Vertu announces the Constellation Blue and Constellation Quest Blue

Vertu, in collaboration with Italia Independent, has announced two new phones, the Constellation Blue with a touchscreen and the Constellation Quest Blue with a QWERTY keypad. As is usual for Vertu phones, both the devices are hand made and use exquisite materials such as blue carbon fiber composite for the back plate and the earpiece cushion, blue...

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ASUS VivoTab RT for AT&T goes official with Windows 8

Alongside the 11.6" Samsung slate we just told you about, AT&T announced the upcoming ASUS VivoTab RT Windows 8 tablet with LTE connectivity. Like the HTC One X+ for the US carrier, the ASUS offering will bring NVIDIA silicon and 4G LTE under the same roof. ASUS VivoTab RT official photo The ASUS VivoTab RT packs NVIDIA’s next-generation quad-core Tegra 3 TE processor...

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AT&T unveils Samsung ATIV Smart PC with 11.6" display

AT&T added the Samsung ATIV Smart PC to its lineup of 4G tablets. The Windows 8 slate features an imposing 11.6" display, which makes it one of the most formidable around. Samsung ATIV Smart PC official photo The Samsung ATIV Smart PC is powered by an Intel Clover Trail 1.5 GHz dual core processor, and features 64GB of built-in memory, which can be further expanded...

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Google gets Street View back on the iPhone via Web-based Maps update

If you're an iPhone user who's been missing Google's Street View feature since upgrading to iOS 6, you'll be pleased to know you can now access it via your mobile browser of choice. Google has brought its Street View tool to mobile browsers, a move likely to please a number of iOS 6 users missing the function on their Apple device after the Cupertino wiped...

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AT&T is the first US carrier to offer the Samsung Galaxy Camera

AT&T Wireless announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Galaxy Camera today. As you probably know by now, the device is a marriage of a point and shoot camera and an Android smartphone. Samsung Galaxy Camera for AT&T official photo The Samsung Galaxy Camera for AT&T is powered by a 1GHz quad-core CPU. It boots TouchWiz-ed Android 4.1 Jelly Bean...

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HTC One VX hands-on photo gallery

← Previous Next → We go hands on with the HTC One VX, a new budget phone for AT&T. Along with the One X+, today AT&T revealed that it will sell a new lower-end handset by HTC named the One VX. I was able to spend a few minutes with the One VX...

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Sprint may start bidding war with T-Mobile for MetroPCS

It may have appeared like the T-Mobile and MetroPCS merger was imminent, but Sprint has started to prepare a counteroffer to outbid Deutsche Telekom for MetroPCS. Sprint has sat firmly in the third spot on the list of biggest mobile carriers in the U.S. for some time. As of yesterday, that title received its first plausible threat at the announcement of...

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Jolla to demo MeeGo-based Sailfish OS at Slush Conference next month

Open-source OS codenamed Sailfish to embark from Finland Jolla's MeeGo-based OS is official saying "me too" in the crowded world of mobile operating systems. The Finnish smartphone start-up was rumored to introduce its new OS, codenamed Sailfish, as reported by TechRadar yesterday. Now the company is saying when and where. The Slush start-up conference...

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Wozniak: Apple should bring iTunes to Android

iTunes on Android? Fanciful thinking from Apple's co-founder Apple would be wise to bring iTunes to the rival Android mobile platform, according to the company's co-founder Steve Wozniak. In a Q&A session with Apple fans on the Slashdot website, Wozniak recalled Apple opening iTunes up to Windows PCs not too long after the iPod launched - kickstarting...

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Samsung Galaxy Cam gets its first U.S. wireless carrier with AT&T

AT&T will carry the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Camera, the first real stab at combining a point-and-shoot with a smartphone. The Samsung Galaxy Camera is becoming a hotly anticipated item, thanks to its recently announced Dropbox compatibility and next-gen, ultra-connected focus. And today, AT&T announced it will be supporting the 4G (HSPA+, most likely)...

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Microsoft to hold a Windows Phone 8 event on October 29

With its Windows 8 and Surface tablet launch event detailed, Microsoft has spilled the beans on its Windows Phone 8 launch event as well. Taking place in San Francisco on October 29 at 10:00 AM, the event will give us the long-awaited details on Windows Phone 8. Microsoft has been very secretive of the latest iteration of its mobile OS, so it's going to be quite an...

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HP CEO: no phone plans for 2013

Here's to an HP smartphone in half a decade Just a few short weeks ago, HP's CEO Meg Whitman divulged the company's plans to re-enter the smartphone arena. "We have to ultimately offer a smartphone because in many countries of the world [the smartphone] would be your first computing device," Whitman said as she claimed smartphones are quickly becoming the...

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The 12 hottest tablets coming out soon

We take a look at some of the hottest upcoming tablets, from Windows 8 designs like the Surface to the rumored iPad mini. Tablets are invading our schools, our offices, and our homes. Back in June, we heard that nearly a third of U.S. Internet users already own a tablet. The vast majority of them have an iPad, but Apple is no longer the only company at the...

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