Smartphones

Bellevue, Wash . — The first smartphone specifically designed for T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network will be the T-Mobile G2 with Google. Previously, T-Mobile said its...

CUPERTINO, CALIF. — When it comes to the iPhone, nothing is going Apple’s way, except for sales and profits. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has...

Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile expanded its HSPA+ data network to almost 50 markets, where a population of 85 million people are capable of receiving...

LIBERTYVILLE, ILL. — The ninth Android smartphone announced by Motorola for the U.S. market will be the company’s first to pair a touchscreen with...

ALPHARETTA, GA. — Cellphones aren’t replacing separate MP3 players, portable navigation devices (PNDs) or digital cameras, but younger consumers ages 13 to 17 are...

NEW YORK — Smartphones dominated the most recent round of cellphone introductions as carriers try to goose up smartphone sales and data revenues, and...

NEW YORK — New features, better performance, lower-cost pricing plans from AT&T, and a financial incentive to current iPhone users to upgrade to the...

NEW YORK — Recent cellular introductions include Dell’s Androidbased Streak, a new FLO TV-equipped phone from AT&T, an LG-made global- roaming Windows smartphone from...

NEW YORK — Processing speed, high-resolution photography, media playback and tree hugging were the dominant themes in recent cellphone introductions. The phones include HTC’s...

DEARBORN, MICH. — The 2011 Ford Fiesta will be the first vehicle equipped with Ford’s Sync system to control select Android and BlackBerry smartphone...

NEW YORK — A Sirius XM app due in May will enable select Android-based smartphones to stream 120 channels of satellite- radio content via...

BELLEVUE, WASH. — The industry’s first Android-based PND phone, announced earlier this year by Garmin-Asus, will be launched in the U.S. by carrier T-Mobile...

Olathe, Kan. – Garmin is trimming the size of its newest series of portable navigation devices (PNDs) while bulking them up with features. Three...

NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. — Waxess USA will make its Verizon Wireless-approved HomeCel 1000 landline/cellular desktop phone available through distributors in the next couple of...

CUPERTINO, CALIF. — More than 100 new features enabled by Apple’s iPhone 4.0 OS will bring to the iPhone and iPod Touch many key...

LAS VEGAS — Prepaid carrier Leap Wireless will launch Kyocera’s first Android-based smartphone, the Zio M6000, sometime this year, the carrier told TWICE dur...

LAS VEGAS — Sprint plans summer time availability of the first iDEN-network Android- OS smartphone, the Motorola i1 with a 3.1-inch HVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi,...

Las Vegas – New Android-based smartphones, eco-friendly phones, prototype phones with embedded ATSC Mobile DTV tuners, and hybrid satellite-cellular phones will be displayed here...

Las Vegas – Samsung will come to the CTIA convention with two new handsets for AT&T and a convertible mono-to-stereo Bluetooth headset. The Modus...

RESTON, VA. — More people owned smartphones, listened to cellphone-stored music, and used their phone to access a social-networking site during the three months...

OLATHE, KAN. — The latest two PND phones announced by Garmin- Asus include the joint venture’s first Android-based model. Both full-touch Nuviphone models, the...

DALLAS — AT&T has approved the use of iPhones to placeshift a home’s TV or DVR content if the phones use a revised, more...

DALLAS — The full touchscreen LG Arena multimedia phone launched by AT&T expands the carrier’s selection of phones with 7.2Mbps HSPA technology to six...

LG’s U.S. cellular plans in 2010 include an expanded selection of Windows Mobile smartphones and the company’s first Android-based smartphones, but the company will...

AT&T will offer its first five Android-based phones in the first half with models from multiple suppliers, including Dell and HTC, the carrier announced...

LG is unveiling its next-generation Lotus phone for Sprint, adding a touchscreen to the squarish quick-messaging clamshell with full QWERTY keyboard. The new Lotus...

A new unlocked Nokia phone looks like a PND killer, offering preloaded North America maps, an embedded route-calculation engine and a lifetime of free...

HD Radio came to the iPhone and iPod Touch with RadioShack’s launch of an add-on tuner whose user interface appears on the handheld devices’...

U.S. cellphone sell-in declined in units during the first two quarters of the year and perhaps in the third quarter as well, but smartphone...

CTIA-The Wireless Association is encouraging further standardization of inputs and outputs on cellular phones, following up on its previously announced support for the industry’s...

Smartphones, touchscreen phones and messaging phones dominate fourth-quarter cellphone launches by carriers eager to compete more vigorously with the iPhone and generate higher data...

AT&T will market a hybrid satellite/cellular smartphone beginning in the first quarter of 2010 to corporations, government agencies and small businesses followed sometime later...

Motorola unveiled the first of several planned Android-based phones that it expects to turn around the company’s fortunes. With the announcement, Motorola becomes only...

SonyEricsson plans to expand its selection of 3G phones that operate in the U.S. 1.7/2.1GHz Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) band. The company, which already...

A new GPS processor due soon from SiRF Technology will render cellphone navigation as robust as that on a personal navigation device (PND), improving...

T-Mobile will support the Aug. 5 nationwide rollout of its second Android-based 3G smartphone with a major mid-August ad campaign. The launch of the...

London – ABI Research estimates that the popularity of GPS on cellular phones will jump by nearly 50 percent next year in North America....

Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile will support the Aug. 5 nationwide rollout of its second Android-based 3G smartphone with a major mid-August ad campaign. The...

The wireless-phone industry focused on the high end in unveiling plans for a series of sophisticated cellphones, including new models with Android smartphone OS,...

Retailers and e-tailers are awash in new cellphones to merchandise and promote, including prepaid-service phones, locked and unlocked models, and portable navigation device (PND)...

Nokia and Research In Motion (RIM) launched slender smartphones for AT&T’s cellular network, while Samsung launched two new keyboard-equipped messaging phones, including a second-generation...