We knew that Samsung had something up its sleeve for IFA later this week in Berlin, but the company has let the news slip a little early in a press release issued today. As expected, we’ll not only get a version of the Galaxy S II, but also we’ll see the return of the Galaxy Tab 8.9. The Galaxy S …

Verizon Wireless is once again the most reliable carrier throughout the U.S., according to a study out yesterday from J.D. Power and Associates. Based on a customer survey, J.D. Power’s “U.S. 2011 Wireless Network Quality Performance Study–Volume 2” ranked Verizon as the top carrier in the Northeast for the 14th time in a row. Compared with other carriers, Verizon saw …

There’s a curious line of thinking going around that suggests that if Sprint lands the next iPhone as rumored, the handset would undercut the carrier’s push to stop the proposed AT&T and T-Mobile merger. As Frost & Sullivan analyst Brent Iadarola puts it in a recent CNN Money post, the win of an iPhone would “weaken Sprint’s core argument that …