Start exercising those palm muscles, folks — LG’s hand-stretching Optimus Vu smart phone is stomping its way to Europe next month, Engadget reports. Sporting an all-new quad-core processor, the tough-to-pronounce Optimus Vu will be arriving in just a few weeks. Nevertheless the timing is unfortunate for LG, as Samsung is expected to unveil a follow-up …

With just over one week to go before announcing the Galaxy Note II, Samsung has released a YouTube video teasing the big reveal. The short clip makes no mention of the actual device itself, but promises magical moments for the August 29 Unpacked event. Indeed, we do get fleeting glimpses of a new stylus as it is pulled from the …

Wouldn’t it be handy to print straight from you Samsung Galaxy S2? Of course! But how’s it done, I hear you cry across the electronic ether? Well, there’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there are also multiple ways to turn your smart phone into an Android printing machine. Here are three methods, starting with the super-simple …

If you’re thrilled by Sony’s Xperia S, then you have another reason to get excited. The company has just revealed plans for an Xperia SL phone, which sees the Xperia S and raises its 1.5GHz CPU up a notch to 1.7GHz. Of course, both phone’s processors are last-generation Snapdragon S3 chips, which while technically dual-core, are roundly trounced performance-wise by …

Barnes & Noble will for the first time expand its Nook business internationally. The company announced today that its e-readers and digital bookstore will be launching in the U.K. in mid-October. At that time, customers will be able to access the company’s e-books, as well as purchase either its Nook Simple Touch or Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight. As with …

You’re leaving a voice mail, when suddenly, an awkward utterance slips, leaving you stumbling through the rest of your dialogue. You clumsily say goodbye. Hang up. Facepalm. Considering the modern-day text-to-phone call ratio, this situation isn’t uncommon. We’re so accustomed to crafting perfectly composed text messages and e-mails, that our phone skills are diminishing. But despite the upsetting trend, voice …

Leaked photos of the iPhone 5‘s front panel have appeared once more, adding to the stack of evidence that suggests a taller frame and a 4-inch display for Apple’s next blower. These latest snaps come courtesy of uBreakiFix, Macrumours reports. They show the front of a curiously tall mobile, and — unlike some previous illicit snaps — also show the …

Movie and TV-streaming service Netflix has swept up its first 1 million customers in the UK and Ireland, boasting that its service is growing faster than Facebook or Twitter. Netflix nabbed the impressive number of customers in seven months, having arrived in the UK at the start of this year. I suspect the offer of a month’s free use will …

It appears the days of subsidized pricing for tablets are over at AT&T. The carrier will no longer offer discounted, on-contract sales of tablets, according to a document published by Engadget. The document, which appears to be a briefing on new in-house sales policies, seems to indicate that today is the last day it will offer subsidized pricing of slates …

Five years ago, the word ‘app’ was just a funny noise — and now it’s on everybody’s lips. Easy to get, easy to use and insanely cheap, apps are the future. But what’s the best way to get involved in the world of apps? Perhaps the defining feature of the mobile revolution, the app is what tailors today’s smart phone …

The home of the Giants baseball team looms large at the edge of the San Francisco Bay. Yet for data-hungry baseball fans, this is no ordinary ballpark. The country’s second-largest wireless carrier has the naming rights, which means that detailed attention to great wireless data connections comes with the turf. Each day, thousands of fans connect to the ballpark’s free …

How will the new iPhone 5 shape up compared to the iPhone 4S? Find out in this cool new concept video, which puts the two phones side-by-side and spins them every which way. We’ve seen the inside and outside of the new iPhone as photos of components leak in dribs and drabs. But now they’ve been assembled in a video …

Sony today confirmed that the Xperia P is the latest Android smartphone to receive its 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. A post on the company blog advises that consumers will receive a notification when their respective update is ready to download. As is the case with all other 4.0 releases, the handset will benefit from an enhanced lock screen, improved …

Amid speculation that AT&T may charge its iPhone users for running the video chat feature, FaceTime, over its cellular network, the carrier sent an official statement to CNET confirming that those who are on its Mobile Share plan will be able to access FaceTime without Wi-Fi, at no extra cost. AT&T will offer FaceTime over Cellular as an added benefit …

An Android phone is a gift that keeps on giving — and soon you’ll be able to send actual gifts to your Android-powered friends. Google is introducing gift cards — and a wish list — to Google Play to spend on Android apps, music, movies, ebooks and more. The latest update for the Google Play store contains code and graphics …