Apple is holding a musical extravaganza on Wednesday 1 September. A typically close-mouthed invitation has …

After a short period for preorders, Cricket’s first Android smartphone is now officially on sale. You can get the Sanyo Zio, aka the Kyocera Zio, for $249 with Cricket’s no-contract service. To go with the phone, Cricket also is offering a $55 per-month service plan that includes unlimited talk, text, picture mail, Web browsing, e-mail, and international text. As we’ve …

We already know that HTC is planning phones with Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system, but we didn’t expect the speaker-slider oddness that we’re seeing in photos leaked to Engadget. The phone — known as the HTC T8788, but sure to get a heroic, desirable nickname — is a slider, but instead of a keyboard, it’s got a speaker hidden …