The second quarter saw 60 million smartphones shipped around the world, a 43 percent jump from a year ago, according to a study released Thursday by research firm Strategy Analytics. Growth was driven by robust subsidies from carriers, strong competition between high-end vendors, and a rising selection of lower-cost phones running systems like Android and …

Editors’ note: Each day for 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love are publishing slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. Next week, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and announce the 10 that you, our readers, love the most. CBS …

The Droid X is rooted, the Nexus One is done, and we dive deep into Android tablets with Senior Editor Donald Bell. We also take a brief look at Agenda Widget and cover a tip on how to retain Bluetooth connectivity while in Airplane mode. Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 8: All about Android tablets 38:14 Podcast Your browser does …

iPhone helps grab double-digit earnings growth for AT&T. Apple A record 3.2 million iPhone activations helped boost AT&T’s second-quarter earnings 26 percent year over year and prompted the company to increase its outlook for the full year. On Thursday, the carrier reported earnings of $4 billion compared with $3.2 billion in the prior year’s quarter. Sales inched up 0.6 percent …

Even with our pie-tastic iPhone 4 price comparison showdown, shopping for the best iPhone 4 price is confusing. Tally ho Carphone Warehouse, which will sell you an iPhone 4 from Orange, Vodafone or O2 starting today. That leaves out 3, T-Mobile and Tesco Mobile, but it’s still pretty handy for doing a little cross-network shopping. There are restrictions, however — …

Have you heard? Rumor has it the iPhone is coming to T-Mobile as early as this fall. That would be pretty huge, though not as huge as the long-rumored Verizon iPhone. It does, however, raise an interesting question: would you buy an iPhone from T-Mobile? I ask because I’ve heard more people than I can count say, “I’m not buying …

AT&T’s move to jettison its unlimited mobile data plan and charge more for heavier use puts a roadblock in the plans of media providers trying to push Internet TV, according to a report released Tuesday by iSuppli. Faced with more people grabbing more data, AT&T recently switched to a tiered pricing plan in hopes of limiting the strain on its …

Facebook and Twitter feeds have never looked better than with Flipboard for iPad. Flipboard iPad app Flipboard calls itself a “social magazine,” a way to browse Facebook and Twitter content with the same breezy effortlessness you’d browse the pages of a favorite periodical. I call it cool. Flipboard reminds me of Blogshelf, the awesome iPad app that gives blogs and …

LG dLite T-Mobile T-Mobile announced the availability of the LG dLite Wednesday, making it the third LG handset in T-Mobile’s stable (the other two are the Sentio and the GS-170). The dLite is quite the attention-grabber, with programmable light effects, courtesy of color LEDs along its side and an interesting dot matrix display on the front. It has a 2.8-inch …

Last Thursday, just before Apple called a press conference to address concerns with the iPhone 4’s antenna, the company issued its promised 4.0.1 software update. The release didn’t offer new features, and it didn’t change anything about the controversial antenna, but it did alter how bars are displayed on the handset’s signal meter. CNET has spent the last few days …

Editors’ note: Each day for 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love will publish slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. At the end of July, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and announce the 10 that you, our readers, love …

Verizon Wireless has begun rolling out updates to two of its Android phones this week. Though neither the LG Ally and Droid X will get the much anticipated Froyo update, they are getting a few necessary improvements and features. As the updates are designed to clean things up and give a more unified, polished feel, casual users may not see …

We welcome Jessica Dolcourt to the cell phone team with a slew of news full of Droids, iPhones, BlackBerrys, and a healthy preview of Windows Phone 7. We also go over the week’s reviews and answer a few of your questions. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 135: Welcome Jessica! 38:20 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. …

Now that the wraps are off the latest iPhone it seems everyone around us is plagued with indecision. Many people we know who had made up their minds to buy an HTC Desire are now wavering, is the iPhone 4’s feature set enough to steer iPhone haters and deserters back to the Kool-Aid? The only way to settle this is …

The BBC is asking for all shows made for the corporation to be produced in high definition come April 2011. Goodbye standard definition: your time is up. With this in mind, Auntie will add a second HD channel to its line-up in September this year. BBC One HD will simultaneously broadcast everything shown on its flagship channel, BBC One. It …