T-Mobile and AT&T formally asked the Federal Communications Commission today to approve the transfer of $1 billion in wireless spectrum due to T-Mobile following following the failed merger between the two carriers. In a statement to the Wall Street Journal, Tom Sugrue, T-Mobile’s senior vice president for government affairs, said that the additional spectrum will …

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Verizon just made the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx ship date official. Enhanced with a big battery designed for maximum endurance, Android fans can scoop up the pricey $299.99 superphone in stores on January 26. First unveiled at CES two weeks ago, the Droid Razr Maxx boasts a fat 3,300mAh battery pack yet still manages to keep a slim 0.35-inch silhouette. …

Thank to a well-timed Verizon Wireless announcement just two weeks after the phone’s unveiling, we now know that Motorola’s Droid Razr Maxx will arrive in stores this Thursday, January 26. The new handset has all the powerful features of the well-received Droid Razr while almost doubling the battery to an impressive 21 hours of talk time. I won’t refuse more …

Is there anything more viscerally satisfying than a car chase? Especially a cops-and-robbers chase that ends with the bad guys getting rammed into a concrete median? That’s the premise of Smash Cops (iTunes link), a thoroughly engaging new iOS game. You drive the squad car, chase down criminals, then do your best to smash and crash their getaway vehicles. Hutch …

Here’s the first decent look at the forthcoming Sony Xperia U. Also known as the ST25i and codenamed Kumquat during development, the Xperia U is one of Sony’s first phones since taking control of the Sony Ericsson brand. Xperia Blog has a leaked photo of the Xperia U, which looks a lot like the Sony Xperia S — complete with …

Apple suffered another legal setback after a Dutch court sided with Samsung Electronics, ruling that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe upon the iPad’s design. At least in the Netherlands, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is safe–from a design standpoint–from Apple’s lawyers. Samsung A court in The Hague, Netherlands, dismissed an appeal by Apple, its latest attempt to get Samsung’s …

Note: As we were writing this article Carphone Warehouse’s Lumia 900 page went offline. This could be a technical hitch, but we’ll contact the company and update this story. A spot of good news for Nokia and Windows Phone fans — the 4.3-inch Nokia Lumia 900 will apparently be going on sale in the UK this summer, courtesy of Carphone …

While Amazon’s 5.0.3 software update for the Kindle Touch may seem relatively minor on the surface, it may help put to rest some complaints about the generally zippiness of the device compared with its non-touch sibling, which Amazon simply calls the Kindle. Amazon has quietly released the update without making any reference to what it exactly it fixes. “This update …

A new book is set to take a bite out of Apple, exposing the practices at the core of the iPhone and iPad outfit. Inside Apple: The Secrets Behind the Past and Future Success of Steve Jobs’s Iconic Brand promises unprecedented access to the world’s biggest technology company. The officially-sanctioned exposé is written by Fortune editor Adam Lashinsky, who managed …