Google’s Android mobile OS will dominate smart phones like Windows dominated the PC world, leaving the iPhone for dust. A bold statement for anyone to make, but all the more surprising when you learn it came from Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple. Android is suffering the same problems Windows had in its early days, …

The full version of Angry Birds for Android will be out by the end of today, and you’ll be able to download it for free. The release of the full, as opposed to demo, version has been delayed by a week. Ville Heijari, of Angry Birds developer Rovio, told us in an email that you can expect the game to finally make an appearance …

In what we can only term a Sony Ericsson fail, its new Android phone due out next year doesn’t look like it will be coming with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Instead the Xperia X12, also known as Anzu, will hit the market with Android 2.2 Froyo. It will get an update to Gingerbread, but not until late 2011, according to Russian …

RIM is turning up the heat on Apple in the big tablet showdown, releasing a video that appears to show that the BlackBerry PlayBook is faster at rendering certain web sites than the iPad. RIM’s film shows an employee from its web browser group testing a PlayBook and iPad side by side. The video concentrates on page rendering speed and …

A modern-day Derek Trotter has been threatened with jail for setting up a business that turns the normal, black iPhone 4 into the fabled, white iPhone 4. 17-year old New Yorker Fei Lam was responsible for setting up WhiteiPhone4Now. The site sells a DIY kit that allows you to take your iPhone 4 apart and replace the black covers with white ones, reports the New …

Rovio has been dropping titbits on the future of its mobile smash hit Angry Birds, with a new multiplayer game and console versions to come. There won’t be an Angry Birds 2 — for now — but a version of the hit game will tell the story from the point of view of the much-maligned pigs. Angry Birds will be …

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has shown off a new Gingerbread-running Android phone, which the entire world and its uncle have assumed is the Google Nexus S, the successor to the Nexus One. Google boss Schmidt didn’t reveal many details about the device, which had its brand label covered with a piece of tape, our sister site CNET.com reported from the web …

Although we love the iPhone 4, we do recognise its major flaw, which should be fatal for any mobile phone: it’s not very good at calling people. If you love it nonetheless, maybe you should completely forget about using it as a phone and carry another device with you for that purpose. John’s Phone was built to make and receive …

Vodafone’s firmware team are really cooking with gas this week. Not content with bringing out the HTC Legend Android 2.2 upgrade to owners before it hit unlocked handsets, Vodafone is also the first UK network to release the update for the Samsung Galaxy S. Vodafone revealed it had started the rollout on its forum, and owners ready to upgrade should …

Oh my. LG promised us Android Optimus phones powered by monstrous-sounding dual-core Tegra chips, and one has now shown its face to the world. The mobile pictured above is set to arrive early next year. It’s a 4-inch Android super phone carrying a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip and an 8-megapixel camera, capable of 1080p video recording. The phone is …