Look out Samsung Galaxy S3. You’ve got some fierce competition heading your way. LG is readying a flagship mobile with the code name D1L, according to Korean site DDaily, via The Verge. And it looks to be a whopper. The screen is said to be a 4.7 incher, with a resolution of 720×1,280-pixels — equal …

HTC has released its unaudited financial results for the first three months of 2012. And things aren’t looking too good. Total revenue fell 34.9 per cent compared with the same period last year. Ouch. Samsung, meanwhile, is sitting pretty, anticipating its operating profits will double compared to the first three months of 2011. I don’t want to get too deep …

Nokia could be cooking up another 41-megapixel phone, this time running on Windows 8, if leaked slides supposedly snapped at a Nokia presentation are to be believed. Spotted by Androsym, the images — originally posted at it168.com — show a blocky-looking mobile bearing the PureView camera-tech logo, as well as specs that peg the device as owning a curved 4.3-inch HD …

Ice Cream Sandwich is coming to the Samsung Galaxy S2 on Vodafone on Thursday. After a month — and more — of waiting, those of you on Vodafone only have a couple more days to hold out. The network says it will release the latest version of Android to S2-owning customers on 12 April — but be warned Vodafone says …

Nokia’s Lumia 900 on AT&T is currently an Amazon best seller. An Easter Sunday quiet launch rebounded on Monday. And perhaps Nokia, AT&T, and Microsoft can make Windows Phone devices a player in the U.S. The big question for Nokia watchers revolves around one word: volume. Can Nokia make enough Lumias around the world to turn around the company? When …

Now playing: Watch this: Talking fonts with typeface designer Steve Matteson 5:55 Editor’s note: This is the first piece of a two-part series on font design, desktop publishing, and Steve Matteson, a designer whose work is featured in several user interfaces. Additionally, although the words “font” and “typeface” had distinct definitions before the era of digital publishing, they are used …

A design flaw that afflicts the two curved edges of the HTC One X’s screen, which we flagged up in our review of the handset, may only be a problem with demo devices — and may not affect the final retail build of the units being sold to mobile users, according to the company. While testing the HTC One X, …

Android lovers prepare to be spoilt for choice, because HTC is bringing its bevy of Ice Cream Sandwich-slathered lovelies to market. Of course lots of Droidheads have been tippety-tapping away on their beloved Samsung Galaxy S2s for nigh on a year now — so how does Samsung’s classic slice of Android compare to the latest Droidy phones: HTC’s One X …

Nokia’s Lumia 900 is now available to Canadians. The device, Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 7 model, has been released for Rogers Communications customers, Nokia Canada announced today. The Lumia 900 retails for 99.99 Canadian dollars ($100.03) — nearly identical to the $99.99 price tag in the U.S. But Rogers customers will only get that pricing with “select” three-year plans. Related …

The Nokia Lumia 900 is fluttering into UK shops on 27 April, with Phones4u set to exclusively flog a white version of the Windows Phone-powered smart phone. If you’re desperate to part with your cash before the end of the month, you can pre-order the 4.3-inch Lumia 900 today. If you want to get it for free, expect to throw …

Angry Birds players tend to skew Republican, while Words with Friends players tend to make more money. That’s according to a recent study by JumpTap, which provides targeted mobile advertising and collects trending data. Another finding: the new iPad has exceeded sales expectations, even if its traffic levels are lower than prior versions of Apple’s hit tablet. The results — …

LG is looking to take the whole ‘phone as a personal assistant’ thing to a completely new level. The South Korean company is hard at work on a mobile that can think for itself, The Verge reports. Let’s hope it doesn’t include an ‘overthrow humanity’ mode. Kwon Bong-suk, LG Mobile’s managing director, told South Korea’s iNews24 that LG was in the …

The behemoth. Big Daddy Don Bodine (look it up, kids) would be proud. Donald Bell/CNET Tablet screens are evolving. So far in 2012, we’ve seen the iPad double its resolution to 2048×1536 and the AMOLED-based Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 reach black-level depths that were previously unheard of (but, thankfully becoming more common) on a tablet. So where do we go …

Reports are surfacing online that the HTC One S could be suffering from an issue that causes the black casing to become chipped, leaving unattractive silver marks all over the device. The problem, spied over at MoDaCo, concerns the black version of the One S, the ceramic finish of which is crafted using a process called micro arc oxidisation. MoDaCo founder …

At least Best Buys still has its cell phone business. On the heels of a disappointing quarterly report and today’s resignation of CEO Brian Dunn, it’s easy to think the entire company is doomed to follow in the steps of fallen electronic chains Circuit City and CompUSA. Yet its mobile devices business — cell phones in particular– has been impressively …