Starting this Thursday, anyone looking for a truly unlimited smartphone data plan from a national wireless carrier will have just a single option: Sprint. That’s because Verizon Wireless—for now, the only other big U.S. carrier besides Sprint with an unlimited...
If you were looking for a reason to pick the iPad as your tablet of choice rather than, say, an Android-powered tablet or the new HP TouchPad, here’s a number to consider: 100,000. That’s the number of iPad apps currently available for download, as duly...
At last, the Android version of Skype’s smartphone app adds video calling to its list of chat features. That’s the good news; the bad news is that Skype video chat only works on four specific Android phones. Skype for Android 2.0 is available now in the...
The first reviews of HP’s iPad competitor, the TouchPad (starting at $499 for the 16 GB version, on sale July 1), are just hitting the web, and they’re profoundly mixed. On the one hand, reviewers seem enamored of the TouchPad’s WebOS software, which...
A little over a week after President Obama tapped out his first-ever tweet, Twitter snared yet another global dignitary: none other than the Pope himself. Using Twitter for iPad and an iPad 2, Pope Benedict XVI sent out the follow tweet on Tuesday: Dear Friends, I...
Yep, the rumors were true. Smartphone maker HTC just announced that the Status, a new Android-powered handset with a full QWERTY keypad and its own, dedicated Facebook button, is set to arrive on AT&T later this summer. Details on a price tag and exact release...
Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of in-flight Wi-Fi, namely because I miss having a few peaceful hours in the air when I could be totally unreachable. But there’s no fighting progress, especially when it comes to wireless, and now there’s a new...
Google made a big splash Tuesday with its unveiling of Google+, a new (and long-rumored) social network intended to help small groups of friends share and congregate online. Sounds a little like Facebook, right? That’s surely the idea. Google+ isn’t quite...
So, which wireless carrier has the speediest data network in the U.S.? Simple question, but surprisingly tough to answer, with PC Magazine sending a half-dozen smartphone-toting road warriors across the country to get the scoop. The big winner? Verizon Wireless and...
The best camera in any smartphone? That’s a bold statement, but T-Mobile seems pretty confident with its upcoming myTouch 4G Slide, an Android-powered smartphone with an 8-megapixel camera, a dual-LED flash, a “backside-illuminated” sensor (which...
