The new Philips 40PFL9704 is a new LED-illuminated LCD TV with all the features you’d expect from a high-end TV. It’s also a pretty funky-looking thing, and from the minute we yanked it out of the box, we were impressed. The LED backlight is the more capable, but more expensive, locally dimmable system, which makes …

Could you ever justify £1,800 for a 40-inch TV? Philips hopes so — its new 9704 range is chock-full of features designed to win the picture quality awesomeness battle. We’ve reviewed plenty of impressive LED TVs, but this is an ‘LED Pro’ TV. LED TVs have the potential to offer the Holy Grail of high-end TVs — blacks that actually …

AT&T said Thursday that it will invest an additional $2 billion in its network in 2010 to make sure it keeps up with the growing demand from new smartphones and other 3G data devices, such as the Apple iPad, on its network. During its fourth quarter 2009 conference call, Chief Operating Officer John Stankey said AT&T plans to spend between …

Motorola ended 2009 on a mixed note, with a profit but drooping sales. For the fourth quarter, the mobile phone maker turned a profit of $143 million, compared with a loss of $3.7 billion in the same quarter of 2008. The 2008 quarterly loss was largely attributed to nonrecurring charges that Motorola was forced to take. Sales for the fourth …

Sick of seeing your poor Nexus One lie almost lifeless on your desk or constantly having to wake the phone to check the time? Well, now you can prop it up and display the sleek Android phone in all its glory with the new Nexus One Desktop Dock. Similar to the accessory for the Motorola Droid, when the smartphone is …

AT&T posted a 25.6 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings as its wireless and new TV businesses continued to grow. AT&T’s earnings were also largely aided by sharp cost-cutting. In the quarter that ended December 31, AT&T said Thursday, it earned $3.09 billion, or 51 cents a share. During the same period a year ago, the company earned $2.4 billion, or …

If you had visions of scribbling notes on your iPad, much like you can with virtually every other tablet that preceded it, Apple pretty much dashed them with Wednesday’s focus on its onscreen keyboard. Unsurprisingly, accessory makers have already stepped up to fill the gap. Ten One Design recently announced the Pogo Sketch and Pogo Stylus, which are fully compatible …

Nokia, the biggest mobile phone maker in the world, could be making a comeback in the smartphone market. The company reported Thursday that it gained worldwide marketshare in this sector during the fourth quarter of 2009. The company, based in Finland, said Thursday that during the quarter it saw a 60 percent increase in profits, mostly due to cost-cutting and …

Crackberry It’s no secret that a Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry Tour will be making its way to Sprint and (most likely) Verizon Wireless, but one question remains: When? Well, we still don’t have an exact date for you but it seems the device’s release is imminent. RIM posted an update on its Facebook page on Wednesday that read, “The BlackBerry Tour 9650 …

Is Zagat trying to out-Yelp Yelp? Probably, and the app certainly offers new, competitive services while trying to accomplish its aim. Earlier this month we offered up a sneak peek of Zagat to Go 3.0 for iPhone. On Wednesday, the premium app for browsing restaurant and nightlife ratings ($9.99) became available in the App Store on iTunes and on your …

The presumed “little brother” of the Motorola Droid, the Calgary, appears to be nearing release. Just last week, the handset was spied in Verizon’s Cellebrite device, which is used to transfer information such as contacts, messages, and pictures between handsets. We’ve also seen a couple of leaked images hit the Internet over the last few weeks. The Calgary, aka the …

Unfortunately for iPhone owners, it appears that features included in the new Apple iPad OS won’t be compatible with Apple’s phone. According to Engadget, Apple’s updated human interface guidelines describe new User Interface(UI) elements, split view and popovers as “iPad-only” features. Though this shouldn’t come as a surprise since those UI elements were built for larger displays, it may mean …

Apparently, there was something called the Apple iPad announced today. We’re not really sure what all the hubbub is about, but we share a few thoughts on the device and take a couple of jabs at its unfortunate name. Also, though there was no mention of iPhone 4.0, there was plenty of other cell phone and smartphone news. The FCC …

Article updated 1/28/2010 at 4:25 PM PT with clarification from Apple about the availability of the iBooks app. Apple We only got a glimpse of Apple’s new iBooks app when CEO Steve Jobs demoed it at the January 27, 2010 Apple event in San Francisco. What we saw was a stylish, crisp-looking, colorful e-book reader and storefront that will run …

iPhone users can now evolve, or at least their Spore counterparts can, thanks to the release of Spore Creatures for iTunes. Hitting the iTunes market on Monday, Electronic Arts’ Spore Creatures picks up where Spore Origins left off. In that game, your baby swam around the primordial ooze trying to stay alive by eating smaller, defenseless lifeforms and avoiding bigger, …