Over the years I’ve seen various hacks and apps that let you add speed-dial icons to your iPhone’s Home screen. But not many of them let you customize those icons to include photos. Custom Dial 6 does exactly that, giving you six quick-dial icons with the photos of your choice. Unfortunately, the end result is …

Nokia’s Ovi Store hits 2.3 million daily downloads. Nokia After almost a year and a half, Nokia’s Ovi Store has built up enough momentum to hit 2.3 million daily downloads, the company announced today. With the number of active Nokia phone customers at 140 million around the world, 200,000 users are now signing up at the Ovi Store on a …

Samsung isn’t making any more Symbian phones, the Korean supermanufacturer has announced, following Sony Ericsson in concentrating its efforts on other platforms like Android and Windows Phone 7. The world’s second-biggest phone maker announced it won’t be supporting Symbian any more, in a note sent to registered developers. Samsung closed its Symbian lab two days ago and will close its …

The Federal Communications Commission has removed guidance from its Web site that advised consumers shopping for a cell phone to consider the amount of radiation a handset emits. The revisions, which first appeared last week, were not formally announced nor do they appear to be the result of an official change in policy. On its revised consumer fact sheet the …

A federal case which alleged wireless carrier T-Mobile had blocked text messages from a service that claimed a medical marijuana dispensary as one of its clients, was settled outside of the court this week according to a report in Wired.com. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleged that T-Mobile had blocked …

Samsung’s i8910 Omnia HD is based on the Symbian OS CNET Samsung will withdraw support for the Symbian platform and will close its Symbian developer facilities by the end of the year. The announcement, made yesterday in a post on the Samsung Mobile Innovator site, said the developer lab will be closing its doors on October 29, followed by the …

Transformers G1: Awakening features 23 robots in disguise from the 1980s cartoon. Screenshot by Antuan Goodwin Glu Mobile has released a port of its Transformers G1: Awakening iPhone game to the Android Market this week. Awakening is a turn-based strategy game starring 23 of our favorite robots in disguise from the 1980s cartoon, including Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, and Starscream. …

Panasonic is teasing technology fans with details of a Lumix Phone, a camera phone based on Panny’s popular compact snapper brand. The Lumix Phone will feature a 3.3-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, and DLNA for zapping pictures wirelessly to your telly. It’ll be a hefty 17.7mm thick and weigh 146g. The 13.2-megapixel image resolution would make it one of, if no the …

Samsung T249 T-Mobile Without issuing a press release, Samsung added a new slider phone to T-Mobile’s lineup this week. The T249 sports a simple blue shell with clean lines and rounded ends. Beneath the colored display is a standard navigation array, and a standard keybaord hides behind the sliding face. Features include a 1.3-megapixel camera with video capture, a speakerphone, …

When it comes to wireless services, sometimes unlimited doesn’t really mean unlimited. Wireless is a competitive business, and sometimes operators say almost anything to get consumers to sign up for their service. Over the last few years, outraged customers have forced wireless carriers to stop throwing around the “unlimited” term so freely. As a result, a lot of mobile broadband …

Those who pre-ordered the Nokia N8 online may have it in their hands before the end of September, and not October as we previously thought. A reader of the website NokNok spotted that Nokia Online has been buying up Google ad words which say the Nokia N8 will be be ready for dispatch on September 23, “one week before anyone …

Tesco Mobile is offering the Nokia N8 SIM-free for £330, a good £100 less than the official Nokia store. On the Tesco Direct website, the black version of the N8 is on sale at £329.97, much cheaper than the online Nokia store, where it’ll set you back £429. The catch seems to be that it’ll be locked to the Tesco …

Those who fancy grabbing a BlackBerry Torch 9800 can now take a peek at the possible cost of getting the flagship smart phone on a Vodafone contract. BlackBerry Leaks posted a table that shows the various Vodafone tariffs. It seems you can get a Torch for as little as £20 a month with 100 minutes and 500 texts, but you’d have to sign up to a 2-year contract …

The Nokia N8 is due to be with us at the end of this month, if two Web sites that have already put the smart phone on pre-order are to be believed. Online retailer Play.com has given the device a release date of 31 August, while MobileFun.co.uk has plumped for a 26 August ETA. Both are offering the N8 SIM-free …

Nokia fans desperate to get their hands on the N8, the company’s latest Symbian smart phone, will probably have to wait until October to finally play with it. Last week online retailer Play.com said we would be able to get our hands on the N8 by the end of August, but has now changed that date to 8 October. Play.com …