The hyper-hyped iPhone 5 is coming out on 15 October, according to the CEO of France Telecom, the parent company of Orange. Mobile bigwig Stéphane Richard was speaking to French reporters when he let slip that the fifth iPhone’s French release date would be slap bang in the middle of October. If that’s true, we’d expect the UK release date …

Research In Motion will have to learn from the mistakes of the PlayBook tablet if it wants to see any success with its next generation of BlackBerry smartphones. With disappointing sales and plunging profits, how could the company not feel the urgency to rush out a phone using slick its new QNX software? But that would be a bad idea. …

Two small, but significant changes are coming to Sprint. And they’re not changes that we like. First off, Sprint has confirmed to PhoneScoop that it is shortening its return policy from 30 days to a mere 14 days. Of course, that means that new customers will have only two weeks to return new phones and leave service plans without incurring …