Late on Sunday evening, HTC took to its Facebook page to provide a status update on its plans to provide unlocked bootloaders for several of its popular Android smartphones. This coming August, software updates designed to facilitate bootloader unlocks will begin rolling out for the global variant of the Sensation, T-Mobile’s Sensation 4G, and Sprint’s HTC EVO 3D. [...]

Six high-profile tech companies comprised of Apple, EMC, Ericsson, Microsoft, RIM, and Sony have banded together to purchase Nortel’s patent portfolio. Collectively spending $4.5-billion, the consortium purchased the rights to over 6,000 patents which cover wireless voice and network technology, optical data technology, and 4G LTE. Most of the companies involved are remaining tight-lipped about the splurge, [...]

Fresh out of Germany, a new video of Sony’s soon-to-be-released dual-screen S2 tablet has hit the net. It’s not a very long video, clocking in at 18 seconds, but that’s definitely enough time to grasp what the PlayStation Certified, Tegra-2 powered device is all about. Looking a lot like a sleek glasses case while closed, opening [...]

Seeing that’s its been a few days since any new “rumors” of an impending iPhone 5 launch have popped up, why not start the day off right, right? What you’re looking at is an artist rendering of what the newly redesigned iPhone 5 is slated to look like. Rumors have is slated to feature an [...]

Shortly after tweeting that “big news” was on the way, T-Mobile today announced the launch of the myTouch 4G Slide. Designed and manufactured by HTC, the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” device is claimed to sport the most advanced camera found on a smartphone. Featuring a backlit 8 megapixel camera with dual-LED flashes and 1080p video capture, [...]

Thanks to one of BGR’s anonymous sources, today we have a bit more information to report on the first Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” smartphone from Google. Purportedly dubbed either the Google Nexus Prime or Nexus Prime, the device is said to be built by Samsung and feature some rather jaw-dropping specs, including a large 720p [...]

4G, we’ve spoken about it numerous times on this blog solely based on how excessively it’s used as a marketing term by carriers - both in Canada and the US respectively. Well it turns out Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat from Palo Alto, Calif., and the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Communications and [...]

  I have mentioned umpteen times in past posts about my thoughts on the marketing over-use of the term “4G” in Canada; to put it bluntly: it’s ridiculous. Alas, it exists and isn’t going anywhere for a while. With this ongoing battle, also exists the fight to get devices to market that can be branded [...]

Anything with “4G” garners its own attention - so, Samsung recently announcing the Galaxy S Infuse 4G should get you pretty excited. Well, fellow Canadians, it’ll be made available exclusively through Rogers this summer. This nifty device is the true next generation device from Samsung running on Android OS 2.3. It will be Rogers’ first [...]

Oh LTE, I love you and all, but how your name is overused agitates me; alas, this post isn’t about that, so I will get right down to what it is. You all know by now that national LTE deployment is coming to a Canadian city near you by the end of 2011 - epic. [...]