If you thought Verizon Wireless was going to slow down on the high-end Android smartphones, you’d be wrong. Based on recently leaked information, soon we should see an LG phone with 4G LTE connectivity and an HD display. Expected to be called the LG Spectrum, the smartphone should be the heir apparent to the Revolution …

Despite the existence of apps that pour digital beers, make e-fart noises, and load and fire virtual guns, Apple has decided that creating a fake driver’s license is over the line and has thus pulled it from the App Store. An app that creates lifelike driver’s licenses has been pulled from Apple’s App Store. Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti The decision, …

If, like me, you had assumed that the Samsung Nexus S would be the first Android phone to receive the official update to Ice Cream Sandwich (after its debut with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus), we’d both be wrong. Huawei has bypassed carriers to distribute the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system to owners of the Huawei Honor through …

Behind the scenes, Nokia is making some headway with the big two carriers in the U.S. The Finnish handset vendor, eager for a comeback, is testing a 4G LTE version of its Lumia 800 smartphone, CNET has learned. That’s despite the fact that the Windows Phone operating system powering the Lumia doesn’t yet officially support LTE. The lack of LTE …

RIM is making like it’s 2006 with its next phone — the BlackBerry Milan is a vertical slider, according to this leaked picture from Crackberry.com. The Milan still manages to pack in all the classic BlackBerry functionality, including a full Qwerty keyboard, so email fans shouldn’t be disappointed. It looks as though it’ll run the company’s new BlackBerry 10 software. …

LightSquared believes someone has it out for the startup and its efforts to build a 4G LTE network. The latest stumbling block came last week in the form of a leak of a preliminary government report, which revealed that the company hadn’t settled the concerns that it could disrupt the signal of a large number of personal and military GPS …

I’m spending the morning reading over CNET UK’s Motorola Xoom 2 review, because frankly, that’s all I can do. Currently, Motorola has no official plans to ship their relatively affordable, Wi-Fi-only Xoom 2 to the U.S. Instead, we get the Motorola Droid Xyboard–a nearly identical series of tablets available through Verizon on a two-year commitment. Why Motorola and Verizon decided …

Korean tech colossus Samsung — maker of the Galaxy S2 smart phone, our favourite mobile of the year — claims it has sold over 300 million blowers worldwide in 2011. We may not be total whizzes when it comes to numbers, but 300 million sure seems like a big one and Samsung is no doubt pretty chuffed with it — …

Until the release of iOS 5, third-party apps were the only way to get an Emoji keyboard on your iOS device. With the release of iOS 5, Apple included a native Emoji keyboard, eliminating the need for yet another app to be installed on your device. If you currently have an Emoji app installed on your iDevice and you are …

Apple’s iPad 3 will be here around March or April, according to Digitimes. How does it know this? Component manufacturers have started delivering parts for the next-gen tablet to equipment manufacturers. In other words, the supply chain is creaking into action. A March launch would also be a year on from the iPad 2 launch, which would fit with Apple’s …

GetJar CEO Iljas Laurs doesn’t mince words when he says Android isn’t as open a platform as Google would like you to think. GetJar CEO Ilja Laurs. GetJar “To me, closed is anything that doesn’t have total freedom,” Laurs told me. “By that definition, Android is already closed.” Laurs has some bold predictions for 2012. He believes Google will start …

The Amazon Kindle Fire should be in tip-top condition by the time it reaches the UK early next year — Amazon will be releasing a software update for the budget tablet in “less than two weeks”, a company spokesman told the New York Times. So what’ll this mean for those buying the device? The update will mean improved performance, better …

The jailbreak community has completed a safe, untethered jailbreak update for iOS 5.0.1, according to community hacker pod2g, who confirmed the process on his iPhone 4. Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti While the jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 was available last week, the untethered version had just been confirmed Sunday by pod2g. As with most jailbreaks, when Apple releases an update to …

To say HP’s webOS has had a chequered history would be the grandpa of all understatements. But months after it killed off the TouchPad and Pre 3, HP has promised it will release new webOS tablets, with the software going open source, just like Google’s Android. So there’s life in the old dog yet. Though if you’re looking out for …

The smartphone race is so much more complex than the one-horse race it was the last time Apple released an “S” version two years ago. This year has been chock-a-block with new smartphones pushing the boundaries of what we can expect our phones to do, and how fast we can expect them to do it. If you’re planning on shopping …