The LG Optimus 3D and the LG Optimus Black will both be updated to Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich. The South Korean phonesmith revealed the good news in a post on its Facebook page. Earlier this month we heard that the Optimus 2X would be getting Ice Cream Sandwich, and now LG’s other high-end blowers …

iPhone sales have beaten Android sales for the first time in ages, statistics from October suggest, with the release of the iPhone 4S injecting fuel into Apple’s popularity rocket. Data from the incredibly named Kantar Worldpanel ComTech suggests that last month saw Apple nab a 42.8 per cent share of all smart phone sales, compared to Android’s 35 per cent. …

References to a slew of Apple gadgets have been uncovered in the developer beta build of iOS 5.1, with a new iPhone, new iPad and new Apple TV all getting name checked. Mention of the ‘iPhone5,1’ device indicates that a new iPhone is en route, and that it could be the redesigned iPhone 5 we spent most of this year …

Sony Ericsson Xperia phones released this year should be updated to Android 4.0 (aka Ice Cream Sandwich) by March, Xperiablog reports. The tip comes via Sony Ericsson Italy’s Facebook page, where a chap called Maurizio De Palma, who would appear to be the company’s head of marketing, has responded to a question about when Sony Ericsson’s Xperia blowers would be getting …

A pink version of its Galaxy S2 has landed in Sweden on Three, indicating that the rose-tinted mobile could be cheering up the UK very soon. The pink S2 is bound to please anyone who likes the idea of owning the 4.3-inch smart phone but finds the default black option a bit too morbid. Apart from the rose-tinted casing it looks …

Apple has mysteriously banished a first-of-its-kind subscription iOS app, which let you access a library of games for a monthly fee, TechCrunch reports. Historically, to get games onto your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch you had to download games individually. The new Play Instantly app from game developer Big Fish Games is different though, because once you download it, you …

LG is cutting the cloth and marking the patterns for a new Prada phone, dubbed the Prada phone 3.0, due for release next year. LG has released a teaser image of the trendy-as-you-like blower (see above) from which we can deduce that it will be a shiny black rectangle, with a great big touchscreen and a camera. How do you …

Samsung has a new ad that pokes fun at Apple, and in particular the enthusiastic Apple fans who queue up to buy new iGadgets on day one. We’ve embedded the video below, so scroll down to check it out for yourself. The ad doesn’t mention Apple by name, but sees a gaggle of trendy youths queueing around the corner at …

Google has acknowledged that Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphones, which use the newest version of Android OS, can spontaneously drop volume in the U.K. “We are aware of the volume issue and have developed a fix,” Google said today in a statement. “We will update devices as soon as possible.” The bug causes volume on smartphones with Android 4.0–aka Ice Cream …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 could arrive sporting a quad-core processor, made by the South Korean tech giant itself. Specifically, that chip could be a new Exynos processor called the Exynos 4412, evidence of which has been spotted in the Linux Kernel archive, indicating that the chip is an ARM Cortex A9-based quad-core affair. Androidandme meanwhile claims to have received a …