Bonnie is returning an important assignment in Toronto this week so our new colleague in CNET News, Roger Cheng, joins us to talk new BlackBerry phones, prepaid carriers, and Android rumors. Formerly of the Wall Street Journal, Roger works with Maggie Reardon in New York to cover the wireless industry from all sides. Also in …

Samsung Owners of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet will receive an update starting tomorrow that will deliver the TouchWiz UX interface and a host of other enhancements. Sent OTA (over the air), the update package will include Samsung’s revamped Media Hub service, Samsung Kies 2.0 support for PCs and Macs, and mobile features for the enterprise crowd. The most notable …

A massive 37 per cent of adults and 60 per cent of teenagers in the UK say that they are ‘highly addicted’ to their smart phone, according to a new study. Ofcom, which commissioned the survey, reckons we’re “a nation addicted to smart phones”. Oh no! That sounds awful. We’re not exactly sure what constitutes being ‘highly addicted’ — if …

Research In Motion gave us more than a bit to think about this week when it debuted three new devices with the BlackBerry Bold 9900, Torch 9810, and Torch 9860. Bonnie Cha came away with mixed impressions following her hands-on time in Toronto, but of course we’ll wait for our full reviews to give our firm opinions. A decade (or …

AT&T and Verizon are working “behind the scenes” to stamp out new 4G wireless entrant LightSquared, according to billionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone. Falcone, speaking to CNBC today, claimed the two telecommunications giants aren’t competing fairly and are using their power to undermine LightSquared, which is run by Falcone’s Harbinger Capital. LightSquared is attempting to build a nationwide 4G …

Relief is a little iffy for contract-free customers thirsting for smartphones. Weak quarterly earnings for prepaid carriers, like leader MetroPCS, TracFone, and Cricket-owner Leap Wireless, are making the ability of these second-tiered carriers to act effectively as alternative smartphone providers to the big-four operators a little murkier. Why? As CNET Senior Writer Roger Cheng noted, the overall growth of tier-two …

Finally. After months of waiting and watching Apple’s iPad 2 dominate, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is ready for the UK, delivering robot-hungry Brits a sweet, dripping spoonful of Android Honeycomb goodness. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 starts at £399 for the Wi-Fi only 16GB model from Currys and PC World, who have it exclusively for the rest of the month. …

Make international calls and pay for them through iTunes via Vonage’s Time to Call App. Lance Whitney/CNET iOS device owners can now make international calls and pay for them through iTunes courtesy of a new app from Vonage. Released yesterday, the free Time to Call app is geared toward people who need to make quick calls around the world. The …

An iphone app launched by the Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China. SCMP Pictures (HANDOUT) The Chinese government has released an official app for people (both domestic and oversees) to keep tabs on what the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is up to. There’s just one catch: you’ll have to jailbreak your iPhone to use it. One …

Google has lashed out at Apple, Microsoft and other companies, saying that leading tech companies are ganging up on Android, with the aim of driving up the prices of Android devices through crafty patent acquisition and endless lawsuits. In a ferocious blog post entitled ‘When patents attack Google’, Google senior vice president and chief legal officer David Drummond accuses companies …