Mobile News & Cell Phone Reviews

Forget about Apple’s November plea to the European Telecommunications Standard asking for regulations for “patent holders playing dirty.” Apple has turned face, and in its evident hypocrisy, returned fire on Samsung, using four newly acquired patents in its arsenal, and filed a patent suit to ban the sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the U.S. The preliminary injunction, filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of… Read More

Two key questions about the HTC Endeavor (previously known as the HTC Edge) have lingered since we first learned of the handset last November: Will it come loaded with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)? And will it run HTC's Sense 4.0? Those questions have now been answered. According to unnamed sources who spoke with MoDaCo, the device will run on Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3, and will be one of the first devices to include… Read More

Going into effect on Sunday, February 12, AT&T is increasing the activation fee on phone upgrades from $18 to $36 according to a memo issued to all AT&T store managers according to BGR. This brings the activation fee equal to the current rate of $36 for starting a brand new service plan. As directed by AT&T corporate management, store employees are supposed to define the fee as costs associated to picking out a new phone as well as… Read More

WOA sounds like what you might tell a horse when you want it to stop, but it’s also the working acronym for Windows on ARM, which Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky recently detailed in a revealing blog post. I’m clearly going to have some fun with the acronym, but the new details of the operating system have some pretty heavy implications, too.There really are some little nuggets in Steven’s Blog post that suggest this could be a game changer on a… Read More

When it comes to purchasing equipment, most military machines around the world will spend their time leafing through catalogs packed with bullets and bombs. The US Air Force (USAF), however, is also taking a close look at something else—Apple’s iPad. According to a Bloomberg report on Friday, the Air Mobility Command (AMC) component of the USAF is considering purchasing as many as 18,000 of the tablets. The AMC is responsible for transporting… Read More

There's no doubt about it: Apple will, at some point in the near future, release the next version of its market-ruling tablet, the iPad. Nobody outside Apple's walled garden can say for sure what the new device will offer — but as with any Cupertino creation, there are plenty of tips, rumors, speculation and good ol' fashioned guesses to satisfy us till launch day. Here, a quick round-up of the most-likely details surrounding… Read More

Tom Tom has decided to get into the insurance game, but not by offering policies. The GPS company has partnered with insurance broker Motaquote for a new venture called Fair Pay Insurance. Tom Tom will be providing the technology behind the new product, which will base its insurance premiums on how well you drive instead of typical baselines like age, gender, and profession.  Those who sign up for the plan will be issued a Tom Tom PRO 3100… Read More

Way back in the fall of 2011, when we were just being introduced to Siri in all her (short lived) iPhone 4S exclusivity glory, we wrote about Speaktoit. It was among the first legitimate answers to Siri that came hot on the heels of the iPhone 4S announcement.   But back then, it was only an Android alternative to Siri – many of which have been added to the Android Marketplace since. Now, Speaktoit is available in the iOS App Store and offers… Read More

Anything that only requires a physical tap to take money away from you always sounds ripe for exploitation. It sure may be convenient, but with the Google Wallet's PIN system cracked twice in the past two days, compromised by both rooted and unrooted Android phones, safety is going to have to come before convenience. The first attack came when security firm zvelo discovered that a rooted Galaxy Nexus stores PINs on the device rather than… Read More

There's good news and bad news on the software update front today, with the positive aspects coming from HTC and the negatives from T-Mobile in the USA. First up, here's the good news: HTC has finally got around to providing a more accurate time frame for its initial round of Ice Cream Sandwich updates, plus announcing which devices will be first to sample its delights. Having announced in November last year its intention to upgrade… Read More

A new ad from Amazon attempts to make fun of the cost of Apple’s iPad by highlighting the cheaper price of its own mobile devices. The 30-second ad takes place at a plush resort and involves an exchange between a bikini-clad woman (representing Amazon) and a slightly awkward-looking man (representing Apple). The 30-second ad begins with the Apple guy walking past the woman, shielding his iPad from the sun. She’s reading a book on her Kindle… Read More

The toy and game giant Hasbro has announced details of a deal with leading social game developer Zynga that will allow it to develop a range of physical products based on Zynga’s popular online games. In a statement released by the two companies on Thursday, Hasbro’s president and CEO Brian Goldner said he was “thrilled” with the arrangement. “Zynga is bringing more games to mainstream culture and is redefining how people play,” he said. “At… Read More

More woes for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week that it would be handing out iPhones and iPads to its employees in May, replacing the BlackBerry devices currently used. According to a Bloomberg report, the government agency, which carries out research into weather, oceans and fisheries, currently has about 3,000 of its 20,000 full-time workers and contractors using RIM… Read More

All four major U.S. cell phone carriers have now released their financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, and all three of iPhone carriers tout their success during the quarter, bolstered by new subscribers to their wireless voice and data services. No surprise for a phone more popular than all Android smartphones combined, right? But with it comes a heavy toll. The Apple iPhone carries a higher subsidy than any other phone the carriers… Read More