Mapocalypse, Cartogeddon, Navi-gate — whatever you want to call it, the arrival of the Apple Maps app in iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5 has been an unmitigated disaster. Compare that to Google, which employs no less than 7,000 people on its rival Google Maps. The Big G has more than 1,100 full-time Google …

Samsung is gunning for Safari and Chrome with its own web browser for the Samsung Galaxy line-up, reports say. The Electronic Times in Korea reports Samsung is developing its own WebKit browser for mobile devices. Samsung has advertised for WebKit developers with knowledge of browsers to work at the Advanced Software Platform Lab at Samsung’s US research and development centre …

Generally, I’m not a fan of apps shooting push notifications out to my phone. No, “Words with Friends,” I don’t care that I’m about to forfeit my game. There’s a reason I stopped playing it. I don’t need an alert any time I get a new friend on Facebook. But apparently, notifications do make a difference when it comes to …

A man stole 252 iPhone 5s from the London phone shop he worked in just hours before they were due to go on sale. Meanwhile, similarly minded thieves struck in Japan. Twenty-three-year-old Usman Sethi is accused of taking the devices — estimated to be worth £170,000 — from the O2 store in Wimbledon in the early hours of Friday morning, the …

The enormous Samsung Galaxy Note 2 has broken cover like a whale coming up for air — it’s available to harpoon now for pre-order at Phones 4U, with contracts available from O2, Orange and Vodafone starting from £31 for 24 months. That’s only if you pay £150 upfront though, a total of £894 over the course of the contract. In …

Sarah Tew/CNET Apple didn’t do much to the iPhone’s camera from the 4S to the 5. Then again, it didn’t really have to. The iPhone 4S has one of the best cameras on a smartphone, and with some improved processing and other enhancements, the iPhone 5 does now, too. But it’s not the only mobile device with a good camera …

Apple has posted some new adverts for the iPhone 5. The good news? They’re nowhere near as cringeworthy as the “Genius” ads it tried a couple of months ago. The bad? They are still quite annoying. “Your thumb,” starts the first advert. “It goes from here to here. This bigger screen. It goes from here to here. Now, that’s either …

Now playing: Watch this: Kindle Paperwhite features integrated light and extended… 1:49 If you waited until now to buy Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite, you’ll have to wait a bit longer to actually get it in hand. Amazon said any new orders placed today won’t be shipped until October 22 — three weeks after the original October 1 shipping date. “Due …

Research In Motion and its next-generation BlackBerry 10 operating system will get another chance to prove their worth at the company’s annual developer conference, kicking off Tuesday in San Jose, Calif. In a move that will surely disappoint analysts, shareholders, and the RIM faithful, we don’t expect the company to show off any new devices at BlackBerry Jam Americas (known …

Samsung is giving away three month Foxtel subscriptions with its new smart TVs. The UA75ES9000 is one of the participating models.(Credit: Samsung) As part of a new retail promotion, Samsung is providing a three month subscription to the Foxtel Get Started and Sports Packs for anyone purchasing a selected model of its smart TV range, just in time for the …

New road fatalities statistics show that up to one third of car crashes in Queensland are caused by drivers using mobile phones. This is from an Indian Government campaign, flipping the focus away from drivers and onto those who care about them. We could be seeing similar ads in Australia shortly. (Credit: Advertolog) As reported by the Courier Mail, Queensland …

How many smartphone or tablet games have you abandoned in disgust because your fat fingers couldn’t master the onscreen controls or blocked too much of the action? The solution, of course, is a game controller, one that connects wirelessly and is therefore compatible with most any mobile device. Just one problem: most of the controllers currently in development are on …

Samsung today won an important ruling against Apple in Germany. The Mannheim Regional Court ruled today that Samsung does not violate a patent Apple holds related to touchscreen functionality in mobile devices. According to the Korea Times, which was first to report on the judgement, the patent in question relates to the way a touchscreen interprets finger inputs. Apple and …

In what’s becoming a regular occurrence, Verizon’s year-end roadmap has apparently found its way online, according to Phone Arena, tipping the Big Red’s smartphone plans. It should come as no surprise that there’s a handful of Android on the horizon, including devices from no fewer than six hardware makers. Should the leaked details prove true, Verizon will soon have a …

Some people in Japan found a way around the endless lines for the iPhone 5. They just broke in and took them early. Thieves took about 200 devices from three phone retailer stores in Osaka in the early hours before the launch, according to the Wall Street Journal. Seventy-five iPhone 5s were taken from a couple of KDDI “au” brand …