Dell has stuck its middle finger up at RIM, telling its 25,000 staff to throw away their BlackBerry devices in exchange for one of the company’s own Venue Pro smart phones. The changeover, which begins next week according to the Wall Street Journal, is a show of valour from Dell, who has high hopes for …

IntoMobile is reporting today that the next release of Android–Gingerbread–is expected to debut November 11. Likely to be marked as v2.3, Gingerbread is said to focus more on aesthetics as opposed to additional features. Other details include WebM support, better copy and paste functionality, and improved social-networking features. Reading the tea leaves, it certainly appears that an SDK announcement is …

Mobile-app developers still cite the iPhone as their platform of choice, but Android is increasingly winning their hearts and minds, according to the results of a survey released today by Millennial Media. Among the several hundred developers and publishers polled for Millennial Media’s “State of the Apps Industry Snapshot,” 30 percent said they’re currently creating apps for the iPhone, the …

We can break a phone just by leaving it on a desk or lending it to Rory Reid, but some idiots have found more creative ways to destroy their expensive handsets. We hate to see a good phone suffer — although we once shot a Vodafone 540 just to watch it bleed — so we’ve created the Mobile Darwin Awards …

Mobile network 3 has picked up the LG Optimus One, one of the first handsets running Android 2.2 Froyo, and will be releasing it on pay as you as go as of next week. The Optimus One, along with the Optimus Chic, is a handset designed for people starting out with Android. It has reasonable specs, a 600MHz processor, a …

In the early days of the smartphone, physical keyboards were the way to go if you wanted the phone for messaging or email. That’s why the Palm Treo and the early BlackBerrys proved popular back then because of their full QWERTY keyboards. The trend has carried onward to today’s smartphones, with devices like the Samsung Epic 4G, the T-Mobile G2, …

Dell will hand out its Venue Pro to its employees who currently carry BlackBerrys. Bonnie Cha/CNET Dell is looking to market its own smartphone as an alternative to the BlackBerry and is starting the push with its own employees. The PC maker will give its BlackBerry-carrying employees new Venue Pro smartphones in return for their existing phones. The transition is …

Those clever boys and girls at Google have done it again, making the Google Instant real-time search engine available for Android 2.2 and iPhone iOS 4 handsets. Google Instant for Mobile is supposed to be available only in the US, but you can have a go with it right now by logging onto an account with the language set to …

…And that was Bruce Hornsby and the Range, with the classic That’s Just the Way It Is… “some things will never change”. Speaking of things that never change, tune into North Norfolk Digital radio for new show Mid-Morning Matters, presented by broadcasting legend Alan Partridge. Alan’s living up to his catchphrase, “Back of the net” — the Inter-net that is! …

All of the worst things that have ever occurred were allowed to happen because someone didn’t say, “No, I won’t stand for it.” Well, mark this day in your calendar, Cravers, because we’re saying no right now, and we’re saying it to on-screen logos on our HD TV channels. And broadcasters can ignore us at their peril, because we’re as …

Apple’s iPad may be gnawing into traditional laptop sales like a hyperactive beaver through a riverbank full of birch trees, but, like the iPhone before it, the full potential of the touchable tablet only really becomes obvious when you start adding third-party apps. The seductive slab has its own section in the iTunes App Store, where you’ll find our top …

Vodafone has launched Freebees, a selection of pay as you go tariffs that reward you with free Internet access, texts or call time when you top up your phone. There are three Freebee tariffs. ‘Get Text and Web’ will give you 300 texts and 500MB of Web access for free every time you top your phone up with £10 of credit. …

A handful of leaked Verizon documents are providing clues as to when customers can expect to see the carrier’s first two Android-based world phones. Motorola Droid Pro Nicole Lee/CNET First up, we have the Motorola Droid Pro, which looks to be carrying an attractive $179.99 (after $100 mail-in rebate) price tag. Although Verizon hasn’t committed to a specific launch date, …

Our admiration of Japan knows no bounds — we frequently wish we lived in the land of vending machines and tentacle porn. Chalk up another reason to move east: two Sharp Android 2.2 smart phones that offer no-glasses 3D visuals in the style of the Nintendo 3DS. Sharp has rolled out two mighty-sounding Galapagos 3D handsets in Japan, the touchscreen-only …

The Apple iPhone 4 may be a contender for the Greatest Gadget of the 21st Century, but you can’t eat your dinner off it. That’s where Table Connect comes in, a convergence of furniture and phone that lets you control your apps and games on its surface — if it’s really real, that is. Cynics suggested the iPad was a …