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Here are a quantity of the best no contract, no credit check designs to date:

There is a clear trend emerging in the wireless mobile phone plan world, people are gravitating toward no contract designs more every day. These designs can offer the consumer significant savings over the sizable of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Plenty of people are moving toward these services to save large money and to have the piece of mind that they can switch their service when they see fit, in lieu of being locked in to a two year contract. Take a glance below to see three of the top prepaid, no contract, no credit check designs.

two. Straight Talk Limitless – Straight talk is another great no contract service that starts around $45 per month. This is an individual prepaid wireless plan that also offers limitless knowledge, talk, and text. cold thing about straight talk is that you are allowed the luxury of bringing your own device to the service. In the event you have a sweet new iPhone five, you can transfer your phone to this service. The coverage area is manageable, and the knowledge networks are plentiful.
one. Boost Mobile Android Month to Month Limitless Plan – Boost offers a no contract wireless plan. With this plan, customers have the choice to get limitless knowledge, talk and text for around $55 per month. There’s smartphones available for use with this wireless service, but they need the use of the android OS. The Samsung line of mobile cell rings work well with boost, which are among the top of the line rings. Boost has a respectable service coverage map that will permit the use of high speed knowledge networks in broad geographic areas.
three. Flash Wireless – All Communications Networking (ACN) is the largest direct seller of telecommunication services in the world, and they have recently launched their version of a limitless wireless service plan. With no contracts and no credit checks, Flash Wireless leases cell tower service from Verizon and Dash in order to keep their rates competitive. Beginning at $47 per month, customers can take advantage of very reliable and limitless knowledge, talk and text. This company is distinctive in that they offer customers an avenue to get paid for referring other people to the service, and they also offer a program that will permit customers to get their mobile mobile phone service absolutely free!
As prepaid wireless designs continue to trend higher amongst consumers, there will without a doubt be increasingly competition entering the market, and they will certainly see the prices plummet and the expertise skyrocket. These top three wireless providers are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to finding a great no contract mobile phone plan, and there will certainly be plenty of more players entering the game in the years to come. The best prepaid mobile mobile phone designs are here, and they keep getting better.
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HTC One X Review | $199 AT&T 4G LTE

HTC hopes to regain their King of the Hill status in the realm of Android smartphones with the One series, and the HTC One X is the flagship of the line. Featuring LTE speeds, a robust processor, a great camera plus a really good audio experience, the One X has what it takes to be a fabulous phone।Unfortunately, some of HTC’s old problems rear their ugly heads again। Remember the original Evo 4G’s poor battery life? Welcome back to that. And the

HTC Thunderbolt’s heat issues? Deja vu। Despite the battery thing, the HTC Evo went on to become super popular। This proves that as long as a smartphone hits all the other ticky boxes for greatness hard enough, customers are willing to ignore or find ways around the other issues. Will that be the case with the HTC One X? It definitely scores high on the good stuff, including just being a great looking device. Read on to find out whether you should be at your local AT&T store on May 6th when this bad boy finally hits shelves.

Pros Beautiful, large pixel dense display Light and comfortable to hold Good cameras

Cons Short battery life Gets noticeably hot No microSD card slot Battery not user replaceable

HTC One X | $199 | AT&T
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Hands On Video

Design

Though the One X has a 4.7-inch display, the phone doesn’t really feel massive unless you sit it next to smaller handsets. You won’t get the same WHAT IS THAT?! reaction that Galaxy Note owners have to deal with every time they show their phone in public.
The streamlined design minimizes the 5.3 x 2.8 inch size somewhat, and the thin 0.36-inch profile helps the One X look svelte even with the big screen dominating the front. The edges don’t have the smooth, straightforward curve of the HTC One S from T-Mobile, instead opting for a cut that creates a flat edge for the ports and buttons. This doesn’t make the phone less holdable; the tactile experience is somewhat different.

In addition to being thin, the One X is also light, weighing just 4.6 ounces. It’s not so light that it feels like it will slip from your hands. Instead, it feels just substantive enough for sturdiness while not giving off the big phone vibe.
The unibody shell of the AT&T version is made of a polycarbonate material that does feel plastic, but not cheap. It’s available in dark grey and all white for those who enjoy a phone with a color that will stand out. The unibody design has several implications, the main one being that the 1800 mAh battery is not removable. There’s also no microSD card slot, which means you’re stuck with the 16GB of internal storage.

This size is plenty big enough even for app fiends, but does mean that users will probably want to keep the bulk of their pictures, video and music in the cloud. That’s pretty easy these days, especially with the free 25GB of DropBox space you get with the phone.
Around back the 8MP camera lens is raised and ringed in chrome, which goes along with HTC’s emphasis on photography in the One line. Sadly, the protruding lens may mean it will scratch much easier than the average phone camera.
On the bottom right side are five gold contacts that serve as wireless docking connectors for HTC accessories. A microUSB on the left is the only other connection port.

