After months of wrangling against opposition from the FTC and the Justice Department, AT&T has finally admitted defeat in its attempt to take over rival cell carrier T-Mobile. By canceling the $39 billion deal, AT&T stands to lose almost $4 billion in cancelation fees to T-Mobile and, more...

Better get in line now: Verizon announced that the Samsung Galaxy Nexus will be available in stores and online starting tomorrow, December 15th. Retailing for $300 with a new two-year contract, the Galaxy Nexus is the first device in the United States to run Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). This is the...

The good: The HTC Wildfire S is a beautifully built Android 2.3 Gingerbread handset with a decent 5-megapixel camera and lots of additional software features. The bad: Without compatibility for MetroPCS’ LTE network, the Wildfire S is stuck at slow-as-slugs 2.5G speeds. Its small size makes it...

The good: The LG Nitro HD has a stunning 4.5-inch HD display, 1080p HD video, an 8-megapixel camera, and support for 4G LTE. There’s a 1.3-megapixel camera for video chats. The bad: There’s a pronounced camera shutter lag on the Nitro HD, and the battery drained faster than it should have. The...

Did you know your smartphone’s accelerometer can be used to steal keystrokes from a nearby keyboard? Using an iPhone 4 and some pirate software they wrote, a team of researchers at Georgia Tech has managed to capture complete sentences from a nearby keyboard with up to 80 percent accuracy. “The...