BT is jacking up the cost of a landline phone or Internet connection. Your monthly line rental will go up by 50p from the beginning of October, bringing the yearly cost of a landline to £160. The cost of a call will rise to 10.9p from 9.9p, or during the day up to to 6.4p …

The team over at Droid Life got their hands on a photo of what appears to be a pre-release version of the Droid 2 running Android 2.2 (Froyo). If the the device arrives on schedule next month with Froyo, it would be the first Android handset to launch with the latest version of the platform. The Droid 2 has seen …

Editors’ note: Each day for 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love will publish slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. Two weeks from now, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and announce the 10 that you, our readers, love the …

T-Mobile has just announced plans to expand its HSPA+ coverage to include nearly 100 major metropolitan areas by the end of 2010. The carrier has traditionally been left behind in the high-speed data race, so it’s good to see that loyal T-Mobile customers will be rewarded for their patience. HSPA+ is currently available in nearly 50 markets, including Austin, El …

freesat is a free satellite TV service aimed at people who don’t want to pay for TV, but still want a broader selection of channels than you see on Freeview. Oddly then, freesat has implied it might like to start up a pay TV service all of its own. It surprised us — if you want satellite TV with a …

Virgin Media is making high-definition TV more affordable, with a new budget HD V Box. Unlike Sky, Virgin’s HD service doesn’t require an extra monthly fee, but you have to pay for the box and a setup charge. Although the new budget set-top box doesn’t embrace the ability to record programmes (you’ll need the V+HD Box for PVR functionality), it’s …

Apple isn’t likely to allow Firefox or any other competing HTML Web browser on its iOS platform anytime soon, but Mozilla’s Firefox Home for iPhone, released to the App Store late last week, does at least bring the heart of the Firefox browser to your iPhone: your URLs.  Before getting into what Firefox Home is, you should know that a …

The first images of a new Android device from Motorola have made their way online and, just as we expected, we should be getting yet another design. Though it looks very much like a Palm Pre, we can determine only that the handset is a portrait slider with a four-row QWERTY keyboard. According to MobiFlip (translated), the phone runs at …

Motorola i1 Sprint Following in Boost Mobile’s footsteps, Sprint announced on Monday that it, too, will offer the Motorola i1, starting July 25 for $149.99 with a two-year contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate through its business and Web channels. The phones will arrive in retail stores on August 8. The i1 is the first Android device to support …

The iPad is hitting nine more countries on Friday. Apple The iPad’s market is going more global starting this Friday. Apple announced Monday that its popular tablet will reach residents in nine more countries: Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Both the Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi+3G models will go on sale. The iPad is currently …

Six months ago, we were all actually looking forward to the World Cup, bow ties weren’t cool, and the iPhone 4 was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye. Six months on the Web is even longer. Think what all you pay as you go phone owners have missed out on, not like those hoity-toity smart-phone owners with their la-di-dah …

Editors’ note: Each day for the next 10 business days, CNET personalities you know and love will publish slideshows of their 10 personal favorite iPhone apps. With each post, you get a chance to vote for your own favorite app. Two weeks from now, we’ll collect the full list of 100 apps and announce the 10 that you, our readers, …

Google’s Android operating system is the new kid on the block, which is seeing an incredible surge in popularity thanks to the support it is receiving from manufacturers. In Australia the range of Android phones is growing faster than any other, and include models across all pricing tiers, from top-shelf handsets to prepaid models as well. Learning any new system …

How do you zero in on a location without using GPS? You use cell phone towers. BlackBerry-maker RIM announced on Monday that it will use cell-tower triangulation as part of a new geolocation feature in its Locate Service for the BlackBerry Application Platform. This tactic of using signal from nearby cell towers to approximate your phone’s location is nothing new, …

If you’re looking for more ways to get apps onto your BlackBerry smartphone, Verizon would like to make a suggestion: use its storefront. On Monday, Verizon began rolling out V Cast Apps on select 3G smartphones, like the BlackBerry Bold 9650, Storm 2 9550, Curve 8530, and Tour 9630. The company announces it will also bring its app store to …