The third season of HBO’s critically acclaimed series The Wire had an important storyline about how the drug lords of Baltimore were using pre-paid cell phones, which they referred to as “burners”, to conduct their business.  They would buy two at a time from convenience stores because they could purchase them with cash and provide

If you don’t have a current AT&T data plan before June 7th (there’s that date again … funny how many think that is the day the iPhone HD is coming out), prepare to get jerked around on pricing but hard. AT&T is doing away with unlimited data plans across the board as of June 7th,

The InterContinental Hotels Group is preparing to test a new system that will allow you to forgo getting a key for your room, and just use your smartphone to open the door. One of the largest hotel chains in the world, the InterContinental Hotels Group consists of the chains InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Staybridge Suites,

Last Fall, Motorola deployed what would be the first of many handsets carrying the Droid surname through an advertising campaign that that helped the device become the huge success it was.  More recently, HTC released the Droid Incredible, arguably the best Android device to date.  It seems we’re not far from seeing the next handset

The reports for the first quarter of this year, a mere three month period of Jan. through March, keep rolling in and showing us that phone sales are just through the roof.  You have to wonder where they keep finding enough customers to purchase all these handsets, but the manufacturers somehow keep pulling it off.

In June 2009, HTC announced the Hero handset which would be powered by Google’s Android operating system.  Through out July of that year the phone began shipping through out Europe.  On Oct. 11th, 2009, the phone released in the United States with the carrier Sprint.  Since that time it has gone on to more carriers

Something you never hear mentioned in all of those Sprint 4G commercials is the fact that the network is actually powered by a partner company named Clearwire.  While there is nothing wrong with Sprint teaming up with someone else for something such as this that will be such a huge investment, what may be wrong

Mobile Suit Gundam premiered on Japanese television on April 7, 1979, and since that time it has spawned an endless number of television series, OVAs (Original Video Animation, i.e. straight to video productions) and movies.  The series was an instant hit, and in July 1980, the first Gundam plastic model kit, also known as “Gunpla”

Ever since Apple bought the music streaming service Lala, people have assumed some form of music streaming service was coming from the makers of the iPhone.  With Lala due to close at the end of this month, we still haven’t heard what Apple’s plans are, but at least one other company isn’t waiting around to

From the “color me not that surprised” department comes the news that Google is going to stop selling the Nexus One directly to consumers.  Apparently no one told Google that dealing with the public in a retail format wasn’t the easiest venture in the world. While it seemed that Google wanted to set the cell

Should we even bother calling them cell phones any more?  They do so much more than that now that it seems we barely ever make phone calls on them any more, and now there is research and data that backs this up. According to The New York Times, the length of the average cell phone

Although HP’s acquisition of Palm hasn’t been completed, the tech world is undoubtedly eager to see what will make its way out the HP labs flavored with Palm’s technologies.  HP’s late April announcement of the Palm buyout was followed by an affirmation that they would be scaling WebOS across multiple form factors.  The most intriguing?

Apparently Microsoft seems to have forgotten teenagers don’t have a ton of money when they set the pricing of its new Kin 1 & Kin 2 phones, let alone the monthly fees. The Kin 1 is going to sell for $49.99 after a $100 mail-in rebate and two year contract, and you can pick up

All you teens are a mischievous bunch, always getting into trouble and doing the opposite of what your parents tell you.  In a time where cell phone popularity is at an all-time high, it’s interesting to see how those same teens rack up the cell phone bill through more than enough texting and sometimes while driving.  Check

While the feud between Apple and Adobe is at an all-time high, Adobe is sticking to their belief that Flash has a place in the mobile world.  With Google working to bring Flash to its Android phones, it seems Adobe has found at least one home in the mobile world.  Now that we’re entering a

T-Mobile announced this past week that it would no longer be charging for overages if you go over the 5 GB limit on its data plans.  While this is a cause for some rejoicing, there is downside that the mobile carrier will instead throttle your speed.  How bad will it be?  Well, a sales rep

One of the key things Steve Jobs mentioned during the unveiling of the iPad was how people who had used the iPhone and/or iPod Touch would know how to use the iPad instantly.  This is a great selling point as it allows Apple to sell huge numbers of the device even to those people who

It isn’t often that technology bloggers get taken totally off guard, but just such an event has happened with HP acquiring Palm. As recently as last week, Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein was claiming that Palm would attempt to stay independent, but there was talk that buyers were reviewing a possible purchase and quickly backing away.

Back in early January when the Nexus One was announced, Google already had plans to bring a CDMA flavor of its flagship device to Verizon sometime in the spring of ’10.  If you were holding out, convinced the Nexus One would be your device of choice, it looks like Google is instead directing you to

Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Palm has retained banking advisers to assist with the possible sale of Palm to another company. The once king of the PDA market and a pioneer in the smartphone sector has fallen on hard times with its Palm Pre and Palm Pixi failing to live up

During the first iPhone keynote, Steve Jobs said it was five years ahead of the competition.  We’re drawing closer to the fourth generation iPhone, almost three years after the release of the first.  In that timespan, nearly every mobile competitor has tried their hand at dethroning the device but first they had to play catch

Now that the Droid Incredible has been made official only days away from its release, early impressions look to crown Verizon’s best handset.  With Sprint’s upcoming EVO 4G, T-Mobile’s Nexus One, and AT&T’s unofficial/unannounced iPhone HD, it’s shaping up to be a summer filled with some tough competition.  No matter which of the big four carriers you’re on

Lets not waste any time kids, Dell went berserk it seems, and Engadget got a hold of information on five new phones and two tablets … because everyone has to have a tablet.  I think it’s just been passed into law.  I’m releasing my own tablet soon. All kidding aside, lets dive in and go

The Kin phones Microsoft unveiled last week are neither smartphone nor dumbphone but rather something between the two.  With an integrated social networking twist like we’ve seen on the Motorola Devour, the Kin devices are targeted towards a younger demographic consumed in Twitter and Facebook. Is it strange then that the Kin pricing will make

The smartphone market is sure where the entire cellular market seems to be headed, but once you reach a saturation point with this technology, where do you go next?  For the time being, speed is certainly being worked on with the WiMax and LTD initiatives to bring us faster mobile broadband.  Applications are being developed