Samsung It’s clear that Samsung wants its flagshipSamsung Galaxy S IIIto be ubiquitous. In addition to selling it on Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular in the upcoming weeks, the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone will also sell on C Spire Wireless, formerly Cellular South. Today, the regional carrier announced the Galaxy S …

Shock and awe. This is typically Apple’s motto — and mode of operations — for its hardware and software announcements. Don’t give users time to forget your goods; don’t give competitors a chance to catch up. The philosophy has worked wonders for Apple in the past. In announcing iOS 6 months ahead of its “fall” launch, Apple is giving Google …

If you can’t get enough of Sprint and Kyocera’s rugged phones, you’re in luck. This morning, the Kyocera DuraXT goes on sale for $69.99. Another addition to Kyocera’s Sprint Direct Connect family, the DuraXT flip phone has military-grade durability and is water resistant up to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes. The DuraXT has a small 2-inch QVGA screen …

You’ll find a much more in-depth hands-on comparison of Siri versus S Voice here. The Samsung Galaxy S III isn’t quite out yet in the U.S., but already, its Siri-like voice assistant — known as S-Voice — has just been thrown into the deep, dark shadow of Apple’s forthcoming Siri update. In iOS 6, the next-generation of Siri will add …

Now playing: Watch this: Pantech Swift: The purple messenger 1:18 AT&T is trotting out a new QWERTY messaging phone, the Pantech Swift, going on sale today. With its lavender accents, there’s little question of Pantech’s young audience, and the compact phone is appropriately priced at $69.99 with two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate. The QWERTY keyboard, by the …

Huawei promised CNET some 4G LTE action, and with the Huawei Activa 4G, the phone maker is ready to deliver. If you’re thinking this is the smartphone version of a certain yogurt with bifidus regularis, stop, because the Activa (pronounced “ACT-iv-uh”) is in fact Huawei’s first U.S. phone to get 4G, and it’s available starting today at MetroPCS stores. The …

RIM headlines these days speak doom and gloom, but at least some developers see a brighter future. According to the handful of devoted BlackBerry developers I spoke with at today’s BlackBerry Jam 10 world tour event in Santa Clara, Calif., RIM proved at the BlackBerry 10 Jam in Orlando last May that the beleaguered smartphone-maker finally “gets it,” and is …

BlackBerry-maker RIM may be facing continued losses and deep uncertainty as it readies its first BlackBerry OS 10 smartphone, but if nothing else, the company has a sense of humor. And some musical know-how among its ranks. Today’s BlackBerry 10 Jam session for developers kicked off with a music video spoof of Tom Petty’s “The Waiting,” substituting Petty’s original lyrics …

We can’t get the Nokia Lumia 610 on our shores, but our CNET brethren across the pond has plenty to say on the handset we first saw at Mobile World Congress in February. Compact and tautly aimed at a youthful market, the multi-hued Lumia 610 is Europe’s least expensive Windows Phone yet, and as such, is a welcome addition to …

In just a couple of weeks, the U.S. will receive its first Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones. The flagship phones share most of the features of the global version of the device — Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and a huge 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display, to name but two — but the U.S. variant differs on three points: LTE …