We can’t get away from those persistent Angry Birds. To go with the film, the cuddly toys and Halloween costume, we now have an iPhone 4 case winging its way to us, courtesy of O2 and HMV. On a landing page, O2 has the Gear4-made case marked for a November release, with designs based on …
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We don’t need to tell you about the HTC Desire HD‘s huge screen, Android 2.2 operating system, 8-megapixel camera, and aluminium frame — we know you want one. All you need to decide now is where to get it. The phone is available with deals on 3, T-Mobile and Vodafone, so we’ve compared over 100 of their deals to see …
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Two of HTC’s better-known handsets, the Droid Incredible and the Evo 4G, are currently receiving software updates. Unfortunately they aren’t Gingerbread some are anxiously awaiting, but instead are typical maintenance releases and tweaks. Some of you may have already received these files, as they started rolling out over the last day or so. The update hitting the Droid Incredible sees …
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Forgive us for missing this blog the last few weeks, but we’re back to report on the mobile happenings at the Federal Communications Commission. Outside of the appearance of the Samsung GT-i9020, aka what could be the Nexus S, it was a tablet week at the FCC’s certification labs. We spied the upcoming Sharp Galapagos and the AT&T and international …
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A Nobel prize-winning physicist says that graphene, the exotic material that won him the top science gong, could end up on touchscreen phones as early as next year. Last month, the Nobel prize in physics went to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselo, of Manchester University, for coming up with graphene, a one-atom-thick transparent sheet of carbon. Graphene is more conductive …
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Geeks will always tell you to get the latest and greatest product on the market, but sometimes choosing a previous generation product will satisfy your needs without breaking the bank. In this week’s column I answer a question from a reader who needs a new iPhone and can’t decide whether to get the older-generation iPhone 3GS or the iPhone 4. …
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T-Mobile has announced that it will implement its $14.99 monthly unlimited tethering and mobile Wi-Fi hot-spot plan starting November 14. This will be on top of any data plan you purchase, and the phone must support this feature in the first place. Right now those phones include the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G, the T-Mobile G2, and the LG Optimus T, with …
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The end of 2010 is close and it looks like AT&T is beefing up its device portfolio and app offerings for a day when it isn’t the only U.S. operator offering the Apple iPhone. Earlier this week, the nation’s second largest wireless operator launched the first Microsoft Windows Phone 7 phones, and it also added two new Android smartphones to …
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ARM engineer David Gilday has combined the Google Nexus One, some Lego and a Rubik’s cube, in a tech demo that can only be described as the geek Holy Grail. We bow before him. Gilday’s Lego Mindstorm robotics kit untangled a Rubik’s cube puzzle in 12.5 seconds using HTC Android software, deviceguru.com reported from the US ARM tech conference. This …
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The M360 may not be exciting, but it works. Josh Miller/CNET Soon after I posted the news of Sprint’s new Samsung M360 last week, I received a few e-mails from CNET readers wondering why such a simple phone was worthy of our attention. As reader sdf0013 put it in the comments section of the blog, the M360 news was “out …
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The iPhone, iPad and iPod touch are about to have their first Lego video game, Harry Potter: Years 1-4, just as the next Harry Potter movie is about to be released. The game is arriving soon for iOS, according to our sister site CNET.com, hopefully before the movie’s premiere on November 19. Owners of the Apple devices will soon have …
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Cricket TXTM8 3G Cricket announced the TXTM8 3G today, which is really a rebranded TXTM8 II. As the name suggests, the TXTM8 3G now has 3G support in the form of tri-band EVDO. It’s a simple slate-style QWERTY messaging phone, with a 2-megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5-mm headset jack, a music player, and support for up to 16GB microSD …
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The U.K. government should offer tax credits to businesses that upgrade their networking equipment to support IPv6, according to Vint Cerf, who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the internet. Cerf, who co-invented TCP/IP, said on Thursday that businesses in the U.K. and the rest of Europe risked being cut off from customers in parts of the …
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Details of a new Samsung Android Gingerbread super phone have leaked on the Web — and no, it isn’t the Google Nexus S, which we wrote about two minutes ago. Slides which purport to describe Samsung’s next flagship device have been published by Engadget. Aimed for a February 2011 release, it has some very impressive hardware specs that make it …
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The HTC Desire HD is many things. It’s a fabulous phone, which means you can talk to any one of 4 billion people almost anywhere you go on the planet. No prince, king or emperor before the 21st century, no angel of legend or wizard of myth, could dream of such a thing. How cool is that? It plays music …
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