When it comes to mobile phone processors, hummingbirds battle snapdragons in a gardening-themed fight for our hard-earned cash. The Qualcomm Snapdragon, which is in the Google Nexus One, seemingly started the trend for giving chips adorable names, and so became the first to make us wonder what was inside our own smart phone. Now the …

Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti As expected after a report in music magazine NME back in November, Gorillaz front man and songwriter Damon Albarn has produced the latest Gorillaz album on an iPad and will release it Christmas Day for free. The album will be a digital download, free to users on Christmas Day with a free music video from one …

Smartphone interface is very often the cover by which we begin to judge the book. The layout, designs, and color scheme play a heavy role in how easy it is to navigate and customize the phone; but we also can’t underestimate the UI’s emotional connection. So let’s not. Instead, let’s have an interface-off that lines up ten smartphone interfaces for …

LG is offering up a double dose of good news today, both relating to the Optimus One line of handsets. After shaking up the Android community earlier this week with whispers of not supporting Android 2.3 for its Optimus line, LG issued a statement to CNET yesterday that confirmed that a Gingerbread upgrade is in the works. “LG will upgrade …

Many AT&T iPhone subscribers are waiting with bated breath for Verizon Wireless to get the iPhone. But can these subscribers take their old iPhones with them to Verizon? In this week’s Ask Maggie, I break the bad news to one AT&T subscriber that his wife will not be able to use his old iPhone 3GS on the Verizon network once …

Intel’s Atom line of processors will be bringing their own brand of sub-particle action to smart phones late next year, the chip manufacturing wizard promises. The plan is to bring Intel’s upcoming 32 nanometer ‘Medfield’ processor to the mobile market, eWeek Europe reports. The Atom line of chips is best known for powering just about every netbook built in the …

One of the biggest splashes in the iOS gaming scene came during an Apple keynote earlier this year when a preview of an upcoming game from Epic, using the Unreal engine, showcased graphics that seemed like they came from a next-gen console. A free preview of this game, called Epic Citadel, debuted shortly afterward. As a demo of the graphics …

Ding, ding! The second round of our Greatest Gadget of the 21st Century tournament is now over. Now that the dust has settled, it’s time to see which triumphant gadgets have marched into the quarter finals, and which ones have been bludgeoned into a bloodied, crumpled heap, mumbling incoherently as they’re buried alive in a field just outside of town. …

Back in Ye Olden Dayes (about seven years ago), camera-phone photos were roughly the size of postage stamps and looked more like QR matrix barcodes than anything recognisably photographic. But all that’s changed. Many current handsets come with built-in cameras that can actually take fairly good shots — the iPhone most definitely included. This, in turn, has led to a …

For those struggling to get Internet access in rural areas, there may soon be a credible wireless option based on the next-generation mobile-broadband technology LTE (Long Term Evolution). A trial of LTE, run by Arqiva and Alcatel-Lucent, is taking place in the Preseli Mountains in Wales. The intention is to bring high-speed Internet access to those who currently have very low speeds — …

Aliph wasn’t the only headset manufacturer to make an announcement at the D: Dive Into Mobile event. Plantronics introduced a new Bluetooth headset, the Voyager Pro UC. Essentially a rejiggering of its popular Voyager Pro Plus, the new headset now has an intelligent sensor technology which allows it a new set of features. Plantronics Voyager Pro UC Plantronics These features …

We’re massive fans of Infinity Blade — the eye-meltingly gorgeous iPhone game that was unleashed on the App Store today. We’ve written up a proper review (hint: we like it), but already it looks as if Infinity Blade fans might be in for some rather tasty updates in the near future. As videogamer.com spotted, in the ‘coming soon’ section of …

Sprint added another rugged phone to its stable today with the Sanyo Taho E4100. Made by Kyocera but marketed under the Sanyo name, the Taho is built to the usual military-grade standards. The flip phone shows a tough shell with rubber sidings that’s made to withstand dust, shock, vibration, extreme temperatures, blowing rain, and a 30-minute dunking in 3.28 feet …

Samsung Galaxy S users on T-Mobile and 3 who’ve been waiting for an update to Android 2.2 Froyo can stop holding their breath. According to the networks, it’s finally here, after months of waiting. The update was announced on the T-Mobile forums yesterday, after a 1 December launch led to some teething problems. T-Mobile told us that some users weren’t seeing the update on …

After a false start, LG has confirmed it will upgrade the Optimus One handset from Android 2.2 to 2.3, but hasn’t announced a specific timeline. LG confirmed the decision in a statement which read, “LG will upgrade all Optimus One smartphones currently using the Froyo OS to the next version of the Android OS, Gingerbread. Details of the upgrade schedule …