\nInstead of announcing new phones preloaded with some tasty Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Motorola came out with two heavily rumored devices for Verizon Wireless, the DROID 4 and the DROID RAZR MAXX.<\/p>\n
In typical Motorola fashion, the DROID 4 continues the robotic legacy running Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard at a svelte .5 inch thickness. The Droid 4 also comes equipped with a 4-inch qHD LCD and 1.2 GHz OMAP chip. 1 GB of RAM rounds out the boxy picture.<\/p>\n
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The DROID RAZR MAXX, in its overly capitalized glory, thickens out more than its predecessor at 8.9mm, but packs in a huge 3300 mAh and a larger included microSD card of the 32 GB variety.<\/p>\n
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Samsung<\/strong> With a name almost as long-winded as the Sprint variant of Samsung\u2019s current premier smartphone (Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch), the Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD packs in the same display as the Galaxy Nexus to give AT&T its third edition of this smartphone.<\/p>\n The formula to create Samsung’s Galaxy Note LTE is simple: take the hugenormous 5.3 inch Galaxy Note, change the buttons to the standard 4 button capacitive layout, and add LTE for AT&T\u2019s blazing fast network. What could go wrong? Smaller-handed geeks beware.<\/p>\n The Galaxy Nexus for Sprint is the same as Verizon, but it’s made for when Sprint cranks out their shiny new LTE network. Toss in Google Wallet (which Verizon decided to block) and you have the current king on a cheaper network.<\/p>\n HTC<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 Sony<\/strong> Finally upgrading its popular smartphone to the world of dual core, Sony brings out the\u00a0Sony Xperia S, a smaller version of the Xperia ion for AT&T. The Xperia S comes with a 12 megapixel Exmor camera that should hopefully offset its Android 2.3 chops.<\/p>\n LG<\/strong> With just a sampling of the announcements on the first day of CES 2012, much more is set to come from CES, including more amazing products and much progress in the smartphone battlegrounds. HD displays and LTE seem to be the big players this year, but we’ll see what other trends continue throughout the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Day one of CES 2012 sure kicked off to a great start, especially with a bevy of new smartphones announced. Many of the major original equipment manufacturers, even Nokia, have come out with big announcements, though some of them seem a bit odd. Nevertheless, here is a breakdown of some of the more important announcements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1920,1917],"tags":[1655,6,75,439,1053,61,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7657,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPossibly the most active company in terms of announcing new devices, Samsung kicked off the first day of CES with a bang, including the Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD, Samsung Galaxy Note LTE, and a Galaxy Nexus for Sprint.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-skyrocket-400x295-custom.jpg\")
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\nNow named the HTC Titan II, the popular 4.7 inch HTC Titan on AT&T gains LTE and a crazy 16 megapixel camera. Could this be the Windows Phone 7 at its height?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/htc_titan_ii.jpg\")
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\nNokia<\/strong>
\nFinally bringing premium WP7 to the masses, LTE and AT&T are a great mix for the\u00a0Nokia Lumia 900, a slightly larger 4.3 inch follow-up to the popular Lumia 800. The\u00a0Nokia Lumia 900 brings a larger battery and a front-facing camera into the picture. Will the Nokia Lumia 900 take the crown from the HTC Titan II this quickly?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/nokia-lumia-900-official-109.jpg\")
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\nMarking Sony\u2019s divergence from its previous partner, Ericsson, the Sony Xperia ion is a 1.5 GHz beast that totes a 4.6 inch 720p display. Unfortunately, the Ion still comes with Android 2.3. With an upgrade to Android 4.0 though, this elegant smartphone could appeal to many.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/sony-xperia-s-main_large_verge_medium_landscape.jpg\")
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\nVerizon and LG announce a slightly more affordable LTE smartphone in the LG Spectrum, with a 720p IPS screen and 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, priced on contract at only $199. While unfortunately still running Android 2.3, this smartphone could be a good pickup for sports fanatics, as it comes with an HD ESPN Score Center App.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/lg-spectrum1.jpg\")
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