Samsung’s Wave 3, Wave M and Wave Y have had their wrappings ripped off, with the trio of smart phones all equipped with the firm’s freshly minted Bada 2.0 operating system. Bada is Samsung’s own OS, accented on user-friendliness rather than apps and features. Heading up the handset troika is the Wave 3, pictured above, …

The Internet rumour mill is grinding itself into a frenzy again. Its latest grist concerns webOS, the operating system used on the moribund HP TouchPad and Pre devices. Samsung is considering buying webOS, according to our sister site CNET News, in a bid to compete with the likes of Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and other rival operating systems. Samsung has …

Update, 10:24 a.m., PT: Verizon Wireless is saying that September 8 is not an official date for the Droid Bionic’s release. We’ll have more details when we get them. At long last, the national nightmare is almost over for Android fans for the Motorola Droid Bionic will finally be released on September 8 with Verizon Wireless. The announcement came via …

Hurricane Irene has come and gone, and despite widespread power losses up and down the Eastern U.S., wireless networks performed well. Cell phone operators said they had been preparing for days for the hurricane, which hit North Carolina on Saturday and hugged the Atlantic coastline up to New York City where it turned into a tropical storm before making landfall …

Samsung may not be interested in buying Hewlett-Packard’s PC business, but the company may be eying HP’s mobile WebOS division, according to a report from DigiTimes. Jon Rubinstein introduces the HP TouchPad WebOS-based tablet. James Martin/CNET Last week, Samsung denied rumors that it plans to buy HP’s PC business. But now some sources are telling tech blogs that Samsung may …

Is this the next version of HTC Sense? Engadget Mobile HTC’s last update to its Sense user experience for Android was well-received by tech reviewers and customers alike, but you know the handset manufacturer isn’t going to stop there. We may now have a glimpse of what’s next for Sense, as XDA.cn has captured some video of what it’s calling …

This photo really doesn’t do it justice, but the SPIbelt is great for carrying your phone and other items while running. Overton Enterprises LLC A smartphone is all but essential gear for runners, walkers, bikers, hikers, gym rats, and other exercise-minded folks. For one thing, there are the apps. As a semi-regular runner, I can’t live without RunKeeper (one of …

HTC fans, today is your day, with a veritable pinata of new information about the next batch of HTC smartphones and tablets. Collected from the four corners of the intertubes, the following looks like the best of HTC’s second-half line-up — including its first Android Honeycomb tablet. HTC Vigor The front and back of the upcoming HTC Vigor. (Credit: GSMArena) …

AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T- Mobile USA plan to invest an additional $100 million into their mobile payment joint venture, Isis, to help get the project off the ground more quickly, Bloomberg reported Monday. According to Bloomberg’s unnamed sources familiar with the joint venture, the investment is contingent on whether Isis, which was developed to turn cell phones into payment …

Consumers love their applications. Carriers do too, unless the applications are bandwidth hogs. Cell towers like these have struggle to carry all the data being transmitted through millions of mobile applications. Kent German/CNET With carriers trying to clamp down on excessive data consumption, it’s more important than ever for developers to make sure they aren’t creating apps that hog the …

A pair of images surfaced over the weekend for the HTC Vigor, an unannounced Verizon Wireless handset rumored for October. While the pictures show HTC’s branding and a mention of Sense UI, we don’t see Verizon’s logo or a mention of 4G LTE. Considering that we’re a month or more from the expected release, this might simply be a test …

The storm makes its presence felt with fierce winds and torrential downpours. The latest on Irene, from CBS News CBS News brings you breaking news and complete coverage on Hurricane Irene as the storm sweeps along the East Coast. Irene downgraded to tropical storm Hurricane knocks out power to 4 million people and blamed for the deaths of at least …

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 …