Press Photo of HTC DROID DNA

Rumors on the upcoming HTC Android flagship smarpthone, the DROID DNA are starting to heat up. Several renders of the device have already been leaked online and Verizon Wireless and HTC announced they will host a launch event on November 13. Although the companies did not offer any additional details on the product that could see the light of day on November 13, all evidence points to HTC DROID DNA. We expect the smartphone to be officially introduced next week, though we're not yet sure when exactly Verizon will start selling the device and for what price. According to the latest hearsay, DROID DNA should hit shelves at the Big Red on December 6, or around sometime around this date, for as low as $200/€155. DROID...

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Motorola ATRIX HD Developer Edition Now Official

Motorola Mobility launched the ATRIX HD back in July with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system out of the box. The smartphone was released in the US via AT&T, but also made it to Canada several weeks later. Today, Motorola announced the upcoming availability of ATRIX HD Developer Edition. Check it out here. Although the Developer Edition has the same features and specs as the regular version, it comes with an unlockable bootloader, allowing for deep ROM customization. However, as Motorola states, “you should only unlock the bootloader if you’re comfortable with the process and know exactly what you’re doing, since you will be voiding the warranty and risking data and functionality loss.” Keep in mind...

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Galaxy Nexus With Android 4.2 Core Apps

Ever since Google has made the new Android 4.2 operating system and Nexus 4 official last week, users have been wondering when the new OS and its pack of goodies would arrive on other devices as well. For Galaxy Nexus owners, that day has come, though not through the official channels. Courtesy of a leaked Nexus 4 system dump, various applications have been extracted and made available for the older device. At the moment, all Android 4.2 core applications are available for last year’s Google phone, including Gmail, Maps, Calendar and the like, as well as the latest Google Wallet release. Those who would like to take them for a spin will be able to find the needed .apk files up for download on the web, courtesy of @KillDroidHack...

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Nokia Lumia 920 Running on T-Mobile’s Network

Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 flagship device, the Lumia 920, will be available for purchase only on shelves at AT&T, which might leave a lot of users out of the deal, that’s for sure. However, it seems that this is not the case for T-Mobile’s subscribers, who will be able to take advantage of the handset’s capabilities on their wireless carrier’s network. According to TmoNews, both the developer Lumia 920 units and the international flavor of the device (including the devices sold in Canada) will arrive on shelves with support for T-Mobile’s 1700MHz AWS band right out of the box. Photos that TmoNews brought online show the handset paired with Magenta’s wireless service, which should sound like great news for those who were...

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RIM to Bring New PlayBook-Like Icons to BlackBerry 10

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is still hard at work with getting its BlackBerry 10 mobile operating system ready for launch, including applying new visual touches to it. Among them, we can count the availability of new icons for applications installed on devices, bringing them in line with those available on the PlayBook tablet PC. Initially showcased with app icons that looked very much like simple rectangles, the platform is expected to arrive on shelves with a new set of icons, better looking. According to some of the reports on the matter, RIM has decided to replace the original 150 x 150 icons that featured square backgrounds with 114×114 ones, with transparent backgrounds similar to those available...

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Motorola DROID RAZR HD Developer Edition Tastes CyanogenMod 10 ROM

Motorola is nowhere near the release of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the Motorola DROID RAZR HD smartphone, but the owners of the Developer Edition flavor of the device can already get a taste of the platform, though from unofficial sources. To be more precise, an alpha build of CyanogenMod 10 (CM10) for the DROID RAZR HD Developer Edition (XT926) is now available for download, though with some caveats. First of them is the fact that the ROM will work only on the Developer Edition. Any attempt to load it on the stock device might end up in harming the phone. Secondly, there’s the alpha tag that the ROM sports attached to it, which means that users might bump into all sorts of problems with it, including crashes and the like. Those...

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HTC DROID DNA Spotted in Leaked Verizon Document

Verizon Wireless has been long rumored to plan the release of a new HTC handset in its popular DROID lineup, and some more solid confirmation on the matter is now available. Supposedly dubbed HTC DROID DNA, the handset is said to land at Verizon by mid-December, and the carrier’s employees have been already announced on the matter, rumor has it. The above image (available courtesy of TalkAndroid) is said to have been showed to them, confirming some of the already leaked specs of the handset, such as its 5-inch full HD display (1080p), or the 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back. Furthermore, the upcoming mobile phone is said to sport a 2MP camera on the front, Beats Audio, and HTC’s Sense UI loaded on top of Android. Moreover,...

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Foxconn AT-5570, AMD Brazos-Powered Mini PC

Foxconn usually makes products for others, but every once in a while it launches own-brand devices, like the AT-5570. This is a mini PC, a nettop as it were, powered by the AMD C-70 accelerated processing unit, a Brazos 2.0 chip of 1 GHz / 1.3 GHz Turbo frequency featuring the Radeon HD 7290 integrated graphics. Since there are two DDR3 memory slots inside the case, up to 8 GB of Ram can back the chip up, though even 4 GB would be overkill. Other than that, Foxconn decided to include a pair of USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0/1.1 ports, a multi-card reader, a 2.5-inch SATA 6.0 Gbps storage device, HD audio, Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet and, of course, video outputs (HDMI and D-Sub / VGA). No price information is available as...

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