When the top-tier everything-smartphones cost between $200 and $300, I can’t blame you for dubiously eying a $50 phone. However, if your budget is top of mind, and Android is where your heart lies, then do yourself a favor and check out the Pantech Burst. Why? It has 4G LTE, a 4-inch Super AMOLED screen, …

Admit it: you’re burned out on Angry Birds. You’ve long since finished the first game and its sequels–Seasons and Rio–both of which were just variations on the same old theme. But on March 22, things promise to get a little more interesting. That’s the–sorry–launch date for Angry Birds Space, Rovio’s first official Birds game since Rio debuted a year ago …

HTC today confirmed that five more of its Android-powered smartphone from North American carriers will see a 4.0 update. Without providing insight as to when each hanset will get the the update, the company has confimed that the HTC Rhyme, HTC Thunderbolt, HTC Rezound, and Droid Incredible 2 will get their just desserts at some point. While we already expected …

New iPads are coming! New iPads are coming! Well, that’s the rumor, anyway, and it might be only “new iPad,” singular. But let’s be honest: whatever it is, you’re probably going to want it. I mean, who wouldn’t want a tablet with a Retina Display, 4G wireless, a high-resolution camera, and a hot-fudge dispenser? (A man can dream, can’t he?) …

Dish Network, sitting on an increasingly valuable stash of spectrum vital to powering wireless data traffic, is waiting on a key waiver from the Federal Communications Commission before deciding on its next move. The waiver, similar to one that the FCC yanked from LightSquared earlier this week, would allow Dish to use its spectrum to build its own high-speed wireless …

Apple has won a major skirmish in its war with Android. A German court has ruled in the iPhone and iPad‘s favour over the ability to unlock your phone by swiping your finger on the screen. Apple accused Motorola of infringing its slide-to-unlock patent, which covers “unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image”. This week Apple won …

Asus has delayed the Android update for the Asus Transformer tablet yet again — and fans are seriously angry. Promised for this month, Ice Cream Sandwich will now land on the popular tablet some time in March. Asus announced the news on its Singapore Facebook page, thanking fans for their patience and understanding. These are qualities sorely lacking in the …

Last year in early February we answered the question “Is now the best time to buy a TV?” with a resounding “probably.” Now the answer is closer to “probably not.” This year I haven’t seen the same kinds of drastic post-holiday price drops as TV makers sell off their 2011 stock to make room for 2012 TVs. Most of best …

The Chinese factories used by Apple to build the iPhone and iPad have been given a glowing initial assessment, despite only opening their doors to inspectors a few days ago. The independent Fair Labor Association is investigating factories in China where Apple products are built to assess the conditions workers are expected to labour under — after reports workers had …

Apple According to a new study by Manhattan Research, which surveyed more than 1,200 physicians across Europe, 26 percent of doctors claim they own an Apple iPad and spend more than 25 percent of their professional time using it. Doctors in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the U.K. participated in the survey reported by PMLiVE, a medical industry blog (via …

Apple was its own worst enemy in the fourth quarter. The biggest competitor to the iPad 2 was the iPhone 4S, market researcher IHS said today in a report on tablet sales in the fourth quarter. The firm concluded that despite other tablet options, what curtailed sales of the iPad 2 the most was customers committing their dollars to the …

Fancy getting a new sense? Sadly not telepathy, or the ability to sense when an advert break is about to end as you fast-forward a recorded TV programme, but a preview of HTC Sense and Ice Cream Sandwich on the HTC Sensation or HTC Sensation XE. HTC is planning a limited preview of HTC Sense for Android 4.0. If you …

It looks like Congress will finally authorize incentive spectrum auctions. Today, Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate agreed on legislation that will authorize the extension of the payroll tax cuts and the unemployment benefits. And they also authorized the Federal Communications Commission to auction off wireless spectrum as part of the package. Revenue from the …

Three months after going on sale, we still don’t know how many Kindle Fire tablets that Amazon has sold. Sure, analysts have made estimates, but without real figures from Amazon, we’re left to guess as to how the Kindle Fire is faring against devices from Apple, Samsung, and others. Or do we? Issued just today, a new report from IHS …

Smartphone maker HTC might go big at Mobile World Congress with a One X handset boasting quad-core horsepower. Time is certainly ripe for HTC to wow the world with new cutting-edge mobile hardware. Its rivals, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony, have been hard at work churning out a number of fresh phones such as the Droid Razr Maxx, Droid 4, Galaxy …