Another budget phone for Virgin Mobile has entered the arena: the slide-out Samsung M575. We’ve seen it before as Virgin Mobile’s Samsung Restore. This no-contract QWERTY slider has a 2.4-inch LCD screen, a 2-megapixel camera and camcorder, and threaded text messaging and e-mail. It also has a browser, Bluetooth support, a music player, and a …

Siri has been the subject of Apple’s ad campaigns for the iPhone 4S. It’s been discussed in terms of its one-liners and its Easter eggs, its cloud-based accomplishments and its similarity to services Android already offers. That’s all fine, but it’s ignoring the obvious question: what are you really, truly going to use Siri for? My iPhone 4S arrived on …

For those of you keeping an eye on Apple AirPlay-compatible products, Logitech is on the verge of releasing its first AirPlay speaker. It’s simply called the Logitech Air Speaker and a photo of it with limited information has appeared on Amazon’s U.K. site. Dave Zatz, who posted a story about the upcoming product on zatznotfunny.com, notes that the Air Speaker, …

LONDON – Nokia’s big comeback could start this week as the beleaguered cell phone maker is set to introduce its first smartphones based on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. CNET’s concept art of the ‘Sea Ray’ Nokia-made Windows Phone. Josh Long/CNET On Wednesday, the Finnish cell phone maker will kick off its Nokia World Event here in London where …

Google’s Ice Cream Sandwich software update is just around the corner, and it’s promised to offer huge improvements that will make Android phones easier to use. But what if you’ve already got an Android phone? Will you be left out? In this edition of Ask Maggie, I try to answer that question. First, I explain which phones I expect the …

Plenty has been said about mobile devices and Adobe Flash, with the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously slamming Adobe in an open letter that outlined the numerous reasons why Apple refuses to support Flash web elements in browsers on iOS devices. Jobs claimed Flash was “unstable”, and that it “sapped battery life”. Regardless, Android-powered devices continue to be compatible …

Are there no limits to the talents of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus? Not only does it sport a huge display with pin-sharp HD resolution, it also supports USB gaming controllers thanks to its Android Ice Cream Sandwich software. With that massive 4.65-inch screen on hand to show off games, this could be a real rival to the iPhone 4S and …

This thing is so close we can practically taste it. The Samsung Galaxy Note (that massive phone or tiny tablet, depending how you look at it) has its first TV advert out, reports Pocketnow. The ad starts with an aerial shot over a river, then the sea, then the camera pulls back to show we’ve been watching it on the …

App downloads on Google’s Android operating system have overtaken those on Apple’s iOS devices, owing to an increase in the amount of Android phones people are actually buying, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. ABI Research reckons that 44 per cent of all app downloads in the second quarter of this year (that’s April, May and June for anyone not fond of divvying …

If you’ve been following the Nokia Windows Phone leaks, then you’re probably familiar with the Sea Ray and Sabre code names. However, thanks to some leaked screenshots WinRumors, it looks like their official names will be Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. The Lumia 800 and 710 are expected to make their debut tomorrow at Nokia World as the …

AT&T and Verizon Communications face billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities, which could significantly weigh on their bottom lines, according to one Wall Street analyst. If the market closed today, AT&T could be on the hook for $41.6 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, while Verizon could see $31.6 billion in liabilities, Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett said in …

The Nokia Lumia 800 is the official name of the Sea Ray, the first Nokia Windows Phone. We’ve glimpsed the Sea Ray prototype in the run-up to the launch of Nokia’s Windows Phone smart phones, and we’ll see the Lumia when it’s officially unveiled tomorrow. The fans of Finnish phones at The Nokia Blog spotted the name in the code …

We brought you news last week that Apple has a standalone TV set in the works — well now an analyst has popped up to offer his 10 cents’ worth. And he likey, to use the proper analytical term. Brian White from Ticonderoga Securities says Apple’s introduction to the TV market could ‘reinvent’ the product category, BGR reports. “We believe …

Apple is working on a TV set, and has called in Jeff Robbin, the man who helped develop the iPod and iTunes, to help build it, according to Bloomberg, which cites “three people with knowledge of the project.” The Apple telly rumour mill is spinning at full tilt, grinding gossip grain into delicious speculation dough, ready for baking. While the …

One of the most common requests we hear at CNET is for a TV that has good picture quality “without all that extra crap” (or words to that effect). Said extras included on many TVs these days include Internet connectivity and 3D, as well as an LED backlight for LCD models. Samsung’s LND630 series comes pretty close to that no-frills …