Verizon got a jump on CTIA today by announicng that the Android-powered Samsung Stratosphere. Arriving on October 13th, the Stratopshere will be Big Red’s first 4G LTE handset with a QWERTY keyboard. Other details include Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 1GHz processor, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 5-row QWERTY keyboard. Looking …

Game bundles for PCs and Macs are a dime a dozen. The best ones, like the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle I wrote about last week, share a portion of the proceeds with a worthy charity. But here’s something you don’t see every day: an app bundle for smartphones. The Corona Indie Bundle comes with five games for Android and iOS. Purchased separately, they’d cost …

Mobile devices are becoming increasingly popular among U.S. consumers for accessing the Web, according to data released today by market researcher ComScore. Some 6.8 percent of Web traffic originated from “non-computer” devices in August, compared with 6.2 percent at the end of the previous quarter, ComScore said. Mobile phones accounted for 4.4 percent of that traffic, while tablets made up …

Now playing: Watch this: Sony SMP-N200 2:45 Sony’s SMP-N200 has all the trappings of a killer streaming-media box. The spec sheet is filled with excellent services, especially on the video side, including Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu Plus, and Vudu. Unlike the Roku 2 XS, it’s also DLNA compatible and does a decent job handling your local digital media files, including …

Following the success of the WD TV Live Hub, Western Digital has now introduced the diskless version in the new WD TV Live (2011). The new Live adds a couple more killer features, namely built-in Wi-Fi and support for the Spotify music-streaming service, to the already long list of services and file formats handled by its predecessors. And all for …

Your mobile device could soon go the route of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The work side of the HTC Inspire. AT&T AT&T today unveiled AT&T Toggle, a service that allows you to create two separate and distinct identities on your smartphone or tablet. The first would be a personal account where you can freely browse the Internet, text your …

Days before Samsung’s Mobile Unpacked Conference, a video has hit the web claiming to be the Korean manufacturer’s “Nexus Prime” smartphone, running Ice Cream Sandwich. (Screenshot by CBSi) The phone will run Google’s latest version of its Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, intended to combine its divergent Android smartphone and tablet offerings into the one operating system. What is …

Hot on the heels of a leaked video claiming to be Samsung’s Nexus Prime, screenshots have surfaced alleging to be Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of the Android operating system. (Credit: Mobilissimo) The images, hosted on Romanian website Mobilissimo, confirm Ice Cream Sandwich as being version 4.0 of the operating system and that the upcoming Samsung phone has the …

update Google and Samsung have issued a statement cancelling their 11 October event, which is expected to be the launch of the Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich. Both companies have sent out an announcement stating that they have decided to “postpone the new product announcement at CTIA Fall”, claiming that “it is just not the right time to announce …

Apple plans to launch a new platform Wednesday that could put a big dent in wireless carriers’ bottom line. Introduced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June, iMessage lets users on iOS devices chat with one another like they would send a text message. Like the BlackBerry Messenger, iMessage allows them to bypass the SMS text-messaging network–along with carriers’ texting …

We may not have the iPhone 5 yet, but the iPhone 4S is here, packing an improved camera, a faster processor and intelligent voice control. If you’re going to splash your cash on one of these — or on an iPhone 4 (they’re the same size and shape) — you’re going to want a good case to go with it. …

While many of the iPhone 4 cases fit the 4S, case manufacturers are seeing the arrival of the 4S as a good opportunity to introduce new designs. WaterField Designs, which is known for its high-quality sleeves for laptops and iPads, has just released a leather wallet that also does double-duty as an iPhone case. It’s simply called the iPhone Wallet …

UBM TechInsights has estimated the shiny new iPhone 4S costs Apple £132, our chums at CNET News report. That’s for the 32GB model, which, considering it’s estimated to sell for £579, means Apple should be making a healthy profit on each. The estimate shows a sharp contrast with Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet, for which it’s estimated the company loses $10 …

Carrier contracts and device subsidy policies mean wireless subscribers who want the latest and greatest iPhone have to think carefully about their upgrade strategies. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I offer some advice to one frustrated reader who has been waiting a long time to upgrade to a new iPhone. She can’t decide if she should pull the trigger …

San Francisco and the CTIA are at odds yet again now that the wireless association has formally challenged cell phone warning legislation that the city passed earlier this year. In a statement released Tuesday, John Walls, the CTIA’s vice president of public affairs, called San Francisco’s actions “both alarmist and false” and disputed any suggestion that the radio frequency (RF) …