Michelle Maisto

The Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone, scheduled to begin shipping later this month, is already getting an update. Several sources-including the Facebook page of Samsung’s Estonia offices-have confirmed that the smartphone will receive not its promised Exynos chipset featuring a 1GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 processor, but a 1.2GHz A9 instead, GSM Arena reported April 6, adding […]

Nokia’s new commitment to Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system doesn’t mean it has given up on Symbian all together. The phone maker, which had promised to continue supporting Symbian, has sent out invitations to the media for an April 12 event where attendees will “Discover what’s new with Symbian smartphones.” According to the Boy Genius […]

Sprint hardly needed any more bad news-what with AT&T angling to purchase T-Mobile, which would make Sprint a small fish in a big pond-but BTIG Research analyst Walter Piecyk has nonetheless offered some: Sprint’s 4G WiMax network is slower than Verizon’s 4G LTE (long-term evolution) network. Piecyk and his team, according to the Boy Genius […]

The Xoom, Motorola’s answer to the Apple iPad, isn’t being snatched off of shelves at quite the rate expected by industry observers. Neither is the Atrix 4G, Motorola’s smartphone with a complementary laptop-slash-dock that pairs the brains of the phone with a full keyboard, 11.6-inch display, touch-pad, USB ports and bigger speakers. In an April […]

A federal appeals court has dismissed lawsuits filed by Verizon Wireless and MetroPCS against the Federal Communications Commission’s net-neutrality regulations, calling the suits premature. In their lawsuits, Verizon and MetroPCS took issue with the FCC’s new rulings regarding net neutrality, which the regulatory agency would like to put in place to specify wireless carriers’ behaviors […]

It’s time for businesses to start using tablets, like the Apple iPad, according to Gartner analysts. Complementing laptops and smartphones more than replacing them, tablets offer opportunities for exploration, solutions for tricky deployments and a way of getting ahead of competitors, Gartner said in the April 5 report, which echoes the findings of a March […]

Apple iPhone 4 owners, whether subscribers to AT&T or Verizon Wireless, love their smartphones, with more than 80 percent of owners on each network reporting they’re very satisfied, according to studies. The Verizon iPhone 4 owners, however, are actually being provided with a better experience. According to an April 5 report from ChangeWave, AT&T iPhone […]

Smartphone sales are soaring, and young enterprise workers are more technologically savvy than ever. But a disconnect between worker activities and management’s readiness to manage, support and secure those activities is resulting in lost business opportunities, according new research from Unisys that was conducted by IDC. While it’s time to modernize policies, many companies are […]

A new video shows BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion continuing to fight the good fight against Apple’s iPhone and a growing number of high-end Android-running smartphones that boast larger displays, touch-screens and inventory-rich application stores. Following the BlackBerry Torch, the first RIM smartphone to combine a QWERTY keypad with a touch-screen, the company is apparently preparing […]

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is disputing accusations from competitors and some analysts that his company’s $39 billion bid to buy rival T-Mobile will hinder a wireless market that he describes as “fiercely competitive.” In an interview published April 4 by USA Today, Stephenson offered some answers, and more hints at answers, to a number of […]

AT&T’s proposed acquisition of competitor T-Mobile would leave the U.S. wireless market with only two major players-Verizon, which would be bumped from top dog to second fiddle, being the other-and would have serious effects on American consumers, American jobs and the dispersal of American dollars, according to a member of the Federal Communications Commission. As […]

The HTC Flyer, HTC’s answer to the Apple iPad, became available for preorder in the United Kingdom and Germany this week, and is expected to make its U.S. debut shortly. To further build interest in the device-and hopefully help it stand out in a jam-packed market-HTC has released a 6-minute video highlighting not only the […]