On the front HTC keeps it simple, as always. The device’s LED notification light sits behind the earpiece grill on top, invisible when inactive. The 1.3MP front-facing camera is easily visible next to the grill.
HTC chose to keep the capacitive buttons on the One series phones even though they all ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (which incorporates these buttons into the operating system, eliminating the need for them). Instead of Home, Menu, Back and Search users get Back, Home and Recent Apps.

HTC One X Display

The design of the One X does everything to minimize how big the phone is so that you won’t pass it up just because of the large 4.7-inch Super LCD display. So, is the screen worth it?
Yes.
To start, it’s a really beautiful display and boasts rich colors and true blacks. Plus, HTC didn’t just up the screen size and leave the resolution at average. Users get 1280 x 720 pixels for a pixel density of 312ppi. This is pretty close to the “Retina Display” pixel density of 326ppi on the iPhone 4S, yet you get to enjoy it on a much bigger canvas.
The result is that text remains crisp even at small font sizes and watching HD video or looking at the pictures taken with the rear-facing camera in the gallery is a pleasure.

The display is still visible and usable in the sunlight

The Super LCD technology offers wide viewing angles and excellent performance in the sunlight. With the display left on automatic brightness I was able to view the phone out in the sun with no problems, even when it got really bright.

HTC Sense 4, Ice Cream Sandwich and Apps

The One X runs on Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with the HTC Sense 4 skin/user interface on top. Sense is one of the most extensive skins for Android devices right now, which is either a good or a terrible feature depending on your point of view.
True fans of stock Android won’t dig the experience on the One X. Not only does Sense change the look of the operating system, it actually tweaks some of the core functionality.
The saving grace is that though Sense is all up in your face, it’s there in a good way. Sense aims to make using Android a smoother experience. It does so by putting the functions and features you like just one or two taps away or by streamlining the process of personalizing your Android experience.

HTC Sense 4 Widget Browser and App Shortcut Maker

For example, Ice Cream Sandwich changed the way users access widgets to put on the Home screen. Instead of tapping and holding on a blank space on a Home screen, you choose a widget from the App drawer. Apparently the devs at HTC don’t like this, so they reinstated the tap and hold function and hid the widget browser in the app drawer.

I’m a big fan of the Lock screen on HTC Sense since users can personalize which apps show up there. To quickly launch from the Lock screen, simply drag the app into the ring.
Thanks to the internal specs, Sense doesn’t slow Android down the way some skins can.

Despite being an Ice Cream Sandwich phone there are still hardware buttons

As mentioned above, HTC opted to keep hardware buttons instead of going with on-screen Home, Menu and Recent Apps buttons in stock ICS. People who are as against buttons as Google will not appreciate this change. People like me who prefer physical buttons will be happy with it.
The only drawback is that HTC leaves off the Menu button. Instead, the three vertical dots that indicate Menu functionality appear, usually at the bottom of the screen, when applicable. Eventually developers will re-code their apps to get rid of this type of Menu functionality, but until then we’re left with a less than perfect solution.

Apps pre-loaded on the HTC One X

Aside from the usual core Google apps there are some standard HTC apps as well. I’m a fan of the souped-up Clock app, Friend Stream (ties together multiple social networks), Notes (hooks up to Evernote), the Car Dock interface, HTC Watch, and Flashlight.
The HTC Hub is also on board, providing an (unnecessary) second app market as well as a place to download more HTC personalizations like themes.
AT&T doesn’t load too many of their own apps on-board, and those they do are generally useful.
ReadyToGo helps users new to Android set up their phones via their computers. There’s also a Device Help app. AT&T Family Map is a useful tool for parents to keep track of where everyone on the family plan is, location-wise. And My AT&T connects to your account, letting you know how many minutes, texts or megabytes of data you’ve used to far plus other account information and services.
AT&T Navigator costs extra to use and doesn’t offer much of a premium over Google Maps/Navigation. And AT&T U-verse TV has some okay content, though most users can satisfy these needs via Netflix or Google Play Movies.

HTC One X Performance

SpeedTest.net Scores – NYC

One of the biggest differences between the AT&T and International versions of the HTC One X is that the American model comes with a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor inside, not a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU. HTC says that the reason for this is that the Tegra 3 chip wasn’t compatible with LTE radios at the time of manufacturing. Regardless of the reason, it’s a major let down for people who want the speediest phone.
Will having a dual-core phone affect most users all that much? Probably not. With the Snapdragon CPU inside the One X is nice and speedy. Whether swiping through the interface, opening apps, or playing games like Temple Run or Grand Theft Auto III, the phone didn’t show signs of lagging or struggling. Even HTC Sense didn’t slow it down.
Multitasking also didn’t appear to have an adverse affect on the phone. Even with over 15 apps open or running in the background the handset behaved the same.
Down the road more resource-intensive apps will come along to take advantage of the quad-core phones of the near future, but the majority of these will be games.
On AT&T’s 4G LTE network, the One X averaged 11.72 Mbps down and 9.53 Mbps up as measured by the Speedtest.net app. The speediest download time I saw was 25.67 Mbps, but most results hovered around the average. This is slower than the Galaxy Note on the same network, which saw an average of 19.4 Mbps down and 11.1 Mbps up.
The back of the One X gets noticeably hot when charging, when the LTE radio is pulling down a lot of data (such as downloading MP3s from Google Music), and when working hard (such as when playing games). Not so hot as to be dangerous, but enough that it’s cause for concern.

