The iPhone 4 is far more prone to accidents than its predecessor — the iPhone 3GS — due to its glass front and back, according to research from a US warranty provider. iPhone 4 owners reported 82 per cent more damaged screens in the first four months compared to iPhone 3GS owners, according to San …

Dell has announced its first smart phone that should make its way to the UK market, the Dell Venue Pro. It premiered at the Windows Phone 7 launch in London and will use Microsoft’s new mobile OS. Dell confirmed specs and images of the Venue Pro in a corporate blog post. It has a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen and a Qwerty …

LG has lifted the covers off its first Windows Phone 7 mobile, the LG Optimus 7, and then swiftly put the covers back on. The debut of the smart phone was announced on the official LG blog, which Recombu spotted, but the blog post was quickly taken down as it was ahead of this afternoon’s official Microsoft unveiling. We suspect …

The Omnia 7 GT-i8700, the first of Samsung’s Windows Phone 7 handsets, has been officially announced. Ahead of the launch of Microsoft’s new mobile operating system this afternoon, Samsung’s Russian arm revealed details about the new smart phone on its website. Video and photos of the handset have been leaked previously. The Omnia 7 looks like a goodie, with a 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 processor, a 4-inch Super AMOLED …

The LG Optimus 7 is the latest to receive the Windows Phone 7 leak treatment. Thanks to MobileTechWorld we’ve got a pretty lengthy 20-minute walk-through of the Optimus 7, originally called the E900. Unfortunately it’s in Czech, and none of us have much experience in Eastern European languages, but you can still see the main features of Windows Phone 7, …

Forget Android 2.2 — early next year may see the debut of the Droid T2, a new Motorola super phone running Android 3.0 Gingerbread on an Nvidia dual-core Tegra 2 processor. The unstoppable killer robot phone is secretly being worked on by development teams at Motorola (who clearly don’t realise they’re threatening the future of humankind), according to an article …

Orange will exclusively offer the HTC 7 Mozart, while Vodafone is the only one with its hands on the HTC 7 Trophy. Both are among the first Windows Phone 7 handsets and will be available from 21 October. The availability of the HTC 7 Mozart was already leaked by Orange, but exclusivity is something of a coup for the network. …

Official press images of the LG Optimus 7 have leaked, five days before we expect to see it premiered as one of the Windows Phone 7 launch devices on 11 October. The pictures floated on to the Web thanks to German site BestBoyz.de. The images can be seen here — it’s slim, but hardly ground-breaking. We saw a video of …

Smart-phone makers using Android are the fastest-growing companies in terms of the number of handsets they’re shipping, according to new research from iSuppli. Catching up to Apple is great news for Google, of course, but also developers of Android apps — and the people who use them.  HTC led the industry in growth, with smart phone shipments rising by a …

The design of Apple’s iPhone 4 has come under renewed scrutiny, following claims that slide-on cases may cause the device’s glass back to crack. The allegations come only months after problems with the phone’s antenna were first reported. According to an article by Ryan Block, co-founder of gdgt, the problem is that slide-on cases, as opposed to cases that pop on, can trap material between the case and …