LG announced the successor to its Cosmos messaging phone today with the LG Cosmos 2 for Verizon Wireless. Like the original Cosmos, the Cosmos 2 has an external number keypad plus a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Features are relatively basic, and include access to the mobile Web, Verizon’s new Mobile Email app, a document viewer, a …

Motorola came out guns a-blazing at this year’s CES, with three blockbuster devices: the Motorola Atrix 4G, the Motorola Xoom, and the Motorola Droid Bionic. The Atrix 4G wowed us with its laptop dock and powerful features, and the Xoom handily won CNET’s Best of CES award as the first Android Honeycomb tablet. The Droid Bionic was also a huge …

Amazon Wireless, Amazon’s cell phone and wireless store, has announced a $15 Digital Bonus offer for customers who buy new Android phones from July 11 until October 11, 2011. The $15 credit will be in the form of $5 credits each for the Amazon Appstore for Android, the Amazon MP3 store, and the Kindle Store. You’ll have until November 12, …

Pantech and AT&T just announced the Pantech Pursuit II, a successor to the Pantech Pursuit messaging phone that launched a year ago. It has a similar rounded design to its predecessor, plus what looks to be a similar 2.8-inch QVGA touch-screen display. However, it has a vertical sliding keyboard instead of a horizontal one. Other features of this BREW phone …

From the VX9800 to the Genesis: A LG retrospective +4 more See all photos LG has made many phones throughout the years, but few of them have been as popular as its LG EnV series of feature phones. From the VX9800 all the way to the EnV Touch, these dual-screen flip messaging phones have long been best sellers due to …

Welcome to the 411, my column answering all your questions about cell phones and cell phone accessories. I receive plenty of questions about these subjects via e-mail, so I figured many of you might have similar queries, too. At times, I might solicit answers from readers if I’m stumped. Send your questions and comments to me at [email protected]. If you …

The Samsung Nexus S 4G arrived to plenty of fanfare last month, as Google’s flagship Nexus phone was finally blessed with 4G in the form of Sprint’s WiMax network. Unfortunately, we’ve heard plenty of reports that the 4G radio on the Nexus S 4G is either defective or just not up to snuff compared with other Sprint 4G devices. We …

More than two months later, and AT&T has finally allowed the BlackBerry Bridge software to be downloaded from BlackBerry App World, according to AllthingsD. Previously, AT&T customers were the only ones who weren’t able to download the Bridge application, which tethers the PlayBook to their BlackBerrys. This is the only way PlayBook owners could get secure access to BlackBerry e-mail …

Two years ago, Nokia stopped supplying phones to Japanese carriers, leaving only its high-end Vertu handsets behind in Tokyo’s Shibuya and Ginza locations. Now, Nokia will shut down those as well by the end of July. Vertu is Nokia’s high-end brand, with phones that cost thousands of dollars each. The handsets are also typically lacking in features, with the emphasis …

Sprint’s Q3 road map has reportedly been leaked, and This is My Next has the scoop of several phones that should raise your eyebrows. First is the Samsung Epic 2, which we suspect is a successor to the Samsung Epic 4G. It will have a slightly faster 1.2GHz single-core Hummingbird processor and an 8-megapixel camera (an improvement over the Epic …