News and talk radio app Stitcher, is gearing up for the presidential elections with a dedicated election service that allows users to follow their favorite candidate and get elections news from select sources. The Mobile Election Center tab inside the Stitcher app will give users a chance to get information directly from the different campaigns and also gather election-related news [...]

AT&T’s newest LTE phone, the HTC One X, is due to hit stores this Sunday, May 6 for $199 with contract. The phone looks like T-Mobile’s One S, which I reviewed last month, but has a larger, higher resolution Super LCD screen. T-Mobile, of course, doesn’t offer LTE service yet, which is a big difference between the otherwise very similar handset. I received [...]

LG is reportedly focused on Google Android smartphones and not new Microsoft Windows Phone handsets. Fierce Wireless reported the information on Monday and shared an LG representative’s official confirmation of this smartphone strategy. Why pass or hold off on a new platform? After losses in its mobile division, LG has bounced back as consumers are buying Android phones. LG [...]

The iPhones, the Androids, the iPads and hot-spots — whatever might be the devices, but one thing is for sure: the demand for mobile broadband is continuing to grow unabated. Two different reports, one from Akamai and another from Chetan Sharma show that we are using more mobile data in more places, and this is going to keep changing how we live, work, create and consume. Chetan [...]

MoTR 267 is 64:15 minutes long and is a 52.7 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: How big a deal is a $399 Galaxy Nexus? Toshiba Excite 10LTE – first thoughts e-books with lights: Nook GlowLight vs the Kindle Touch case with integrated light HTC Titan II, Matt likes [...]

Eighty-five percent of the global population owns mobile phones currently. This report forecasts the global handset market, examining the following regions: the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Pacific. Drivers for handset growth include an increased number of subscribers in developing countries, the rollout of 3G and 4G wireless networks, and shorter [...]

Microsoft’s effort to merge the Windows Phone look and feel with Windows 8 will pay off in the form of causing Google Android to “fade away.” So says Ville Aho, a European follower of the mobile industry, on his blog. There’s merit in Aho’s perspective as I’ve noted that while Apple and Microsoft are moving towards a user interface merger between [...]

Casual food restaurant chain T.G.I. Fridays has become the first national chain to incorporate a mobile payment option called Tabbedout, which will allow diners to open a tab and pay their bill right from their smartphone. The payment option is part of a new mobile app called Fridays that was launched this week. Users will now be able to fire up the Fridays app and enter their credit [...]

Apple acquired app discovery service Chomp earlier this year, betting that it would help make app discovery easier and better on its iTunes Appstore. The casualty of that acquisition is the Chomp for Android app which seems to have been discontinued. It is hard to figure out what is going to happen to Chomp’s deal with Verizon. Anyway, the upside of Chomp for Android being [...]

ZTE and HTC are both reportedly planning large smartphones that double as small tablets, with at least one of the two expected to include a stylus with the device. The idea is to compete against Samsung’s Galaxy Note, a 5.3-inch Android smartphone with a digital pen, even though many have suggested that consumers want neither a stylus with their phone nor a very large handset. ZTE, [...]

Zedge, a personalization app that sells ringtones and wallpapers, was one of the top five most downloaded free Android apps in 2011 according to Chomp with some 16 million active users. Now, it’s looking to use all the data it has on user tastes to help recommend free Android gaming apps via a new Mobile Games Channel on its Zedge app. The channel represents another effort [...]

It’s looking like a certainty that T-Mobile will carry the Galaxy Note: Two hints from earlier this week tipped us off and now a picture of a Samsung Galaxy Note with T-Mobile branding confirms the rumor. There’s no official word from T-Mobile, but the evidence is adding up for T-Mobile customers to get their own version of Samsung’s 5.3-inch Android smartphone [...]