HTC One X Battery Life

What’s using the battery

Combine a large display with a powerful processor and an LTE radio and what do you get? Battery drain. It’s an unfortunate fact and one that anybody shopping for a big phone has to take into consideration. Still, the 1800mAh battery doesn’t seem quite enough for the One X.
In my first couple of days with the smartphone the battery only lasted between 6 and 8 hours with light to medium usage (LTE on, Wi-Fi off). On the third day I used minimal Wi-Fi, listened to music and made a 40 minute phone call. This drained the battery very fast, resulting in the phone getting down to 4% in less than 6 hours. The fourth day I experienced the same without a long phone call to drain things: I got down to 4% in a little less than 6 hours.
The display is the biggest power hog, but it’s possible to mitigate this by manually keeping the brightness low. Inside, I would keep it below 20% without any loss of quality. As with any LTE smartphone, keeping the Wi-Fi connected whenever possible also helps with battery life.

Call Quality

When making calls I heard voices on the other end clearly via the earpiece and with a headset connected. Callers reported that my voice also came through clearly and that background noise didn’t drown me out, even when I stood on a noisy NYC street.
The speaker on the back pumps loud volume for both hands-free calls and music.

Beats Audio and Music

HTC’s partnership with Beats Audio means a pleasant and noticeably better aural experience on the HTC One X over phones with average audio quality.
The Beats enhancements only kick in with headphones, but they now turn on whenever media audio plays. This includes games and video in addition to any music app. Gone is the odd restriction we saw on the HTC Rezound.
Audio quality is nice and full both on the top and bottom, though there is a definite favoring of bass. Not a surprise, given the history of Beats Audio. While these enhancements may still be nothing more than fine-tuned equalizer settings, those of us who don’t know how to tweak an EQ appreciate the phone doing the work for us.

left: Music app widget; right: Music pp launch screen

Google Play Music, MOG, TuneIn Radio and SoundHound are all pre-loaded on the One X so that users can get right down to the business of listening to music. The HTC Music app is more than just the stock player with a good skin. It serves as a hub for all music apps — users can add their own — and the music users have on their device.
Unfortunately, with only 16GB of internal storage, music lovers won’t be able to store a large library on the One X.

HTC One X Cameras

Alongside HTC Sense 4 and Beats Audio, HTC also emphasizes the great camera experience on the One series. The One X’s rear-facing 8MP f/2.0 camera aims to be good enough that you can leave even a fancy point and shoot at home. The camera itself is backed by an app that offers dozens of settings and features plus editing for images after you shoot them.
Outdoors in good lighting the camera takes beautiful pictures. And thanks to different modes, including HDR, close-up/macro and low light, it is possible to get better than average pictures under these conditions. The images won’t be very sharp, especially when you get into details, but they do offer a good balance of color, light and shadow.

Indoor performance isn’t all that impressive. This is due, in part, to how light the camera is, making it hard to keep it still when taking pictures. The shutter is very fast, especially when no flash is involved. So pictures don’t always come out sharp or in-focus. When they do, the quality is all right, but not great.
The front-facing camera takes decent, light-filled images and delivers a not too noisy result when video chatting over Google+.

Is the HTC One X Worth $199?

The HTC One X’s biggest competition on AT&T (literally) is the $299 Samsung Galaxy Note. Both phones are larger than average, but the One X still manages to feel like a normal phone despite the size whereas the Note feels like a hybrid device.
The $199 iPhone 4S has a slightly higher pixel density, but can’t match the One X on speed. However, you’ll get better battery life from Apple’s phone.
The bottom line is that the HTC One X is a speedy, beautiful phone with a great display and a camera that should satisfy most average shutterbugs. And, thanks to the inclusion of Beats Audio, there are compelling reasons to leave the separate MP3 player at home. Ice Cream Sandwich and Sense 4 work pretty well together to boot.
However, the heat issue and the short battery life are both big drawbacks.
If neither of those things deter you, HTC offers quite a bit of fancy phone for just $199.

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Motorola Atrix, Electrify and Photon 4G Won’t Get Ice Cream Sandwich

Last week, we told you that Motorola’s Ice Cream Sandwich update chart included some grim news for Motorola Atrix, Atrix 2 and Photon 4G owners and while Atrix 2 owners made it out unscathed, Motorola has cancelled Ice Cream Sandwich for the Atrix, Photon 4G and the Motorola Electrify as well.
In a post on Motorola’s forums and as displayed Motorola’s upgrade chart,
all three devices will remain on their current version of Android which
is Android 2.3 Gingerbread. All three were originally scheduled to be
getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich this year with the Atrix slated
for Q3 and the Electrify and Photon 4G scheduled for Q4.
Motorola, last week, slapped a “Further plans coming soon” moniker on
all four devices and at that point, their Ice Cream Sandwich updates
were up in the air. However, while the Atrix 2 received good news and
began receiving its Ice Cream Sandwich roll out last week, the Atrix 4G,
Photon 4G and Electrify will be receiving no such news.

