This week at CTIA 2013, Verizon announced a partnership with Latino-centric mobile carrier brand Viva Movil – and they did it with the company’s top shareholder Jennifer Lopez. Speaking about how the Latino population is up at 50 million strong – and growing – Verizon’s own chief operating officer Marni Walden made it clear: this company wants to expand through an exclusive partnership with Viva Movil.
This morning it's been suggested to SlashGear by a trusted source (the anonymous kind) that the HTC One will be appearing at the Verizon press event taking place at 11AM PST in Las Vegas today during CTIA. This event has been teased as one with a "Special Announcement", which could mean anything, but given the atmosphere and the suggestion, we have no reason to doubt that the HTC One will be part of the show.
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Today Kyocera revealed two new smartphones will be coming to the US market soon, and just like their recent devices will be able to handle the elements quite well. With a successor to the original Hydro these new phones do a few things that Kyocera does best. That's be budget friendly and waterproof at the same time. Read on for details on both of these new phones.
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When you hear the name Coolpad it might not ring a bell but the company has big plans for their phones in the US, and are here in Las Vegas for CTIA showing off their latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean smartphones. The popular Chinese manufacturer wants to deliver quality 4G LTE smartphones for those on a budget, and in a way have stolen the show here at Pepcom. We got a look at their new Quattro II 4G, as well as the impressive 8920 that recently launched in China.
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Last week the folks from HP announced their latest Android tablet, one of the first devices to be powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 4 quad-core, and today we were able to get our hands all over it. It's the new HP Slatebook x2 Transformer-like tablet running on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and coming to market in August. Below you'll see plenty of hands-on pictures, and even a comparison to the Nexus 10.
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The FCC has announced that ahead of yesterday's deadline, carriers have instituted an alert system that will give subscribers a heads up when they're nearing what will be a large bill. This follows many stories about unsuspecting consumers who have gone about their daily mobile usage, only to be faced with a massive bill at the end of the month for exceeding their limits.
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Today Verizon has sent out a "save the date" announcement for this year's Spring CTIA event in Las Vegas, Nevada. This announcement aligns quite well with the releases of both the HTC One and the Samsung GALAXY S 4, especially given the slightly-later reveals of high-end devices through Verizon over the past year. As the Samsung GALAXY S 4 has been confirmed for Verizon but not dated or priced while the HTC One has been both confirmed and denied, we'll be placing our cash on the former.
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If this year’s Mobile World Congress taught us one thing, it’s that no matter how interesting and innovative the gadget makers and software developers of our global community are, it’s the top brands that end up making or breaking the show. Make or break the show for the press, that is. Case in point: our several articles written from our chat with Google’s Mathias Duarte – they ended up easily becoming some of the most popular posts we had this week, and Google didn’t reveal any new products at the convention. In fact, they didn’t have a stand – the chat we had wasn’t even on the map. And yet, there it is – Google stole the show anyway.
Well folks, after a brief break to celebrate the new year, we're back with the first Evening Wrap-Up of 2013. We heard today that the iPhone 5S might come with a number of color selections similar to the iPod Touch along with a larger screen, while rumors are saying that HTC will unveil its new flagship device, the M7, during CES (which is next week!). There are new services floating around out there that let users install pirated iOS apps without jailbreaking first, and Apple has secured Android sales data from Samsung, despite Samsung requesting that this data remain a secret.
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CTIA - The Wireless Association announced today that they're changing things up a bit come 2014. The organization will be consolidating their 2014 events down into one single trade show for the year. CTIA has usually put on two events each year in the past, with the spring show focusing on consumer technology, and the fall show focusing on the enterprise market.
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Happy Saturday, everyone. Well, this week was quite interesting because it played host to the CTIA conference in New Orleans, the largest mobile trade show in the US. So we'll kick off with some of the more noteworthy stories from that - Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD for AT&T cancelled, HTC Evo 4G LTE hands-on, and Samsung Galaxy S III vs Galaxy Note hands-on. Keep reading for much more CTIA goodness:
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Happy Wednesday, everyone. Well, CTIA is starting to coming to a close but we had plenty of stuff to cover today. To start things off, there's actually some bad news - Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD for AT&T cancelled. Moving right along, here's something that is pretty cool - Google Maps for Android gets indoor walking directions. And in non-CTIA mobile news, here's the latest update in the story that will for all intents and purposes be dead soon - Google's Andy Rubin claims no prior knowledge of Oracle patents.
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