For all of the great things that Sony Ericsson has debuted over the last few weeks, one device it has yet to show off is a tablet. With LG and Motorola gearing up with their first push and Samsung readying a larger Galaxy Tab, Sony Ericsson would be wise to jump on the emerging market, …

If you ever find yourself wanting an alternative to the Amazon MP3 Store on Android (though we can’t quite imagine why), you can now consider the V Cast Music application if you’re a Verizon customer. You can get both full song downloads and ring tones, and song prices range from $0.69 to $1.29 for DRM-free MP3s. You can get song …

Slowly but surely, the Samsung Galaxy S series phones are getting updated to Android 2.2 Froyo. First it was the Samsung Vibrant, then the Samsung Epic 4G, and now the Samsung Captivate. AT&T said on its Facebook page that the update will be available starting tomorrow. A link to Samsung’s Web site will be provided where you can find the …

It may not look like much, but Tiny Wings could be the best bird-based game since that one with the pigs. Screenshot by Rick Broida I just figured out why the Angry Birds are so angry: it’s because they can’t fly! They have to be flung, and even then they get only a few seconds of airtime before suffering rapid-deceleration …

Wireless HDMI has been promised for several years, but the handful of systems that have surfaced so far have been criticised for being impractical and expensive. Researchers at NICTA have developed a system called “GiFi” — short for gigabit Wi-Fi — which offers up to 10 times the bandwidth of existing wireless technologies. Researchers say it uses a tenth of …

Unlike Sprint’s last event, which was shrouded in mystery and a lot of hype, the carrier is taking a more subtle approach with its next handset. Spreading the word via its Twitter account, Sprint revealed that on February 24, it will introduce a new phone with a “hub for gaming, music, pictures, and video.” You don’t have to be a …

Samsung is working on an app that uses the Earth’s magnetic field to detect your smart phone or tablet’s exact location, in order to automatically launch specific apps. If you want to switch from watching a video on your tablet to watching it on the big screen, for example, you could pop your Samsung Galaxy S 2 on to your …

Adobe announced its plans for Flash Player on tablets in time for Mobile World Congress last week. Now the company is fine-tuning its earlier news. Adobe stated in a blog post on Monday that it expects the Motorola Xoom to be the first tablet to receive Flash Player 10.2. This latest Flash Player update is said to significantly reduce CPU …

Want to bag yourself a hot new Android handset without waiting for the operators to start selling it? UK retailer Play.com has some good news: it’s started taking pre-orders for the LG Optimus 3D and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. The Optimus 3D is listed with a 25 April release date, and a SIM-free price tag of £514.99. Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson’s …

Consumer Cellular pushed out a new basic phone on Presidents Day, dubbed the Motorola WX345. As the carrier is known for its senior-friendly phones, the WX345 is suitably simple, with large keys and a bright screen. It offers pretty decent features for a basic phone; they include a speakerphone, a camera, an MP3 player, an FM radio, and Bluetooth. It’s …

Motorola announced today that its Android 3.0 Honeycomb Xoom tablet will be available from Verizon starting February 24 for $599.99 with a two-year service agreement or $799.99 without a contract. In addition, 3G data plans for the Xoom will run $20 per month for 1GB of data, but there was no word on what Verizon will charge for 4G data …

Smaller screens will not make for an ideal Honeycomb experience. Scott Webster As we near the debut of the Xoom tablet later this week, our Android focus shifts to the horizon beyond Honeycomb. What will happen beyond Android 3.0? Are handsets ever going to see Honeycomb or will we be left with two different versions of the same OS? As …

Samsung’s Wave 578 is the manufacturer’s lates Bada handset, which has been unveiled this morning at Mobile World Congress to avoid being outshone at Sammy’s press launch last night by the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab II devices. The big news? The Wave 578 includes Near-Field Communication (NFC) tech, with Samsung flagging it up as ideal for mobile payments …

From 28 February it will be legal for the producers of UK-made TV shows to accept money in return for placing a specific product on screen during a programme. This is different to normal advertising in two important ways. Firstly, the products will be essentially promoted by their proximity to big-name celebrities such as Simon Cowell and that lot in …

In this episode of Pulse TV we discuss second-hand, obsolete and old gadgets and go dumpster diving, geek style. Your hosts are CNET Australia editors Lexy Savvides, Ty Pendlebury, Joe Hanlon and Derek Fung.