Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #157: Hello, Verizon iPhone 4 42:21 We had a pretty mighty haul of cell phone and smartphone news, what with a killer CES barely in our rearview mirror and Verizon’s “big reveal” yesterday of the iPhone 4 coming to its network. In fact, we should congratulate ourselves on a …

A U.K. consumers group known as Which? is criticizing T-Mobile’s decision to reduce its “fair-use” limit for smartphone data usage, asserting that the move may break the operator’s own terms and conditions. In a blog post today, the group said T-Mobile is selling smartphones built for video streaming and downloading, but then telling its customers they should not use the …

Though it introduced the HTC Evo Shift 4G and BlackBerry PlayBook at CES 2011, Sprint had a relatively quiet presence at the show compared to the other carriers. However, it looks like the carrier has something up its sleeve. We just received an invitation from Sprint for a February 7 event in New York City starting at 6 p.m., ET. …

T-Mobile has changed its tune quicker than a trumpet player with his flies caught in a meat slicer, saying in a statement that it won’t be cutting the fair-use limit from 3GB to 500MB, but only for existing customers. A wave of derision washed over the Internet after the company previously published a clumsily written missive telling customers, “if you want …

Rarely do we feel phone envy for the US, where its freakish CDMA network and its citizens’ love of belt holsters has led to the evolution of an alternate universe of hideous flip phones and BlackBerry wannabes. But last week’s CES gadget-fest unleashed some crave-worthy phones that have made us feel a twinge of jealousy. Most of them take advantage …

California Gov. Jerry Brown Brown’s Facebook page The newly elected governor of California wants to cut state spending and has starting by calling for the shut-off of half of the state-issued cell phones, some 48,000 devices, by June 1. Gov. Jerry Brown, who will also be returning his own state-issued phone, said that the move will save the financially strapped …

Google’s Google Places pushes further on Yelp today as it joins iPhone. Like Yelp, the free app, originally released for Android, lets you look up and rate local business. Since it’s Google, the Places app ups the ante with another feature, recommendations supplied by Google’s Hotpot recommendations engine. To start using Places, log into your Google account and begin either …

Armageddon is nigh, smart-phone lovers — O2 has ditched unlimited data bundles for new customers and anyone upgrading their contract. Just like our granddad brags how he used to drive on the motorway before speed limits, we’ll be able to tell our grandkids how we used to stream YouTube on our iPhones without a care in the world. As of …

Unlimited data — smart phones made it, and smart phones can break it. The latest network to give it a bolt through the brains is Vodafone, which will start charging you for going over your data allowance starting on 1 October. In June, Vodafone stopped referring to ‘unlimited’ data in its contracts, and started firing off texts to those of us …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 4 speed test: AT&T versus Verizon 1:11 The Verizon iPhone is finally official, but there are a number of questions that remain unanswered. Will Verizon’s network be able to handle the deluge of iPhone users? Is Verizon’s 3G network better or worse than AT&T’s? Obviously, the Verizon iPhone isn’t out in the hands of the …

As the race for carriers and phone manufacturers surges to push out LTE 4G-enabled phones of the likes that poured from CES last week, we’ve seen some rumors that Samsung is prepping to release a new LTE phone with MetroPCS. The photos of the phone information clearly show that the phone is the Samsung SCH-R910 running LTE (look under Baseband …

If you desperately need to impress a good-looking fellow commuter or frighten an old person with new-fangled magic, Google has the answer: its Goggles app for Android will now solve your Sudoku in less than 30 seconds. Goggles connects your phone’s little camera to the Internet, letting you Google anything you can photograph. Its software analyses your shots and provides …

Intuit is offering some healthy incentives to get small businesses to adopt its GoPayment mobile payment service. Intuit Launched in 2009, GoPayment lets small business owners process credit card payments on the go by using a card reader that attaches to a compatible mobile phone. Normally, the card reader costs money, while the service entails a monthly fee. But as …

Oldboy director Park Chan-wook has shot his latest dark-tinged opus with the Apple iPhone 4. The phone’s 720p camera was employed to shoot nightmarish short Paranmanjang for cinema release. Paranmanjang is a half-hour film that tells the story of a middle-aged man who lands a woman’s body while fishing one night, only for the pair to become entwined between life …

After months of rumors and speculation, Apple has finally brought the iPhone 4 to Verizon Wireless. While much of the hardware remains the same, there are a couple of important differences. Obviously, there’s the change from GSM to CDMA, which means the phone won’t be able to use voice and data simultaneously with current CDMA technology. Also, the Verizon iPhone …