If you’re thinking of picking up a simple cell phone for yourself or someone else, the relatively new AT&T F160 can be yours for free with a two-year service agreement. The ZTE-made F160 (it sounds like a Ford truck, doesn’t it?) has some nice midrange features. It’s a 3G world phone with Bluetooth 2.0. There’s …

Flash video on an iPad browser? You betcha. Skyfire has spent months creating browsers for iPhone and iPad that play back Flash video on the notoriously Flash-blocking devices. Skyfire for iPad is now available in the App Store for $4.99. The app follows the same path as its iPhone cousin in being able to play Flash video. The company uses …

Today Opera Software announced that it’s laying the groundwork to get its widgets platform onto its Android browsers. In lieu of extensions as employed by Mozilla Firefox, Opera uses widgets, small applications that run within the browser to perform tasks like showing the weather or a calculator. From the development perspective, Opera’s release of a widget runtime lets developers start …

Dexim Back in November, I pitted iPhone 4 charging cases from Dexim and Mophie against one another. They both held one extra phone charge, but because it was lighter and much better designed, Mophie’s Juice Pack Air for iPhone 4 was the clear winner. A new entrant from each blurs the lines. In this rematch, the Dexim DCA224 Super-Juiced Power …

The ZTE-manufactured AT&T R225, is a prepaid, entry-level Go Phone. Design, price, and call quality are the handset’s biggest strengths. To that end, this isn’t a bad phone for making calls. However, its feature set tends toward the anorexic. Mobile e-mail and IM are surprise options, but ZTE has overlooked basics like Bluetooth and a volume rocker, two important fundamentals …

When you paint it by numbers, Microsoft did most everything right to launch Windows Phone 7. They created a bold, fresh design, which they previewed to get press excited and involved. Then there was the big, teased kickoff event in New York presided over by CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft even shelled out the appropriate bundle for for clever, engaging ads, …

U.S. Cellular’s Samsung Profile is an eerily familiar messaging phone. Although it’s purpose-built for texting, it’s quite basic when it comes to other communications. However, if phone calls and text messages are your primary interest, the Profile is a good fit. There is an e-mail app you can download and a service you can opt into, however. Call quality on …

The fifth-largest U.S. carrier may never have had much in the way of 3G networks, but MetroPCS is continuing to close the gap by expanding its 4G LTE markets to major U.S. cities. Today, New York, Boston, and Sacramento, Calif., join the roster. For now, that gives Samsung the edge among U.S. customers, since the Samsung Craft is currently MetroPCS’ …

Fring, Apple FaceTime, and the Evo’s Qik app for Android may have shone a light on mobile video chatting, but OoVoo is making good on an almost year-old promise by rolling out a new free app today that one-ups them all. Two things set the cross-platform service apart. First, in addition to two-way video chatting like Fring and Qik, it …

It may have taken Google a year and a half to get Google Voice in the iPhone’s App Store, but it’s taken only one month longer for Google Voice to complete the expansion to Apple’s other two iOS devices: the iPod Touch and iPad. Starting today, a Google Voice app update compatible with the iPad and iPod Touch (iOS 3.1 …