Sony Ericsson announced via its blog today that the Xperia Play has gone on sale in 11 markets around the world. The United States, however, is not among them. While the “PlayStation Phone” is available today in countries such as Germany, Switzerland, and Russia, Verizon Wireless customers in the United States will have to wait …
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Vodafone and Three have both delayed their launch of Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play gaming phone. O2 previously put back its own sale date for the device due to bugs in its software, but Vodafone and Three say their delay is due to a shortage of stock instead. According to VG24/7, Vodafone sent an email to customers who had pre-ordered the Xperia Play. “Sony Ericsson have advised us that …
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The $39 billion proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA won’t close for at least a year, but some T-Mobile customers are worried about what the potential changes might mean for them. In this week’s Ask Maggie column, I clear up confusion around whether T-Mobile USA customers will be forced to upgrade their handsets after AT&T completes its acquisition. I …
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The Verizon iPhone was the hottest phone in February, according to ComScore. Bonnie Cha/CNET A new report from analyst ComScore says that the Verizon iPhone was the “most acquired” handset during the month of February. ComScore’s sampling, which consisted of more than 30,000 U.S. mobile subscribers, notes that the surge of handset buyers responding to the phone’s launch earlier this …
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Today we’re pleased to announce an exciting new direction for our humble website — very soon CNET UK will officially rebrand as Angry Birds UK, your number one portal to all things Angry Birds, including Angry Birds reviews, news, features and videos, as well as Angry Birds opinion, exclusive scoops and polls. You spoke, and we listened. Traffic monitoring on …
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If you visit Facebook’s mobile site, you may notice a few changes to the way the Web site looks. The social network began rolling out an update to the site that optimizes Facebook.com for all mobile phones, from the humble feature phone to the high-end smartphone. Facebook previously encouraged feature phone owners to visit m.facebook.com, while channeling touch-screen devices to …
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Samsung is rebooting its Galaxy S Android smart phone for 2011, offering a new version, the Galaxy S Plus i9001, that has a faster processor and bigger battery. For now, it’s only due to go on sale in Russia, but it could well come to other countries in the months ahead. The handset will be known as the Galaxy S …
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Like a lot of smartphone owners, I use mine as a music player. When I got my Droid Incredible, though, I was really disappointed by the stock players that were on it, mainly because I listen to a lot of music and am consistently hunting down new (and old) stuff and sharing what I’m listening to with my friends and …
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Microsoft is going to war with Google in Europe, filing a formal complaint with the European Commission claiming the search giant has “violated European competition law”. Among its complaints is that Google is hobbling the YouTube video service from working as slickly on Windows Phone 7 as it does on Android and iPhone. Microsoft SVP and general counsel Brad Smith …
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Want to play PlayStation games on your Android smart phone? The only choice for now is Sony Ericsson’s new Xperia Play handset, with its PlayStation Pocket app. Until this week, you could also play vintage PSOne games using the PSX4Droid emulator, but Google has now pulled it from Android Market. Spot the connection? PSX4Droid was released for Android phones last …
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The HTC Pyramid is set to be the manufacturer’s next top-tier smart phone, with new spy shots showing off its monolithic screen, and shedding light on some of its historic specifications. XDA Developers has excavated the photographs, sent in by an anonymous archaeologist tipster. They show that the Pyramid will run Android Gingerbread 2.3.2, with version 3.0 of HTC’s Sense …
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We suspect Unlock With Wi-Fi is set to join their ranks of Android apps many of our friends and colleagues rave about — not the spectacular, all-multimedia, guns-blazing pieces of software, but the simple, one-use applications that make your daily life easier. It’s currently available in beta, having been posted by its developer Ben to the XDA Developers forum for …
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Digital comics have been around for longer than the iPad, but they were previously confined to either the computer or a tiny smartphone screen. The iPad breathed life into this burgeoning field by providing a larger, colorful display that was still portable. How the eye follows the page In fact, one of the very first apps to debut on day …
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Now playing: Watch this: Firefox for Android 1:49 Mozilla lifted the lid off Firefox for Android earlier this week, but what’s the big deal? Oh, just that this is Firefox’s most important mobile appearance since browser-maker Mozilla began its mobile project, notably as the Minimo browser for Windows Mobile 5 and 6, and later as Fennec for Windows Mobile 6. …
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Our hearts leapt when we heard that scientists are working on a way to power your iPod using power from your own heartbeat. Researchers have developed nanotechnology that draws enough juice from even tiny human movements to power electronic devices — so you really can listen to your heart… Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology showed off their nanogenerator …
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