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If you're a Sprint customer and you're torn between the HTC Evo View 4G and the ZTE Optik, here's what you need to know. We generally don't recommend data plans for tablets, but some people do find them necessary, and because Sprint offers both of these tablets on their network, you get them at a subsidized price. Their on-contract prices standout because the Optik is $100 with a new two-year contract compared to the $250 for the View 4G.

ASUS took to their Facebook blog to remind their customers that the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update is coming to the Transformer TF101 tablet in February, but the exact date is yet to be announced.

Apple will reportedly unveil its next-generation iPad -- presumably called iPad 3 -- on March 7. But while most reports say Apple's third iPad will mirror the form factor of the iPad 2, is there a chance that Apple will release an 8-inch iPad instead?

Motorola announced their Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade timeline for the Droid Razr, and it won't get the update until July at the earliest. In fact, no Motorola products will get Android 4.0 until April at the earliest, and even then, the only device getting it is the Xoom Family Edition tablet. Other devices confirmed to get the upgrade starting in July are the Photon 4G on Sprint, Atrix 2 on AT&T and Droid Xyboard 10.1 and 8.9 tablets from Verizon.

According to a blog post written by Osama Bedier, vice president of Google Wallet and Payments, the company has repaired a weakness in the Google Wallet app that would have allowed anyone who picked up an Android phone with the application on it to make purchases with the original user's credit card.

The 109th American International Toy Fair 2012 kicked off this week at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center, New York City. The fair is bringing together more than 1,100 exhibiting manufacturers, distributors, importers and sales agents from around the globe to showcase their toys and entertainment products.

It was previously expected by many fans that Samsung would initially release the 32GB avatar of the very popular Galaxy Nexus. However, the recent post of the current status of the project has ended all such expectations.

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 currently runs on Android 3.0 or Honeycomb.

Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket HD, which was unveiled at the Consumer Electronic Show 2012 and is expected to be launched within few months, is a 9.27-millimeter sliver of a smartphone with an HD Super AMOLED screen (1280x720). The Nokia Lumia 900, which was launched at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday, is the first of Nokia's Windows Phone-based range to feature high-speed LTE connectivity.

Samsung's Galaxy S3 is heavily rumored to be the next big thing.

Samsung's Galaxy Note and Apple's iPhone 4S are two of the best phones on the AT&T network, but the Note is $300 on contract, and you can get a 16 gigabyte iPhone 4S for only $200. But, maybe that extra $100 is worth it. You could get the Galaxy Note or a 32 gigabyte iPhone 4S. Both devices are amazing, so if you are an AT&T customer, you truly have a big decision to make.

Baidu, China’s equivalent of Google, could report fourth-quarter earnings rose about 70 percent due to strong growth in usage and ad sales, analysts estimate.

The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S3 is apparently available to pre-order at a retailer called Kimstore, according to Yugatech, but the reality seems highly unlikely as Samsung hasn't even unveiled the smartphone yet.

Samsung is debuting Google's Android 4.0 system on a brand new seven inch tablet this March, and it's called the Galaxy Tab 2. The original Galaxy Tab came out in 2010, and Samsung is not inclined to add Android 4.0 to that device. Galaxy Tab 2 will debut in the UK, but there are no further details about a U.S. release or any pricing info. What Samsung has said is the Galaxy Tab 2 has many of the same exact features as the Galaxy Tab, but with more memory, internal storage and a slightly t...

Samsung Galaxy Note reviews are coming out in advance of its Feb. 19 release date. This roundup will tell you what people think of the phone with a pen.

Shares of Google are showing little reaction to approvals by both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission to its six-month pursuit of Motorola Mobility.

BlackBerry 10 phones, which will not be shipped until later this year, are again in the news due to some leaked images that were posted on Crackberry. The images of BB's much-hyped operating system show a great number of changes that have been incorporated including new user interface elements, implementation of home screen widgets on the devices, an updated icon tray with search, camera, and call buttons, quarter-screen widgets and so on.

Samsung Galaxy S2, which is known as the best Android smartphone yet, is going to get Ice Cream Sandwich update on March 1.

U.S. and European regulators approved Google Inc's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecom industry would be licensed at fair prices.

U.S. and European regulators approved Google Inc's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility on Monday and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecom industry would be licensed at fair prices.

Long-distance relationships are difficult to maintain, but a new app has been released just in time for Valentine's Day, which hopes those far-away partners even closer together. The app, called Closer ToGetHer, allows one partner to control the vibration function on the other's phone.