Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #201: Too polite for a fanboy brawl 51:35 With a thirst for intellectual skirmish and good-natured trash-talking, I rounded up two special guest hosts for this week’s Dialed In: Antuan Goodwin, Android enthusiast and co-host of CNET’s Android Atlas podcast; and Roger Cheng, a CNET News mobile reporter and …

We didn’t have any battery issues with our Nokia Lumia 800, but some haven’t been so lucky. It’s been playing up iPhone 4S-style, with the battery not living up to its advertised number of hours. But there’s good news if you’re one of those affected: Nokia is releasing not one but two software updates to fix the problem, Engadget reports. Whatever …

Where the first LCD TVs used fluorescent tubes to light the screen, newer models have come along calling themselves “LED TVs,” which, as the name suggests, use light-emitting diodes for illumination. The two main advantages of LEDs are lower energy usage and that they can be built into very small enclosures. The slimline models here have the added incentive of …

“Do you like prizes?” asks Sony in its new Facebook ad. “Sure, Howard Stringer, prizes are pretty neat… But, hang on, what’s the catch?” Sony is giving away for free a Google TV Blu-ray player every day to people who input their e-mail address on the company’s Facebook prize page. Plus, the entries go into the draw for a 46-inch …

It really is such a shame. Apart from the youthful “Facebook” phone known as the HTC Status, AT&T doesn’t often branch out into smartphones with unusual designs. Then comes the Samsung DoubleTime with its bubbly white body, its two screens, and its comfy keyboard. And guess what? The major roadblock holding it back is its operating-system version–Android 2.2 Froyo instead …

Less than six months after launching the Droid 3, Motorola is apparently ready to give us its successor. The Droid 4 will launch December 8, according to purported promotional materials obtained by Droid Life. The site reports it has confirmed that employee training is already in progress at some Verizon Wireless stores. The Droid 4 will reportedly have Droid Razr …

Despite the relative dearth of 3D television programming, sales of 3D TVs are on the rise. But for those who make that programming, the biggest challenge of all may be simultaneously producing 2D versions of the same shows. In order to film in 3D, two normal cameras are placed side by side. But because the lenses can’t fit side by …

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab may have suffered an injustice in Australia with the imposition of a ban on sales of the tablet there, at least in the eyes of one appeals court judge. At a hearing today in Sydney in a patent case pitting Samsung against iPad maker Apple, Federal Court Justice Lindsay Foster questioned an October ruling that quashed Galaxy …

AT&T is apparently readying a Hail Mary pass to save its foundering $39 billion bid for T-Mobile. Trouble is, there’s every reason to think it won’t be enough. According to Bloomberg, the telecom giant is preparing to offer a deal to the Department of Justice under which AT&T would divest as much as 40 percent of T-Mobile’s assets as part …

It’s Black Friday, the busiest day of the shopping year, and Ask Maggie is here to help you with questions about holiday shopping. In this edition, I offer some advice to one mother considering substituting an Amazon Kindle Fire for an iPad as gift for her son. And I suggest a game console for a gaming newbie, who wants to …

A pink version of its Galaxy S2 has landed in Sweden on Three, indicating that the rose-tinted mobile could be cheering up the UK very soon. The pink S2 is bound to please anyone who likes the idea of owning the 4.3-inch smart phone but finds the default black option a bit too morbid. Apart from the rose-tinted casing it looks …

Home theater isn’t the first place you’ll think of when it comes to gift ideas, but that’s too bad. Streaming-media boxes like the Roku LT and Apple TV are inexpensive and fun, plus they’ll give you plenty to watch over the holidays. I’ve personally had lots of success giving universal remotes like the Logitech Harmony 650 as a gift. Not …

Apple has mysteriously banished a first-of-its-kind subscription iOS app, which let you access a library of games for a monthly fee, TechCrunch reports. Historically, to get games onto your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch you had to download games individually. The new Play Instantly app from game developer Big Fish Games is different though, because once you download it, you …

Vodafone Australia announced yesterday that it has finished testing firmware updates to three Sony Ericsson handsets in its range, and will be delivering the updates to customers over the next few days. (Credit: Vodafone) The Xperia Arc and the Xperia Ray have both been updated to Android version 2.3.4 with updates to the Sony Ericsson software layer packed in. The …

Ice Cream Sandwich works on the very first Android phones. Intrepid Android fans have gone back to the source and got the latest version of Google’s software working on the venerable T-Mobile G1. The clever folks at XDA Developers have managed to make various Ice Cream Sandwich features and apps working on the G1. Hit play below to see the …