Fancy filling your domicile with eye-melting, brain-exploding, high-definition 3D, but for some reason hate televisions? Then Panasonic’s PT-AT5000E might be for you. It’s an LCD projector that spits out 1080p HD video, but it’s also capable of firing a 3D picture onto your living room wall. That’s three kinds of D! This potent projector offers …

Android reigns as the top smartphone OS in the U.S. with a 39 percent slice of the market, according to a report out today from Nielsen. In second place is Apple’s iOS with a 28 percent share, followed by RIM’s Blackberry with 20 percent. Trailing the three top platforms, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and Windows Phone 7 combined grabbed 9 percent …

Children who use cell phones are at no greater risk of developing brain tumors, the latest paper in a series of epidemiological studies suggests. The study, which was conducted in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland, was recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. It surveyed almost 1,000 children between ages 7 and 19. The group looked at …

Take those tin foil hats off your rugrats, because a new Swiss study says kids who use mobile phones don’t raise their risk of getting brain cancer.  Researchers interviewed children between 7 and 19 years old about how often they used their mobiles. They found the 352 children studied who had developed brain cancer weren’t any more likely to be …

Amazon is aiming to launch both a 7-inch and 10-inch tablet in the third quarter and is currently lining up the right suppliers, according to the latest from the folks at DigiTimes. A number of chip design firms in Taiwan expect to see a healthy bump in sales in the third quarter as they ship parts for the new tablets, …

Sprint Nextel said today it fell further into the red in the second quarter as a result of losses related to bad stock investments. Sprint also said it lost 101,000 contract subscribers in the period. The company was likely hit by the double whammy of the Apple iPhone being available at both AT&T and Verizon Wireless, while speed freaks who …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Freeform III (MetroPCS) 2:23 I’ve long been a fan of the well-arranged portrait keyboard. MetroPCS’ Samsung Freeform III possesses one of these QWERTYs on its candy bar feature phone. It also has a 1.3-megapixel camera and a microSD card slot that takes up to 32GB external memory. Features-wise, the Freeform III keeps it simple with …

commentary The vice is just starting to clamp down on Sprint Nextel. Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse Marguerite Reardon/CNET In a clear indication of increasing competitive pressure, the wireless carrier stepped up its spending on promotions in the second quarter, including an instant rebate and cash-back programs to lure in customers from rival carriers. On a conference call today to …

The iPad is poised to devour games consoles. Apple’s slender slate is the fastest-growing gaming platform, according to Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitello, while consoles now account for just 40 per cent of all gaming. In an interview with IndustryGamers, Riccitello said the entire games industry is changing, with devices like the iPad growing the fastest, despite only having been around …

AT&T may be looking at new ways to control data hogs on its wireless network. The company is rumored to be considering throttling super-heavy data users and restricting them to slower speeds in an effort to better manage its network and keep up with demand for mobile data, according to the blog 9to5mac. The new policy could start the first …

Samsung’s Galaxy S II racks up record sales. Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy S II smartphone has racked up record sales even before it’s hit the hot U.S. market. The Korean mobile-phone maker said yesterday that it sold more than 5 million units of the Galaxy S II in the 85 days following its debut. Announcing the sales on its Samsung Tomorrow …

On Call runs every two weeks, alternating between answering reader questions and discussing hot topics in the cell phone world. By now I’m sure that you’re familiar with the arguments against the proposed AT&T-T-Mobile merger. As critics see it, the deal will put too much power in the hands of one carrier (and one GSM carrier, at that), it will …

If you’re of the school of cell phone design that leans toward messaging cell phones with full QWERTY keyboards, U.S. Cellular’s newest phone is meant for you. The Samsung Character, released today, features a 2.8-inch QVGA touch screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and of course, Bluetooth support. There’s also an onboard music player. The Character runs on …

For the past few years, T-Mobile and Verizon have traded the crown for customer care. This time, Verizon has again snatched that title, according to data from J.D. Power and Associates’ semiannual survey, which was released today. Related links • Survey: T-Mobile tops in customer satisfaction • J.D. Power says Verizon tops in call quality • T-Mobile back on top …

The Samsung Galaxy S2 is getting a fresh lick of paint — online retailer Clove will be selling the 4.3-inch smart phone in white from 15 August. That’s not very long to wait, at least in theory. If recent evidence is anything to go on though, releasing a popular phone in white can take roughly a year longer than expected. …