Sprint on Thursday announced its first 4G LTE smartphone capable of roaming on global GSM networks, the Motorola PHOTON Q. The device sports a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and is equipped with a dual-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz, Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 4.3-inch ColorBoost display with a 960 x 540-pixel resolution, 8GB of storage, an 8-megapixel camera capable of...
Having promised that all Xperia smartphones released in 2011 would get the Ice Cream Sandwich update this spring, Sony has released an Android 4.0 preview beta ROM for the Xperia Arc S, the Xperia Neo V, and the Xperia Ray. The update follows the release of an alpha ROM that was issued for the same devices back in December, and it introduces a number of new features and improvements....
A hacker has uncovered a bug in Apple's new iOS 5 firmware which allows certain iPhones locked to AT&T to be unlocked for use on T-Mobile. The hack works with the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, and Apple's latest iPhone, the iPhone 4S. The biggest advantage to this trick is that you do not need to jailbreak your device or make any alterations to its hardware or software. Instructions...
Check out the updates to this post at the end. Story may be changing: CDMA iPhone 4S customers (Verizon, Sprint) are getting a little bit of a better deal on the iPhone 4S when it comes to international roaming. We all know that the iPhone 4S will be both CDMA and GSM-compatible. That means that the same handset can be sued on both networks, depending on who you choose for service....
When the news broke this morning about Apple finally selling its iPhone 4 unlocked in the U.S., I imagined a lot of T-Mobile iPhone hopefuls’ first thought was, “Huzzah! Finally!”, followed quickly by “Um, how do we get around that pesky SIM card issue?” If you’re not aware, GSM handsets (like those on AT&T and T-Mobile) rely on standard-sized SIM cards, which identify the phone...
Today was certainly a hectic day in the world of technology to say the least. We've compiled a list of TechnoBuffalo's top headlines for today to help you make sense of it all. 1. LG's Intelligent Appliances During the Consumer Electronics Show last week, LG unveiled their new THINQ and Smart Access Technology-enabled appliances that are to be controlled via smartphones and tablet...
We all tend to think of our cell phones as secure modes of transferring information, whether it be by voice, text message, email or Web browsing. The general consensus is hackers like to infiltrate our desktops and notebooks not our mobile phones. This is not necessarily the case as GSM technology is highly hackable. Last month, at the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin, two...
Holding a private conversation on a mobile phone may no longer be possible after the security measures protecting the vast majority of the world's portable communication devices have been unlocked by researchers.