The Motorola Photon 4G won’t get ICS.

This is obviously not the outcome that many owners were expecting
when the company decided to place the three on the upgrade chart earlier
this year but this is the situation that owners are going to have to
deal with.
It’s clear that these updates weren’t cooperating in testing and
rather than release buggy software, Motorola decided to scrap the
updates altogether.
Hopefully, the outcome is different for owners of the Droid Bionic who saw their Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade postponed to the fourth quarter shortly after a Motorola exec promised more transparency when it comes to major Android updates.
Motorola also reiterated this stance in their cancellation of the
Atrix, Photon and Electrify ICS updates saying that the company is
committed to better communication with its customers in regards to
Android software updates, even when it’s news that customers may not
want to hear.
Case in point, the ICS updates for the Atrix, Photon 4G and Electrify.
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iPhone 5 Finally, the iPhone we’ve always wanted

What’s different?

Look at our review of last year’s iPhone 4S,
where we said, “Even without 4G and a giant screen, this phone’s
smart(ass) voice assistant, Siri, the benefits of iOS 5, and its
spectacular camera make it a top choice for anyone ready to upgrade.”

Well, guess what? Now it has 4G LTE and…well, maybe not a
giant screen, but a larger screen. That’s not all, though: the already
great camera’s been subtly improved, speakerphone and noise-canceling
quality has been tweaked, and — as always — iOS 6
brings a host of other improvements, including baked-in turn-by-turn
navigation, a smarter Siri, and Passbook, a location-aware digital
wallet app for storing documents like gift cards, boarding passes, and
tickets.

The question is: a full year later, is that enough? For me, it is. I
don’t want much more in my smartphone. Sure, I’d love a new magical
technology to sink my teeth into, but not at the expense of being
useful. Right now, I’m not sure what that technology would even be.

Like every year in the iPhone’s life cycle, a handful of
important new features take the spotlight. This time, 4G, screen size,
and redesign step to the top.

You’ve gotten the full rundown already, most likely, on the various ins
and outs of this phone, or if you haven’t, I’ll tell you about them
below in greater detail. Here’s what I noticed right away, and what made
the biggest impression on me.

First off, you’re going to be shocked at how light this phone is. It’s
the lightest iPhone, even though it’s longer and has a bigger screen.
After a few days with it, the iPhone 4S will feel as dense as lead.

Secondly, the screen size lengthening is subtle, but, like the Retina
Display, you’re going to have a hard time going back once you’ve used
it. The extra space adds a lot to document viewing areas above the
keyboard, landscape-oriented video playback (larger size and less
letterboxing), and home-page organizing (an extra row of icons/folders).
Who knows what game developers will dream up, but odds are that extra
space on the sides in landscape mode will be handily used by virtual
buttons and controls.

Third, this phone will make your home Wi-Fi look bad. Or at least, it
did that to mine. Owners of other 4G LTE phones won’t be shocked, but
iPhone owners making the switch will start noticing that staying on LTE
versus Wi-Fi might actually produce faster results…of course, at the
expense of expensive data rates. I hopped off my work Wi-Fi and used
AT&T LTE in midtown Manhattan to make a FaceTime call to my wife
because the former was slowing down. LTE, in my tests, ran anywhere from
10 to 20Mbps, which is up to twice as fast as my wireless router’s
connection at home.

Using your iPhone 5 as a personal hot spot for a laptop or other device
produces some of the same strong results as the third-gen iPad…and
it’s smaller. Of course, make sure you check on your tethering charges
and data usage fees, but my MacBook Air did a fine job running off the
LTE data connection at midday.

The look: Thin, metal, light as heck

You know its look, even if the look has been subtly transformed over the
years: circular Home button, pocketable rectangle, familiarly sized
screen. Can that design be toyed with, transformed a little, changed?

From left: The Lumia 900, iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3.

(Credit:
CNET)

The newest iPhone has a wide metal body that stretches above
previous iPhones, but is also thinner; still, this isn’t a massive phone
like the Samsung Galaxy Note or HTC One X. The iPhone 5 rises above the iPhone 4 and 4S, but subtly.

From the front and sides, it looks very similar to the iPhone 4 and 4S.
The same rounded metal volume buttons, sleep/wake button on top, and
silence switch remain. The headphone jack has moved to the bottom of the
phone, just on like the iPod Touch. Some will like it, some won’t; it
makes standing the iPhone upright and using headphones a virtual
impossibility. Actually, the entire bottom is all new: the headphone
jack, the larger, redesigned speakers, a different type of perforated
grille, and a much tinier Lightning connector port.

