In the modern smartphone world (U.S. more-so), bigger is better. It seems each flagship device tries to one-up the device before it with an ever-so-slightly larger display. The largest “phone” to date is Samsung’s 5″ Note (aka: “Phablet”). While it’s uses are best suited towards content consumption such as videos and games as well as content creation by way of various artistic apps and the included stylus, for normal day-to-day use,...

The latest source for a carrier’s Android update schedule isn’t an by way of email, phone, text or smoke signal. Instead, it’s Reddit. While the source of the leaks is rather uncommon all things considered, the information doled out is just as appetizing – Verizon’s upcoming Android 4.0 ICS update schedule. The leaker in question is a VZW employee with a changing job title who apparently felt like leaving his old position on a high note. The...

Verizon has had an on again/off again love affair with “global” phones – phones that carry CDMA support for the U.S. and a GSM radio for frequencies abroad. More often than not, however, the GSM radio is only supportive of GSM frequencies not used in the U.S. making any hackery to unlock and run on a local GSM carrier out of the question. But as it turns out, the newer generation of silicon inside of specific VZW phones is truly global, supporting foreign...

This Thursday, April 19th, Verizon Wireless will flip the switch on another boatload of network upgrades in the form of new LTE markets and current LTE market expansions. Just a few weeks after a previous massive upgrade saw 20+ LTE additions, Verizon is ready to reach a new, important milestone – 2/3 of their network (230 markets) will be covered by LTE. Quite simply, it’s a massive upgrade/rollout going down this Thursday that by itself dwarfs any LTE rollouts...

It looks like Verizon is rolling out LTE faster with each new market launch, as just after a massive 40+ market addition/upgrade a couple of weeks ago the carrier announced a slew of LTE network upgrades out west, particularly California, Nevada (and maybe even Indiana). For Nevada, residents of Reno should now begin seeing “LTE” on their phones (provided they’re LTE phones of course) as well as, according to Droid-Life, residents of Kokomo, Indiana and...