It seems that Google will directly challenge Apple’s tablet supremacy, a ploy that has failed a litany of other worthy hardware makers. Google chairman Eric Schmidt allegedly told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that the company plans to “market a tablet of the highest quality” in the next six months. Now it certainly isn’t …

The weeks leading up to CES, the annual Consumer Electronics Show, are usually slow, but a new Android smartphone, the Huawei Mercury, is heating things up for Cricket. At least, that’s what Cricket hopes will happen with the phone it’s claiming as its most advanced ever. Previously known as the Huawei Honor (see review) or Glory, the Mercury boasts a …

The Motorola Razr (called the Droid Razr in the US) hasn’t been on sale long, but there’s already a successor in the works. Named the Droid Razr Maxx, it’s sprung up on US operator Verizon’s database, Droid Life reports. So what can we expect from a follow-up to the Razr? Well you can count on the slimness as a dead …

If there’s one thing that Verizon isn’t short on, it’s high-end Android phones. Today we get to add yet another model to the growing list as an unannounced Motorola Droid Razr Maxx breaks cover. Droid Life obtained a document late last week that suggests Verizon is set to offer a variant of the Motorola phone which launched barely one month …

Dish Network is sitting pretty right now. The demise of AT&T’s $39 billion deal to acquire T-Mobile leaves AT&T in a vulnerable position, that of a company in need of wireless spectrum but with few sources from whom to acquire it. CNET Verizon Wireless has only exacerbated the dilemma with its own move to acquire spectrum held by the cable …

AT&T finally ditched its plan to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion on Monday, after months of intense lobbying. AT&T blamed regulators for the deal’s demise, and the company said in a statement that consumers would be harmed and investment would be stifled as a result. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission–the two agencies that …

AT&T may be shifting gears as it prepares to abandon its original plan to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reported today that talks between AT&T and the U.S. Department of Justice to come up with an acceptable plan for the wireless giant to buy T-Mobile have stalled. The Justice Department sued …

Animoto hopes the holiday spirit will get people in the mood to create video slideshows and montages. Animoto lets you take your photos and easily turn them into a video slideshow. Animoto The company today released an app for iOS that lets people take their photos, add a song from the company’s database of 500 titles, add subtitles, slap on …

From the outset, it appeared that AT&T had all the political elbow grease it needed to complete its ultimately failed takeover of rival carrier T-Mobile. Yet pressure from Sprint, the Department of Justice (DOJ), antitrust interests, and finally the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had AT&T fighting to revise the terms of its buyout proposal. Today, after a nine-month drama of …

Roku boxes are all the rage right now, offering cheap and easy streaming of services like HBO Go, Hulu Plus, and Netflix. Of course, another box means another remote, and Roku’s clickers are so small they can easily vanish into the couch cushions, never to be seen again. (Well, unless you look.) Here’s a handy alternative: Roku for iOS, which …

The Pantech Pocket for AT&T is no Skinny Minny of a smartphone. Instead, its Big Bertha design is one of the Android smartphone’s standout traits. Pantech’s Pocket has a 4-inch screen with dimensions that are rarely seen: a 600×800-pixel configuration known as super-VGA (or SVGA). That translates into a 3:4 aspect ratio that’s both shorter and squatter than most other …

Bad news if you were one of the few holding out for a Grid10 tablet — the company behind it, Fusion Garage, seems to have called it a day, The Verge reports. Head to the company’s website and you’ll be faced with a message reading ‘Error establishing a database connection.’ Not only that, the US arm of its PR company …

Picture the scene: you’re on the phone to a friend when you hear a scuffle and realise someone’s trying to rob them. Well this happened to Prince Harry at the end of last month, when his pal Thomas van Straubenzee had his BlackBerry stolen, the Daily Mail reports. At least it proves someone still wants a BlackBerry. Harry was speaking …

Now playing: Watch this: Tip of the Day: Airplay tricks for iPhone 0:50 Did you know that iPhone 4S + Apple TV + Airplay = camera fun? The iPhone 4S comes with a great new screen-sharing feature, allowing you to send everything on your iPhone screen to another device wirelessly. It’s called Airplay, and, if you have an Apple TV, …

2011 was the year of the smart phone, and one smart phone outsells all others: the iPhone. Apple’s smart phone owns a third of the smart phone market — while Nokia’s new Windows Phone is doing less well. The new iPhone 4S was the best-selling phone in the last month, with nearly a quarter of all smart phones flying off …