When Asus unveiled its Honeycomb-powered Transformer Prime tablet last November, it stated that Ice Cream Sandwich would be on the tablet by year’s end. As owners of the tablet can tell you, that didn’t pan out. However, according to its Facebook page, the company will begin pushing the update to Prime owners worldwide, starting January …

commentary OK, so I’ve been as hard as anyone on Research In Motion. But it’s not all bad. Sure, the company is burdened with a bloated management structure, leaders who in recent months just can’t do anything right, and a trajectory that only seems to be headed further south. It’s in the doghouse with investors after losing more than three …

We loved the Samsung Galaxy S2. A gorgeous screen, super-fast processor and awesome camera made it a great competitor to the iPhone. So news that its follow-up is on the way has us giddy with excitement. Samsung will announce the S3 at Mobile World Congress in February, BGR reports. As well as some pretty awesome specs — including a 720p …

LightSquared today appointed Marc Montagner, a veteran of major telecommunications deals, to the role of chief financial officer. Montagner’s appointment may signal LightSquared’s willingness to strike a deal or partnership. One of Montagner’s prior roles was the head of merger-and-acquisition activities for Sprint, helping to usher in the $70 billion merger with Nextel back in 2005. He was also co-head …

If you unwrapped an Android device on Christmas day, you weren’t alone. On the contrary, you were in very good company indeed, because 3.7 million Android devices were activated on Christmas eve and Christmas day combined. Presumably those on Christmas eve were people giving themselves a little early Christmas present. And why not? Google’s senior vice president of mobile Andy …

The SwingHolder is an iPad stand designed to keep your tablet at eye level, whether you’re lying in bed, sitting on the couch, cooking in the kitchen, or even standing on a stage. The applications here are fairly endless. You could position your iPad in front of a treadmill or elliptical exerciser, making it easy to watch TV shows or …

Looks like OnLive is wishing all Xperia Play owners a very merry Christmas — it’s just updated its Android app to cater for the handset’s slide-out controls. So that means you can get all your OnLive games on your phone, and actually use the physical controls. Which is good news, seeing as that’s the main selling point of the handset. …

Samsung is still top of the mobile tree, according to recent stats from comScore, Pocketnow reports. In the three months ending November 2011, the Korean company was up 0.3 per cent to account for 25.6 per cent of mobile customers in the US. So how’s everyone else doing? Well LG, Motorola and RIM all slipped slightly, while Apple had the …

In journalese, this is known as a reverse ferret. Just before Christmas we brought you news Samsung was updating its line of Galaxy devices to Android Ice Cream Sandwich next year, with the S and Ace being notable omissions. Now comes word it’ll do everything it can to bolt ICS onto the S, Pocketnow reports. We contacted Samsung for comment …

Samsung’s got yet another mobile to add to its Galaxy stable in the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus, a follow-up to the budget-friendly Galaxy Ace that came out in 2011, if you can remember that far back. The inventively named Ace Plus ditches the iPhone 4-style design, instead opting for a curved back and silver surround that looks much like the …

Barely six months after making its debut, the Droid 3 may be packing its bags and heading off into the sunset. According to information obtained by The Verge, Verizon Wireless is poised to discontinue a number of devices, including the Motorola Droid 3, LG Revolution, and various Mi-Fi Hotspots. Their source advises that the final shipments are expected to arrive …

Siri may have its drawbacks. It can’t look up local services thanks to Apple not signing deals with any in the UK. So ask it for a local information and you’ll be out of luck. But one young boy was shocked at more than Siri’s incompetence, when it blasted him with a four-letter tirade, The Sun reports. Charlie Le Quesne …

We thought this might be the case, and now we know for sure — the Samsung Galaxy Ace won’t be updated to Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich. The brilliant budget blower will not be feeling the cool caress of the latest, greatest version of Android, Samsung confirmed to us in a statement. The statement, which also confirms that the …

Good news if you’re not a fan of the Sense UI that HTC insists on slathering all over its Android phone — you can now download a program that lets you tweak your handset, so you can customise the user interface. And it’s not some dodgy program knocked up in a shed by hackers, it’s issued by HTC. It’ll work …

Continuing the Android handset push, this time into the low end of the handset spectrum, Samsung has just unveiled the Galaxy Ace Plus. Announced in Korea but also targeted at Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, it seems the only region the Ace Plus won’t be shipping is right here in the States. Of course I bet …