The BlackBerry Bold Touch 9930 has been leaked again, in advance of the BlackBerry World show in early May. This time, the Bold Touch has been leaked in four videos that show the device’s basic features. The four videos were apparently buried in a leaked build of the BlackBerry 6.1 operating system. They’re designed to act as …
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Is the world getting bored of Angry Birds? Obviously not. The game’s developer Rovio Mobile says the latest version, Angry Birds Rio, flew past the 10 million downloads milestone just 10 days after being released for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Fittingly, the news came in a tweet late last week. “10 in 10 🙂 Angry Birds Rio breaking …
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When the recent iOS 4.3 update brought the personal hotspot feature to iPhone users in the UK, those on O2 discovered they’d have to add a separate Internet tethering bolt-on to use it — for example, to piggyback on their phone’s connection with a Wi-Fi iPad 2. It wasn’t a new thing — O2 already offered this tethering bolt-on for …
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The new Apptitude app for the iPhone wants to help you sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to finding other apps. That’s good news — there are more than 350,000 apps now available for the iPhone and iPod touch in the App Store, so finding the best new ones is a challenge. That’s particularly true at the moment, when every other new app seems …
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Vodafone and Three have both delayed their launch of Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play gaming phone. O2 previously put back its own sale date for the device due to bugs in its software, but Vodafone and Three say their delay is due to a shortage of stock instead. According to VG24/7, Vodafone sent an email to customers who had pre-ordered the Xperia Play. “Sony Ericsson have advised us that …
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RIM is preparing to unveil a range of new BlackBerry handsets at its BlackBerry World conference in May, if rumours are to be believed. Now one of them — a device code-named both Monaco and Monza — has been captured in a series of decent-quality spy shots. Boy Genius Report, which published the pics, suggests that the new phone will …
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Samsung is rebooting its Galaxy S Android smart phone for 2011, offering a new version, the Galaxy S Plus i9001, that has a faster processor and bigger battery. For now, it’s only due to go on sale in Russia, but it could well come to other countries in the months ahead. The handset will be known as the Galaxy S …
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The HTC Pyramid is set to be the manufacturer’s next top-tier smart phone, with new spy shots showing off its monolithic screen, and shedding light on some of its historic specifications. XDA Developers has excavated the photographs, sent in by an anonymous archaeologist tipster. They show that the Pyramid will run Android Gingerbread 2.3.2, with version 3.0 of HTC’s Sense …
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Want to play PlayStation games on your Android smart phone? The only choice for now is Sony Ericsson’s new Xperia Play handset, with its PlayStation Pocket app. Until this week, you could also play vintage PSOne games using the PSX4Droid emulator, but Google has now pulled it from Android Market. Spot the connection? PSX4Droid was released for Android phones last …
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Microsoft is going to war with Google in Europe, filing a formal complaint with the European Commission claiming the search giant has “violated European competition law”. Among its complaints is that Google is hobbling the YouTube video service from working as slickly on Windows Phone 7 as it does on Android and iPhone. Microsoft SVP and general counsel Brad Smith …
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