Sprint today is shouting its unlimited iPhone 4S data plan from the rooftops, hoping to attract Verizon customers who are hopping mad at losing their unlimited data. Starting today, you can trade in your current non-Sprint iPhone for the carrier’s own model, and get at least $100 off when you sign a new two-year contract. …

AT&T is making quite the name for itself as America’s top Windows Phone promoter. However, with so many Windows phones out there, it’s getting harder to tell which one you should get. Related stories Nokia Lumia 900 review HTC Titan II review Nokia Lumia 900 vs. HTC Titan II: Which Windows Phone to buy Fear not, friends. Brian Tong straps …

NEW ORLEANS–We didn’t come to CTIA expecting a flood of new handsets as in years past, but what we did see imparted a taste of things to come for carriers, phone makers, and the wireless industry as whole. Big guns The big guns were few. HTC was the most prolific, with the Droid Incredible 4G LTE as its top new …

NEW ORLEANS–Cricket subscribers have spoken — they want more premium phones — and now the prepaid carrier is ready to deliver. Cricket customers are beginning to care much more about technical specifications like larger screens, faster processors, and better cameras. Significant sales of the Huawei Mercury, which leaped to an more than10 percent adoption rate in the course of two …

NEW ORLEANS–You know all that typing on your phone’s virtual keyboard? Snapkeys says that so long as you’re using a QWERTY layout, you’re doing it wrong. The company believes that there’s little logic to the traditional way a keyboard’s arranged, and instead offers up an onscreen virtual keyboard that uses only four buttons. The buttons are organized by letter types: …

NEW ORLEANS–Seeing the Samsung Galaxy S III at CTIA was exactly what I had hoped for leading up to the show. Samsung’s next global flagship phone packs a wallop of new software features, especially in the camera department. While there wasn’t enough time at the busy conference to inspect everything, I did return for some quality time with the 8-megapixel …

Now playing: Watch this: Huawei Ascend Y200 starter smartphone 1:01 NEW ORLEANS–Huawei issued forth no formal product announcement at CTIA 2012, but I did find this new Android smartphone quietly sitting at Huawei’s booth. The Ascend Y200 is part of Huawei’s latest strategy in naming families of phones. The “Y” stands for youth, which also typifies mass market, entry-level phones …

NEW ORLEANS–Moshi is taking Apple’s magnetic iPad case a step further, with origami. The hard plastic Moshi iGlaze with Versacover case totally surrounds the iPad, combining both a protective screen that helps minimizes glare (but not as much as the separate iVisor product) with a back panel that wears a microfiber flap like a blanket. Related stories Apple reportedly working …

Verizon today announced that the Motorola Droid Razr Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone will be available in select Verizon stores with a blue finish. If you don’t see it in a store near you, just wait until May 17 to see it in all Verizon retailers and online at Verizon.com. While we haven’t seen the blue phone in the real world, …

NEW ORLEANS–Theoretical speeds are one thing, but the majority of smartphone owners will agree that real-life data speeds are what count. Comprehensively charting each carriers’ data network is the subject of RootMetric’s quarterly report. So far, the company scouts have systematically combed 42 urban and suburban markets to compare 3G and 4G data speeds. More stories Should You Upgrade to …