Michelle Maisto

The Palm Pixi officially arrived on Sprint’s 3G network on Nov. 15. A thinner, “lighter” sibling to the Palm Pre (Samsung also just released a junior sibling to a more robust predecessor) it’s priced at $99.99, after a $100 rebate and with a new two-year contract. However, some online retailers, including Amazon, are currently offering […]

Samsung released a new Android-running smartphone on Nov. 16, the Galaxy Spica. A junior sibling to Samung’s Galaxy, which arrived in Europe this summer, the Spica is now available in Europe and the CIS (the Commonwealth of Independent States, or the former USSR) and will eventually arrive in parts of the Middle East and Africa. […]

Apple’s App Store now offers more than 100,000 apps, and has facilitated approximately 2.2 billion downloads. Google’s Android Market is next in line, with an impressive 10,000-plus app offerings. Palm’s App Catalogue is nearing the 300-app mark, and Microsoft continues to tweak and update its new app store, Marketplace for Mobile. But is the value […]

U.S. carriers may have passed on a Dell smartphone, but the computer-maker-cum-smartphone-maker announced on Nov. 13 that it has found two new partners: China Mobile and Brazil’s Claro. Dell confirmed its entrance into the smartphone business-in the past, Michael Dell has discussed exploring small form factors, and CFO Brian Gladden has dismissed the China Mobile […]

T-Mobile announced on Nov. 13 that the Samsung Behold II will arrive on its 3G network on Wednesday, Nov. 18. The Android-running smartphone features a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen – T-Mobile’s first, which the carrier describes in a statement as offering “crisper colors and wider viewing angles.” The screen is paired with a 5-megapixel camera that […]

AT&T wants to set the record straight about its nationwide coverage, and has posted a note on its Website, offering some “key facts” about what it covers, and how. AT&T has filed a suit against Verizon Wireless, alleging that Verizon is misleading customers about AT&T’s coverage areas in its commercials. The “key facts” note comes […]

Microsoft has upgraded its Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store, which launched on Oct. 6 with the software-maker’s Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system. The upgrades, Todd Brix wrote on the Windows Mobile blog, deal with better anti-privacy protection, an improved developer portal for Microsoft’s registered independent software vendors, and PC-based shopping and account management for […]

AT&T has asked a federal court in Atlanta to force Verizon Wireless to pull a series of ads immediately, according to reporting from USA Today. Verizon responded by standing by its ads. “What we are saying doesn’t change,” spokesperson Jim Gerace told the paper. Reportedly, one ad named in the complaint is the holiday-timed play […]

Worldwide, both smartphones and mobile phone sales were up in the third quarter of 2009, but stagnated selling prices, as well as gray-market sales, prevented overall market performance from surpassing the third quarter of 2008, according to a Nov. 12 report from Gartner. Apple overtook Research in Motion in Western Europe, smartphone sales were in […]

Qualcomm is now providing customers with trial versions of its newly developed multimode, high-speed wireless chips. The Mobile Data Modem, or MDM8220, is the first to support DC-HSPA+ (Dual-Carrier High-Speed Packet Access Plus), while the MDM9200 and MDM9600, according to Qualcomm, are the industry’s first multimode chip sets for 3G and LTE (Long Term Evolution). […]