Todd R. Weiss

Verizon Wireless has been leading the U.S. mobile carrier race for several years, with 108.2 mobile customers in its last quarterly financial report. AT&T is in second, with 86.2 million mobile customers. But here’s the rub—those totals only are right if you look at Verizon’s and AT&T’s postpaid (contract) and prepaid customers. Those are the […]

Huawei’s P8 Lite Smartphone: Unlocked and Loaded for $250 by Todd R. Weiss The P8 Lite Unveiled Available in black or white, the new Huawei P8 Lite handset features a bright 5-inch HD display, a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor and 2GB of RAM that’s packaged in a slim and stylish device. Durable Display To […]

Apple will soon announce the availability of a new Apple Watch app tool kit for developers so that they can make improvements that help apps work better on the devices, which have been on sale since late April. The Watch app tool kit will be unveiled at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which will […]

T-Mobile US, the fourth-largest U.S. mobile phone carrier, is reportedly talking with Dish Network about a merger that could finally bring T-Mobile together with another business after similar merger talks with Sprint were ditched in August 2014. The merger talks between T-Mobile and Dish were reported June 4 in The Wall Street Journal, based on […]

The latest Huawei TalkBand B2 smart band wearable device is available, starting at $179.99, and offers new integration with Jawbone’s UP health and fitness-tracking app to give users detailed information and advice about their activities and fitness routines. Sales of the TalkBand B2 launched June 3 on the company’s GetHuawei.com Website, where consumers can choose […]

LG G Stylo Smartphone Offers a Stylus, Big Display and More by Todd R. Weiss Meet the LG G Stylo Equipped with a bright 5.7-inch HD IPS touch-screen display that’s covered with super-strong Corning Gorilla Glass 3, the Stylo also features a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, 1GB of memory and the Android 5.0 […]

NEW YORK—At a press gala here for its new $249 unlocked P8 Lite smartphone for U.S. consumers, Zhiqiang Xu, the president of Huawei Device USA, made a very bold statement. His mission, he told the 75 or so journalists in the room on June 2, is “in the next five years [to] reach the position […]

NEW YORK—Huawei just launched its third smartphone in the U.S. market, the $249.99 unlocked P8 Lite, with an optimistic goal of taking on the big players in America and getting this device into the hands of many millions of consumers here. The P8 Lite was shown off at a special press event here on June […]

Apple is aiming to grow its streaming music business against established competitors including Spotify by unveiling a new $10-a-month service that it hopes will make paying customers out of consumers who presently are getting their streaming music elsewhere. The idea of Apple offering such a service has been around for a while, especially since the […]

With several new tablets and an updated 2-in-1 device, Asus continued its product rollout at the Computex technology show on June 1 in Taipei, Taiwan, showing off a wide range of devices aimed at consumers and business users. Highlighting the product mix is the Asus Transformer Book T100HA 2-in-1 (pictured), which gives users the benefits […]

Asus is adding a myriad of features to its upcoming ZenWatch 2 smartwatch when it is released later this year, including a new metal watch crown, a Wellness smartphone app and a wider range of choices in watch body colors, sizes and strap designs and colors. The stylish ZenWatch 2, which is produced in partnership […]

A driver in Quebec, Canada, was given a $120 traffic ticket for allegedly using his Apple Watch while driving his car on a local roadway, but he intends to appeal the citation. Jeffrey Macesin of nearby Pincourt got the ticket and four demerit points after he was pulled over by police for using the watch […]