(: )

The Gorilla Glass back of the last iPhone is gone, replaced
with metal. The two-tone look might seem new, but it’s a bit of a
reference to the silver-and-black back of the original iPhone. The very
top and bottom of the rear is still glass. That anodized aluminum —
which Apple claims is the same as that on its MacBook laptops — feels
exactly the same, and is even shaded the same on the white model. So
far, it’s held up without scratches. I’d say it’ll do about as well as
the aluminum finish on your 2008-and-later MacBook. On the black iPhone,
the aluminum matches in a slate gray tone. On my white review model,
it’s MacBook-color silver. That aluminum covers most of the back and
also the sides, replacing the iPhone 4 and 4S steel band, and lending to
its lighter weight. The front glass sits slightly above the aluminum,
which is cut to a mirrored angled edge on the front and back,
eliminating sharp corners.

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Why the move away from a glass back? Is it about creating a
better, more durable finish, or is it about weight reduction? Apple’s
proud of its claims of how light the iPhone 5 is, and the new aluminum
back is part of that. So is the move to a Nano-SIM card (making SIM
swaps once again impossible and requiring a visit to your carrier’s
store). So is the thinner screen and the smaller dock connector. You get
the picture.

Hold an iPhone 4S up to the new iPhone, and I could see the difference
in thickness. It’s not huge, but it feels even slimmer considering its
expanded width and length. What I really noticed is how light it is. I
still feel weirded out by it. The iPhone 5’s 3.95-ounce weight is the
lightest an iPhone’s ever been. The iPhone 4S is nearly a full ounce
heavier at 4.9 ounces. The iPhone 3G
was 4.7 ounces. The original iPhone and iPhone 4 were 4.8 ounces. This
is a phase-change in the nearly constant weight of the iPhone — it’s
iPhone Air.

Yet, the iPhone 5 doesn’t look dramatically different like the iPhone 4
once did. Actually, it seems more like a fusion of the iPhone with the
iPad and MacBook design.

(: )

And, of course, there’s the new, larger screen. You may not
notice it from a distance — the screen’s still not as edge-to-edge on
the top and bottom as many Android phones, but extra empty space has
been shaved away to accommodate the display. There’s a little less room
around the Home Button and below the earpiece. The iPhone 5 screen is
just as tall as the screen on the Samsung Galaxy S 2,
but it’s not as wide. That thinner body design gives the iPhone the
same hand feel, and what I think is an easier grip. The extra length
covers a bit more of your face on phone calls.

(: )

Over the last week with the iPhone 5, I started to forget that the phone
was any larger. That seems to be the point. And, the iPhone fit just
fine in my pants, too: the extra length has been traded out for less
girth, so there’s little bulge. And, with that awkward statement having
been uttered, I’ll move on.

That 4-inch screen: Going longer

The iPhone 5 finally extends the 3.5-inch screen that’s been the same
size on the iPhone for five years, but it does so by going longer, not
wider. A move from the iPhone 4 and 4S’ 3.5-inch, 960×640-pixel display
to a 4-inch, 1,136×640-pixel display effectively means the same Retina
Display (326 pixels per inch), but with extra pixel real estate versus a
magnified screen. All the icons and app buttons are the same size, but
there’s more room for other features, or more space for videos and
photos to be displayed.

The iPhone’s interface is the same as always: you have app icons
greeting you in a grid, and a dock of up to four apps at the bottom.
Instead of a grid of four rows of four apps, the longer screen
accommodates five rows of four apps. More apps can fit on the home
screen, but that’s about it as far as user interface innovation. Extra
screen height means pop-up notification banners are less intrusive at
the top or bottom.

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It’s odd at first going longer versus also adding width, and
it means a shift away from the iPad’s more paperlike 4:3 display ratio.
Pages of e-books could feel more stretched. In portrait mode, document
text may not seem larger, but you’ll see more of it in a list.

(: )

In landscape mode, text actually seems bigger because page
width stretches out (so, you can fit more words on a line). The virtual
keyboard in landscape mode also ends up a bit more spread out, too, with
a little extra space on the sides, which took some getting used to.

(: )

I preferred portrait typing because the keyboard size and
width remains the same, while the extra length allows more visible text
above the virtual keys.

The screen difference isn’t always dramatic, especially compared with
some ultra-expansive Android devices: the Samsung Galaxy S3 beats it
both on overall screen size (4.8 inches) and pixel resolution
(1,280×720). In the iOS 6 Mail app, with one line of preview text, I fit
six and a half messages on the screen at the same time on the iPhone 5
versus five and a third on the iPhone 4 and 4S. Other apps toy with the
layout more; I fit eight tasks on one screen in the new iOS 6 version of
Reminders, versus five on the iPhone 4S with iOS 5.1.1.

Infinity Blade II, before iPhone 5 optimization. Note the black bars.

