MetroPCS is making good on its Android commitment by announcing today the Samsung Admire, a mid-tier Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone. The Admire comes equipped with a 3.5-inch HVGA touch screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera and camcorder, a Swype virtual keyboard option, and an 800Mhz processor. It also...

The good: The LG Attune has a compact design that fits nicely in the hand. We like the sliding QWERTY keyboard, and call quality is not bad. While not advanced by any means, it does at least have rudimentary multimedia features. The bad: The LG Attune is saddled with a small resistive touch-screen display...

We’ve all experienced it on our smartphones: long waits for buffering videos, apps that hiccup when your Net connection cuts out, and webpages that take forever to load. According to experts, what we are experiencing are hints of an impending wireless broadband drought. As smartphones and tablets...

The good: The Samsung Freeform III has excellent call quality and an effective QWERTY keyboard. The bad: The slippery handset kept getting away from us, photo quality was so-so, and we experienced some browser problems. Battery life is too short. The bottom line: Thanks to great call quality and its sturdy...

Verizon made a bit of a boo-boo this morning and accidentally revealed the BlackBerry Bold 9930. It was unveiled in the “Explore Features” video on the product page for the BlackBerry 9650; instead of a movie of the 9650, viewers were treated to a sneak peek of the 9930 instead. That video is now...