John Callaham

MetroPCS will add 1GB of extra high-speed data to many of its plans, along with T-Mobile's Music Unlimited, which allows users to stream from 33 music services without impacting their data plan.

The Facebook Messenger app now has over 1,000 new emoji that are supposed to "better reflect gender and skin tones".

Archos is using CES 2016 to officially reveal two new Android smartphone lines. The Cobalt devices will go on sale in April while the Power smartphones will be available in May.

Pebble has released a new firmware update for its Pebble Time series of smartwatches. The update includes a new Weather app along with improvements to its health features.

The Microsoft Translation app for Android has been updated with a new offline translation engine, which allows the app to work without an Internet connection via downloadable add-in packs.

Sygic has updated its Family Locator app, allowing all users of the popular app to access its flight tracking feature for the first time.

Motorola's head of its design team, Jim Wicks, has departed the company to join the faculty at Northwestern University. Wicks had been with Motorola for 15 years.

Warner Bros. Interactive has added characters and gear based on the upcoming movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to their free-to-play mobile superhero fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us.

HERE Maps, the mobile mapping app that was sold by Nokia to a group of car companies, has released a major update. It also includes a name change to HERE WeGo.

Facebook is rolling out a new update that will add a number of live video features to the app. They include support for livestreaming within Facebook Groups and Facebook Events.

Developer Klab has released the Android version of its long-in-development mobile strategy game Age of Empires: World Domination as a free-to-play title.

AT&T has quietly revealed plans to offer the 5.7-inch LG G Vista 2 via a YouTube video. The smartphone does not yet have a price tag nor a release date from AT&T.

Google has updated its Google Translate app for Android, adding support for 20 more languages to its video text translation feature, for a total of 27 languages

A new over-the-air software update for the Huawei P8 lite is currently rolling out. It will add Android 5.1 Lollipop for owners of the unlocked smartphone.

Huawei has announced a partnership with Volkswagen that will enable the company's smartphones to "seamlessly" connect to the infotainment touch screen on some Volkswagen vehicles.

Verzion Wireless has now started selling the previously announced Droid Turbo 2 and Droid Maxx 2, the latest Android smartphones from Motorola.