The Droid X doesn’t land in Verizon Wireless stores until next week, July 15, but a small group of lucky folks may be getting their hands on one early. According to the Twitter account set up for the Droid X advertising campaign, there are 21 coupons placed around the country. At various times throughout the …

Finally, we get a bit of relief from this busy summer of cell phone madness, but even though it’s a short week, there’s still some news to discuss. Motorola and T-Mobile have teamed up on another Android phone, and Samsung and Sprint have done the same. Also, problems continue to plague the iPhone 4, but there are also a number …

Now playing: Watch this: Shooting video with the iPhone 4 0:46 I’ve already shown you that the iPhone 4 takes great still photos, but we wanted demonstrate its video capabilities as well. The handset’s upgraded camera can record 720p high-definition video at a constant 30 frames per second. As I said in the iPhone 4 review, it isn’t the first …

Microsoft has released a version of Silverlight for some implementations of the Symbian mobile operating system, meaning its rich media player will appear on Symbian handsets before it reaches Microsoft-based phones. The port of Microsoft’s rival to Flash was made available to users of the Nokia 5800, N97, and N97 Mini handsets, which run the Symbian-based Nokia S60 5th edition, …

AT&T is blaming the iPhone 4’s sluggish upload speeds in some areas of the country on 3G wireless gear from supplier Alcatel-Lucent. On Wednesday, AT&T issued a statement saying a software glitch in the Alcatel-Lucent equipment is limiting data upload speeds from smartphones and data sticks using the latest version of 3G technology known as HSUPA. HSUPA is an acronym …

The iPhone 4 promises to trump the battery life of the previous-gen iPhone 3GS — boosting it from 5 to 7 hours talk time over 3G, and from 9 to 10 hours of Web surfing over Wi-Fi. But in the real world, can these two smart-phone powerhouses back up their battery boasts? We took two brand-new iPhones into our sterile …

PriceGrabber.com expanded its mobile portfolio beyond the iPhone on Tuesday when it released its Android application. The free title, which is available in the Android Market, offers many of the shopping tools found on the company’s Web site. At its core is the ability to search the massive catalog spanning millions of products from thousands of merchants. Other features include …

Samsung Intercept for Sprint If the Samsung Epic 4G is a bit too much for your needs , then let us introduce you to the Samsung Intercept. Announced on Wednesday for Sprint, the Intercept gives customers a more budget-friendly Android option, coming in at $99.99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate. The smartphone features a slide-out …

Best Buy appears to have quietly launched a wireless broadband service called Best Buy Connect. Monthly prices range from $29.99 to $59.99 for 250MB to 5GB of 3G data service. (The 250MB option is available only without a contract.) A service contract is offered for one year and two years, and the length of the contract is tied to subsidies …

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A prominent consumer electronics company has asked authorities to help it retrieve a prototype phone from the journalist who revealed it–prematurely–to the world. Nokia N8 Bonnie Cha/CNET Sounds a lot like the Gizmodo/iPhone 4 prototype debacle, doesn’t it? But it’s not. This time, the consumer electronics company is Nokia, the journalist is …

Internet service provider iiNet has announced the availability of the new FetchTV 2 set-top box, which incorporates both free-to-air recording and video-on-demand services. The FetchTV 2 features movies on demand and up to 15 internet channels. (Credit: Ty Pendlebury/CNET Australia) The set-top box is currently available to iiNet customers who use the BoB service, but Internode has also announced plans …

If you like your Androids surprisingly tiny, please welcome the Vodafone 845, which has been pictured in all its wee glory by the Unwired blog. Like the T-Mobile Pulse, the first pay as you go phone to run Google’s Android operating system, the 845 is made by Huawei — although it wasn’t displayed at the Chinese manufacturer’s festival of Android …

A new app that lets you watch iPlayer on your Android-powered phone has popped up on the Market. myPlayer is unofficial, but unlike the BBC’s own iPlayer solution, it’s available now and on phones running older versions of the Google OS. The simple application is free to download until the BBC lawyers find it and pull their killjoy cease and …

Google’s Android Market offers the largest share of free apps at 57 percent, while the Windows Mobile Marketplace offers the smallest share at 22 percent, says a report on mobile app stores released last week by Distimo. Distimo The report looked at trends in the U.S. for May 2010 among the major app stores, including Apple’s App Store for the …

Nokia has sold its wireless-modem business to semiconductor company Renesas Electronics, and the two companies have agreed to develop modem technologies together in the future. The $200 million sale of Nokia’s wireless-modem business, which includes LTE, HSPA, and GSM technologies and patents, was announced Tuesday. In a joint statement, Nokia and Renesas said they had formed a long-term alliance to …