Michelle Maisto

The IdeaPad U260 is Lenovo’s newest laptop for design-savvy consumers and, it says, the world’s first 12.5-inch ultraportable. With a silhouette inspired by the curved edges of a leather-bound journal, plus a magnesium-aluminum alloy cover, glass touchpad and a black leather-patterned palm rest, this newest addition to the Idea Pad U Series, says Lenovo, “is […]

Hewlett-Packard has introduced the HP Mini 1103, a “companion PC” that it’s also calling the company’s “most affordable Mini for business.” The 1103 features a 10.1-inch LED backlit WSVGA display, has a starting weight of 2.78 pounds and is priced at $299. It’s scheduled to arrive in December. The netbook runs Microsoft’s Windows 7 Starter […]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is “the king of Android tablets for now,” repair site iFixit said in a Nov. 12 e-mail, following its teardown of the Apple iPad’s newest competition. The Galaxy Tab will soon be available from all four major carriers – Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. What iFixit found, to begin with, is […]

Dell Venue Pro owners experiencing issues with their new smartphones can exchange them for new ones, according to Dell’s Lionel Menchaca. Some Venue Pro units were shipped with batteries labeled “Engineering Samples.” However, Menchaca blogged Nov. 11, the goof-up was in the labeling, not with the actual batteries. “After investigating, we concluded [that] the batteries […]

Apple’s iPhones are the most reliable smartphones in terms of failure rates, according to a new study from SquareTrade, a company that sells electronics warranties. SquareTrade reportedly conducted the study, which compared the iPhone, Android devices from Motorola and HTC, RIM BlackBerry handsets and “an aggregated pool of all other smartphones” by analyzing data from […]

U.S. Cellular, the nation’s sixth-largest carrier, is moving ahead with plans to deploy an LTE network in 2012, although at a relaxed pace, according to reports. At the Wells Fargo Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in New York, U.S. Cellular Executive Vice President and CFO Steven Campbell said the carrier plans to launch one LTE […]

The contest of Apple iPad versus Samsung Galaxy Tab may simply come down to: Are you an Apple person or an Android person? The New York Times‘ David Pogue and the Wall Street Journal‘s Walter S. Mossberg have each spent some time with the Galaxy Tab, the first tablet expected to give the iPad-which currently […]

Acer has introduced the TravelMate 5542, a new business laptop for the U.S. market. With a 15.6-inch widescreen LED back-lit display, Microsoft’s Windows 7 Professional operating system and a choice of Advanced Micro Devices processors, pricing for the TravelMate starts at $549. For “budget-conscious professionals,” said Gregg Prendergast, Acer vice president of commercial sales and […]

T-Mobile has some new European friends-and increased options for enterprise customers. The FreeMove Alliance-a group comprising mobile carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, TeliaSonera and Telecom Italia Group, and with a footprint of 59 countries and more than 404 million customers-announced that T-Mobile is climbing on board, enabling the alliance to extend its offerings to customers traveling […]

Nokia, Samsung and LG Electronics led worldwide mobile phone sales during the third quarter, though it was a period most notable for its zooming Apple and Android smartphone sales, as well as challenges posed as component makers struggled to keep pace with growth. Worldwide phone sales reached 417 million units during the quarter, up 35 […]

Verizon Wireless and Samsung have introduced the Zeal, a dual-hinge messaging phone that offers more than meets the eye. Reminiscent of the Samsung Alias 2, the Zeal can be used vertically or horizontally. Hold it vertically and open it like a traditional clamshell, and the keypad, using E Ink technology, offers a straightforward numeric keypad […]

Nokia reaffirmed its support for the Symbian operating system, just as Sharp and Fujitsu have introduced new smartphones running the mobile platform-which remains the most popular worldwide, despite losing support to Google’s Android OS, most recently from Samsung and Sony Ericsson. Nokia plans to “continue to invest its resources in developing Symbian,” it said in […]