Apple has unaccountably failed so far to put alcoholic Irish priests who swear like navvies at the centre of its iPhone TV ads. Perhaps Channel 4’s new app will change its mind — Father Jack Me is based on classic sitcom Father Ted, and lets you become Jack through the power of photo-manipulation alone. Or, …

Announced today, Mono for Android widens the scope for mobile developers who use Microsoft’s .Net framework–Novell released a similar product, MonoTouch, for Apple iOS devices in 2009. Mono is the open-source implementation of Microsoft’s toolset, designed to make it possible to run .Net applications across multiple platforms. “We developed Mono for Android to give both individual developers and businesses a …

Samsung’s Galaxy S 2 was supposed to be touching down on UK shores at the end of March, going head to head with Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play and other Android Gingerbread smart phones. Now its release date has slipped to May, according to two online retailers. In late February, Play was offering the Galaxy S 2 for pre-order with a planned …

Rumors of a dual-core HTC Sensation surface, plus we get a hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Prevail, take a look at the Samsung Gem, and more. Oh, and our namesake won a race! A horse race, that is. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 168: Android’s Sensation 41:46 Podcast Your browser does not support the audio element. Subscribe with iTunes …

Dell may soon launch a 10-inch Android tablet to join its smaller-sized lineup. James Martin/CNET Dell will reportedly launch a new 10-inch Android tablet this summer, according to a Forbes story . Citing a source at Dell, Forbes said that the Android-based tablet would hit the market earlier than initially expected, possibly by mid-June. Briefly teased at CES in January …

It might sound like a nickname for a grizzled Cockney boxer, but Toshiba’s Regza line of TVs should be taken seriously (though actually we’d take the boxer pretty seriously too). Toshiba’s been showing off its new WL- and YL-series LED TVs, and they look like top Tosh tellies. They’ll be the first TVs to hit the UK with Toshiba’s ‘Cevo’ …

One of the coolest things we saw at CES in Las Vegas earlier this year were the prototype glasses-free 3D tellies from Toshiba (that’s one in the photo above). Now Tosh has confirmed it intends to bring its no-spec tech to the UK within the next 12 months. We’ve already seen some of these glasses-free 3D panels, and we’re left …

Windows Phone users have been discovering the downside of Microsoft’s desire to stay on the good side of its mobile network partners: updates to the software only arrive on handsets when the operator has finished testing them, much like Android. This means many people face a lengthy lag between Microsoft releasing an update and it landing on their phone, so …

The BlackBerry Bold Touch 9930 has been leaked again, in advance of the BlackBerry World show in early May. This time, the Bold Touch has been leaked in four videos that show the device’s basic features. The four videos were apparently buried in a leaked build of the BlackBerry 6.1 operating system. They’re designed to act as tutorials for using the Bold …

Boost Mobile is co-hosting an event with Samsung tonight, and as we reported yesterday, the companies are expected to unveil the Samsung Galaxy Prevail, a new, no-contract Android-based smartphone. Well, we can pretty much say that’s a sure thing now. Today, Boost posted a teaser site for the Galaxy Prevail and confirmed some of the rumored specs, including the 3.2-inch …

Verizon Wireless appears to be the next carrier in line to offer the entry level Android-level Samsung Gem. The budget-friendly handset was announced back in January and already has found a home with Alltel and, more recently, U.S. Cellular. Ironically it was a Verizon-branded version of the Gem which first popped up on our radar back in August of 2010. …

Editors’ note: April 6, 2011, 12:15 p.m. PT Article was updated after we noticed that Sprint changed its Web site. Yesterday, a CNET reader spotted a Web spec on this Sprint page that claimed the forthcoming HTC Evo View 4G would run on the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Sometime after we posted this story, Sprint’s specs changed again, this …

Sprint customers looking to tuck a zippy Wi-Fi hot spot in their pocket can now consider the Sprint MiFi 4082 3G/4G Mobile hot spot, created by Novatel Wireless. The WiMax-capable hot spot is available via DirectShip through Sprint, but it can be picked up in brick-and-mortar stores starting April 17. It costs $79.99 for the sleek-looking hardware, plus a mobile …

NEW YORK–No big surprise, but Boost Mobile made it official and introduced the Samsung Galaxy Prevail on Monday evening, its very first CDMA Android smartphone. Available later this month for $179.99 sans contract and with a $50 monthly plan that includes unlimited voice, text, and data (also eligible for Boost’s Shrinkage plan), the Galaxy Prevail is a welcome addition to …

Last week, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Google was beginning to take a firmer hand in controlling how partners use the Android operating system on their devices. Writers Ashlee Vance and Peter Burrows didn’t get too specific–they mostly relied on background interviews–but they described a few ways that the Googleplex is taking control. For example, Google now must be involved in …