Apple iPad: Coming to a Verizon Store Near You

Verizon Wireless customers everywhere are doing a happy dance because the cell network announced it will start selling the luxury tablet from Apple before the end of the month. The news that Verizon Wireless will start selling the Apple iPad on October 28 makes the rumors of a Verizon iPhone more plausible because now there [...]

BlackBerry-Apple Harmony

BlackBerry users are loyal because we sleep with the smartphone and have grown accustomed to the keyboard, which enables typing at standard work speed. When AT&T launched the Torch , CrackBerry users were hoping it would quell the desire to one day switch to the iPhone. That didn’t happen because the pressure to move the [...]

Droids For All! The Dirt on Samsung’s Cross-Carrier Droids

The mobile phone market is one that proves we modern humans want it all, in every aspect of our lives. Even when faced with a dizzying selection of cell phone and smartphone options, we still find some are lacking. They are expected to take photos and videos, function as a phone and an Internet browser, [...]

The Subsidized Mobile: The Mobile Advertising Revolution

The Dirt: Long the easiest target for media folks, teenagers around the world might actually get paid in the future for using their mobile devices, that is if they can handle an influx of advertisements. Welcome to the future, where product pushing infiltrates every medium. Next up: your cell phone. As print publishing dies a [...]

Google Vs. Sony: Future Mobile Applications

The Dirt: The question for mobile users everywhere should be not what is your carrier doing for you, but what are manufacturers doing for the consumer. Take a close look and you’ll see carriers are just the lucky middlemen who knew enough to create networks and pitch cell phone makers for exclusive contracts. What would [...]

Mobile Civil Liberties: The Android, The Bold and The Treo Pro

The Dirt: Perpetually connected, the mobile addict is a constant consumer and that’s just what is helping forge alliances between mobile phone makers, software developers, cell phone carriers and advertising companies. Amid a bear market, while the housing and stock markets continue to slump, the mobile phone rumor mill is buzzing, as Palm prepares for [...]