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Of course, you’ll need new apps to take advantage of the
longer screen, and at the time I tested the iPhone 5, those weren’t
available because iOS 6 hadn’t formally launched. Older apps run in a
letterboxed type of mode at the same size as existing phones, with
little black bars on the top and bottom. Apps work perfectly fine this
way, especially in portrait mode, but you definitely notice the
difference. App-makers will be scrambling to make their apps take
advantage of the extra screen space, and my guess is it won’t take long
at all for most to be iPhone 5 (and iPod Touch) ready.

(: )

I tried iMovie, iPhoto, Pages, Numbers, Keynote,
GarageBand, iCards, and all of the iPhone 5’s built-in apps (Maps,
Reminders, Messages, Photos, Camera, Videos, Weather, Passbook, Notes,
Stocks, Newsstand, iTunes, the App Store, Game Center, Contacts,
Calculator, Compass, Voice Memos, Mail, Safari, Music, and, of course,
Phone), and they all take advantage of the extra space in a variety of
useful ways. How others will adopt the extra real estate remains to be
seen.

(: )

I’m looking forward to killer apps that will take advantage
of the larger screen. So far, I haven’t found any that do it in
surprising ways. My guess is that games will benefit the most, along
with video and photo apps, and, to some degree, reading/news apps.

(: )

Video playback, of course, has a lot more punch because the new 16:9
aspect ratio reduces or removes letterboxing across the board in
landscape mode. An HD episode of “Planet Earth” filled the entire
screen, while the available viewing space shrank down even more on the
iPhone 4S because of letterboxing. YouTube videos looked great. Some
movies, of course, like Pixar’s “Wall-E,” still have letterboxing
because they’re shot in the superwide CinemaScope aspect ratio (21:9),
but they look a lot larger than before — and you can still zoom in with
a tap on the screen.

I think that, much like the Retina Display, you’ll miss the iPhone 5’s
new screen more when you try to go back to an older phone. The new
display feels like a natural, so much so that to the casual eye, the
iPhone 5 doesn’t look entirely different with the screen turned off. The
iPhone 4 and 4S screens feel small and hemmed-in by comparison.

iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S video playback of the same 1080p nature video.

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The new iPhone 5’s display also has a layer removed from the
screen, creating a display that acts as its own capacitive surface. I
didn’t notice that difference using it; it feels as crisp and
fast-responding as before. Apple promises 44 percent extra color
saturation on this new display, much like the third-gen iPad’s improved
color saturation. The difference wasn’t as dramatic in a side-by-side
playback of a 1080p episode of “Planet Earth,” but the iPhone 5 seemed
to have a slight edge. It was a little too close to call in
game-playing, photo-viewing, and everyday experience with the phone,
even held side-by-side with the iPhone 4S. The real difference, again,
is the size. Autobrightness adjustments have also been tweaked a little,
and I found on average that the iPhone 5 found more-appropriate
brightness levels for the room I was in.

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This seems like a good time to discuss thumbs. As in, your
thumb size and the iPhone 5. Going back to the iPhone 4S, I realized
that the phone’s design has been perfectly aligned to allow a
comfortable bridge between thumbing the Home button and stretching all
the way to the top icon on the iPhone’s 3.5-inch display. That’s not
entirely the case, now. I could, with some positioning, still thumb the
Home button and make my way around the taller screen, but the iPhone 5’s
a little more of a two-hander. It might encourage more people and app
developers to switch to landscape orientation, where the extra length
and pixel space provide finger room on both sides without cramming the
middle.

(: )

Game developers are likely to lean toward the landscape 16:9
orientation, because it more closely matches a standard HDTV’s
dimensions, and most console games. The extra width allows useful
virtual button space, too.

4G LTE: Faster, at last

Last year’s iPhone 4S had a subtle network bump to 3.5G (listed as “4G”
on the iPhone 4S following iOS 5.1), offering faster data speeds on
AT&T. The iPhone 5 finally adopts faster LTE, joining most other
smartphones on the market and even the third-gen iPad, with the leap to
LTE back in March. (On the top corner of the iPhone, the service
indicator reads “LTE” when it’s up and running.) However, the presence
of LTE doesn’t mean a world LTE phone; currently, LTE roaming between
carriers overseas is impossible.

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There’s also support, depending on the iPhone 5 version you buy, for
slower GSM (including EDGE and UMTS/HSPA) and CDMA/EV-DO networks. The
iPhone 5’s LTE uses a single chip for voice and data, a single radio
chip, and a “dynamic antenna” that will switch connections between
different networks automatically.

In the United States, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless will carry
the iPhone 5. T-Mobile loses out. In Canada, it’s Rogers, Bell, Telus,
Fido, Virgin, and Koodo. In Asia, the providers will be SoftBank,
SmarTone, SingTel, and SK Telecom. For Australia there’s Telstra, Optus,
and Virgin Mobile, and in Europe it will go to Deutsche Telekom and EE.
On carriers without LTE, the iPhone 5 will run on dual-band 3.5G HDPA+.
I didn’t notice any problems when switching between LTE and 4G, but I
tended to find myself stationary in a place that had LTE service or a
place that didn’t, without much time to test the transition midcall.

