Do you need a new iPhone 4 like a drowning man needs air? Like England needs a second centre forward? Like Russell Brand needs a good ticking-off from his mum? Smashing news from O2! You can buy your way out of your existing contract for a discount and get your hungry hands on the gadgety …

A handful of images showing a Motorola Droid 2 ready for production appeared online Thursday. The handset appears to retain much of the look and feel of the original Droid, but it shows new and different elements. From what we can tell, Moto has changed the four buttons across the bottom of the display to be more in line with …

Motorola and Research In Motion have settled their patent dispute over wireless technologies, the companies said Friday. Under the settlement, both companies will set up a cross-licensing agreement in which they will receive patent rights related to certain key technologies and industry standards, including 2G, 3G, 4G, 802.11, and wireless e-mail. The two will also transfer certain patents directly to …

Update: Our full Samsung BD-C6900 review is now live on the site. Our original article appears below Forget that the Samsung BD-C6900 Blu-ray player does 3D — it’s hardly the most important thing about it. Especially not when you consider the speed it loads discs, its Internet functionality and its dashing size and style. If 3D is your thing though, …

LG’s new BD570 Blu-ray player connects wirelessly to the Internet so you can watch YouTube on your big telly and stream movies from your computer — and all without looking like a complete dog. That wasn’t the case with last year’s BD390, which we loved, but in the same way you’re fond of an extremely ancient and foul-smelling family pet. …

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The iPhone may be many things, but it’s no steering wheel. Much as I love using accelerometer controls in racing games such as Jet Car Stunts and air-combat sims like F.A.S.T., the iPhone is just too small to grip comfortably. Consequently, I end up getting frustrated with the games I should be enjoying. I was skeptical that PosiMotion’s Helix Gaming …

A quick trip to the bottom of the toilet bowl is a fast way to kill your iPhone stone dead, but is a chat in the rain or a foggy day just as likely to leave you an iPhone widow? Punters with broken iPhones that have never seen a drop of water have been told their warranty is void at …

The 3 network is joining T-Mobile, O2, Orange and Vodafone in selling the iPhone 4 when it arrives on our drizzly shores on 24 June. Drop by the 3 Web site to pre-register your interest in Apple’s latest tool for separating gadget lovers from their money. 3 currently offers the best data deal for the iPad, so here’s hoping it …

LG Ally CNET Though LG is a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, the manufacturer has introduced just a handful of Android phones so far. Only one model, the Ally for Verizon Wireless, has landed in the United States and even that was just a few weeks ago. That will soon change, however, as LG CEO Nam Yong recently …

Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha isn’t a “great believer” in video conferencing on mobile phones, but regardless, he said the company will bring two to four new handsets that support the feature later this year. Jha revealed this little nugget of information after an Executives Club presentation in Chicago, but didn’t mention any specific models, simply stating that they would all …

Foxtel has announced it will retransmit all of SBS’s coverage of the World Cup in 3D following on from its exclusive 3D broadcast of the Australia versus New Zealand match last month. Both SBS and Foxtel will transmit tonight’s opener, South Africa vs Mexico at 11:45pm AEST, in 3D. It is the first of fifteen matches scheduled for 3D transmission. …

Our recent Facebook poll asked whether you would be buying an iPhone 4. The results are in, and a majority of voters said they won’t be forking over their hard-earned moolah in exchange for Apple’s latest smart phone. Forty per cent of respondents ticked the box marked ‘I wouldn’t touch one with a 50ft barge pole that I was planning on later throwing into …

On the day it was announced to the world, Apple’s iPhone 4 cleared the Federal Communications Commission approval process. That means Apple can sell its latest handset in the United States. It also means that now we have a specific absorption rate data for the phone. The FCC’s Web site appears to be on the fritz for the moment, but, …

We’ll hopefully see a high-resolution version of this at launch on the iPhone 4. Apple With the impressive specs on the just-announced iPhone 4, a gamer like myself can’t help but–excitedly!–imagine what the system will be capable of from a game graphics standpoint. This sort of iPhone game anticipation might sound familiar. But in case you missed the announcement of …