Today MetroPCS announced that it has launched its cellular services in the Waco, Texas metropolitan region. Waco marks the newest addition to MetroPCS’ footprint, which has been expanding rapidly of late. MetroPCS offers contract-free wireless services that start at $30 per month. MetroPCS already has a presence in Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Kilgore, Killeen, Longview, [...]

Today Verizon Wireless announced a new service that will alert users about inclement or dangerous weather conditions. The technology takes advantage of GPS and location-based information, can see where the subscriber is, and will issue an alert via text messag to the appropriate set of people in a given region if they are threatened by [...]

Broadcom announced a new EDGE chipset for 2G phones that can do many of the things that more powerful 3G chipsets can do. Some of the key features this new chip will bring to lower-cost 2G handsets include touch-based user interfaces with haptic feedback, accelerometers, advanced multimedia and increased Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity. The [...]

Today Leap Wireless announced a new service called Mobile Music, which is a new mobile storefront for Cricket subscribers to discover and download music. The service will cover both PCs and phones. Tracks will cost $1.99 each, or three for $5 to download directly to the phone. Cricket users can also choose to download songs [...]

ZTE today announced that it is preparing a whole line of new smartphones using both the Windows Mobile and Linux platforms. It will be showing off 10 new handsets, many of which will be for Vodafone and China Mobile. ZTE said the handsets will range from entry-level to high-end. ZTE didn’t say if it plans [...]

Today Sony Ericsson announced new handsets for its CyberShot and Walkman lines. Both phones are sliders that have quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, stereo Bluetooth, FM radios with RDS, and support Memory Stick Micro storage cards.

* C903a: This CyberShot phone has a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash. It also has Sony Ericsson’s, face detection, Smile [...]

Today Nokia announced the newest handset in its XpressMusic line, the 6530, a bar-style phone that runs S60 rather than Series 40. The 5630 integrates some of the elements seen in S60 5th Edition (which is used for the 5800 and N97), including the new Contact Bar, which lets users find and interact with their [...]

In response to the current economic situation, LG Electronics said that it is looking for ways to reduce expenses. Rather than consider layoffs or slashing capital expenditures, it hopes to save about $2.2 billion by reducing manufacturing costs and trimming unnecessary expenses. LG Electronics, parent company of LG Mobile, said that the company will invest [...]

The new beta version of Nokia maps will support devices running S60 Feature Pack 1, including handsets such as the N95 and E71. Maps 3.0 beta brings support for map rotation; a number of additional shortcut keys; better 2D/3D support with terrain and satellite integration; and the My Places has a option “Point me to” [...]

Google announced that an SDK for the latest version of Android, version 1.1, is available for developers. This new SDK has all the new APIs, as well as a new emulator. Firmware 1.1 was recently made available for the HTC G1.