BlackBerry will put its flagship BlackBerry Z10 smartphone on sale on March 22 through AT&T, according to Bloomberg. That will be the first day that the Z10 hits the U.S. market, Bloomberg reported, citing two unnamed sources. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How to Clean …

Nokia still has to pay Microsoft 500 million euros ($650 million) as part of its agreement to use the Windows Phone operating system. That’s the amount that Nokia will have to pay over the life of their agreement after taking into account the “platform support payments” that Microsoft pays to aid in the development of Windows Phone products. The length …

Things continue to look grim for HTC. The handset maker reported that its sales in February fell 44 percent to 11.3 billion New Taiwan dollars (US$380.4 million) from a year ago, the lowest level in three years. On a month-over-month basis, sales had fallen 27 percent. Related stories Best VR Headsets of 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. Here’s How …

The gloves are coming off at AT&T and T-Mobile. T-Mobile is running three ads in the nation’s largest newspapers directly attacking AT&T for taking “cheap shots” at it. AT&T last week ran an ad titled “The truth about T-Mobile’s network” that claimed the superiority of AT&T’s own coverage and network speed over those of T-Mobile. T-Mobile, in turn, took AT&T’s …

There’s one complaint that often crops up with the Galaxy S III: it feels “plastic-y.” At a time when competitors are using glass, aluminum, and even higher quality plastics such as polycarbonate, Samsung has stuck to its guns with a thin, bendable plastic body. Which is why the Galaxy S4 won’t stray too far from that design philosophy. Related stories …

Verizon and Vodafone want to square away their long-standing relationship — tied together by Verizon Wireless — this year, according a report from Bloomberg. Verizon Wireless, which is jointly owned by Verizon and Vodafone, has long been a source of questions over when the two telco giants would resolve the arrangement. Verizon has for years sought to buy out Vodafone’s …

Unfortunately, AT&T’s iPhone 5 is only LTE at AT&T. CNET BARCELONA, Spain–Here’s the good news: the U.S. wireless industry is working to ensure that you’ll eventually be able to take your LTE-enabled phone from one carrier to another and get the same experience. The bad news: it likely won’t happen for a few years. That’s according to T-Mobile Chief Technology …

BARCELONA, Spain–Gone is the giant Android figures, the twisty slide, colorful pins, and free ice cream sandwiches. Gone is the massive, head-turning booth that clearly established Google as a major player at Mobile World Congress. In its place is a small meeting room with a blank glass placard on the outside. A white curtain provides privacy for the briefings inside. …

BARCELONA, Spain–Google considers its own Motorola Mobility unit the same as HTC or Samsung Electronics when it comes to their relationship. “It’s almost as if they are a separate company,” said Hiroshi Lockheimer, vice president of engineering for Android at Google, adding that there is a wall between the Nexus business and Motorola. Still, in answering a question about whether …

BARCELONA, Spain–After a rocky start, Samsung Electronics is finally seeing the light when it comes to the tablet business. The Korean consumer electronics giant, already the world’s largest handset manufacturer, plans to double its tablet sales from a year ago, according to Y.H. Lee, executive vice president of the company’s mobile unit. That would peg its sales to about 40 …