Hold on to your YouTube — Adobe has confirmed that Flash Player 10.1 will come to the mobile version of Internet Explorer that’s on Windows Phone 7 Series. It won’t be available on the first WinPhev phones, but Adobe’s Mike Chambers wrote on his blog that Adobe and Microsoft are busy as beavers making it …
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Are you one of the very, very few people who’ve spent buckets of money in the Windows Marketplace app store? If so, take a deep breath and try to remain calm — Microsoft has announced that apps for Windows Mobile won’t run on its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series operating system. That means you won’t be able to bring your apps over …
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The Samsung M1, which hopes to bring you and your friends so close you start wearing matching BFF t-shirts, is now on sale on Vodafone’s Web site. Along with its more expensive sibling, the Samsung H1, the M1 is built to show off the Vodafone 360 social-networking service. If your friends have one of these phones too, you can use advanced …
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Our appetite for YouTube knows now bounds, whether it be an afternoon of demolition fails or merely a little taste of rocket-powered trucks. So we’re always glad to hear about an improvement to the YouTube app that can slake our autotune addiction. Google has released a new version of the YouTube app for Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 phones — …
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The Samsung Genio family of budget mobiles is growing. You can already choose from a full touchscreen phone, the Samsung Genio, or the BlackBerry-inspired Samsung Genio Qwerty, which sports a Qwerty keyboard but lacks a touchscreen. As of today, you can get a bit of both with the Genio Slide — also known as the Genio Pro — a touchscreen …
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The iPhone 3GS has some cool voice-control features — you can call contacts and play songs, for example — but Vlingo adds Jedi-like levels of mind tricks with the latest version of its iPhone app. Open the app and tap the giant button to search the Web, dial your phone, update Twitter and Facebook, or search Google Maps. You can …
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That’s right, we said it — and we’re not taking it back. The iPhone may be the greatest handheld surfing device ever to rock the mobile Web, and a fabulous media player to boot. It may be the highest-rated mobile phone on CNET UK, rocking the pockets of half of our crack editorial team. It’s certainly the touchscreen face that …
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Last month, we shared the sad story of how our brand-new Google Nexus One went from Crave fave to purple nurple, with a cracked screen that scarred its beautiful AMOLED screen forever. We took our Nexus One to HTC support — under encouragement from Google — and it promised to investigate fully. Now the results are in, and HTC tells …
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The safety-bespectacled boffins at Google Labs have released a new gesture-search app for phones running Android 2.0 or later, such as the Google Nexus One and the Motorola Milestone. Google Gesture Search is just handwriting recognition — draw letters on the screen with your finger and it searches your phone. We took it for a test-drive and we were impressed …
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Following a tariff overhaul by T-Mobile last month, O2 is the latest network to revamp its monthly contracts. The original home of the iPhone is launching a new SIM-only tariff and updating its contracts for phones and mobile broadband dongles. If you’ve already got the phone you want, SIM-only deals tempt you with cheap rates for just the SIM card …
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