Though HTC has yet to formally unveil the smartphone, it appears that select Verizon retail stores have begun promoting its next 4G LTE handset, the HTC Rezound. Over the weekend, DroidLife received photos from readers showing the in-store ads for the smartphone. It’s widely believed that the HTC will introduce the Rezound at an event …

Is your iPhone 4S battery life not up to scratch? If so you’re not alone. It seems Apple has recognised the problem, privately at least, and is contacting 4S owners to try and find out why this is, the Guardian reports. An Apple engineer contacted one owner directly to install a monitoring program to try and find out why their …

Is there any limit to Siri‘s abilities? The voice-controlled personal assistant can already help you hide a dead body (in the US anyway), update you on the weather and write messages for you, and now it seems it’ll soon be able to control your TV. The forthcoming Apple TV set that Steve Jobs seemed to confirm in his biography will …

Last week’s Sony Ericsson buyout may be even more significant than we thought: Sony now intends to pull out of its joint LCD venture with Samsung, Reuters reports. That means it won’t make panels for its own TVs, but rather outsource them. It’s an attempt by Sony to cut costs, seeing as it’s approaching its eighth straight annual loss in …

Thanks to its unrivalled App Store, the iPhone can record your guitar playing, order your shopping for you and even check your blood pressure. The iPhone 4S (or the iPhone 4, if you’re naughty) will do practically anything you want, simply by shouting at it. One thing it won’t do, however, which has left many iPhone adopters flummoxed, is record …

You over there — why so Siri-ous? Is it because you’ve not got Apple’s new iPhone4S with its built-in voice-activated personal assistant? Fear not: we’ve compiled five of the best alternatives for older iPhones that will have you gleefully barking commands at your subservient handset in no time. While it’s been proven that Siri will run on a jailbroken iPhone …

Make a note in your diary: the Samsung Galaxy Note hits shops on 3 November. The over-sized Android smart phone is arriving next week, nearly two weeks earlier than expected, along with a bunch of new apps for its S Pen stylus. The Note packs a 5.3-inch high-definition Super AMOLED display. Is it a giant phone or a small tablet? …

The spotlight is shining on Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform with the recent launch of its Mango update and the new Nokia Lumia series of devices. But new hardware is still weeks, if not months, away in the United States. So what’s an American consumer to do? In this edition of Ask Maggie, I offer advice to one reader who is …

One of the features of the new Nokia Lumia 800 that Nokia is most proud of is the camera — it has an 8-megapixel sensor, high-quality Carl Zeiss optics and an f/2.2 aperture. To see how it really stacks up as a snapper, we pitted it against the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the iPhone 4S, both superb phones with excellent …

With rumors flying that Barnes & Noble will soon be unveiling its next-generation Nook Color, we’ve been waiting to get word on just when the new device will hit. Well, according to The Digital Reader Blog, that day will be November 7–or so its sources say. We’ll soon see what Barnes & Noble has up its sleeve and whether the …

San Francisco may have gone too far in mandating warnings about the radiation coming out of cell phones, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. The ruling, reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, called for San Francisco to tone down its message and to remove the requirement for retailers to post warnings on their walls. U.S. District Judge William Alsup said …

The iPhone 4S is a bit of a tough sell for phone showoffs: there are literally no external distinctions to set it apart from an iPhone 4, not even a “4S” logo. Therefore, if you really want to demonstrate what your iPhone 4S can do, you’re best off either taking a picture, demoing Siri, or playing a game. The iPhone …

You may find this shocking, but getting my 11- and 9-year-olds to do household chores is like pulling teeth. Rotten kids! That may change now that I’ve got You Rules Chores on my iPhone. This clever new app turns household chores into a game, rewarding each kid a designated number of coins for each completed job. Whoever finishes the week’s …

Samsung flogged more phones than Apple between July and September, overtaking the Cupertino squad with 27.8 million smart phone shipments, according to stats from research firm Strategy Analytics. Apple meanwhile sold 17.1 million brainy blowers in the three-month period, followed by Nokia which shipped 16.8 million, the BBC reports. Those figures give Samsung a 23.8 per cent market share. Impressive …

Nokia as the comeback kid of 2012? A year ago, it looked more likely that the formerly dominant mobile maker would have spiralled into irrelevance by that point. Nokia World 2010 was pretty funereal: the company had a new CEO in Stephen Elop and was still selling plenty of Symbian phones, but the atmosphere among the company’s execs and attendees …