A new update has gone out for Palm’s webOS, and for once it does not include iTunes syncing.

Verizon’s commercials ridiculing AT&T’s 3G coverage may have sparked a lawsuit, but the company stands by the campaign saying the, “ads are true and the truth hurts.”

Palm stock surged 8 percent on reports that Nokia could acquire the struggling smartphone maker, but does Nokia really need yet another mobile platform?

The Gartner Group reported last week that the almost meteoric rise of the iPhone and the longer steady rise of the RIM Blackberry have been largely at the expense of Microsoft and their Windows Mobile platform.

Owners of Nokia phones need to be on the lookout for information about exchanging their cell phone chargers due to potential safety hazards.

Verizon Wireless is one of the biggest mobile phone carriers in the U.S. Like most carriers, the company enforces the early-termination policy in order to lock customers into two year contracts. The company has recently announced that starting this month the termination fee will nearly double in cost.

We have been hearing for years that technology tends to make people less social, replacing personal and non-virtual interaction with much less personal activities, but a new Pew poll says that may not be true.

Taking care of a baby can be difficult, especially when you have no idea why the baby is crying. It seems like someone has gone through great lengths to remedy this problem by developing a handy new app for the iPhone. Apparently, this new app will be able to translate your baby’s cries and also offers a remedy.

When the Motorola Android smartphone finally went on sale yesterday after a pre-release period full of hype and frenzy, the reaction of consumers at Verizon stores was not exactly red hot.

Without warning or any need based on it’s applications, iPhone gaming company Storm8 has been snooping on users’ cell phone numbers and storing them on their servers. Left unchecked, what other kind of malware might slip into the iTunes App Store?

In his review of the Motorola Droid, New York Times writer David Pogue tried to coin the phrase “App Phone” for the newest, high-end mobile devices, presumably because, well, you can install applications on them. While the newer platforms are getting a lot more attention from app developers, that’s not what makes them different.

The iPhone is a great product, of that there is very little debate. Even I, as an Apple hater, happily admit that the company outdid itself with this smartphone and truly left everyone else in their wake. However, as brilliant and innovative as the iPhone may be, it falls down on one key component – that of making phone calls. In essence, it’s not actually a very good phone.

Verizon has been drumming up press for it’s new DROID smartphone in commercials by showing a map of Verizon’s 3G coverage beside one of AT&T’s. Now AT&T has filed a lawsuit claiming that the map is misleading because it doesn’t include its 2G network coverage.

New York-based Peek Inc has launched a dedicated wireless device called the TwitterPeek meant entirely for tweeting on the go. However questions loom as to whether users need a device on top of their mobile phone to keep up with their tweets.

It appears that the iPhone may not be the runaway seller in China that it has been in other countries.

A surge in book-related releases for the iPhone has some people wondering if the device can displace the Kindle as a lower-cost e-reader. Or the question could be posed, “If you build it, will they read?”

The iPhone has gone on sale in China, ushering in a new wave of American – Chinese relations, based not on cold war tensions or brinkmanship, but on smartphone technology.