Motorola Mobility today announced a pair of Gingerbread Android smartphones that will arrive in Greater China, Europe, and Latin America in the coming weeks. First up is the MotoLuxe, a touch-only smartphone with a 4.0-inch (480×854-pixel) display, an 800MHz processor, a 512MB RAM, and 1GB ROM. Though certainly not the top-of-the-line stuff that we’ve seen …

Sprint Nextel is looking to get its 4G LTE rolled out sooner, rather than later. Dan Hesse at Sprint headquarters in July Kent German/CNET Sprint plans to launch its 4G LTE service, part of its Network Vision upgrade plan, in 10 markets by the first half of the year. That includes major cities including Dallas (AT&T’s headquarters), San Antonio, Houston, …

CES, shmee-ee-es. Why wait for the country’s largest consumer electronics show to announce new products and services when you can break the news yourself over Twitter? That must have been the logic behind U.S. Cellular’s tweet this afternoon promising a 4G LTE smartphone and tablet by March and April, respectively. Although the nation’s sixth-largest carrier hasn’t shared much more about …

Verizon may have been the first to roll out a blazing 4G cellular network using LTE technology but AT&T is hot on Big Red’s heels. Today the carrier announced it now has expanded its own LTE service to 11 new markets now covering New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. This brings the total number of regions under the carrier’s …

Hello readers! Josh Miller I’m Lynn, and I am the new associate editor for phone reviews at CNET. I’m so thankful to be able to write and report for you guys about all things mobile. The people at CNET run a great operation, and I’m excited to be working for a site whose readers are a passionate bunch. I’ve been …

Earlier today, AT&T officially turned on its 4G LTE network in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and eight other cities. The move comes almost a month after LTE was first spotted on compatible smartphones in San Francisco and elsewhere, before AT&T had begun supporting it in full. Trials like that are not unusual for carriers. To quickly test the …

Just when I thought the white smartphone craze had died down, Samsung says it plans to bring a pearly version of the Galaxy S II to Sprint for $199 on January 8. Of course I should have known that milky-hued handsets are here to stay. First popularized by Apple’s iPhone and then adopted by its Android competition, many of this …

MetroPCS and Leap Wireless’ growth in the fourth quarter could be summed up with one word: meh. Both prepaid wireless providers offered up an early look at their customer growth and the results were mixed. Leap Wireless, which sells service under its Cricket Wireless subsidiary, released its figures yesterday and narrowly beat expectations. MetroPCS reported its customer growth today, which …

It’s earning eco cred with its lower-impact packaging and build, but tree huggers aren’t the only ones who will eye the Samsung Replenish for Boost Mobile. Budget-followers will also gravitate toward Boost’s first smartphone priced at about a hundred bucks, a rock-bottom cost for a market where prepaid smartphones typically cost between $200 and $300. The Android 2.3 Gingerbread device …

Everybody knows a text message saying ‘I’m on my way’ means ‘Bargain hunt finishes in 5 minutes and then I’ll jump in the shower. See you in an hour, maybe?’ And new research bears this out, suggesting we’re more likely to lie in a text than when talking on the phone or face-to-face — while video chat is most likely …

Every once in a while, a carrier and manufacturer will pause the parade of superphones to nod to their humble roots. Today, Samsung and Sprint introduce the modest Samsung M370 flip phone. The pewter gray handset has a clamshell design, a 2.4-inch internal display, and a 1.3-megapixel camera. There’s also Web browsing, Bluetooth support, and speakerphone support. Beginning on Sunday, …

Hello hello. Mobile mobile news news. Why are we saying everything twice twice? Because the Samsung Galaxy Y Duos and Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos are Samsung’s first dual-SIM Android smart phones dual-SIM Android smart phones. The Duos phones get their two-faced name because they each hold not one but two SIM cards. Two SIM cards?! Has the world gone …

Now that we have ushered in 2012, the hot topic for the next couple months will be rumored specs and release dates for Apple’s iPad 3. The latest rumor comes from editor in chief at iLounge, Jeremy Horwitz, who claims that the iPad 3 will get a high-definition, front-facing FaceTime camera. Apple Horwitz’s rumored spec for the front-facing HD camera, …

Electronics manufacturers Samsung and HTC have been name checked in a US analyst’s report suggesting that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) could soon license its BlackBerry operating system to interested third-party hardware companies. A Samsung tab running BlackBerry 10 OS may already be on the drawing board. (Credit: Samsung/CBSi) Boy Genius Report is crediting industry analyst Peter Misek with …

0.6 per cent of Android devices are running Ice Cream Sandwich, while the older version 2.3 Gingerbread now owns 55 per cent of the Android pie. Is that good news for the latest version of Android, or not? Let’s take a look. The figures come from the Android developer site, which collects data by monitoring Android devices that access the …