Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #172: Belt clips are ‘back’ 39:35 This week, Bonnie, Nicole, and I team up to consider burning questions. Is AT&T fit to govern another company’s resources, will RIM’s three biggest BlackBerry World announcements pass muster, and is the cell phone holster revolution about to begin? All that and more …

A little red birdie has passed on possible release dates for some of Verizon Wireless’s most-anticipated smartphones. And since that birdie gave us reliable information before (mainly, the HTC Incredible 2’s April 28 debut), we’re inclined to believe that the following dates will hold up. So here’s what we know. The HTC Trophy is scheduled to arrive May 12. Verizon …

We’ve not strayed from the suburbs since that wedding, but for those of you in central London wondering if Will and Kate are the reason some taxi cabs have adorned the Union Jack… they’re not. Patriotic Vodafone may be, but the latest addition to the Windsor family isn’t enough to get the British mobile giant to paint our taxis red, …

Now playing: Watch this: JotNot 1:39 We first learned about the free JotNot Scanner for iPhone (and the 99-cent JotNot Scanner Pro) from a lawyer who uses the app daily to scan and send documents to colleagues. We immediately saw the app’s potential for also sending along easy-to-read receipts, photos of whiteboards, and scans of other documents–whether for work or …

HP Veer James Martin/CNET AT&T just made the announcement on its newest arrival, and it’s a cute little thing. The itty-bitty HP Veer 4G will be available from the carrier starting May 15 in either black or white for a very affordable $99.99 on contract. First introduced back in February, the WebOS 2.1-based smartphone is most notable for its diminutive …

We got 9900 problems but a choice of networks ain’t one — Vodafone and Three have confirmed they’re planning to sell the newly announced BlackBerry Bold 9900, and O2 has just revealed to CNET UK that it will also offer the 9900. The 9900 was revealed yesterday by BlackBerry-makers RIM at BlackBerry World in Florida, which is either a conference …

AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and T-Mobile USA are scaling back plans for a mobile payment system that will allow people to buy things with their cell phones, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal today. NFC (near-field communication) chips are embedded in phones and talk to the merchant’s payment console. CNET In November the companies announced that they had …

BlackBerry mobile devices will in future have the Bing search engine as default, its makers RIM have announced. An apparently surprise visit to the BlackBerry World conference by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer publicly sealed the deal. So are Google’s days of dominance in desktop and mobile search fading fast? Although savvy users will still be able to choose which search provider …

With the new Comic Life app for iPad, anyone can star in a personalized comic book. Plasq For the first time since it was announced, I officially want an iPad 2. Why? So I can snap photos with it and instantly turn them into cool, custom comic books with Comic Life ($7.99). A camera-equipped iPad isn’t a requirement, of course, …

Facebook and Google are reportedly pondering either an acquisition of Skype or a joint venture and strategically the two buyers couldn’t be more different. Reuters reports that Facebook and Google are pondering some sort of deal with Skype, which delayed an IPO. Talks are very early so it’s unclear what will happen if anything. But let’s zoom out a bit. …