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Virgin Mobile may be next up for pay-as-you-go iPhone parade on July 1st
It might be that Cricket’s iPhone deal is just the tip of the prepaid iceberg: insiders reportedly say that Sprint’s pay-as-you-go brand Virgin Mobile will be taking the Apple plunge as well. Details...
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Nokia Maps for Windows Phone makeover brings friends’ photos and reviews,...
Nokia Maps is a cornerstone of the Lumia line, so it’s more than a little vital that the Windows Phone app keep up with the smartphone pack. The just-posted 2.0 update catches up in a big way to...
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Facebook lets advertisers easily buy mobile-only ads, our news feeds feel...
Facebook’s fistfuls of cash come almost exclusively from advertising, but virtually none of it comes from mobile. Much to its delight and our chagrin, that’s changing. Prospective advertisers now only...
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Apple hits HTC with third ITC dispute, One series goes under the gun
Apple chief Tim Cook might have said that he doesn’t like lawsuits, but he must have left a loophole open for International Trade Commission disputes. His company quietly filed a third challenge...
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Google Maps, Earth take on full 3D imagery
Google is keeping the string of Maps launches going — it’s just rolling out very, very detailed 3D maps for technology like Google Earth, using a “new process” to get extra depth. In some areas, such...
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Clamcase’s Clambook gives Android phones and iPhones a laptop shell, feels...
The idea of creating a full-fledged laptop companion to a smartphone isn’t new — just ask the former Palm team — but rarely has it come across as so pretty. Clamcase’s upcoming Clambook, while it has...
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Samsung becomes a Platinum-level Linux Foundation member, open-source gets a...
Samsung’s business virtually revolves around open-source code and Linux, both through obvious software like Android and Tizen as well as behind-the-scenes code for TVs and even home appliances. It...
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Wahoo Fitness BlueSC bike sensor ships for iPhone, fixie owners rejoice
Summer cycling is about to get a lot more… precise. The Wahoo Fitness BlueSC sensor we saw back in April is now shipping, giving iPhone 4S and new iPad owners a Bluetooth 4.0 tracker for a bike’s...
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Apple calls for an early ban on Samsung Galaxy S III, isn’t amused by S Voice
Samsung might have been right when it said lawyers didn’t design the Galaxy S III, because it’s in legal hot water again. Apple has moved to add the new Android 4.0 flagship to the same request for a...
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Sprint pulls iDEN handsets from retail, continues to sunset legacy Nextel...
With only one year to go before iDEN bites the big one, Sprint’s making sure subscribers steer clear of devices that run on the legacy service. The aging tech, famous for its walkie talkie-like...
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HTC One V reaching Telus on June 8th, completes Canadian trifecta
HTC’s One V is invading Canada en masse, having just slipped into Bell and Koodo stores in the past few days. Internal documents slipped out to MobileSyrup would have Telus completing an unintentional...
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Rumored next-generation iPhone casing gets handled, compared to predecessor...
That purported new iPhone backing has decided to show off its taller, slimmer, self again — this time in a full 360-degree video from parts reseller, ETradeSupply. It doesn’t reveal much more than...
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Foursquare 5.0 hands-on
Foursquare just posted its promised mobile app overhaul this morning, and it’s a doozy: virtually everything in 5.0 has been given a fresh look or, in some cases, a complete rethink. The changes are,...
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Facebook App Center for mobile leaks out on iOS, uses peer pressure to clinch...
While Facebook said it would deliver a version of its App Center store for mobile, it was shy on how that would work. An early iOS tester (since confirmed by TechCrunch) apparently didn’t want to wait...
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FTC tells ITC that bans over standards-based patents aren’t kosher, looks...
Most of the scrutiny over abuse of standards-based patents has come through European Union investigations of Motorola and Samsung. That attention might come to the US if the Federal Trade Commission...
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T-Mobile 1,900MHz 3G lights up Moscone West in time for WWDC, carrier swears...
T-Mobile may be planning to deploy 1,900MHz HSPA+ across the whole of its network, but it sure has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. The carrier has confirmed that it just...
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IDC: Nokia moved just 2.2 million Lumias this winter, but stay tuned
Although we know that Nokia had a wince-inducing first quarter, the company was hush hush on how many of its Windows Phone-packing Lumias had shipped out. We still don’t have official word, but IDC...
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Huawei Activa 4G gets your 4G LTE fix on MetroPCS for $149 contract-free
MetroPCS is known for offering 4G LTE smartphones on the cheap, but it’s going for a record today. The Activa 4G isn’t just Huawei’s first LTE smartphone in the US, it’s temporarily the least...
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Samsung Galaxy S III on SK Telecom mixes 2GB of RAM and quad-core, importers...
There’s a Galaxy S III with a quad-core chip, and there’s a Galaxy S III with 2GB of RAM. Never the twain shall meet? They reportedly will at SK Telecom: a comparison sheet leaked to Phone Arena has...
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Purported Motorola Dinara press shot slips out, carries a whiff of Atrix 3
We’re taking this with a big block of salt, but we may have just had our first real peek at the Motorola Dinara’s American form. A claimed press shot has the possibly Snapdragon S4-powered Android 4.0...
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