A leaked screenshot suggests that you’ll be able to download unlimited music for around £9 a month if you buy a mobile running Windows Phone 7. WMPoweruser.com leaked a screenshot of the Zune desktop software, showing the pricing for a ‘Zune Pass‘ in Britain. The Zune music platform is currently available in the US and Microsoft may launch it here before Christmas, to coincide with …

Music-identification app Shazam has been updated for the iPhone and iPod touch, making it even easier to pin a name on that unknown tune you keep humming. Shazam’s music-recognition technology allows you to use your mobile phone to recognise a song wherever it’s playing. You hold your phone up to the sound source and the recorded clip is run through a database of 8m tracks …

In a hint of what might happen when we see it over here, the BlackBerry Torch‘s US debut has opened with an overwhelming feeling of ‘meh’. Early indications are the best you could say about sales of RIM’s new device is they were ‘mixed’, with Goldman Sachs calling sales “underwhelming”. The Wall Street Journal quoted analysts who estimated 150,000 Torch …

O2 is the latest operator to make a hash of upgrading handsets to Android 2.2. A Froyo update for the HTC Desire went live this morning and was then promptly suspended, due to reported problems with installing it. On the O2 forums, one user, Potzy, said that his O2-branded HTC Desire had prompted him to install a system update. But, in his next entry, he …

Sony is launching its Qriocity premium video streaming service in the UK, hogging some of the buzz created by the launch of Apple TV. At the IFA 2010 show in Berlin, Sony said it was expanding the service from the US to Britain in the autumn. It has been available in across the Atlantic since April. What Qriocity (pronounced curiosity) …

The Royal Mail is dragging itself kicking and screaming into the 21st century with a new ‘intelligent’ stamp, which can be read using image recognition technology by your iPhone or Android devices. The ‘intelligent’ stamp is a claimed world first, incorporated in Royal Mail’s latest Great British Railways edition. The way it works is very simple. You need an app …

Virgin Media is offering a good-looking deal for those students who are looking for a BlackBerry smart phone, but can’t quite afford a new top-of-the-range model. Available is the Qwerty keyboard and 2-megapixel camera sporting entry-level Blackberry Curve 8520 for £12 a month, or £10 per month if you’re an existing Virgin Media customer with a TV package. Students with …

Motorola has launched a new version of its popular Milestone Android smart phone. We reported about the launch of the US version, the Droid 2, early last month. The Milestone 2 looks very similar, with a slide-out keyboard and 3.7-inch WVGA screen. But it’s underneath the body that we see the difference. The phone runs Android 2.2 Froyo and sports …

Fed up of bad connections and muffled voices on the other line? Orange says it has opened the way to a future of crystal-clear calling by allowing phones to make mobile High Definition (HD) voice calls. As we reported on back in January, the technology is supposed to improve the sound quality of traditional mobile calls by using the Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate …

If you’re on O2 and been abroad using your iPhone, have a careful look at your bills, as reports say that some of you are still getting unexpected and wrong data roaming charges. As we highlighted back in July, people on the Apple forums have been complaining about being charged for data roaming, despite disabling the feature in the iPhone settings. …