Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti If you’ve got cinematographic chops and an iOS device, you could win yourself (or someone you love) an iPad 2 or other prizes by submitting your best film creations made entirely on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad 2. The Original iPhone Film Festival has four categories: Fiction, Brand Film, Nonfiction, …

Editors’ note: Until Friday, 10 CNET personalities are showcasing their 10 personal favorite Android apps as part of the CNET 100. With each post, you can read why they hold the apps so dear and you’ll get the opportunity to vote for your own favorite title. Then after the series ends, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and …

Sprint Nextel’s unlimited data plan will eventually face its limits. Dan Hesse at Sprint headquarters yesterday. Kent German/CNET As the only carrier that can now boast of offering an all-you-can-eat buffet of data with no strings attached, Sprint has become a haven for bandwidth hogs. It’s a boon to customer growth and gives the company a competitive edge beyond pricing …

As someone who’s been happily streaming the likes of “Party Down” and “Phineas and Ferb” to his iPhone and iPad for the better part of a year, I can’t help but feel for the poor Android phone and tablet owners who can’t get in on the Netflix goodness. Sure, a Netflix app is available for Android, but it’s compatible with …

The head of the Senate’s committee on antitrust wants regulators to put a kibosh on AT&T’s proposed $39 billion bid to buy T-Mobile USA. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) Congress.gov Today, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), who heads up the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, asked regulators in a letter to block the proposed merger, stating that the merger would be “highly dangerous …

Expectations for Nokia’s second-quarter earnings couldn’t be any lower. But what about the future? The Finnish company, which is still the No. 1 cell phone manufacturer in the world in terms of volume, has been struggling to keep up with competitors Apple and Google. The company reports its second-quarter earnings tomorrow. In an effort to jump-start its ailing smartphone business …

Google CEO Larry Page is making good on his promise to put more wood behind fewer arrows as the company focuses more of its resources and efforts on its core products. Google Google today announced in a blog post that the company will discontinue its Google Labs efforts. Bill Coughran, Google’s senior vice president for Research and Systems Infrastructure, said …

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has slammed Apple’s lawsuit against HTC, saying that Apple’s actions are borne out of jealousy, and that Google will provide support to HTC in its legal battle, Perthnow reports. Speaking in Tokyo at the Google Mobile Revolution conference, Schmidt said that Apple’s lawsuits against Android phone manufacturers such as Samsung and HTC are “just inspired by …

I wish I had invisible fingers. That’s the only way I can figure to get maximum enjoyment out of Gravitarium2, a dazzling iPad-only app driven entirely by your digits. It works like this: you’re presented with an animated star field of sorts, packed with little randomly moving blips. When you touch a finger to the screen, the stars gather and …

Nook2Android can turn the color Nook into a full-fledged Android tablet. Nook2Android Barnes & Noble Nook Color owners now have a new option that can turn their e-readers into full-fledged Android tablets. Sold by a company called Nook2Android, a SanDisk microSD card preloaded with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Android Market essentially transforms Nook Color readers into Android tablets. Available …

We were very excited to get our paws on the curvy goodness of the Nokia N9 but were as excited about its MeeGo operating system as we are about repainting our fence. Mercifully, a close relative of the N9, called the Sea Ray, has surfaced sporting Windows Phone Mango, and we can take a close look at it in this …

Now playing: Watch this: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2:08 You can now officially add Lenovo to the list of computer manufacturers pushing out Android tablets this year. In fact, put the company down for two. Meet the Tango & Cash of tablets. The ThinkPad Tablet is the business-minded one of the pair, with its optional digital pen and suite of DocsToGo …

It’s time to put yet another Verizon and Motorola smartphone on your radar. Even as we’re still waiting for the long-anticipated Droid Bionic to arrive, rumors have started swirling for the next super phone, the Motorola Dinara. According to sources close to Droid Life, the Dinara will arrive in late 2011 with a form factor that closely resembles a thinner …

LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja delivers a speech at CTIA 2011. CNET/Marguerite Reardon LightSquared Chief Executive Sanjiv Ahuja is trying to have his cake and eat it too. Literally. Ahuja and his management team will celebrate his upstart company’s first anniversary on Thursday with cake and ice cream–a tradition from his days running France Telecom’s wireless giant Orange. The milestone comes …

T-Mobile USA is throwing down the gauntlet at Sprint Nextel with its new smartphone price plans. The G2X, one of the smartphones compatible with T-Mobile’s upcoming new data plans Nicole Lee/CNET T-Mobile is set to announce Wednesday that it plans to cut the price of its smartphone plans. Most significantly, its mid-tier plan–which includes unlimited phone calls, text messages, and …