Todd R. Weiss

BlackBerry’s first-ever Android phone, the Priv, will be available through AT&T Nov. 6, starting at $249.99 with a two-year contract. The Priv, which features a 5.4-inch curved glass display, a 1.8GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 hexa-core processor and 3GB of RAM, can also be leased from AT&T under its no-money-down Next plans, according to a Nov. […]

T-Mobile is now offering 4G LTE CellSpot devices to its Simple Choice phone plan customers to improve the indoor 4G LTE signals they receive for their cellular devices, building on its earlier Un-Carrier 7.0 efforts to improve indoor coverage using WiFi. The 4G LTE CellSpot is a 4G mini-tower that promises up to 3,000 square […]

Some 68 percent of adults in the United States have and are using smartphones this year, compared with 35 percent of adults who had them in mid-2011, according to a new Pew Research Center report on technology device ownership across the nation. That increase also is accompanied by other striking data, including a 45 percent […]

Samsung wants to promote its Samsung Pay mobile payments service to users of its latest Galaxy smartphones. So the company is offering a free wireless charging pad to customers who sign up for Samsung Pay by Nov. 8. The free charging pad will be provided when a customer with a compatible phone registers with a […]

T-Mobile’s announcement of its next big thing for its customers will happen Nov. 10 in Los Angeles at its Un-carrier X event, and already the rumors are beginning about what the mobile carrier is preparing to unveil. T-Mobile itself hasn’t given any hints or details about what is to come, but well-known news tipster Evan […]

Apple’s latest iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 4 tablets are now available to T-Mobile customers through monthly lease payments on Jump On Demand mobile plans. T-Mobile announced the availability of the devices on Oct. 28. The Jump On Demand plans let customers switch their mobile devices as many as three times a year, while […]

The drone task force that the Federal Aviation Administration has put together to make recommendations for creating drone registration rules in the United States has named its members, which include representatives from Google, Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and a wide range of aviation and other groups. The Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Registration Task Force is […]

Google is combining its Chrome OS into its dominant Android mobile operating system by 2017 in a move that will give it one unified OS for mobile phones, tablets, Chromebooks and other portable devices. The changes have been in the works by Google engineers for about two years as they have been merging the two […]

Samsung, which had been the victim of a series of disappointing financial reports over the last seven quarters, reported revenue and operating profits for the third quarter of 2015 that are up 8 percent and 37 percent, respectively, from the same period one year ago. In its Oct. 29 earnings report, Samsung announced Q3 revenue […]

Motorola has unveiled its new Droid Turbo 2 smartphone, featuring a special shatterproof five-layer display that includes a four-year guarantee against screen cracking or shattering even when dropped onto a hard surface. The Droid Turbo 2 boasts the company’s first-ever super-tough Moto ShatterShield display and includes Motorola’s Moto Maker customization process, which lets users choose […]

How Facebook Is Personalizing Notifications Tab in Mobile App Users can get more information quickly using the improved notifications tab in the mobile app. The enhanced notifications tab will feature personalized updates. Improving the Facebook Notifications Tab In an effort to make the notifications tab more useful, Facebook is rolling out an improved version that […]

Samsung is looking to create a new home entertainment niche with its new Galaxy View tablet, which features an 18.4-inch Full HD display, a kickstand for easy viewing and a host of preloaded streaming content sources where users can view movies and television shows on the fly. The Galaxy View, which was announced on Oct. […]