There’s a catch, though: there are now two versions of iPhone 5 in the
U.S., one GSM model and another version for the CDMA carriers. You may
not have your dream of a universal LTE phone, but international roaming
is possible between 2G and 3G. Also, get ready to accept that Verizon
and Sprint iPhone 5s still won’t be able to make calls and access data
simultaneously, even though many other Verizon/Sprint LTE phones can
pull this off. That’s because those other phones use a two-antenna
system for LTE/voice (voice doesn’t run over LTE yet), while the iPhone 5
only uses one plus a dynamic antenna for what Apple says is more
connection stability.

Nevertheless, data access via 4G LTE is stunningly fast. This is no
gentle upgrade. In my home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I tested
both my AT&T iPhone 4S and the AT&T iPhone 5 at the same time.
The iPhone 4S averaged a 2.4Mbps download speeds over “4G,” whereas the
iPhone 5 averaged 20.31Mbps. In comparison, my home wireless Internet
via Time Warner averaged 9.02Mbps at the hour I tested (1:30 a.m.).

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The difference can be felt loading Web pages: the mobile version of CNET
took 5.3 seconds over LTE, versus 8.5 seconds on the iPhone 4S. A
graphically intensive Web site like the desktop version of Huffington
Post took 16 seconds to load via LTE, versus 23.3 seconds on the iPhone
4S in 4G.

Those who already use 4G LTE may simply be nodding their heads, but to
iPhone owners looking to upgrade, this is major news. For many people,
LTE will be faster than their own home broadband.

Of course, that’s a dangerous seduction: with fast LTE comes expensive
rates and data caps. AT&T also requires a specific plan to even
enable FaceTime over cellular. Make sure you don’t fall down the rabbit
hole of overusing your LTE, because believe me, you’re going to want to.
I tried setting it up a wireless hot spot for my MacBook Air, and the
result was generally excellent.

Outside major cities, it’s not quite as exciting if you don’t have LTE
coverage. Using the AT&T iPhone 5 out in East Setauket, Long Island,
data download speed was merely 3.5Mbps because of a lack of AT&T
LTE service. Verizon’s LTE coverage map is larger, but Sprint’s LTE
network is small as well. My experience with AT&T and LTE may not
necessarily be yours.

Wi-Fi has also gotten a bit of a boost via dual-band 802.11n support
over both 2.5GHz and 5GHz. It should help in the event of interference
with other Wi-Fi devices, although I never encountered that problem
before, even with tons of Wi-Fi gadgets scattered about my apartment.

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The camera

Something on the iPhone 5 has to not be new, right? Well, even the rear
iSight camera’s been tweaked, but not quite as much as other features.
It’s still an 8-megapixel camera, but there’s a new sapphire-crystal
lens, and improved hardware enabling features like dynamic low-lighting
adjustment, image stabilization on the 1080p video camera, and the
capability to take still shots while shooting video.

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The camera takes excellent pictures, a bit more so now than
before. The iPhone 5 takes far clearer low-light pictures, but the
result, while more coherent, is grainier and lower resolution than the
wonderfully detailed images taken in bright, direct light. I ran around
in semi-darkness in my son’s room taking pictures of his toys, and found
that the iPhone 5 was able to make things out in places where the
iPhone 4S couldn’t.

Indoor shot with the iPhone 5.

(: )

I settled for some indoor house shots instead to show off how the camera
works in dimmer conditions. Of course, you’ll probably use flash in
those instances, but it can’t hurt to have it as a backup.

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Samsung sue Apple because of her ‘iPhone 5’

Said The Korea Times Korea, Samsung plans to sue Apple because her recent ‘iPhone 5‘, because it infringes on patents related to technology fourth generation 4G LTE registered in favor of Samsung. 

The paper said that Samsung Electronics Co., decided to take immediate legal action against Apple, where she will persecuting in a number of European countries and in heitedtates as well.
Samsung has started legal proceedings on Monday, before Apple unveiled iPhone 5 phone two days later, and when to make sure that the phone will be presented in support of the fourth-generation technology. Previous reports have said that Samsung owns 10% of the total patents registered on this technology in the world.

Apple had won last month filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the United States, which fined the company more than a billion dollars due to the violation of Samsung phones in the series «Galaxy» several patents belonging to Apple regarding its design.

Apple had announced yesterday for a phone iPhone 5, which carries a 4 inch screen, and offers processor twice as fast as the previous generation, and the weight and thickness of less, and will begin pre-order the device starting from September 14.

