Happy Tuesday, everyone. We're still in the thick of CTIA, and we have all sorts of big mobile stories for you. So let's get right to it - Kyocera Rise and Hydro budget ICS smartphone hands-on. And that's not all; we also have a look at one of the major LTE phones - HTC Evo 4G LTE hands-on. Of course, though, CTIA isn't the only thing making news. We have to talk about this - The driverless cars that want to run Google off the road.
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- Solar Impulse: interviewing a man on an 18-hour solar-powered flight
- Chrome 27 brings desktop features to Android, we go hands-on
- Verizon invites Jennifer Lopez on stage for Viva Movil team-up
- Google Glass team talks hardware principles: Lightness, Simplicity, Scalability
- Google Glass creators talk “staring” and the social implications of wearables
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‘CTIA’ Stories
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: May 8, 2012
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: May 7, 2012
Happy Monday, everyone. Can you feel it in the air? The excitement, that is - the kind of excitement you can only get from the largest mobile trade show in the country. That's right; CTIA 2012 is kicking off and we'll have all your coverage. But today, there was another big mobile story in a very different setting - the courtroom. Google and Oracle each claim success in split Android decision. So speaking of mobile, CTIA will play host to a lot of mobile payment news. Such as - Verifone set to launch Square competitor. Check below the fold for more CTIA news, but if you're a gamer then this is also pretty big - $99 Xbox 360 with two year contract official
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This Verizon Galaxy Nexus extended battery extends my tears for waiting
Back a little less than a year ago when the first Verizon LTE-laden Android smartphone was released, that being the HTC ThunderBolt for all you kids out there, it had an awesome optional extended battery that you could pick up to extend the battery time to a plausible amount of time – this being more than the 4 hours of regular time you got with LTE back in the day. Now we’ve got another device, the Galaxy Nexus, with an extended battery appearing for it, and though this this isn’t the only other extended battery of its kind, it does remind me of the whoa I felt at the hands of the rogue FedEx delivery man I was subject to back then the day before CTIA, spring 2011.
ESRB “T for Teens” ratings system dismissed by iOS and Android
What very well could have been the next generation of rating content on a scale that disallows kids from playing the most violent and inappropriate games by their parents has essentially been shot dead before it was active by none other than the two largest mobile app providers on the planet, Apple and Google. While there certainly are other holders of the keys to the kingdom when it comes to application stores for smartphones, tablets, and everything in-between, the CTIA Mobile Application Rating System developed by the ESRB and announced this week will find a hard time holding sway when it only appears on a small cross-section of apps in the wild.
Top four US mobile providers agree to Wireless Consumer Usage Notification Guidelines
Before the government can force them to do something more drastic, each of the top four mobile service providers in the USA have announced today that they've agreed to voluntary industry guidelines amid cell phone bill shock that includes sending customers alerts before they reach their monthly voice, text, and data limits. Are you one of those people who freaks out each month when you realized you've actually used 15GB of data when your limit was 2GB? Bills smashing your wallet so hard you're thinking of taking out a mortgage on your home to continue use of your iPhone or Android or BlackBerry device? Those days are at an end!
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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 13 2011
Welcome to another SlashGear Week in Review! This week was a big one in the mobile world with CTIA underway and lots more going in. We learned that AT&T had offered to purchase T-Mobile for $39 billion. AT&T hopes to repurpose some of the T-Mobile spectrum for 4G service. The full details of the HTC Evo 3D and Evo View 4G tablet surfaced early in the week. The Evo 3D has a 4.3-inch screen and a 1.2GHz processor and should be an interesting device.
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Verizon CEO says it won’t oppose AT&T, T-Mobile deal
Sprint might not be very happy about the proposed merger that AT&T and T-Mobile is working on. I guess I can see why it would make Sprint nervous considering it is losing many customers and is much smaller than AT&T and Verizon. Verizon on the other hand is apparently not worried about AT&T-Mo at all.
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Cobra Phone Tag debuts at CTIA
I always know where I leave my phone, the problem is that the wife and kids pick it up on occasion to play games or to just really irritate me and leave it laying somewhere else. If you have people that like to hide your stuff or if you just tend to have a hard time finding your Android device or Blackberry, Cobra has a new product for you it is showing off at CTIA.
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wEASEL smartphone stand sticks to your device with tape
I ran across an interesting new smartphone stand today that should work with just about any smartphone as long as it has enough room on the back to stick the stand without blocking the camera. The stand is called the wEASEL and will be debuting at CTIA this month for the first time.
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Two Mystery LG Phones Slated For CTIA E-Tech Awards
CTIA’s website has listed the finalists for its E-Tech awards and two unannounced LG phones made the list. No information about the mysterious phones was given out, but rumors are that they will be on the T-Mobile network. The other finalists for the awards are the Motorola Atrix, HTC Thunderbolt, and the LG Revolution.
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Verizon to Detail 4G Launch at CTIA Tomorrow
The details surrounding Verizon's launch into 4G may not be completely outlined yet, but there's been plenty of leaks, and rumors, floating around for awhile now that many already have a pretty clear picture as to what is going to happen shortly. Putting it plainly, Verizon is set to roll-out its LTE-based 4G network in just a matter of weeks, with a significant amount of coverage rolled out by the end of 2010. But, rumors and suggestions aren't good enough, so now it's time for Verizon's Chief Operating Officer and President, Lowell McAdam, to take the stage at CTIA and give a detailed rundown of what's going to happen, and when we should expect it to happen.
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Scosche shows off new line of gear at CTIA including netBOOK Power and lots more
Scosche makes all sorts of cool gear to keep our gadgets powered up and operating longer everywhere we go. The company has unveiled a new line of gear that it will be showing off at CTIA. Among the gear are all sorts of devices for notebooks and netbooks. One of the coolest is the netBOOK Power line of inverters.
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