Michelle Maisto

T-Mobile is making updates to Jump, its $10-a-month program that lets subscribers upgrade their devices every six months, instead of the industry standard of every two years. T-Mobile introduced Jump in July, and not long afterward, AT&T and Verizon Wireless responded, introducing Next and Edge, respectively. With the update, T-Mobile says customers will be able […]

T-Mobile’s “Un-carrier” strategy is working, the carrier said Feb. 25, announcing the results of its 2013 fourth-quarter and full-year overview. During the quarter, T-Mobile added more than 1.5 million customers, 869,000 of whom are “branded postpaid” customers. For the full year 2013, T-Mobile added 4.4 million customers. Comparatively, during full-year 2012, T-Mobile added 1 million […]

BlackBerry made several announcements at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014, including that it’s working on a new flagship smartphone, the BlackBerry Q20. The Q20 will bring back the classic Menu, Back, Send and End buttons to the dedicated QWERTY keyboard, include an integrated trackpad and pair these with a 3.5-inch touch-screen—the largest display yet on […]

Samsung Unveils Galaxy S5, Gear Fit, Galaxy Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo at MWC by Michelle Maisto Introducing the Samsung Galaxy S5 The Samsung Galaxy S5 features a 5.1-inch FHD Super AMOLED (1920 by 1080) “adaptive display.” It runs Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) and has a battery that can last through 10 hours of Web browsing […]

Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 Smartwatches Offer Light, Welcome Improvements by Michelle Maisto Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 Smartwatches The Galaxy Gear 2 will begin shipping around the world in April, in Charcoal Black, Gold Brown and Wild Orange. Pricing hasn’t been announced yet. An Aesthetic Bump The Galaxy Gear 2 offers subtle aesthetic improvements over the […]

Samsung, during an evening event at Mobile World Congress Feb. 24, introduced its newest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, alongside a Galaxy Gear Fit fitness band and two new smartwatches, the Galaxy Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. The watches weren’t a surprise—Samsung had put out a press release that morning. And quickly, neither was […]

Samsung has introduced two new smartwatches, the Galaxy Gear 2 and the Gear 2 Neo. The distinguishing feature between the two is that the Gear 2 has a 2-megapixel camera, while the Neo is sans camera, and half an ounce lighter for it. While the whole of the mobile industry expects Apple to join Samsung […]

Hewlett-Packard arrived at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 with two new tablets—the ElitePad 1000 and the ProPad 600—and tablet-based point-of-sale solution, the HP TX1. “We’ve all seen the big transformation that’s been taking place. The work life and personal life of the user is no longer separated,” Derek Everett, director of worldwide product marketing, told […]

Public Knowledge, a Washington D.C.-based public advocacy group, has withdrawn its support of H.R. 1123, also known as the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act. In January 2013, it became illegal in the United States to unlock a mobile device, even after the service contract the device was tied to had been honored and […]

Sprint, a network that’s described itself as under construction, has been called (by others) a “pile of spectrum waiting to be turned into a capability.” It recent days it made three announcements that include benefits for small-business customers, suggesting that it’s doing all it can with what it has. Most recent was the Feb. 21 […]

Satya Nadella has given his first interview with the press, since becoming CEO of Microsoft Feb. 4, to The New York Times. In a Q&A interview with Adam Bryant that ran Feb. 20, Nadella again offered a picture of himself as someone who understands well that Microsoft’s history and successes will do nothing to hold […]

Google has introduced Project Tango, an initiative to compress current understandings about robotics and computer vision into a mobile phone. “Mobile devices today assume that the physical world ends at the boundaries of the screen. Our goal is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion,” Johnny Chung Lee, project lead at […]