The Droid Ultra (XT1080) stays with the original Droid styling like the Droid RAZR HD and has grown in size and will be offered by Verizon Wireless, a new leak suggests. There are also new photos and hints at features.
Evleaks reported that it will feature a 5" touchscreen Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, Kevlar backing and Droid branding. Color choices will be red, black or white. It was previously reported to be ultra thin.
The last Verizon update to the Samsung Galaxy S III from Verizon Wireles that appears to fix the "LTE connection" glitch form the previous update (35VRBMD3 update) that was caused many problems .
The previous update caused problems for some users who had to return their Samsung Galaxy S III phones back to Verizon.
This update adds VMWare Horizon Mobile Switch app as well as "Google Security Patch in 116MB total. Some are reporting it fixes the previous problems while others are not sure.
Yesterday, Droid fans and conjrecturatti were all a flutter over the reinstatment of the DroidLanding Twitter account, the account that usually foretells the release of another Droid smartphone. The rumors turned out be false and the Tweets a game to garner interest in a new game.
Tweets that started with "Surveillance feed live ::: Recon in progress ::: Multiple contacts on the move ::: Observe and report…" Then there was a link to a video trailer from Verizon Wireless for the Droid Combat game.
The BlackBerry Q10 will coming form Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon this summer.
The QWERTY BlackBerry Q10 will be available in June from Verizon Wireless with preorders starting in the coming weeks.
Update 5/31/2013: The BlackBerry Q10 will go on sale at Verizon Wireless on June 6. T-Mobile is currently rumored to be around June 5.
T-Mobile will be offered the Q10 in June with business customers paying $119.99 with qualified plans while the T-Mobile price with two-years of $20 a month payment is $99.99.
Sprint only committed to selling the BlackBerry Q10 in the "late summer."
After T-Mobile's reduced plans, AT&T's Aio and more prepaid smartphones than ever before Verizon Wireless has increased the amount of data in its prepaid plans.
Verizon's current prepaid customers who pay $60 a month now will get 2GB of data, an increase from 500MB a month.
$70 a month prepaid plans will have unlimited voice, text and 4GB of data an increase from 2GB.