You no longer have to be a member of the BlackBerry Beta Zone to try out BlackBerry Protect. RIM over the weekend opened up its beta of the service that helps remotely protect your personal information on lost or stolen phones. The service mimics others (like Microsoft’s My Phone and Apple’s MobileMe), and includes GPS …

The Samsung Suede is attuned to music, that we know. In fact, its bundling with Cricket Wireless’ Muve Music service is what made us nominate it as a Best of CES contender, and makes the Suede one of the best music phones around. In terms of offering all-inclusive music for a great monthly deal, the Suede and Muve Music deliver. …

If you enjoy watching Flash video on your iPhone browser, you’ll want to check out Skyfire 3.0 for iPhone, updated today. Skyfire is a WebKit-based alternative to the iPhone’s default Safari browser that uses Skyfire Labs’ servers to render pages more speedily by first compressing data before delivering it–up to 85 percent, the company claims. However, the app’s most significant …

Starting today, SoundHound Infinity for iPhone ($4.99) gets infinitely more useful. The latest version, SoundHound Infinity 3.6.1, includes a recommendations feature that suggests other songs you’ll like based on the ditty you’ve just chosen to identify, either through recorded “tagging,” text, humming, or singing the tune into the app. SoundHound uses a proprietary engine based on intelligence collected from a …

Opera Software and London-based phone maker Inq Mobile have penned a deal to preload Opera Mini 5 browser on several Android smartphones, as well as feature phones. The U.K. will be the first to receive the models this month, followed by Australia and other European, Asian, and North American markets (Canada) in which Inq Mobile operates. Opera Mini is known …

Starting today, Evernote’s popular note-taking app for iPhone and iPod Touch will have more than a few new features and enhancements. The design is cleaner in Evernote 4 as a whole, and changes include everything from a revamped home screen and note-taking screen to new capabilities–like removing attachments you no longer want or need and adding multiple images at a …

The Motorola Droid Pro is a fair approximation of a BlackBerry handset, minus the inferior keyboard and the fact that it doesn’t come close to matching Research In Motion’s security measures. Add the Divide for Android app, launching today in private beta, and suddenly the handset has a chance of fulfilling business professionals’ Android dreams. The awkwardly named Enterproid start-up …

What use are the basics if you can’t get ’em right? It never ceases to astound us when simple candy bar and flip phones–their one job being to make calls and send text messages–botch call quality or offer up a cramped dial pad or keyboard for composing messages. The Samsung T259 is thankfully one of its breed that does live …

Just because a phone doesn’t cost an arm and a leg doesn’t mean you should settle for shoddy call quality. In fact, we know of several high-end smartphones that bulk up with features while audio clarity suffers, proving once again that there’s no correlation between the price tag and a satisfying calling experience. With that in mind, here are six …

In addition to accessing faster network speeds, T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S 4G will also get another kind of access. Phone owners who purchase movies and TV episodes through Samsung’s Media Hub will now be able to lump those fees in with their monthly phone bills.  Carrier billing is a convenience that ties phone-related expenditures to a service plan rather than …