4G LTE Smartphones Dominated CES 2012

By Ed Hardy | 1/12/2012

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is wrapping up in Las Vegas. The Brighthand staff has been in the thick of things, and can't help but crown 4G LTE as the star of this tradeshow. Other significant trends were also in evidence, though.

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Price for Verizon's Motorola Droid 4 May Have Leaked Out

By Ryan Punzalan | 1/12/2012

Motorola's most recently-announced high-end Android smartphone for Verizon Wireless, the Droid 4, may have just had its price leaked out.

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Verizon Commits to 4G LTE on Virtually All Future Smartphones

By Ryan Punzalan | 1/12/2012

A Verizon Wireless executive, speaking at the CES tradeshow, has revealed that just about all of his company's smartphones released in the future will be able to run on the carrier's 4G LTE network. This includes BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and maybe iPhone.

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CES 2012: Day Two Notes from the Tradeshow Floor

By Ed Hardy | 1/11/2012

Yesterday was the second day of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Brighthand editors and staff spent the day looking at new smartphones and accessories as fast as we could, and we're bringing you the best of them.

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CES2012: Verizon Introduces the Droid RAZR MAXX, Boosting Battery Life in Smartphones

By Valerie Sarnataro | 1/10/2012

While Verizon and Motorola introduced the fourth-generation Droid handset at CES earlier, the partners added another device to the Droid family: the RAZR MAXX, a smartphone nicknamed "the overachiever" thanks to its impressive battery life.

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CES 2012: Day One Notes from the Tradeshow Floor

By Ed Hardy | 1/10/2012

The annual Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing in Las Vegas. The first day bright a range of smartphone announcements, as well as a number of events where companies were showing off new products to journalists.

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CES 2012: Verizon Wireless and Motorola Unveil the Droid 4

By Ryan Punzalan | 1/10/2012

At CES 2012, Verizon Wireless and Motorola are showing off what they claim will be the thinnest and most powerful 4G LTE QWERTY smartphone: The Droid 4. Like its predecessors, this is going to have both a large touchscreen and an equally large sliding keyboard.

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CES 2012: LG Reveals the Spectrum, a Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Handset

By Grant Hatchimonji | 1/9/2012

LG introduced its previously-rumored Verizon 4G LTE handset, the Spectrum, today at CES, and announced that it will be released in less than two weeks on January 19.

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Motorola Droid RAZR vs. Motorola Droid X2: Battle of the Droids

By Adama D. Brown | 1/8/2012

Verizon's Motorola Droid RAZR and Motorola Droid X2 were both designed to appeal to a very similar market: those looking for a fast, sleek-looking Android phone. So is the RAZR that much better that it justifies its bleeding-edge pricetag?

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CES 2012 Likely to Bring New Android Devices and Windows Phones

By Ed Hardy | 1/2/2012

The Consumer Electronics Show starts next week in Las Vegas, and there will be quite a bit of smartphone-related news coming out of this giant tradeshow. Expect announcements related to Android OS 4.0, Windows Phone, and LTE.

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Most Popular Smartphones for December 2011

By Ed Hardy | 1/1/2012

Each month, Brighthand publishes a list of the smartphones that readers have shown the most interest in during the preceding four weeks. Samsung and Apple dominate the December list, just as they have begun to dominate all phone sales.

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Verizon Blames Recent 4G Outages on ''Growing Pains''

By Ed Hardy | 12/30/2011

Verizon Wireless is often called "Big Red", and there have certainly been some red faces there this month as this carrier has gone through three 4G outages. A high-level company exec has explained what went wrong.

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