Frustrated the latest version of Android is taking an age to come to your phone? Don’t blame Google, or even the manufacturer for putting its own UI on top of the Android operating system. No, the complexity of modern hardware is to blame. According to a Motorola executive, that is. Christy Wyatt, senior vice president …

Now this is intriguing. Sony has trademarked the name ‘Xperia Sola’, Pocketnow reports. Thanks to the Xperia moniker, we know it’s the name of a phone, but exactly which handset is a complete mystery. Could it be a forthcoming solar-powered effort? (Stranger things have happened in the world of mobile recently.) Or will the Xperia S get a new name …

Apple’s standalone TV set — the one Steve Jobs mentioned to biographer Walter Isaacson — is looking more real by the day. Now it’s made an appearance in a recent customer survey from US retailer Best Buy, The Verge reports. ‘Apple HDTV’, as it’s called in the questionnaire about possible future products, is the first on the list, hinting Best …

How quickly these things happen. Motorola succeeded yesterday in forcing Apple to pull several of its iPad and iPhone models from sale in Germany, following a patent dispute. But just a few hours later, Apple had succeeded in overturning the ban, the BBC reports. Though Germans may still lose push email in iCloud, following a separate ruling. Can’t we all …

Looking at the iPhone now, it’s hard to think how it was originally conceived. How do you go about asking a team to come up with one of the world’s most iconic gadgets? Steve Jobs didn’t mention apps, or media, or even a touchscreen. “His [charge] was simple,” former iPhone product marketing manager Bob Borchers said during a recent lecture …

Here’s something for Google’s senior vice president of mobile Andy Rubin to tweet about — shipments of Android smart phones grew a phenomenal 250 per cent in the last three months of last year, accounting for 52 per cent of all handsets shipped that quarter, according to market analysts Canalys, The Wall Street Journal reports. Over the year as a …

Nokia’s Lumia 900, the big brother to the Lumia 800, may well be coming to the UK after all. The top-notch Windows Phone briefly popped up for pre-order over at Play.com, although it’s since disappeared from the online retailer. There was no date given for the Mango-running smartie, and no price, but until it was pulled you could choose to …

Your next smart phone could be powered by an Intel chip, if a report from The Korea Times is to be believed, CNET reports. It says LG is preparing to show off an Intel-powered Android handset at CES in January, and it even quotes spokespeople from both companies backing it up. When LG was contacted for an official line however, …

Many’s the time we’ve been told off for playing on our iPad when we should be working — but we’re not controlling hundreds of tonnes of metal. Pilots in the US, however, are now officially allowed to use them while flying their planes. The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has approved the gadget for use by American Airlines pilots while a mile …

The iPad 3 will have a quad-core processor, and an HD screen that’s a higher resolution than some TVs, according to sources, Bloomberg reports. It’ll also come ready to play with LTE super-fast broadband, the sources say. We’ve heard these rumours before, but Bloomberg quotes three people who are familiar with the product, hinting that these could be the real …