When LG announced both the Optimus T and the Optimus S at CTIA earlier this month, only the Optimus S got pricing and an availability date ($49.99 on October 31). Now T-Mobile has announced the pricing of the Optimus T, and it’s quite possibly the cheapest Android phone we can remember at only $29.99 with …

Santa might as well make his elves redundant: kids would rather Steve Jobs fill their stockings with expensive Apple gear. The iPhone 4, iPod touch and iPad were the three most wanted gifts among children aged 5 to 16, according to the Duracell Toy Report, the Telegraph reports. Nearly four in ten children questioned wanted something from the Apple cave …

T-Mobile Cliq CBS Interactive After an agonizingly long four-month delay, T-Mobile Cliq owners at long last are able to grab Android 2.1 Eclair for their year-old phones. Motorola and T-Mobile yesterday started actively seeking up to 2,000 users to test out the first, and likely last, update for the smartphone. Today, the handset maker followed up by launching a support …

Back when I was a young pup, I dropped more quarters than I care to admit into an arcade game called Super Off Road. It was a top-down dirt-track racer–and one of my all-time favorite coin-ops. EA’s Reckless Racing just rekindled my love affair. It’s a top-down dirt-track racer that delivers all the same freewheeling fun–with vastly superior graphics and …

The January release of a Verizon iPhone remains unconfirmed, but we may have still more grist for the ever-churning rumor mill. Call centers connected to the wireless carrier and Apple are hiring hundred of new positions over the next three months, according to job postings spotted by CNET. Call center jobs in Pennsylvania will support a wireless company, according to …

We’ve known for quite some time that RIM would update its BlackBerry App World storefront online to provide Web-to-phone downloads. That day is today. RIM has implemented BlackBerry App World 2.0, which lets you purchase and download apps from the computer. But before you dive in, you’ll need to go through a setup process to register your BlackBerry ID (if …

Dastardly game developer Rovio is trick or treating the App Store, releasing a Halloween-themed version of Angry Birds for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The spooky app can be bought for 59p and has already catapulted to the number one spot in the app charts. You launch your suicidal feathered friends against Halloween-themed backgrounds, complete with pumpkins, ghosts and …

HP’s first attempt at a Windows 7 tablet, the HP Slate 500, is squarely aimed at the business world, and it doesn’t quite look like the iPad competition we were looking for. it will run on Windows 7 Professional and boasts an 8.9-inch LED-backlit multitouch display, 1.86GHz Atom Z540 processor, 2GB of RAM and a 64GB solid-state drive. Also on …

Nokia is bringing forward user interface updates planned for Symbian 4, which it has effectively scrapped as a separate future product. “You can buy a Nokia smart phone confident that any improvements introduced later to the Symbian platform, such as the user interface, can be made available to download on your device as well,” the company said in a statement. …

Buying a cell phone involves a lot of choices. Not only do you have to select the phone, but you also have to pick a carrier. For those new to cell phones, I usually advise buyers to think first about the carrier–it’s important to find a plan you can afford and go with a wireless provider that offers good service …

Verizon Communications saw revenue slip in the third quarter of 2010 as it experienced a decline in wireless subscribers. For the third quarter of 2010, Verizon today reported a profit of $881 million, or 31 cents a share. This was down from $1.18 billion, or 41 cents a share, during the same quarter a year earlier. Excluding certain items, such …

A tech consumer’s worst nightmare is buying a hot new device today only to find that it’s obsolete or outdated within a few months or a year. With the quick pace of innovation in wireless technology these days, it’s a dilemma that is hard to avoid. This week I break the hard news to a reader that 3G phones of …

One of my favorite iPhone games, The Incident, has just been updated to version 1.2–a major update that includes an Endless Nightfall scenario, Game Center compatibility with achievements and a leaderboard, and a new Controller Mode that allows you to control the iPad version of The Incident with your iPhone. The new Endless Nightfall scenario allows players to climb as …

The HTC Desire HD is a megalithic smart phone that packs in a 4.3-inch screen and the latest 2.2 Froyo version of the Android operating system. But it’s not just a fantastic uber-phone — it also sports an 8-megapixel camera and dual LED photo lights.  But forget about the specs race — we’re here to let the pixels do the talking. …

Sony made a hippo-sized splash at CES 2010 with a herd of ‘Monolith’-styled 3D TVs and Blu-ray players, set to dampen your home cinema this spring. It turns out the UK is rather a different set of swimming baths, and Sony has tweaked its Blu-ray line-up for Britain with the announcement of the BDP-S470 and BDP-S570 players. They’re very similar …