Mobile & Wireless

Rumors of an Amazon smartphone have circulated for well over a year now, but a new report out on Tuesday says that the retail giant will use HTC to help it make its upcoming devices. Three different smartphones are said to be in development, according to The Financial Times article, but one of the HTC-made Continue Reading →

BlackBerry on Monday sought to reassure its restive customers and partners that it was financially stable and “here to stay,” even though it announced massive layoffs and sources say it is in talks to sell all or part of the company. In an open letter published in 30 news outlets across nine countries, the Waterloo, Continue Reading →

Only 27 percent of store purchases were made with cash in 2011, a number that’s projected to continue declining in the future, according to the Huffington Post. Credit card transactions accounted for 66 percent of in-store purchases. It looks like plastic might soon be following cash out of store doors, however, due to the digital Continue Reading →

While AT&T’s Mobile Share plans were introduced more than a year ago, the company continued to offer more traditional individual plans — users could pick from a few buckets of minutes, opt-in for unlimited texts or not, and pick from different data bucket sizes. However, the carrier is now following in Verizon’s footsteps and eliminating Continue Reading →

Google already knows better than most how we use the internet. Now it wants to dig a little deeper and monitor your app usage as well. Engadget has learned that the company is readying a new mobile service that compensates users if they allow their mobile behavior to be monitored. We’re told that the project, Continue Reading →

Apple has offered online trade-ins for the last few years, and now it’s bringing its in-store version across the pond to the UK. The fruity phone flinger is letting customers wander into one of the company’s retail outlets, drop off their elderly hardware and walk out with credit for a replacement. Apple released the following Continue Reading →

Microsoft announced its third update for the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system on Monday, adding support for a more powerful processor and larger handsets with 1080p displays. The platform will now support “jumbo-sized” Start screens and show up to six Live Tiles on each row, rather than the four that’s currently available. Microsoft also Continue Reading →

The bigger the phone, the harder it is to hide. After a slew of detailed leaks, HTC is finally ready to announce the HTC One Max: an enlarged version of the original One that boosts the size of the 1080p LCD panel up to 5.9 inches while attempting to keep the One’s classy aluminum look Continue Reading →

Apple’s latest iPhone 5S has an unexpected feature: the Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD). While it’s typically an error found on older Windows PCs, a number of iPhone 5S users are reporting random reboots on their handsets following a BSOD. The blue screen reboots appear to be iPhone 5S specific and are largely occurring with Continue Reading →

With Google’s stock of the Nexus 4 now officially depleted, the company’s next flagship Android phone should be arriving within a matter of weeks — perhaps just days. We’ve already seen the so-called Nexus 5 in various FCC filings, leaked photos, and on Google’s own Mountain View campus. And while we’ve got a fairly good Continue Reading →