Geeks will always tell you to get the latest and greatest product on the market, but sometimes choosing a previous generation product will satisfy your needs without breaking the bank. In this week’s column I answer a question from a reader who needs a new iPhone and can’t decide whether to get the older-generation iPhone …

T-Mobile has announced that it will implement its $14.99 monthly unlimited tethering and mobile Wi-Fi hot-spot plan starting November 14. This will be on top of any data plan you purchase, and the phone must support this feature in the first place. Right now those phones include the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G, the T-Mobile G2, and the LG Optimus T, with …

The end of 2010 is close and it looks like AT&T is beefing up its device portfolio and app offerings for a day when it isn’t the only U.S. operator offering the Apple iPhone. Earlier this week, the nation’s second largest wireless operator launched the first Microsoft Windows Phone 7 phones, and it also added two new Android smartphones to …

ARM engineer David Gilday has combined the Google Nexus One, some Lego and a Rubik’s cube, in a tech demo that can only be described as the geek Holy Grail. We bow before him. Gilday’s Lego Mindstorm robotics kit untangled a Rubik’s cube puzzle in 12.5 seconds using HTC Android software, deviceguru.com reported from the US ARM tech conference. This …

The M360 may not be exciting, but it works. Josh Miller/CNET Soon after I posted the news of Sprint’s new Samsung M360 last week, I received a few e-mails from CNET readers wondering why such a simple phone was worthy of our attention. As reader sdf0013 put it in the comments section of the blog, the M360 news was “out …

The iPhone, iPad and iPod touch are about to have their first Lego video game, Harry Potter: Years 1-4, just as the next Harry Potter movie is about to be released. The game is arriving soon for iOS, according to our sister site CNET.com, hopefully before the movie’s premiere on November 19. Owners of the Apple devices will soon have …

Cricket TXTM8 3G Cricket announced the TXTM8 3G today, which is really a rebranded TXTM8 II. As the name suggests, the TXTM8 3G now has 3G support in the form of tri-band EVDO. It’s a simple slate-style QWERTY messaging phone, with a 2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5-mm headset jack, a music player, and support for up to 16GB microSD …

The U.K. government should offer tax credits to businesses that upgrade their networking equipment to support IPv6, according to Vint Cerf, who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the internet. Cerf, who co-invented TCP/IP, said on Thursday that businesses in the U.K. and the rest of Europe risked being cut off from customers in parts of the …

Details of a new Samsung Android Gingerbread super phone have leaked on the Web — and no, it isn’t the Google Nexus S, which we wrote about two minutes ago. Slides which purport to describe Samsung’s next flagship device have been published by Engadget. Aimed for a February 2011 release, it has some very impressive hardware specs that make it …

The HTC Desire HD is many things. It’s a fabulous phone, which means you can talk to any one of 4 billion people almost anywhere you go on the planet. No prince, king or emperor before the 21st century, no angel of legend or wizard of myth, could dream of such a thing. How cool is that? It plays music …