Forget cracked screens and pink phones. The Sonim XP3 Sentinel is so tough, just holding it makes our pale, flaccid nerd arms look like the bulging biceps of Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster. Put aside your weak, crackable iPhone 4s. The XP3 is impervious to dust, impact-proof up to a drop of 2 metres on to …

I’m not quite sure, but make no mistake Hewlett-Packard has cut some former Palm staffers from its ranks as it closes its acquisition of the smartphone maker. I’m hearing different numbers from sources (once) close to the company, so it’s difficult to put a firm number on them. Sounds like it’s not too, too many though. Double digits, not hundreds. …

Yahoo Mail for Android Yahoo Android users who want to to keep tabs on their Yahoo mail and learn more about their favorite movies should welcome the addition of a couple of new apps to the growing mobile marketplace. Yahoo announced Thursday the launch of Android apps for its Mail and Messenger programs topped off by a new mobile-search widget. …

While thousands of Australians would love to have bought the new iPhone 4 on 24 June alongside the estimated 1.5 million Americans who did at its launch, it seems there’s a sunny-side to being asked to wait. US customers have been reporting a variety of issues with the new smartphone, including some seemingly serious problems with network reception and faulty …

This is exactly what the little guys are for. Virgin Mobile today announced new caps that break the four major networks’ mouldy mould of mobile phone caps in Australia, which introduces hefty data allowances and unlimited SMS at an AU$29 price point. The new Virgin Smart Caps all offer at least 1GB of data for web browsing, which is significantly …

WASHINGTON–In his first major speech on the issue, President Barack Obama on Thursday said the current immigration system in the U.S. needs to be changed, and he called on Republicans to join Democrats in supporting immigration reform legislation. “The system is broken,” he said in a speech given at American University in Washington, D.C. “And everybody knows it. Unfortunately, reform …

Look into your future, Nokia fans — this is how N-series smart phones may look someday soon. Screenshots and video of MeeGo, the Linux-based operating system that Nokia’s planning on slapping on its upcoming high-end smart phones, have popped up on the MeeGo Web site. The shots show MeeGo ‘Day 1’, an early version of the software that was released to …

Count LG as yet another phone maker that’s in the app store game. Indeed, the company just launched the LG Application Store, which it promises will deliver apps not just to smartphones, but to most of its feature phones as well. In other words, we wouldn’t count on this replacing your Android or Windows 7 app market any time soon, …

News reaches us, as we crack open an ice-cold, refreshing can of Cooler-Cola, that Ofcom is considering relaxing the rules on product placement. Product placement is the name for companies paying to have their products appear in films and TV shows. Ofcom announced the new plans in a bowl of Tastee Flakes — sorry, we mean blog post. The new …

Surfing on your phone doesn’t mean riding it over wind-swept waves — it’s actually worth getting on the mobile Web. Mobile browsers are doing a good job of bringing the Internet to life, even on the tiny screens and anaemic processors of our phones. But you don’t have to dance with the browser what brung you — you can install …

Since the launch of BlackBerry App World a few short months ago, crackberriers have joined iPhone-toters and Android addicts in spending all their pocket change on apps. Apps for the BlackBerry tend to be more expensive than iPhone or Android apps, so we want to make sure you get your money’s worth — hence our recommendations for the best BlackBerry …

With smart phones chomping batteries like Pac-man popping pills, charging is the newest challenge for gadget-makers. If we could get some juice everytime we dropped our phone on the table, maybe we could make it through the day without being chained to our wall wart or USB cable. So it’s no wonder that wireless charging options are springing up faster …

Samsung is going intergalactic once again with the Galaxy S, a new Android 2.1 phone packing a giant screen and assorted built-in apps. The Galaxy S sports a gazmungous 102mm (4-inch), 800×480-pixel, AMOLED capacitive touchscreen. Social networks are pulled together in a ‘social hub’. You can input text using Swype to draw rather than tap on the keyboard, which we …

The iPhone 4 has arrived with all the fanfare of Gollem launching a new model of Precious, but does the Apple attack look likely to thrash the other smart phone big boys once more? We’ve taken five of the hottest new and upcoming smart phones (and one wild card) and thrown them in the ring for a clash of the …

Updated: Our full Samsung Galaxy S review is now live on the site. The original story is below.  We braved a bevy of random British slebs at the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S to get our hands on the huge new Android smart phone. The biggest surprise was the phone’s size — despite a giant 102mm (4-inch) screen, the …