LG’s future with Windows Phone 7 is up in the air at the moment, but a prototype of a device the company had reportedly planned to launch has surfaced. The folks over at Windows Phone 7 tracker WP Central claim to have gotten their hands on the LG E740 “Fantasy.” The device, the blog claims, …

I donned my superhero cape and 3D specs to check out Avengers Assemble, the new film featuring Earth’s mightiest heroes, The Avengers. Is it worth seeing in 3D? Based on the Marvel Comics characters, Avengers Assemble sees leather-coated Samuel L Jackson recruit a roll call of superheroes when a powerful energy source is stolen, or somesuch. The Avengers are supersoldier …

Microsoft is going to have to work quickly if it wants to avoid losing a Windows Phone supporter in LG. Following another disappointing quarter of sales decline in its key mobile devices business, LG said the company hasn’t seen much success with Microsoft’s mobile platform and doesn’t expect to make any Windows Phone products in the near future. According to …

Never far from the limelight, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has popped up in an interview with a New Domain (via The Verge). And the man loves Microsoft’s Windows Phone. During the seven minute pow-wow, Woz waxes lyrical over the mobile operating system, repeatedly complimenting it on its looks, calling it “more intuitive and beautiful” than Android. He even said iOS feels …

4G will give superfast broadband to at least 10 million people who can’t get decent Internet speeds any other way, according to the people behind Orange and T-Mobile. The two phone companies are owned by Everything Everywhere, which plans to establish a superfast LTE mobile broadband network before the end of the year. Everything Everywhere reckons this new speeded-up mobile …

This blurry pic was sent to Know Your Mobile, and the tipster claims it’s the Samsung Galaxy S3. They also claim the phone will feature a 4.8-inch screen. It’s pretty hard to tell, with a picture of this quality, but let’s look at the evidence. The source says there are no hardware buttons on the device, though the same source …

Just days before the Galaxy S3 is officially unveiled comes word that the Android device will be making the jump to Windows Phone soon. According to Windows Phone Life, Samsung will use the Galaxy S3 as the basis for its first Windows Phone 8 device. So while the phone will have the same design and specs as the S3, it’ll …

The decision to ditch the common physical keyboard in favour of a full touchscreen was a ‘heated topic’ within Apple, an ex-employee has revealed. In an interview with The Verge, former Apple exec Tony Fadell says that initially there were three iPhone prototypes, one of which was an ‘iPod plus phone’ that had a click wheel like Apple’s music boxes …

James Gosling has a great deal of his life invested in Java. He is considered the father of the programming language, which was launched by Sun in 1995 and runs on billions of digital devices, and is currently at the center of a contentious legal battle between Oracle and Google. Up until Saturday night — when he wrote that “Google totally …

Riptide looks better on a Tegra 3 chip than without, according to Nvidia. Screenshot by Jason Parker/CNET If you want to create some pretty apps, look to Nvidia. The company, best known for its graphics processors in PCs and laptops, has during the past year branched out into the mobile world with its ARM-based Tegra processor, specifically designed for mobile …

The date has been set. The CEOs of Apple and Samsung will meet on 21 and 22 May for settlement talks — and will hopefully decide to stop suing each other once and for all. The talks will take place in San Francisco and will be overseen by Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero, who’ll hopefully stop the squabbles and name …

RIM is holding its annual BlackBerry World conference in Florida next week. If you were heading down hoping to catch sight of some new phones though, there’s bad news: RIM won’t be showcasing any new devices, CNET reports. Still, there’s always Disney World down the road. Instead, BlackBerry World will be software-only, with the BlackBerry 10 operating system taking pride of …

A new Sony phone has leaked online, showing off Ice Cream Sandwich and a pocketable 3.2-inch display. Reportedly codenamed the ST21i (rolls off the tongue and into the heart, doesn’t it?), pictures of this diminutive gadget were acquired by Greek site Techblog, which claims to have received an anonymous email with photos and information regarding the upcoming device. Based on …

How long should you have to wait to get the latest version of Android? A software engineer at Google reckons five months is perfectly reasonable. Jean-Baptiste Queru, a Google employee working on Android, posted on his Google Plus page about the Sony Tablet S getting the bump to Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of the operating system. “It took …

There are several places where protective bumpers always belong: cars, children’s bowling parties, and electronics cases. Rubbery corners are a trademark feature in Ballistic’s cases for a variety of smartphone makes and models. In its most recent line for the iPhone 4 and 4S, the Ballistic LifeStyle Smooth series, the case-maker brings the silicone inserts to a fairly fitted design …