A new version of PayPal for Android smartphones is bringing its spin on mobile money transfers to Android. PayPal 2.0 for Android adds Bump technology, which debits money from one user’s account and credits another when two phones are tapped together. Of course, both smartphones need a Bump-enabled PayPal app to work. PayPal with Bump …

With the Froyo rollout hitting the HTC Evo 4G and Droid this week, many Android users are beginning to wonder if and when their respective handset will receive the update. A quick check of the top manufacturers in the U.S. market tells us that there are nearly two dozen Android devices available to consumers. Though a majority of these are …

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is RIM’s latest attempt at a touchscreen phone, but it’s got a lot of competition in the touchy-feely phone space. The iPhone 4 is the beast to beat, with the Samsung Galaxy S as a rising star. Meanwhile, the Motorola Milestone and the Palm Pre Plus rock the full Qwerty keyboard that BlackBerry fans might be …

The new BlackBerry operating system, BlackBerry 6, has arrived in the person of the BlackBerry Torch 9800. But does the new OS freshen things up, or just mess with a good thing?  Email addicts and business bods love their BlackBerrys, but we think the phone’s user interface has been craving an update. You can’t argue with the phone’s handy integrated …

Samsung has started delivering apps on multiple screens and believes the next step is having two devices playing different roles in the same application. The company demonstrated this concept with a fishing game played on a Samsung TV controlled by a Samsung Wave smartphone. The app on the Samsung Wave controls the action on the TV. (Credit: Samsung) Communicating over …

Let me preface this review by saying I’m a lifelong Trekkie. While I’ve stopped short of attending conventions, I have purchased posters, novels, and even the CD soundtracks from several of the movies. Sometimes I’ll listen to James Horner’s “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” score just driving around town. That’s right: I’m a big enough Trek nerd that …

BlackBerry’s latest interface is coming to a lucky few existing customers. The brand-new BlackBerry 6 operating system, first seen on the new BlackBerry Torch 9800 handset, will also be rolled out to the BlackBerry Bold 9700 and BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9105. BlackBerry 6 offers a newly design homepage with customisable icons. A new Webkit-based, multi-touch browser and multi-touch media player …

Denon’s new DHT-1311XP is a home-cinema system that comprises an AV receiver and a set of 5.1-channel surround-sound speakers. It’s 3D-ready, making it a super choice if you want to buy a home-cinema set-up that’s as future-proof as possible. The biggest advantage of buying a system like this is that you no longer need to pick up an AV receiver and speaker system …

So you decided to jailbreak your iPhone using the fast and easy browser-based method that’s been making headlines all week. Now it’s time to stock up on the apps Apple doesn’t want you to have, mwa ha ha! (Don’t you just love thumbing your nose at authority?) As a first-time jailbreaker (finally got the aforementioned JailbreakMe to work early this …

This is turning out to be a rough week for BlackBerry maker RIM when it comes to international relations: the latest blow is that the European Commission has opted for the iPhone and HTC handsets over the BlackBerry to roll out to its employees. Research In Motion The search for a new smartphone began in 2008 when the Commission, the …

Google is working on an enhanced web portal to its Android Market, with plans to make the whole catalogue searchable through a desktop browser and to deliver app purchases wirelessly to the phone. Yu-Kuan Lin, a Google product manager for Android, confirmed the upcoming enhancements to the current Android Market website, outlining some of the changes in store. The browser-accessible …

Android is now the leading smartphone operating system in the U.S. in market share, according to a report released Wednesday by NPD Group. Following a slew of new smartphones released in the second quarter, the Android operating system accounted for 33 percent of all smartphones sold in the U.S. consumer market. That number pushed it ahead of Research In Motion …

Is the Motorola Sage next? Engadget Judging by recent leaks and tips, the next Android phone for AT&T could be the Motorola Sage. First spotted in the FCC last week, the quad-band device appears to support AT&T’s 850 and 1900MHz bands in addition to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Assisted-GPS, and EDGE. Over the next few days, a handful of images emerged showing …

Vodafone has angered HTC Desire owners, after it updated the phone with a little present many of them did not want at all. Believing they were going to get the latest Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ update with all the latest goodies, users eagerly installed a hefty download, only to be mightily disappointed when instead Vodafone sent over a number of branded …

One of the “smartest” features of an iPhone and Android phone is the capability to pull up as search suggestions previously visited URLs when you begin typing your destination into the browser. On Tuesday, Google offered its own take for the Android- and iPhone-optimized version of Google.com in the form of a new History link. If you’re signed in to …