Smartphones

Verizon Wireless confirmed Monday that it is indeed going to get the HTC One. “It’s coming,” Verizon said on its Twitter account, adding it will be available later this summer. AllThingsD first reported back in March that the HTC flagship would make its way to Verizon, though well after it arrived at the other three Continue Reading →

Desperate to make its homescreen replacement Home seem less invasive, Facebook is advertising that you can temporarily deactivate it and use your HTC First or other Android phone as normal. The fact that Home replaces your widgets and app folders has been a core complaint. Facebook vows to fix that, but until then it’s reminding Continue Reading →

If you love the idea of the Samsung Galaxy S IV but want something smaller, cheaper and worse, listen up. Samsung just announced the Galaxy S IV Mini, which will launch at the Samsung Premiere event later this month in London. The S IV Mini has a 4.3” screen – about the same size as Continue Reading →

Google’s Android and Chrome boss Sundar Pichai confirmed that Google has no plans to abandon its Nexus program. The executive confirmed at the AllThingsD: D11 conference on Thursday that Google will continue to make dedicated Nexus hardware with its manufacturing partners. He noted that the idea of the Nexus program was to not only “guide Continue Reading →

Google unveiled a new version of the HTC One running the so-called ‘Nexus’ experience, or a stock version of Android without any themes, skins or additional apps developed by the OEM, at the D11 conference in California. Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice President for Android, Chrome and Google Apps at Google, confirmed the new smartphone following Continue Reading →

As you may have heard by now, Facebook’s Home software for Android hasn’t exactly taken off. Of the billion-plus users on Facebook, only about one million have installed the software to very mixed reviews. But in conversation with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at our D: All Things Digital conference on Wednesday, Facebook COO Sheryl Continue Reading →

A little more than a month since the launch of the Galaxy S4, Samsung has unveiled its smaller brother in the form of the Galaxy S4 Mini, a new mid-range Android smartphone with a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display (16:9 aspect ratio). The device is powered by a 1.7 GHz dual-core processor, alongside 1.5GB of Continue Reading →

Motorola has a new device coming out, which it thinks will change the game. In a discussion at the D11 Conference, Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside said the new mobile phone, called the Moto X, will be built in the United States in a factory outside Fort Worth. The facility that the new Moto X Continue Reading →

There’s a lot to like about Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone; it’s the fastest-selling Android phone ever for plenty of great reasons. As awesome as the phone is though, there are some things about it that are absolutely maddening. For me, Samsung’s keyboard might be my biggest qualm where core functionality is concerned, namely because Continue Reading →

Less than three months after Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled its flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone in New York, the South Korean technology giant is already gearing up for its next big product launch event in London on June 20. And this week, Samsung accidentally gave eagerly awaiting fans a sneak preview of what seems to be Continue Reading →