The iPhone 5 machine is fired up in full effect. Reports suggest Apple’s Chinese manufacturer Foxconn is blasting out 150,000 phones per day, according to DigiTimes — that’s 4.5 million iPhones in September. That’s more than 18 million iPhones before the end of the year, if our calculations are correct. And that’s not counting other …

Samsung has confirmed the name of the next Google Phone: Nexus Prime. The name of the latest flagship Android phone heads a document listing the phone’s — rather dubious — details. Google likes to have a smart phone bearing the Nexus name leading the line-up of devices that use its Android software for phones and tablets. The forthcoming Nexus Prime …

We mentioned in our review of the Motorola Droid Bionic that one of our main concerns was its cost. At $299.99 with a two-year contract, the Droid Bionic is quite the pricey product, even if it is an excellent handset. If you decide to get the optional accessories, the cost can quickly add up. But if you’re Costco member, you …

At CES, we saw the keyboard dock of the Motorola Atrix. At Computex, we saw the Asus Padfone, and its tablet dock. And now, at IFA, Korean company KT has taken the idea of ‘phone plus dock’ to another level with its Spider Concept, which has both laptop and tablet docks — and adds a gaming dock to the mix. …

A patent for it slipped out last year, but a new leak has shed some more light on Apple’s forthcoming social network. And the good news? Looks like it’ll be baked right into iOS 5. New HTML code in the MobileMe/iCloud website shows some more details on the service, known as Find My Friends, CNET News reports. Using phrases such …

Mobile fans have another reason to be excited: not only is the iPhone 5 set to launch early October, the next major version of Android will be here around the same time. It’s looking like it’ll be a good autumn. Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt made the announcement during an interview with SalesForce.com CEO Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce conference. …

(Screenshot by CBSi) The TV commercial for the Motorola Xoom on the Next G network has been playing for a few weeks now, and we must have seen the ad a dozen times or more, but we’d have never have guessed that so much of the ad and its effects shots was produced in-camera. Sydney production team, Engine, put the …

Ten years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. is still without a nationwide network that would let first responders from different agencies and jurisdictions communicate with each other over emergency radios. In late August, the National Security Preparedness Group pointed to the lack of the national interoperable radio network recommended by the 9/11 Commission. And the commission itself …

Sony Ericsson has said that there’s no need to make a sequel to its gaming phone, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, stating that the Play’s hardware is more than capable of wrassling with powerful new mobiles like the Samsung Galaxy S2. A Sony Ericsson exec said, in an interview with Eurogamer, “This device, with the GPU integration, has been optimised …

I sometimes find myself in the middle of negotiations between teens and their parents about which phone to get. Invariably, the teens want the top-of-the-line smartphone, and who can blame them? What they eventually wind up with, however, is often further down the list. I’ve rounded up a range of teen-friendly phones that includes some Android smartphones with youthful (or …

Orange is blasting free Sky Sports and music streaming into your phone. The citrus-flavoured phone network is offering access to Swapable services including Sky Sports Mobile TV, Freeview TV channels and music-streaming service Deezer to customers on Panther, Orange’s top-whack tariff. Each options is called a Swapable, because you can choose two at a time then swap and change each …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Vitality with Muve Music 2:14 Cricket’s Muve Music service may still be largely unknown, but the release of the Samsung Vitality could help turn the tide in favor of the service, which offers unlimited access to music downloads, ringtones, and ringback tones in addition to Cricket’s rate for all-inclusive talk, text, and Web. The candy …

LG Electronics of South Korea is cutting between 20 percent and 30 percent of its overseas staff in its mobile phone unit and is planning similar measures domestically, according to a report in the Korea Economic Daily. The handset manufacturer, which is struggling to recover from five consecutive quarters of losses, is closing some unprofitable units and laying off staff …

When we left the Verizon offices a couple days ago with our Droid Bionic in tow, Motorola handed us a veritable mountain of accessories to go along with the phone. That’s because the Droid Bionic has a Webtop application similar to the one on the Atrix 4G and the Photon 4G, and like those two, it requires a special Webtop …

Anyone predicting the demise of Facebook thanks to competition from Twitter and Google+ is being a little presumptuous, according to these figures. The company’s revenue doubled to $1.6bn in the first half of 2011, a source told Reuters, with net income almost at $500m. These aren’t official figures, as Facebook doesn’t disclose its results, but considering some investors have estimated …