Samsung
is still fuming that they got their trash handed to them in court last
week. The legal beat down they received in court was just raw and
powerful and awesome, and they totally deserved it.
Samsung is
understandably mad, and probably a little embarrassed and majorly
vindictive, so they went out this morning and declared that if Apple
even thinks about releasing an iPhone 5 with LTE they will sue them
immediately, and they may have the patents to win. Maybe.
LTE
has been emerging as the new standard for high-speed mobile data
connections, and it turns out that Samsung has quite a few patents for
it. Thomson-Reuters says Samsung owns about 12.2% of
all existing patents pertaining to LTE technology, while Nokia owns
18.9%, Qualcomm has 12.5%, and Ericsson has about 11.6%.
Even
though Samsung may own a lot of LTE patents, it’s not the sheer number
of patents, but the quality that will determine how strong a legal
weapon they can be used as. So it’s likely that Samsung is just trying
to talk some smack after getting roughed up on the playground.
The
Korea Times reports that Samsung is trying to partner-up with U.S.
mobile carriers to fight back against Apple. They’re currently in talks
with Verizon about modifying designs on Samsung Galaxy devices, and
they’re going to start making more Windows phones with Microsoft so
they’re not so dependent on Android.

 
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The iPhone 5 of Your Dreams (Video)

We have a pretty good idea of what the iPhone 5 will look like, if the leaks are legit.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t dream about an iPhone with more features than can possibly fit in a $199 device।

iPhone-5g.fr created an incredible iPhone concept video showing off a number of impressive features. We don’t expect the iPhone 5 to look like this when it is announced later this year, but we couldn’t resist sharing this feature packed iPhone 5 concept video.

iPhone 5 logo for notifications.

The impossibly thin iPhone 5 concept packs in the following features, which would likely make for at least an $800 iPhone.

• 3D Front Facing Camera
• 4.5-inch 3D Retina Display
• 3D rear camera
• Lighted Logo with Notification Support
• Fingerprint reader
• Holographic Display for movies
• Interactive 3D Hologram for gaming.

Concept iPhone 5 boasts a hologram controller for games.

The interactive 3D hologram is pretty impressive, and would be a fun way to play games like Tiger Woods Golf, but it’s very doubtful that any of this technology will be in the next iPhone, or even the next few generations of iPhones.

We learned today that the new iPhone displays will ship to Apple this month as the company prepares for a September or October release date. Rumors suggest Apple will announce the new iPhone on September 12th with the iPhone 5 release date following closely on Friday September 21st.

This iPhone 5 concept is years off.

Leaks point to an iPhone 5 with a new design and a 4-inch display. The back of the next generation iPhone may be made of metal and the device is likely to be slightly thinner thanks to the new in-cell touch screen technology. It is widely believed that the iPhone 5 will have 4G LTE connectivity.

While much of the press refer to the next generation iPhone as the iPhone 5, Apple may decide to mimic the iPad naming scheme and go with a simpler new iPhone name.

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Motorola Droid RAZR Arrives in New Colors with Cheaper Price

A couple of days ago, Verizon launched a new cheaper version of the Motorola Droid RAZR. The new model checks in at $199 with a new two-year contract. It also comes with 16GB of on board storage. Sorry, no microSD card included in this deal. Until today though, the only color available was black. Starting today though, the 16GB Droid RAZR now comes in both purple and white flavors.

Both the purple and white models of the Droid RAZR are exactly the same as the device that we reviewed, and loved, back in October. They just come with a price tag that’s $100 lower.

Taking the place at the $299 price point will be the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX which still doesn’t have an official release date but is rumored to be launching on January 26th.

Verizon likes to announce these kinds of things at the last minute.

The Droid RAZR MAXX, if you’re unfamiliar, is going to come with a massive 3,300 mAh battery which will allow for owners 21 hours of continuous talk time. It’ll also be a tad thicker than the original Droid RAZR.

As for the specifications of the RAZR that was released today, for $199 you’ll be getting:

• CPU: 1.2-GHz TI OMAP 4330
• RAM: 1GB
• Internal Storage: 16GB
• Display: 4.3-inch, qHD 960 x 540 resolution
• Cameras: Rear – 8MP; Front – 1.3MP
• Battery: 1780 mAh battery

We should also mention that it comes with 4G LTE capabilities which means that you’ll be able to utilize data speeds that are up to 10 times faster than 3G.

Not bad for a $200 smartphone.

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Touchstone mod blesses Samsung Epic 4G Touch with inductive charging powers

The Touchstone’s future is just as unclear as any other webOS product at the moment, but it’s sure getting a fair share of love from the mod community. Not only did we witness the inductive-charging unit work on a modded Samsung Galaxy S Plus, a bold and daring AndroidCentral Forums member also accomplished the feat on his three-day-old Epic 4G Touch in a process that’s definitely not for the faint of heart. The modder (who goes by the name of “darrenf” on the forum) offers a full step-by-step guide on exactly how to do it, but advises that it’s “a pretty delicate mod” and attempting it will likely void any warranties or return policies that were attached to the phone when purchased. It also doesn’t result in the most aesthetically pleasing look since the charging coil had to be attached to the outside of the phone, but it’s gotta give you some massive street cred if you pull it off, right?

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