When Apple released the latest iPad earlier this year, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said that naming the device iPad 3 would have been so predictable. “We’ve had many products where we’ve never used numbers,” Schiller said. “Sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t.” Some people don’t care what the next iPhone …

Well, that was fast. Just one week after the 16GB-capacity Google Nexus 7 tablet suddenly ran out of stock, the higher-capacity version of Asus’ critically acclaimed Android tablet is back in the Google Play Store, with a current delivery estimate of three to five business days. That’s the same estimated delivery time as the 8GB Nexus 7. Since the 16GB …

The iPhone 5 will be revealed on 12 September, alongside a smaller iPad and a new iPod nano, new reports claim. iMore cites ‘sources who have proven accurate in the past’, and reckons Apple will debut two new toys at a September event, with the iPhone 5 release date pegged to come nine days later, on 21 September. Those dates …

WASHINGTON–The federal government is slinking away from a promise by President Obama to free up badly-needed radio spectrum for mobile users and the already over-taxed networks that serve them. Just months after the publication of the National Broadband Plan in early 2010, the president issued a memorandum ordering the FCC and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration to …

The International Olympic Committee has asked people attending the games to think twice before tweeting, blaming a text and tweet overload for recent TV coverage failure. TV commentators were left unable to figure out how far ahead of the pack cycling leaders were during events over the weekend, because they couldn’t receive information from the GPS system used to track …

Microsoft has confirmed the release date for its own-brand Surface tablet, with the RT version due to hit shelves on 26 October, the same day as Windows 8. “The next version of our operating system, Windows 8, will be generally available on October 26, 2012,” the company behind Clippy said. “At that time, we will begin selling the Surface, a …

The Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S got the update to Android 4.1 (aka Jelly Bean) recently, and now here’s some more good news if you own either handset. Google has released the Jelly Bean factory images for both phones. These factory images let you go back to the standard settings quickly and easily, which is handy if you got a …

In the last three months, Samsung’s handsets have been more in-demand than Apple’s, according to industry analysts. Strategy Analytics says Samsung shipped 50.5 million smart phones in the last quarter, while IDC pegs the figure at 50.2 million, Business Insider reports. Last week, Apple announced its third quarter results, which said it had sold 26 million iPhones in the last three …

An Asian website has published a photo of what it claims will be the final build of Apple’s iPhone 5, constructed from leaked hardware components. This image reportedly shows the next iPhone, with this mock-up being built from leaked hardware components. (Credit: iLabs Factory) iLab Factory is the name of the site featuring the leaked iPhone components, which it had …

If you’re one of the millions* of people who’ve thought, “I love my phone but what it really needs is the ability to project video clips onto walls,” then it is literally your lucky day. That’s right! Samsung’s bonkers barmy Galaxy Beam projector phone is out in the UK today. Luke got his hands on the Beam at Mobile World …

A 10-inch BlackBerry tablet has surfaced on the Web. User “vuhai6” on Vietnam-based forum Tinhte has posted several images (Translate) of what is purported to be a 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The device looks to have the same design as its currently available 7-inch counterpart, but according to the poster, could support 4G networking. Speaking of 4G, the poster also …

From 1 October, all Telstra mobile plans will be charged in one-minute billing blocks, rather than 30-second blocks as it is currently on some plans. Member, Phone and Casual mobile plans will be affected by the change, and pricing on the company’s website now reflects the new billing scheme. The telco’s Everyday Connect plans (formerly Freedom Connect) are already billed …

It’s a little too soon to write off HTC. With Apple and Samsung Electronics cornering more than two-thirds of the industry’s sales and nearly all of its profits, it’s easy to dismiss every other handset manufacturer. That includes HTC, whose descent from industry darling to embattled company seemingly happened overnight. The rapid reversal of fortunes have many skeptical about HTC’s …

Sprint and ZTE appear to becoming fast friends as details for yet another collaboration surfaced over this past weekend. Apparently called the ZTE Flash, the handset’s specs could rival those of other high-end Android smartphones. According to TalkAndroid, the ZTE Flash will run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and feature a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, a 4.5-inch HD (1,280×720 pixels) IPS …

AT&T is digging in behind its February promise of eco-ratings for phones sold with the carrier’s service with the sale of the Pantech Renue. The Renue is built from 67 percent recyclable components, and its packaging is constructed from 95 percent recycled paper and printed with soy ink, which isn’t a petroleum industry byproduct. The onboard power-saving app is another …