For Android devotees, Mozilla’s issuance of Firefox for Android has been a long wait. Sure, the browser maker added it to the Android Market in beta form months ago and made the release candidate (RC) available last week. However, today marks the first that the app is available in full, unfettered by qualifications that mark …

If the AT&T-T-Mobile merger gains approval, that de facto bumps MetroPCS, the nation’s fifth largest carrier (8 million subscribers), into the No. 4 slot that T-Mobile currently holds (33 million subscribers). I sat down at CTIA 2011 with Tony Lau, director of handset product management for MetroPCS to chat about the carrier’s plans going forward. LTE Android phones are top …

Sights from CTIA 2011 (photos) +10 more See all photos After a hectic fall CTIA show, CES, and Mobile World Congress, we assumed that the spring CTIA show would be a quieter affair. It might have been, too, were it not for AT&T’s bombshell, dropped two days before the show kicked off. News of the proposed merger was followed on …

Now playing: Watch this: Set up Google Voice for Sprint 3:24 ORLANDO, Fla.–Sprint and Google on Monday announced a partnership that turns your Sprint number into a Google Voice number and gives you access to visual voicemail and call forwarding to multiple devices. Yet it wasn’t until yesterday that the two stood together here to discuss the merits of the …

The long wait is at last over for U.S. Cellular customers who have been wondering when they’ll see OS updates to their Samsung Mesmerize and BlackBerry Curve 9330 and Bold 9650 phones. That’s right, the carrier began rolling out Android 2.2 Froyo to the Mesmerize and Blackberry OS 6 to the Bold and Curve. As a refresher, Froyo includes speed …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy Indulge for Cricket Wireless 1:07 There we were at a CTIA press event, when we saw a familiar phone winking up at us. That’s right, folks. Samsung’s Galaxy Indulge is coming to Cricket Wireless. Although the Indulge is the same handset we first saw when it debuted with MetroPCS earlier this year, there will …

Sprint announced that it would be the first U.S. carrier to get the HTC Evo View, the U.S. version of the 7-inch tablet we saw at Mobile World Congress last month under the name of HTC Flyer. HTC Evo View tablet (photos) +2 more See all photos The Evo View is almost exactly like the Flyer, except that it’s 4G-capable, …

Now playing: Watch this: Huawei Ascend 2 1:13 The Huawei Ascend 2 (left) receives some noticeable upgrades. Jessica Dolcourt/CNET Huawei quietly introduced a sequel to its Android-powered Huawei Ascend, the Huawei Ascend 2 for Cricket. The Ascend 2 updates its progenitor in almost every way. It’s sleeker, slimmer, and lighter in the hand. Gone is the trackball, and the hardware …

Firefox for Mobile (download) is just one step away from its first Android release, as Mozilla announced the browser’s release candidate today.  Pending final testing, the mobile version of the popular Firefox browser will soon be available in full force on Android smartphones (the release candidate will be available beginning today in the Android Market). Firefox 4 will also work …

Opera announced last week that it would launch two new mobile browsers at CTIA—Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mini 6–but when it came to new and enhanced features, it mostly kept quiet. We were lucky enough to get our hands on a preview build before the show, and can share a lot more about what’s in store for Opera on …