Michelle Maisto

The HTC Evo Shift 4G is now officially available on the Sprint network. Like its keyboard-less sibling, the Evo 4G-which, with the Samsung Epic 4G, has helped Sprint to post some of its best quarters, of late-the Evo Shift 4G runs Google’s Android 2.2 operating system and is capable of cruising on Sprint’s 4G WiMax […]

Leaked images of the HTC Thunderbolt, spilling out just before the new year, did little to rain on the parades of Verizon Wireless or HTC. At the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 6, the pair enthusiastically unveiled their newest Android-running smartphone, which will be exclusive to Verizon’s 4G LTE network. The Thunderbolt […]

Among Dell’s mobile device announcements at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show was the introduction of a second Venue smartphone, this one running the Android 2.2 operating system. While the new Venue features the same 4.1-inch Active-Matrix OLED touch screen as the Microsoft Windows Phone 7-running Venue Pro, it does without its predecessor’s slide-out keypad, making […]

HTC has become a major player in the smartphone market since attaching itself to Google’s Android OS. On Jan. 6, however, it was an HTC “Windows Phone,” with support for CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) radios in the 850 and 1900 MHz bands, that the Federal Communications Commission gave the okay to. Phones running Microsoft’s […]

Acer, the world’s second-largest PC maker, introduced four mobile PCs at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), covering a range of consumer tastes. At the highest end is the Aspire AS8950G-9839 – which may better stick in the memory as the highest performing model in Acer’s flagship Aspire notebook line. Also introduced Jan. 5 were […]

Apple and AT&T are dropping the price of the iPhone 3GS to just $49, beginning Jan. 7. The offer is available to new customers signing a two-year service contract and existing ones eligible for an upgrade, the pair said in a Jan. 6 announcement. The iPhone 3GS is upgradeable to iOS 4, lets user talk […]

LG Electronics Shows Off Something for Everyone at CES by Michelle Maisto??í LG Quantum The Quantum is the first LG phone to run Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 OS, which it pairs with a 1GHz processor, a 5-megapixel camera with HD video capabilities and gaming for the Xbox Live. ??í LG Vortex The Vortex, for […]

Sony Ericsson has introduced the newest addition to its Xperia smartphone line, the super-slim Xperia Arc. Unveiled at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, the phone runs Android 2.3, a 1GHz Qualcomm processor and measures 8.7 mm-or approximately 0.34 inches-at its thinnest point. As for the name, the phone is designed to “fit perfectly in the […]

Hewlett-Packard has passed around invitations to a WebOS event Feb. 9 that appears to mean the introduction of its tablet is finally imminent. That said, don’t expect to see any hints of an HP tablet at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. More exactly, tablets may be the case at the event next […]

LG Electronics got rolling at 2011 Consumer Electronics Show by introducing a haul of new devices, including nine phones, Bluetooth headsets, a wireless charging pad and two USB modems-the company’s first devices to work with 4G networks. “In an ever-changing wireless industry, it is vital that we continue to listen to the voice of our […]

Amazon just made e-book reading a little more egalitarian, with the introduction of Kindle for Windows Phone 7. The first major e-book app for Microsofts new mobile OS, it enables owners of Windows Phone 7 smartphones to take advantage of Amazons Buy Once, Read Everywhere Kindle applications. “With Kindle books you never have to worry […]

The former Motorola is now officially two companies. On Jan. 4, the Illinois-based business completed its planned separation into two publicly traded companies. Motorola Solutions, trading under ticker symbol MSI, now offers solutions for enterprise mobility and vertical markets, including public safety and government, with data-capture products, WLAN solutions and integrated command and control communications. […]