HTC Arrive Sprint As if the tweets didn’t already give it away, Sprint made it official and introduced its first Windows Phone 7 handset today, the HTC Arrive. Dropping its original moniker of HTC 7 Pro, the Arrive will go on sale March 20 for $199.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in …

Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I sat in press conference after press conference wanting to pull my hair out in utter frustration, because even though I had 100 percent signal strength on my wireless air card, I could barely load a Web page. My 3G Sprint air card, which under normal circumstances provides me with …

Samsung’s Galaxy S II smart phone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet have been hogging the headlines this week at Mobile World Congress, and for good reason. With somewhat less fanfare, however, the company has also taken the wrappers off another Android-based device, the Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 Smart Player. It’s a direct competitor to Apple’s iPod touch, with a …

The Acer Iconia Smart is apparently “100 per cent smart phone. 100 per cent tablet”. That’s what we call giving it 200 per cent for effort. But how can it be both? A whopping 4.8-inch display with an ultra-widescreen 21:9 aspect ratio, that’s how. The Android device, which has a curved metallic design and a slimline 64.5mm width, has four …

A new iPhone app from Hipmunk aims to make it easier to find and book your next flight on the go. Hipmunk Known for its travel search site, the Hipmunk crew just launched its first app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch crowd. Letting you find and compare all the available flights to your destination, the free app aims …

ZTE Skate, the Chinese mobile maker’s latest smart phone, has rolled into Mobile World Congress. It’s the follow-up to the ZTE Blade — better known in the UK as the Orange San Francisco — and continues the company’s trend for making affordable Android devices that are more powerful than their price tags imply. ZTE claims the device is inspired by …

Minecraft is digging its way on to your phone. The word-of-mouth smash-hit world-building game will be arriving on Apple iPhone and Android mobile phones some time this year. Minecraft is a Java game that’s already sold more than a million copies, despite having no publisher or advertising and still being in beta. It was developed by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” …

Nexus One owners aren’t being left out of the Gingerbread update fun. Google is pushing out its latest Android software to the handsets this week, bringing them bang up to date with the latest features. Well, almost all of them. The Nexus One might not have sold in its millions, but many of the people who bought it have stayed …

If you cover the wireless industry, you’re never far from the ongoing debate over whether cell phones are harmful. And the debate usually goes something like this: the scientific community produces a study that explores the issue, and then the wireless industry rushes to interpret that study to its advantage. Such was the case with a report published yesterday in …

Microsoft has pushed out a minor update to its Windows Phone 7 OS that appears to be bricking some (but not all) Samsung Omnia 7 smart phones. Amid concerns from users, Microsoft has provided details of how to fix the problem, while promising a new, working update within a few days. MobileCrunch explains that according to angry tweets from users …

Developers looking to create apps for the newest Honeycomb version of Android can now grab the final SDK from Google. Honeycomb’s logo Google The search giant released the software development kit for Android 3.0 yesterday, offering several new features that developers can incorporate into their mobile apps with the goal of publishing them directly to Google’s Android Market. This final …

In addition to accessing faster network speeds, T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S 4G will also get another kind of access. Phone owners who purchase movies and TV episodes through Samsung’s Media Hub will now be able to lump those fees in with their monthly phone bills.  Carrier billing is a convenience that ties phone-related expenditures to a service plan rather than …

More than two months after making its debut with the Nexus S, Gingerbread is finally coming to the Nexus One. Readers may recall hearing back in December that the HTC handset would see Android 2.3 within a “few weeks.” The same time frame was given more than once, ultimately resulting in a few months’ wait time. However, the official word …

Mobile World Congress 2011 is over, and the gang’s back together once again, but before we say adios to MWC, we thought it’d be good to recap some of the highs and lows of the show. Plus, Nokia may have signed on with Microsoft and Windows Phone 7, but the Finnish handset manufacturer says it’s still committed to Symbian. We …

One of the most useful social features on Android handsets is the ability to sync your Facebook friends with your device contacts, so they all appear in one place. Nexus S users have a shock in store when they download this week’s Android 2.3.3 software update though: it disables the feature. What this means is you’ll only be able to …