Though new phones rightfully get all the attention at CTIA, the accessories section of the show floor is well worth your attention. There you will find cases and phones purses of all sorts, plastic jewelry that flashes when you get a call, and other obscure products that you never knew existed. Much of it is …

Now playing: Watch this: Kyocera Zio M6000 1:51 LAS VEGAS–Over the last few years, Kyocera has been a reliable presence at CTIA. It’s had one of the best-looking booths on the show floor, it’s always introduced phones, and those new handsets have stuck to the basics. This year, however, Kyocera partly broke with tradition. It still had a spiffy booth, …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S 2:33 LAS VEGAS–Samsung and Sprint continue to jostle for the spotlight on the second day of CTIA 2010. Sprint and HTC deserve a lot of attention for launching the Evo 4G, but Samsung is holding its own with its new Galaxy S. Though we still don’t know details regarding U.S. availability, the handset’s …

LAS VEGAS–MetroPCS leaped ahead two of its larger rivals today when it announced that it would introduce 4G LTE networks in the second half of this year. The network, which will come first to Las Vegas, will run on a Samsung-powered infrastructure. Sammy also will provide Metro PCS’s first LTE phone, the SCH-r900. Samsung didn’t reveal any details about the …

Samsung Strive and Sunburst hands-on photos +7 more See all photos LAS VEGAS–Samsung released the Strive and Sunburst phones a week before CTIA, but the show provided us our first opportunity to examine them closely. The two AT&T handsets are focused on messaging and offer fairly standard designs. They also support AT&T’s new cloud-based services like AT&T Address Book and …

Every year at CTIA, the show’s organizers hold an Emerging Tech Awards contest to pick the best products at the show. Samsung entered its previously announced Strive and Sunburst phones in the contest, but then it threw the SCH-U820 into the ring. When we arrived in Las Vegas, the SCH-U820 was nowhere to be found, and Samsung representatives declined to …

LAS VEGAS–To no one’s surprise, Sprint kicked off CTIA 2010 here by announcing its first 4G phone. The HTC Evo 4G is not only the carrier’s first WiMax cell phone–previously the carrier only has offered 4G laptop cards and the Samsung Mondi–but also the first commercially available 4G handset with a major U.S. carrier. The Evo runs Google Android OS …

LAS VEGAS–Kyocera today made good on its promise to launch an Android smartphone in 2010. The Zio M6000 is the company’s first handset with the Google Android operating system and is the first U.S. smartphone we’ve seen at CTIA since i first attended the show in 2004. Running on Android OS 1.6, the Zio offers a candy bar design with …

Sprint launched an alternative to the Samsung Reclaim today when it unveiled another “green phone” called the LG Remarq. The slider handset is made from 19 percent recycled plastic, it’s composed of no hazardous materials, and 87 percent of its parts are recyclable after use. Its box also is made from recycled paper and can in turn be recycled. It …

Nextel landed its first Google Android phone today with the Motorola i1. In true Nextel style, the i1 protects its touch-screen design with a rugged shell that meets military specifications for dust, shock, vibration, temperature extremes, blowing rain, solar radiation, humidity, and salt fog. Judging from photo it doesn’t look like the prettiest Android device around, but it should withstand …