Last week I asked you whether you consider the carrier or the cell phone first when you’re buying a new handset. In my experience, I expected most respondents to say that the carrier was top of mind, but I was surprised by just how many people fell into that camp. Of the 4,443 respondents (at …

Bonnie Cha/CNET The period between Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 launch event and our first reviews hitting the Web was a bit of a blur to me. There was a lot to cover, many workshops to attend, numerous phones to be tested, blah, blah, blah. But now that the dust has settled, I thought it would be a good time to …

Garmin and Asus said today they won’t introduce any new co-branded Nuvifones going forward, but will support the handsets already in consumers’ hands. It remains to be seen what this means for Nuvifones, which combine a mobile phone with GPS device. Regardless, Asus won’t be making them, according to a statement. At the least, the Nuvifone line is being rethought …

The tale of the not-yet-announced PlayStation phone continued today after Engadget posted photos of a Sony Ericsson slider handset sporting full gaming controls and the Android OS. Sony Ericsson has yet to confirm the existence of such a device, but the photos certainly look like the real thing. From the outside, the GSM smartphone shares only a passing resemblance to …

T-Mobile USA wireless subscribers will soon be allowed to use their smartphones as modems to bring Internet access to other devices including laptops, a T-Mobile representative confirmed today. The blog the Boy Genius Report first reported the news, citing an internal memo from T-Mobile that outlined the new plan. According to the memo, starting November 3, smartphone subscribers with an …

Is this the Droid Incredible HD? Boy Genius Report Back in August, the Boy Genius Report posted the first images of what was said to be an Evo 4G-like device destined for Verizon. Described as polished and being at the “very upper-end of the market,” the images of the phone revealed a sleek handset with a 4.3-inch touch screen, an …

Orange spends a fortune telling you to turn off your phone during a movie, but new customer research suggests it should probably put a little more focus on its iPhone services. The company was rated the lowest in terms of customer satisfaction for iPhone users, with 15 per cent planning to move to a different network, according to YouGov’s iPhone …

Dell’s first foray into smart phones, the Venue Pro, has shown up priced and tagged with a release date, together with a load of new specs. The Windows Phone 7 handset with Qwerty keyboard will be available for £500 on November 8, on the Expansys website. This is the only Windows Phone 7 mobile currently offered SIM-free. Microsoft has kept …

When the Apple Store app first arrived on iPhones, it was little more than a shopping portal for Apple goods. With the latest update, however, new features have arrived to make this app a keeper for any Apple customer who frequents a retail store. The biggest of these is a retail store button that can not only book Genius Bar …

Adobe Systems is working with several digital ad companies to create a new format for mobile ads that can tap into Flash or HTML5. EyeWonder ad Adobe Announced today at the Adobe Max developers conference, the collaboration will define two full-screen ad formats in a bid to create a new industry standard for mobile device ads. Though geared toward devices …