People love prizes. And that’s the core belief animating a start up called SherLabs. Through a product called TapFame, the company offers game developers the ability to drop an instant sweepstakes or leaderboard contest into their apps, which presumably would drive interest and downloads. It’s a unique take on the issue of app discovery, which …

The Angry Birds Space official Twitter account says the spacefaring-sequel has been downloaded an astronomical 10 million times, in less than three days. As well as demonstrating that enthusiasm for the raging avians and their bacon-flavoured baddies is definitely not on the wane, those figures make Angry Birds Space more than three times as popular as the new iPad, which Apple was only too chuffed …

Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #217: It’s now or never for Windows Phone 39:22 First, the bad news. Saying goodbye to this weekly Dialed In podcast isn’t something that any of us expected to do for some time, but it’s true: this week marks the second-to-last episode of CNET’s cell phone podcast, and of most of CNET’s podcasts in …

Thanks to a number of leaks, the preliminary details and images for three unannounced Motorola smartphones have arrived online. Likely to end up in international markets, the three models bear the familiar form factor that is seen in handsets like the Atrix 2 and Droid Razr. Up first, we have a device that looks strikingly similar to the recently leaked …

commentary Nokia got its wish and has its best shot to break back into the U.S. market. So here’s some friendly advice to a company that likely won’t get another opportunity as good as this: don’t blow it. Not to pile on with more pressure, but the fate of Nokia’s future, and possibly that of Windows Phone and Microsoft’s ability …

Looks like AT&T will have some very tempting smartphone options this spring. The carrier just confirmed with us that the HTC Titan II, a high-octane Windows Phone, will cost $199.99 and land on shelves April 8. This joins the upcoming HTC One X, HTC’s flagship Android handset along with Nokia’s premier Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 900. Both the Nokia …

Now playing: Watch this: Want better camera phone pictures? Clean up! 0:44 There is a really simple way to get better pictures from your smartphone. All you need is a piece of fabric. A simple, super quick tip, but one that will help you get much better pictures from the camera on your beloved smartphone. People often complain smartphones deliver …

A Phones 4u branch in London’s Oxford Street has plastered a massive teaser for a Samsung product all over the front of its shop, hyping a mystery gadget to be unveiled on Friday. Could it possibly be for the Galaxy S3? The poster, sent into Eurodroid, portrays some tempting theatrical curtains with the Samsung logo concealed behind, and the promise …

With HTC’s HTCSense.com it’s out with the old and in with the new, and by old we mean any personal data you have saved on the service. (Credit: Screenshot CBSi) A missive to members posted on the company’s portal site is warning that data including contacts, messages, Footprints and call history will be deleted from the service on April 30, …

Rumours are beginning to swirl around the next generation of iPhone once again. The iPhone 5 — or whatever the sequel to the Apple iPhone 4S ends up being called — is expected to arrive in October, but what can we infer about it from the new iPad? The Apple-watchers at iMore report that the next iPhone will be a …

The saga of the Samsung Galaxy S2 update to Ice Cream Sandwich rumbles on. The update to the latest version of Android was promised last week, but there’s still no sign — and irate S2 owners have been told they could be waiting until the end of April. The update was promised in the week commencing 19 March, but seven …

3D phones may not have exactly caught on like wildfire here in the U.S., but that isn’t going to stop engineers at LG and Samsung from innovating around it. In fact, representatives for the rival Korean manufacturers both had something to say to me about 3D image technology for smartphones, and it doesn’t stop at playing 3D golf games or …

Nokia’s Lumia 900 smartphone will hit AT&T’s store shelves on April 8, a move Nokia hopes will usher a return to the U.S. in a big way. The phone will sell for $99.99 with a two-year contract, AT&T told CNET. It is one of the most affordable flagship products AT&T has ever sold. There’s a lot at stake with this …

Ustream for Android has officially been downloaded more than 2.5 million times, and to celebrate the major milestone, its developers have today released an updated version of the app with both new looks and new features. Most noticeably, version 2.0 brings with it a significantly improved interface sporting a darker theme that looks quite a bit sleeker than before. Also, …

Steve Jobs rejected the new Apple TV‘s UI five years ago, according to an engineer who once worked on the product. And he claims now there’s no one at Apple to reject a bad design since Jobs’ passing, CNET reports. Michael Margolis tweeted: “Fun fact — those new designs were tossed out 5 years ago because SJ didn’t like them. Now …