Gameloft is asking Android smart phone gamers to give some of its top titles a go for free. The games are Real Football 2010, Asphalt 5, Assassin’s Creed, Dungeon Hunter, Gangstar: West Coast Hustle, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X., Hero of Sparta, Let’s Golf!, Modern Combat Sandstorm, N.O.V.A Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance and UNO. A game based …

According to the latest rumors, the Droid Incredible is expected to see Froyo as early as tomorrow. Droid Life has been passed an internal Verizon screen shot that lists the HTC phone with a software update that begins August 27th. Although Android 2.2 is not explicitly mentioned, the update has all the makings of Froyo, including automatic app updates, Flash …

The number of women using the Internet on their smart phones is fast catching up to the number of men, according to new research from Opera, makers of the Opera Mini mobile browser. Opera Mini is catching on with both male and female users, but the rate of increase is larger for women, according to the report. Between May 2008 and July …

Facebook is making changes to its much criticised chat feature, which should make those annoying cut-offs in the middle of conversations a thing of the past. Facebook software engineer Rodrigo Schmidt admitted in a blog post that many people had complained about chat sessions coming and going, or stopping completely. “We’re working hard to end those interruptions so that your …

American wireless customers are paying less for cell phone service than they did a decade ago, but they have fewer choices of carriers, a report from the Government Accountability Office said Thursday. The GAO is the audit arm of Congress, and in the report there was both good and bad news for consumers. The good news is that the average …

We explore whether Android’s open ecosystem is really better for consumers and developers than iOS’ closed system, talk about Flash on the Droid again, and tell you how to make $10k/month creating Android Apps. Join Justin Eckhouse along with guest host Brian Tong for this week’s episode. Now playing: Watch this: Ep. 13: Android’s openness turns bad for users and …

Apple is holding a musical extravaganza on Wednesday 1 September. A typically close-mouthed invitation has gone out to the press, including your humble Crave, to see Apple bandleader Steve Jobs strike a chord with a music-related announcement. The press conference will begin at 10am US time at the Novellus Theater at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in Californ-aye-ay. …

After a short period for preorders, Cricket’s first Android smartphone is now officially on sale. You can get the Sanyo Zio, aka the Kyocera Zio, for $249 with Cricket’s no-contract service. To go with the phone, Cricket also is offering a $55 per-month service plan that includes unlimited talk, text, picture mail, Web browsing, e-mail, and international text. As we’ve …

We already know that HTC is planning phones with Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system, but we didn’t expect the speaker-slider oddness that we’re seeing in photos leaked to Engadget. The phone — known as the HTC T8788, but sure to get a heroic, desirable nickname — is a slider, but instead of a keyboard, it’s got a speaker hidden …

The iPad may seem like an oversized iPhone to some of you, but for sumo wrestlers in Japan that is exactly the point. According to Reuters, Japan’s sumo association will be handing out free iPads to make sure they can get in touch with the grapplers, as telephone and faxing had become unreliable. And before you mention that the iPad …

O2 has produced a list of the most eco-friendly mobile phones, in which LG performed badly, while Apple did not take part. Based on data given by manufacturers, O2 has given the LG GW520 the joint worst eco rating, with a score of 2.7 out of 5. Incidentally, it did pretty badly in our review too. Matching it for environmental …

It’s not just the TV makers that have a vested interest in pushing video’s transformation to 3D TV and beyond. Companies that supply and enable the technology are just as eager to see the next generation of video take hold as the TV makers looking to sell you another big screen. “Video is today’s voice-on-an-IP network,” said John Chambers, CEO …

Just as we expected, T-Mobile’s latest Android phone, the Motorola Charm, went on sale today, ushering in yet another handset design for the platform. Save for the similarities between the Droid and Droid 2, Motorola has offered a unique design with each of its Android handsets. This time around, we’re getting a candy bar, BlackBerry-like device with a four-row QWERTY …

Just two weeks after it added the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to its lineup, AT&T announced today that it would pick up another Sony Ericsson smartphone, the Vivaz. First announced earlier this year just before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the Symbian (Series 60, fifth edition) smartphone focuses on multimedia with a slight nod to business users. Features include …

If you’re looking for one of the more polarizing titles in Apple’s App Store, look no further than the Softmines App, Bloody Hell. It’s a tap-to-kill monstrosity of a concept that’s sure to upset more than just your stomach. One need only peruse the over 4,000 reviews written in the App Store on Bloody Hell’s page. Over 1,100 are five …