Smartphones

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 is finally starting to look like a mobile operating system that can compete with iOS and Android. Nokia’s colorful and feature-packed Lumia 820 and 920 Windows Phone 8 smartphones only serve to cement that feeling with wireless charging and a PureView camera. But the platform really needs some killer apps to Continue Reading →

Apple’s next-generation smartphone will be called the iPhone 5, according to an inactive link accidentally posted on the company’s own Web site hours before the highly anticipated device is expected to be announced in San Francisco. By searching Apple’s Web site for the term “iPhone 5,” the search results yield a listing to a press Continue Reading →

Like many of Apple’s inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem. By 2005, the iPod had eclipsed the Mac as Apple’s largest source of revenue, but the music player that rescued Apple from the brink now faced a looming threat: The cellphone. Everyone carried a phone, and if phone companies Continue Reading →

By now it’s almost inevitable given the company’s track record: No matter what Apple unveils tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center (an iPad Mini? iPhone 5?), pundits will herald the company for its innovative thinking and bold hardware design. But the elephant in the room will be Apple’s software, which many inside the company believe Continue Reading →

New York News | New York City Breaking News Shelly Palmer chats with Steve Lacy and Heather Nauert on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up and previews the iPhone 5. Continue Reading →

There’s been so much rumor-hawking and speculation the past few weeks that whether you’re ready or not, we’re squarely in the middle of iPhone season. So here’s a quick rundown of everything we think we know about Apple’s next iPhone. We think we have a pretty good idea of what the new iPhone will look Continue Reading →

We now know why Noki didn’t announce any release dates for its first Windows Phone 8 devices: Because Microsoft still doesn’t know exactly when Windows Phone 8 will be ready. The Verge reports that while Microsoft had wanted to release Windows Phone 8 ahead of its Windows 8 operating system this October, the company has Continue Reading →

With a little more than a day before the iPhone 5’s expected debut, Samsung has decided to sue Apple for patent infringement over its reported use of long-term evolution (LTE) connectivity in the next-generation smartphones. Expected to be unveiled at a press event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the iPhone 5 will reportedly feature the Continue Reading →

Apple will announce its redesigned iPhone tomorrow. Ahead of that huge launch, Amazon has knocked down the price of the 16GB Galaxy S III to just $100 with a contract in an apparent attempt to unload as many of the phones as possible before everybody forgets about it. But don’t let the sheen of a Continue Reading →

Finally. A bit of closure. AT&T has confirmed the long-lived speculation of its policy to unlock in-contract iPhones for our military men and women deployed overseas. To qualify for the complimentary service, active military members must have an account in good standing and provide the carrier with deployment verification — that’s it, no other hoops Continue Reading →