Michelle Maisto

The Nokia E73, a thin and feature-packed smartphone, is landing on T-Mobile’s network June 16. The wireless carrier’s announcement with Nokia comes a day after the company introduced three lower-end LG feature phones that will likewise join its lineup this summer.Among the E73’s major perks are a full-qwerty keypad and the ability to switch between […]

Hewlett-Packard moved a step closer to officially owning smartphone maker Palm on June 1, when the Federal Trade Commission approved the acquisition, granting the early termination of a waiting period imposed by a 1976 antitrust act.“The proposed merger remains subject to other customary closing conditions, including the approval of Palm’s stockholders,” stated a document filed […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is all over the Foxconn situation, he told conference goers at All Things Digital June 1.While saying he found the worker suicides-10 in total, following 12 attempts-“very troubling,” Jobs added, “We are on top of this,” according to the tech site Daily Finance.TG Daily, however, painted Jobs’ comments as being more […]

The Motorola Flipout, a pivoting smartphone with Android 2.1, Adobe Flash and support for Microsoft Exchange, was formally introduced June 2. Motorola shared details of the of the phone along with the news that the Flipout will begin shipping “in certain regions around the world”-although likely not the United States-in the second quarter of 2010.Measuring […]

AT&T began to answer the question of how wireless carriers will wean data-devouring customers away from the all-you-can-eat pricing plans they’ve become accustomed to and toward more variable pricing models instead.AT&T on June 2 introduced two new wireless data plans – as well as a tethering option – with prices lower than many customers have […]

As the number of Android-based smartphones continues to grow, both consumers and manufacturers have enjoyed the increasing popularity of open-source-based mobile devices. In a June 1 report, ABI Research predicted that such growth will continue-and not based on the success of Google’s Android operating system alone.Citing Google’s figure of 60,000 Android smartphones currently shipping each […]

Clearwire has expanded its Clear mobile Internet service to the Washington D.C. area, the company announced June 1. Covering nearly 1 million people, the new coverage area extends as far north as Chevy Chase and Silver Springs, Md., south to Alexandria, Va., east to College Park, Md., and west to Falls Church, Va.In WiMax coverage […]

Apple’s May 31 announcement that it sold more than 2 million iPads in the less than 60 days since the tablet’s April 3 launch likely surprised even those who had been boosters of the device.The 10 million iPads by year’s end that Apple has been rumored to expect to ship – according to a Dec. […]

Qualcomm has begun shipping its first dual-CPU Snapdragon chipsets, the company announced June 1.The two new chipsets, called Mobile Station Modem (MSM) 8260 and MSM8660, integrate two enhanced cores running at up to 1.2GHz. The former is designed for compatibility with HSPA+ networks – such as the one T-Mobile has been rolling out – and […]

AT&T’s Android-running smartphone options are expected to double in early June, when the carrier will introduce the HTC Aria, its second smartphone to run the Google mobile operating system.Ahead of the Aria’s big debut, however, images that are purportedly of the smartphone have been leaked by the Android Guys. In one photo, the phone-said to […]

Apple has sold more than 2 million iPads in the less than 60 days since it launched the tablet-style device, Apple announced May 31. Following the device’s instant success in the United States-with sales passing 1 million units in just a month-Apple delayed the iPad’s international launch. Over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend, however, the […]

AT&T will offer its Apple iPhone users insurance for their oh-so-breakable smartphones beginning June 6, according to what appears to be an internal AT&T document acquired by the Boy Genius Report. Citing a lack of iPhone insurance as a leading source of iPhone-related customer complaints, the document states that the insurance will be called MobileProtect, […]