Facing unrelenting competition from Apple’s iPad, many rival tablet makers will build fewer tablets than originally planned, according to a J.P. Morgan analyst. Apple In a research note released yesterday, analyst Mark Moskowitz said that non-Apple tablet makers have gotten an early “dose of reality” by failing to produce a high-volume tablet that comes close …

Android Atlas is one year old! We celebrate by doing the same thing we do every week, discussing the latest Android news. The new Google Wallet may already have a security hole and malware is becoming an issue for the platform. Meanwhile, game developers say that Android is to PC gaming what iOS is to consoles. Holy fragmentation, Batman! Does …

Editors’ note: This is the second of a three-part series on issues related to cell phone radiation. Revisit Tuesday’s story on the inconclusive state of research on cell phone radiation, look for Monday’s story on what consumers can do to reduce their radiation exposure, or click here for a roundup of related coverage. Steve Filippone, a 65-year-old New Jersey resident …

Apple may be plotting a low-cost iPhone–most likely the 3GS–in a move to tackle emerging markets, prepaid plans, and midmarket customers. If this working-class iPhone hits the market it will be disruptive to Android as well as Research In Motion, which is living off its low-cost Curve. Jefferies analyst Peter Misek works through the math and concludes that Apple can …

The HTC Sensation 4G is just one of many Android smartphones launching this summer. HTC It seems not a day goes by where another Android phone or tablet is either announced or arrives on the market. A quick glimpse across the four major U.S. carriers, and I see at least eight handsets on the horizon, with another half dozen rumored …

As every iPhone owner knows, taking photos with the device can be a hassle. Unless you’re looking straight into the screen and holding the phone with two hands, it’s downright tricky to hit that tiny shutter-release button. And if you’re trying to snap a self-portrait, forget about it. With any luck, Apple will do something about that in iOS 5. …

The iPad 3 could be released early next year, according to Taiwanese industry sources. While many had hoped we’d see an update to the wonder tablet towards the end of this year, it’s likely Apple is still certifying components for use in the device, DigiTimes reports. Sources claim that a number of companies have already been approved and can look …

Just a day after it announced release dates for the HTC Sensation 4G, T-Mobile is back for more Android fun with the new Exhibit 4G and Gravity Smart. Both smartphones carry a budget price tag and will be out in June. The Exhibit 4G sports a slim candy bar design in violet or black. The touch screen takes up most …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 will be available in the first half of 2012, according to the president of Samsung’s mobile division, JK Shin, speaking to Dow Jones Newswires. The original Galaxy S and recently launched Galaxy S2 have been wildly popular phones for Samsung, thanks to the unbeatable combination of top-notch hardware and the app-happy Android platform. Though we can’t …

Happy day! Just a few weeks after Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time Magazine offered free iPad access to print subscribers, technology mag Wired has made the same move: if you subscribe to the print edition, you get current and back issues in the iPad app, no extra charge. (Full disclosure: I’m an occasional contributor to Wired.) That is, of course, …

Nielsen Users of Apple’s iPhone typically do a bit more with their phones, but Android owners are grabbing the largest amount of data each month, according to a study released yesterday by Nielsen. Analzying almost 65,000 cell phone bills in the U.S. during the first quarter of the year, Nielsen found that Android users on average gulped 582MB of data …

Motorola may soon be launching the Xoom 2 Android tablet and a few other devices, if a brief hiccup on its website is any indication. It seems that someone on the US company’s Web team accidentally (on purpose?) put up some product images during a redesign of its site. The site appeared to show the successor to Moto’s popular Xoom …

Video calling apps are still fairly few and far between on the iPhone, but Oovoo for iPhone is already a step ahead in offering video conference calls with Oovoo for iPhone. Features-wise, Oovoo on iPhone, which quietly entered the app store last week as a beta, closely resembles its Android cousin. It has a clean design that shows off the …

Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #176: Take a penny, leave a penny 39:53 Your loyal mobile reviews crew takes a look this week at a bold smartphone-within-a-tablet, and Sprint’s latest FCC punch at AT&T. We also debate the consequences of refusing to pay for a phone that costs you just a penny. Join us for all the news, reviews, …

Scientists at the World Health Organisation claim mobile phones pose a possible risk of causing cancer. Researchers from the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer sussed out hundreds of scientific studies and articles to conclude that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, as given off by mobile phones, are “possibly carcinogenic to humans”. The IARC panel was made up of 31 scientists …