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Spring has certainly sprung in the tech world. While April saw two beautiful flowers bloom in the form of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 and HTC One, we’re already lining up a busy social calendar for May, with a bunch of prominent conferences and product launch events filling our world with wild new gadgets.
Here’s what to mark your calendar for this month:
May 1: PCMag’s drivers hit the road for our big Fastest Mobile Networks project. The biggest network testing effort of its kind sends drivers in Ford plug-in hybrids to 30 U.S. cities to check out 3G and LTE networks on all four national carriers. Follow the drivers and tell them where to go at www.twitter.com/PCMphones(Opens in a new window). They’ll be on the road until May 22.
May 1: LG throws an event where it’s likely to announce the U.S. version of its Optimus G Pro phablet at an event in New York. The G Pro, with which we had a hands on at Mobile World Congress in February, is narrower than Samsung’s Galaxy Note II phablet, with a higher-resolution screen and multi-window multitasking. We’ll be watching to see which carriers it appears on; AT&T is the top rumored contender.
May 9: Nokia has an event in New Delhi, India(Opens in a new window). This will probably be new Asha feature phones, which aren’t sold in the U.S. but are a big hit in the developing world.
May 14: Nokia has another event(Opens in a new window), this time in London. This one will have to be new Lumia smartphones, but given the location it probably won’t be that rumored flagship phone for Verizon. Perhaps a Lumia with the 808 PureView’s 41-megapixel camera is on offer.
May 14: BlackBerry Live starts in Orlando. Expect carrier sale dates and prices for the BlackBerry Q10, which we had a full preview of last week. Many faithful BlackBerry users have been waiting for this QWERTY follow-up to the successful Bold series for years.
May 15: Google I/O starts in San Francisco. Rumors about what Google will announce at its big annual conference are thin on the ground, but they’ve included Android 4.3, an update to the Nexus 7 tablet and a new direction for Google TV. One thing we probably won’t see is a new phone from Motorola, as that company has said its big releases are coming this fall.
May 21: The annual CTIA trade show kicks off in Las Vegas. The U.S. wireless industry’s biggest show has traditionally been a showcase for big U.S. wireless carriers, but the keynote list this year is full of regional and international voices, including top execs from U.S. Cellular, Telefonica, and Deutsche Telekom. Oh, and Ashton Kutcher.
May 21: Microsoft launches the next XBox, which I’m putting on this list because of the implications for the company’s growing Windows Phone platform. Windows Phone’s XBox integration is one of its major strengths, so let’s hope for a mobile component to this major release.
May 26: Arrested Development comes out on Netflix. You can watch it on your phone, okay?
June will bring Computex (with its usual range of laptop announcements) and Apple’s WWDC, but let’s make it through May first. Which of these May mobile events are you most looking forward to? Tell us in the comments.
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