CrackBerry recently released a few leaked photos of what looks like a BlackBerry Curve Touch. Indeed, it’s quite Storm-like in appearance, with no keyboard in sight. According to the specs, the CDMA version will have an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor, a 3.25-inch HVGA screen, a 5-megapixel camera with HD video, 1GB storage with microSD slot, …

RIM BlackBerry Bold 9650 (Verizon Wireless) CNET If you’re a Verizon customer, you can now finally upgrade the BlackBerry 9650 Bold and the BlackBerry Curve 3G to the latest BlackBerry 6 operating system. The update will be available today by 5 p.m. PT, and you can either update over the air or via the BlackBerry Desktop Manager on your PC. …

As anyone who has bought one can tell you, the cost of a smartphone is more than just the initial price of the device. You also have monthly payments to deal with, for voice minutes, text messages, and of course, data. You can choose to either be frugal if you can squeak on by with the bare minimum or you …

Hot on the heels of its recent $10 increase for smartphone data plans, Sprint has announced another change, this time to its Premier loyalty program. The Premier program is eligible to any customer who’s been around for at least 10 years or who pays at least $69.99 a month for an individual plan and at least $99.99 a month for …

Now playing: Watch this: Jawbone Era 2:19 (Edit: We’ve been informed that the company now goes by Jawbone instead of Aliph, so we’ve edited the blog post to reflect that). Jawbone has just announced the Jawbone Era, the first ever Bluetooth headset to have a built-in accelerometer. Combined with multi-processor technology, serial flash, and a larger dynamic wideband speaker, the …

Alltel has just announced the LG Axis, the carrier’s version of the LG Ally that was previously released on Verizon Wireless. Like the Ally, it has a 3.2-inch touch-screen display in addition to a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It unfortunately ships with Android 2.1, which is a little behind current firmware. Features include a 3.2-megapixel camera and of course the usual …

Sure, Verizon customers can now order an Apple iPhone, and they even get the perk of preordering it a week before everyone else. But Verizon will also end its “New Every Two” program on January 16–the program offered a $30 to $100 credit on a new phone every two years–so existing customers won’t be able to get their new smartphones …

When iOS 4.2 changed the functionality of the iPad side switch from a rotation lock to a mute toggle, many iPad owners were displeased. Instead of flicking a simple switch, they had to swipe the screen to the right and then select the screen orientation lock on the screen. This is the same method as used on current iPhones and …

As you might expect, the Verizon iPhone 4 made its debut on the FCC listings today. It looks very much like the AT&T iPhone 4, of course, except it has the CDMA/EV-DO Rev. A specifications instead of GSM. The FCC report also says that it has a 1.18 W/kg SAR, which is just a smidge higher than the 1.17 W/kg …

One of the unsung accessories at this year’s CES might be the Iomega SuperHero, a device that lets you charge and back up your iPhone with an SD card. It looks like a simple docking station, but on the back is an SD card slot that you can use to back up your contacts and photos. As the capacity is …