for less than a month at this point, but owners of the CDMA-ified device are already receiving a pretty significant update. Motorola says that it has...

BlackBerry creating special BBM Android app for Gingerbread users

BlackBerry Messenger has officially been available on Android since late August, but because the app is only compatible with devices running Android 4.0 or higher, a sizable portion of the Android...

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