LAS VEGAS–To no one’s surprise, Sprint kicked off CTIA 2010 here by announcing its first …

With literally hundreds of millions of mobile phones piling up in U.S. homes, how to profitably recycle these devices is a pressing question. Start-up eRecyclingCorps on Tuesday is scheduled to announce that its customer Sprint is offering a phone buyback program in which consumers can get money for older phones when they upgrade to a newer model. eRecycling Corp has …

Every year at CTIA, the show’s organizers hold an Emerging Tech Awards contest to pick the best products at the show. Samsung entered its previously announced Strive and Sunburst phones in the contest, but then it threw the SCH-U820 into the ring. When we arrived in Las Vegas, the SCH-U820 was nowhere to be found, and Samsung representatives declined to …