Got an old iPhone lying around? For one day only, you can trade that for a free iPhone 5 at Best Buy. Best Buy on Saturday will give customers a $150 trade-in credit for any working iPhone 4 or 4S, making the iPhone 5 free. The only out-of-pocket costs for the customer will be any …

Apple’s iPad has dominated the tablet market since it first launched, but that’s going to change. Apple exited the first quarter of the year with 50 percent share of all tablet shipments, but Android is poised to overtake iOS in tablets, ABI Research said Thursday. The tech research firm didn’t provide a timeline for the shift but said the big …

The tablet market should top all laptop shipments this year and the entire PC market by 2015, according to a report released Tuesday. Related stories: PCs hit by an ugly quarterly drop as Windows 8 flops Acer to launch Win 8 tablets with smaller screens this year CNET’s take on the iPad Mini The best tablets Market researcher IDC estimated …

More customers are satisfied with Apple’s phones than any other handsets, but they’re not as happy as they were last year, a new report said. According to an American Customer Satisfaction Index report issued today, Apple received a score of 81 (on a scale of 100) in terms of customer satisfaction. But the company dropped 2 percent from its 2012 …

Sprint Nextel has acquired Handmark and its unit OneLouder Apps to boost its Pinsight Media+ advertising service, the wireless carrier said Monday. Related stories: Sprint grabs U.S. Cellular spectrum, customers for $480M Clearwire board urges shareholders to OK Sprint offer Dish to sell $2.5B in debt to fund Sprint bid The deal for the mobile app developer and advertising company …

Paul Otellini passed up one of the biggest opportunities in Intel’s history — supplying chips for the first iPhone, the chipmaker’s former CEO said. Otellini “decided against doing what it took” to make the chips for Apple’s smartphone, The Atlantic reported, based on an interview with the newly retired executive. Here’s what he told the publication: We ended up not …

Nothing lasts forever, especially iPhone discounts. T-Mobile on Monday boosted the upfront cost of the iPhone by $50 to $149.99 for the 16GB version, which T-Mobile Financial Chief Braxton Carter said Wednesday was the company’s plan the entire time. However, T-Mobile didn’t say at launch that the lower price was temporary. And the increase — which brings the total cost …

Now playing: Watch this: Google reveals Galaxy S4 running pure Android 1:34 A pure Android Galaxy S4 isn’t likely to drive blowout sales, but it could give Samsung and Google a boost in other ways. Google on Wednesday at its Google I/O developer conference unveiled a special model of Samsung’s flagship smartphone that runs a pure version of Android. What …

Dish Network plans to sell about $2.5 billion in debt to help fund its proposed takeover of Sprint Nextel, the company said Tuesday. The proceeds from the offering will be placed in escrow and will then be released to finance part of the funds needed for the $25.5 billion Sprint acquisition. If the proposed merger falls through or doesn’t take …

Verizon Wireless may be looking at new phone pricing options, but that won’t affect service plan pricing, Verizon’s financial chief said Tuesday. Fran Shammo, speaking at the J.P. Morgan tech conference, said the company has looked at T-Mobile’s new phone and service plan options “a number of times,” but Verizon won’t change the service pricing on its “Share Everything” plans. …