Cell Phones News & Reviews

Sprint Takes On the Check-Cashers

LAS VEGAS—Check-cashing places and payday loan providers are the bottom-feeders of the financial industry. Serving people too poor, too undocumented, or too mobile to have real bank and credit card accounts,...
Hands On With Sprint’s Tri-Band Modems

LAS VEGAS—Sprint is all over the spectrum map. The “truly unlimited” carrier has a truly confusing array of airwaves, including old Nextel spectrum at 800 MHz, Sprint spectrum at 1.9 GHz,...
Samsung Galaxy S III Coming to Boost, Virgin Mobile Next Month

Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile are adding the Samsung Galaxy S III to their pre-paid smartphone lineups. The popular device will launch in June, running on Sprint’s 3G and 4G LTE...
Pantech Discover Review

…the Pantech Discover is more impressive than phones twice its price. It can’t compete directly with the Galaxy S4′s of the world, but for a $50 budget phone, it’s at the...
iPhone Loses Ground to Galaxy Lineup on Customer Satisfaction

Satisfaction with the wireless phone industry is making a comeback this year, gaining 2.9 percent after a two-year decline, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Satisfaction with wireless service...
Nvidia Shows 150Mbps Smartphone and More at CTIA

LAS VEGAS–Mobile Internet just not doing it for you? Want to download a movie in seconds? Nvidia showed off a prototype LTE-Advanced smartphone at the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas...
Hands On With the Kyocera Hydro Edge and Xtrm

LAS VEGAS– Kyocera’s new phones are all wet. The first two new smartphones announced at this year’s CTIA Wireless trade show, the Kyocera Hydro Edge and Hydro Xtrm bump up the...
Nokia Lumia 521 (T-Mobile) Review

The Nokia Lumia 521 for T-Mobile is a good smartphone for a great price, as long as you don’t mind Windows Phone’s lack of apps. (3.5 out of 5) Pros Good...
Huawei Ascend G510 Review

The Huawei Ascend G510 sits somewhere in the middle of the Chinese company’s Android range, squaring off against the likes of the Sony Xperia U, LG Optimus L5 II and...
The 10 Best Free iPad Apps

A tablet is only as good as its apps, and, fortunately, the iPad has plenty of them. It doesn’t matter if you have a full-size iPad or its cute baby brother...
CTIA 2013: Cat B15 Review

You probably know Cat or Caterpillar as the guys in yellow and black, makers of construction equipment and those boots the cool kids were wearing for a little while. Now you...
Samsung Offering $800K for Galaxy S 4 Apps Challenge

Calling all Android developers — if you have a great idea for an app, then you could win cold hard cash from Samsung. The electronics giant on Monday announced its Smart...
Calif. Teen Invents 20-Second Cell Phone Charger

What had you accomplished by the time you were 18? California native Eesha Khare won a $50,000 scholarship for inventing a supercapacitor that can charge a cell phone in about 20...
Jolla Taking Pre-Orders for First Sailfish OS-Powered Smartphone

Jolla, which has been working on the MeeGo-based Sailfish operating system, today unveiled its first smartphone, which is expected to hit the market by year’s end. The unnamed phone is currently...
Report: Samsung Galaxy S 4 Shipments Top 6M

Samsung has reportedly shipped 6 million Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphones and is on track to top 10 million by month’s end. According to South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, which cited...
Apple iOS Devices Approved for Use on Military Networks

The Defense Department this week gave its approval for employees to use Apple gadgets on agency networks. Specifically, government-issued Apple devices running iOS 6 are approved for use when connecting to...
Fastest Mobile Networks 2013: It’s Electric!

We’ve now broken 10,000 miles driving to test America’s cell phone data networks, and we’re still on the road. With our annual Fastest Mobile Networks project, we drive three Ford cars...
Samsung Galaxy S4 Review

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the most hotly anticipated smartphone ever from the Korean brand, and with a glut of top end features, it’s the most powerful and desirable device...
Sony Xperia Z Review

With a cutting-edge camera, a super-slim design and the ability to withstand life’s knocks and bumps (and Android Jelly Bean to boot) the Xperia Z is a phone that’s got...
Windows Phone Edges In on iOS, Android in Q1, Barely

While Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS continued to dominate the worldwide mobile OS market in the first quarter, Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform edged its way into third place, according to new...