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Verizon FiOS TV app heading to Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players

Rue Liu, Jan 12th 2012 Discuss [2]

Samsung has announced that its 2012 lineup of Smart TVs and Smart Blu-ray players will be getting Verizon's FiOS TV app. This means that if you're a FiOS TV subscriber, you will be able to access the service directly from your new Samsung connected device. There's no need for the additional set-top box. Read The Full Story

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CES 2012 Smartphone Round-Up

Chris Davies, Jan 11th 2012 Discuss [11]

If Ultrabooks have been one of the key themes at CES 2012 this week, then smartphones have to be close behind: Motorola, Samsung, Sony and more have all rolled out new handsets to whet our cellular appetites. AT&T has pushed ahead with its eight-strong LTE range, including Nokia’s first 4G Windows Phone, while Intel has also staged its long-awaited push into smartphones. It’s enough to give anyone a headache, so read on for the SlashGear CES 2012 smartphone round-up.

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Verizon bringing storage to mifi with Seagate LTE mobile drive

Michael Crider, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [1]

If you need a little more enterprise-friendly functionality in your broadband mobile router, Seagate and Verizon have a treat for you. Their new combination storage/mobile access device allows for sharing both a Verizon LTE mobile connection and files across the built-in hard drive. Read The Full Story

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Motorola DROID RAZR MAXX hands-on

Cory Gunther, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [10]

Motorola earlier today announced the rumored DROID RAZR MAXX. For those confused as Motorola just recently launched the original DROID RAZR, the RAZR MAXX is almost the same phone only slightly thicker and offering unparalleled battery life -- especially for a 4G LTE device. This new addition comes complete with a 3,300 mAh battery and manages to stay almost RAZR thin. Read The Full Story

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Motorola Droid 4 Hands-on

Chris Burns, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [4]

The folks at Motorola have finally come clean with the next in line DROID device for Verizon's 4G LTE network, this a qwerty keyboard slider running Motorola's own user interface over Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread and having the same capabilities, to a point, that the RAZR has: this is the Droid 4. What we've got going here is a rather tough (or solid, however you look at it,) slider with a backlit set of keys, a dual-core 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM, and they've put it on paper that it'll be running Ice Cream Sandwich in the near future. Read The Full Story

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE coming to Verizon

Michael Crider, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Even before most of the world can purchase Samsung's first Super AMOLED tablet, the US is getting a version for Verizon's LTE network. Samsung broke the news themselves in their CES press conference today: the Galaxy Tab 7.7 is getting a localized Verizon LTE model The specifications are the same as the model revealed in 2010, with the obvious addition of mobile broadband. Read The Full Story

Verizon reveals purple DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX

Rue Liu, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Verizon announced some new additions to the DROID family today at CES 2012. It confirmed the DROID 4 earlier and now it's revealing a purple-colored DROID RAZR and a new variant called the DROID RAZR MAXX that boasts a longer-lasting battery while maintaining a still incredibly slim form at only 8.99mm thin. Read The Full Story

Verizon DROID 4 by Motorola official with QWERTY and LTE

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [1]

Verizon has finally got around to launching the much-anticipated (and, for that matter, much-leaked) Motorola DROID 4, the Android device apparently taking the record for the "thinnest and most powerful 4G LTE QWERTY smartphone." Hiding a slide-out five-row QWERTY 'board behind a 4-inch qHD touchscreen, the DROID 4 has a 1.2GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM, and runs Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread with an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade in the pipeline. Read The Full Story

Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE confirmed

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [1]

Verizon has officially confirmed it will be offering an LTE version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet, the Super AMOLED Plus slate first unveiled back at IFA 2011. Running a 1.4GHz dual-core processor that drives a 1280 x 800 display and Android 3.2 with Samsung's TouchWiz modifications, the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE is just 7.9mm thick. Read The Full Story

Verizon Jetpack 4G LTE mobile hotspot outed

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Verizon has outed a new mobile hotspot, the Verizon Jetpack, offering to share a 4G LTE connection with up to 10 WiFi-tethered devices. Set to launch "in the coming weeks" the Jetpack not only offers LTE and EVDO Rev.A support for use on Verizon's network, but throws in quadband EDGE and HSPA as well for roaming abroad. Read The Full Story

LG Spectrum official: LTE and 720p HD display for $200

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [4]

LG has officially revealed the LG Spectrum, the company’s latest 4G LTE smartphone headed to Verizon Wireless on January 19. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone has a custom LG UI, and runs a 4.5-inch 1280 x 720 HD IPS display with an iPhone 4S-besting pixel density of 429ppi. There’s also a 1.5GHz Qualcomm dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM.

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Verizon allows Sierra Wireless AirLink GX440 to operate on LTE

Chris Burns, Jan 6th 2012 Discuss [1]

This week the folks at Verizon and Sierra Wireless have announced that the Airlink GX440 from Sierra will be allowed to work on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network. For Sierra Wireless this is big news especially because with this product running on LTE with Verizon, its audience has just increased a hundred fold at least. You've got a monster of a gateway here in your hands complete with the "nations most reliable network." LTE speeds and a crunch-proof bit of hardware, what more do you want? Read The Full Story