Three new phones from Nokia will tempt those of us who like a good click when we type — the Nokia C3, Nokia C6 and Nokia E5 all have proper Qwerty keyboards. Nokia may be flailing like a octopus stuck in a woolly jumper with touchscreen smart phones such as the N97, but it’s quietly making …

A few days after Clearwire and, by extension Sprint, announced a big expansion of their WiMax 4G network, representatives from AT&T and Verizon Wireless made their own 4G promises at separate conferences. Though both carriers have chosen the competing LTE standard for 4G, Verizon is in the lead. At the Bank of America Merrill and Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment …

Updated, 11:57 a.m. PT: Now includes a hands-on review. For live video broadcasting service Justin.tv, going mobile makes all the difference. It’s been just two weeks since the company launched Justin.tv for Android, but the app now accounts for about 20 percent of Justin.tv’s live streaming broadcasts. With the release of Justin.tv for iPhone 2.0, the company expects more of …

Whether by accident or more likely part of an ingenious master plan, Apple has set off a new craze — the iPod nano watch. At Apple’s recent launch we were a little confused by the radical nano redesign, until we realised something that should have been obvious from the start — connecting a strap accessory to the new nano can …

MegaReader provides easy access to 1.8 million free e-books. Inkstone Software If I’m ever stranded on a desert island, I hope I’ve got MegaReader on my iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. And, um, a solar charger. And 3G. And a Starbucks would be nice. Because MegaReader, you see, supplies enough reading material to last a lifetime. The app promises access to a whopping …

It’s not an exaggeration to say that there are iPhone apps for almost everything. And in my neverending quest to find apps for airline geeks, I came across a title that allows you not to locate your gate, track your flight, or find your seat, but to actually search for planes in the air. Plane Finder by Pinkfroot uses a …

Android continues to grab greater chunks of the U.S. smartphone market while its competitors watch their share shrink or stagnate. Though still No. 3, Google’s Android platform saw its market share climb 5 percentage points to win 17 percent of all U.S. smartphone subscribers for the three months ending in July compared with the prior three months, market researcher ComScore …

Motorola Grasp Motorola Motorola has recently announced that its eco-friendly Grasp will be offered by U.S. Cellular. The Motorola Grasp is a messaging phone with a full QWERTY keyboard and features threaded messaging, e-mail, an MP3 player, an optical trackpad, a 3.5 mm headset jack, Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and a MicroSD card slot that can take up to 8GB …

The nation’s largest wireless provider has paired up with one of the premier names in the enterprise space to bring business-grade security and management to handsets like the Droid 2, Droid X, and LG Ally. The move will give the carrier a leg up when it comes to attracting business customers who previously worried about security protocols, remote wiping, and …

NEW YORK–Samsung’s assault on Apple is under way, as the company unveils its plans for its new tablet PC as well as a new service that allows consumers to purchase or rent TV shows and movies on their Samsung mobile devices. The Samsung Galaxy Tab is an Android-based tablet that will be launched in Europe in early fall and in …

T-Mobile has slotted the spangly new HTC Desire HD in near the top of its pyramid of mobile excellence, offering the Android 2.2 phone free on a hefty 24-month, £40 contract. If you don’t want to be stuck with it for that long, UK online retailer Mobile Fun is offering a SIM-free HTC Desire HD for £460, and its Qwerty …

Samsung Electronics is expected to officially launch its new Android-based tablet PC on Thursday evening at an event in New York, likely naming three of the four major wireless operators in the United States as carrier partners. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel had all reached agreements with Samsung to offer the …

One of the features that sets the Samsung Galaxy S smartphones apart from the sea of other Android phones is Media Hub–a gateway to downloading movies and TV shows to your phone. Unfortunately, the service wasn’t quite ready for prime time when the phones launched, but that’s about to change. At a press event in Manhattan today, Samsung announced that …

FetchTV’s SmartBox 8000 has the potential to change the way we watch TV. Not only is it a traditional Freeview PVR, it’s also one of the first boxes to offer Sky Player without the need for a laptop or Xbox 360. The box also allows access to BBC iPlayer, one of the first Freeview PVRs to offer this service. The …

Sky has announced three limited edition Sky+HD boxes. Designed by Wayne Hemingway, Gerald Scarfe and Phil Daniels, the 1TB HD+ PVRs celebrate the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup. Red or Dead head fashion designer Wayne Hemingway harks back to 1966 with his box, celebrating England’s only World Cup win. Illustrator Gerald Scarfe gives us a characteristically creepy football-headed fan, also …