On Call runs every two weeks, alternating between answering reader questions and discussing hot topics in the cell phone world. Immediately after AT&T announced its intention to acquire T-Mobile last March, opponents and supporters began to weigh in. And now, three months later, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in the wireless industry who …

This morning we reported on HTC’s Facebook announcement that there just wasn’t enough room on the HTC Desire to support both Android 2.3 Gingerbread and its own HTC Sense user interface. Hours later, it has posted another update simply stating, “Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire.” We have no further information …

The iPad 3 will have an eye-melting high-resolution retina display screen, but rival Samsung wants to be the first to see it. Details of the next Apple iPad‘s screen have been spotted in new software, and Samsung’s lawyers want to get their grubby mitts on the new hardware in an ongoing legal battle. Samsung is being sued over similarities between …

We’ve charted the dates, earwigged the rumours and consulted our iPod Ouija board. After 16 hours of number-crunching on the CNET UK supercomputer, we have determined the most likely release date for the iPhone 5 — 7 September 2011. Let’s break down the facts, Poirot-style. We know this for certain: Apple didn’t announce the iPhone 5 at this year’s Apple …

Nicole is out today, but we hope she doesn’t mind us talking about her, especially since we all agree that she’s awesome. Also, is Jessica a closet dodgeball player? But I digress. On this week’s podcast, we talk about Sprint and Motorola’s renewed partnership and offer some first impressions about their new smartphones. U.S. Cellular wants you to know that …

Lenovo plans several new tablets as follow-ups to its current LePad. Lenovo Lenovo plans on hitting the tablet market this year with devices aimed at both Android and Windows. In an interview with Dow Jones Newswires reported this week by The Wall Street Journal, (subscription required), Lenovo president and Chief Operating Officer Rory Read revealed that the company will launch …

Apple will give the iPhone 5 a curved glass screen, according to Digitimes‘ Taiwanese supply-chain sources. The screen could be reminiscent of that on the fourth-generation iPod nano. We’ve grown used to Apple adding subtle curves to the casing of a number of its products but, until now, each generation of the iPhone has had a flat touchscreen. A flat screen seems to make more sense …

Research In Motion reports its fiscal first quarter results on Thursday, and analysts are decidedly gloomy about the company’s prospects. The big questions: did RIM’s PlayBook tablet launch deliver sales momentum and did that device suck too much wind out of development for other products? RIM’s BlackBerry Bold 9900 T-Mobile Reading through the research notes on RIM is a bit …

Google’s Android was the top smartphone OS on Millennial Media’s mobile ad network for the sixth consecutive month, capturing 53 percent of all ad impressions in May, according to a new report. In second place, Apple’s iOS shed a single percentage point from April, grabbing 27 percent of all ad impressions in May. That left BlackBerry maker Research In Motion …

Samsung Boy Genius Report says it’s received “exclusive” word from a source on just what we’ll find in the next version of Google’s Nexus smartphone. With the third iteration of the Nexus possibly to be named the Nexus 4G, BGR is calling it an “absolute beast.” The new Nexus will be powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz or 1.5GHz CPU, either …