Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play Coming To Verizon Wireless, Says Wirefly
According to online wireless dealer Wirefly, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play handset -- you know, the one with the slide out gaming controls -- will be…
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iLounge Sounds Attenuation Alarm On Verizon iPhone [Video]
The iPhone 4's antenna situation truly is the story that just will not die. Now that the antenna gripes of the GSM iPhone has been…
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Best Buy Gets Retail Exclusivity On HTC Thunderbolt; Mid-February Launch
Via a short press release today, Best Buy announced its national, retail exclusivity on HTC's Thunderbolt handset from Verizon Wireless. Sadly, the announcement lacked a…
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Android 2.4 Reportedly Lands In April; ViewSonic Among First To Launch
Google is reportedly preparing to release the next major build of its Android OS at some point in April, and ViewSonic will be among the…
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Verizon May Launch Palm Pre 2 On February 17th For $99.99
Just one week after the nation's No. 1 carrier finally unleashes its iPhone 4 on the world, Verizon Wireless may have another handset launch waiting…
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Dell Venue Now Available For $499.99
If you're aching for a great unlocked Android phone and the plasticky feel of the Nexus S doesn't float your boat, Dell may very well…
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Yahoo! Email Bug Affects iPhone As Well, Not Just Windows Phone 7
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed that a Yahoo! email inefficiency was the culprit of a phantom data bug affecting Windows Phone 7 users. Yahoo! apologized for…
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Motorola ATRIX 4G On Sale March 6th, Pre-Sales February 13th; $199.99 [Updated]
According to The Wall Street Journal, AT&T will be releasing its flagship Android device -- the Motorola ATRIX 4G -- on March 6th, with pre-orders…
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Google Will Not Bring Honeycomb To Smartphones - Yet [Updated]
At a press event on Wednesday, a Google spokesperson confirmed that Android 3.0 Honeycomb will not be made available for Android-powered smartphones, PC Magazine reports.…
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Verizon Wireless To Throttle Data Speeds Of Heaviest Users, Optimize Content; Starts Today
According to a PDF memo available on Verizon Wireless' website (for now), the company will begin to throttle the data-throughput speeds of customers that consume…
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iPhone 4 Personal Hotspot May Be Coming To AT&T On February 13th
Last month, BGR exclusively confirmed that Apple's new Personal Hotspot feature is coming to all iPhones with the release of iOS 4.3. In a later…
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Did You Have Problems Pre-Ordering Verizon's iPhone 4?
Accompanied by fluttering harps, shooting beams of light and a sustained angelic chorus, pre-orders for Verizon Wireless' iPhone 4 went live on both Apple and…
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Apple To 'Crack Down' On In-App Payment Policy Violators
On Tuesday, we reported that Sony's eBook reader app for iOS had been rejected by Apple. The reason Apple gave for the rejection was that…
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News Corp Announces 'The Daily'
News Corp's iPad-only newspaper The Daily is finally official and we couldn't be happier to put this drawn-out ordeal behind us. News Corp CEO Rupert…
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Potential Specs For Nokia's MeeGo Phones Revealed
An administrator of a German Nokia enthusiast forum dug through a variety of MeeGo bug reports, source code files and log files recently, and has assembled the…
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T-Mobile Expands HSPA+ Footprint, Makes Samsung Galaxy S 4G Official; Available 'In February'
We're not sure why T-Mobile loves the midnight press release, but they do. At 12:00AM, T-Mo officially announced it's first 21Mbps capable smartphone, the Samsung…
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Microsoft: Yahoo Email 'Inefficiency' Responsible For Windows Phone 7 Data Bug
Microsoft has identified the culprit of a bug that causes superfluous data to be transmitted sporadically over 3G by Windows Phone 7 devices. According to…
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Virgin Mobile USA Announces LG Optimus V; $150, Pre-Paid, Available Today
LG continues to pedal is low-cost Optimus handset to carriers, complete with an alphabet-soup of surnames. So it comes as no surprise that today, via…
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AT&T To Launch 12 New Android Devices In 2011
Last week we discussed AT&T's smartphone strategy in a world where the nation's No. 2 carrier can no longer rely on the iPhone to carry…
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HTC ThunderBolt To Have Simultaneous Voice And Data, Hotspot Capabilities At Launch
Planning to get yourself an HTC ThunderBolt from Verizon Wireless? Good news: a Verizon branded training document, bearing today's date, indicates that the LTE handset will…
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Visa Begins Trialling iPhone NFC Payment Solution In Europe
Visa has begun trials of an iPhone-based mobile payment system in Europe, Computerworld reports. The trials, which started today, require on-device software to be installed…
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Sprint Clarifies, Confirms New Premier Member Prerequisites
Way back on the 20th, we told you that Sprint would be tweaking its customer loyalty rewards program -- lovingly known as Premier. Recently, Sprint contacted…
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Android Dethrones Symbian As No. 1 Smartphone OS, Says Canalys
Canalys today becomes the first major firm to report a changing of the guard we all knew was coming. According to the industry watcher's fourth-quarter…
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New Verizon Wireless Rebate Sheet Reaffirms Policy Change
We reported on Friday that Verizon Wireless would be doing away with mail-in rebates on its high-end devices. Instead the carrier will begin applying instant…
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ZTE Displaces Apple As No. 4 Phone Maker; RIM Bumped From Top 5
Chinese consumer electronics company ZTE exploded from the "other" category in the fourth quarter of 2010 to displace Apple as the No. 4 cell phone…
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Leaked CDMA BlackBerry Roadmap Reveals Curve Touch, Bold Touch, More
Two weeks ago, BGR revealed several upcoming smartphones BlackBerry maker RIM had baking in the oven. Tonight, the CDMA side of the equation has been…
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AT&T Finally Looks To Android As Verizon iPhone 4 Launch Looms
When it comes to high end superphones that make gadget fiends' mouths water, AT&T has been a no-show in recent history. Some argue that the…
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