In the brief run-up to the announcement of its Nexus One phone, Google was doing nothing to quash the hype. Phones given to employees were quickly popping up all over the tech universe with promises of the “best Android phone yet” not far behind. And when the phone was finally unveiled on Tuesday, a Google …

If you somehow needed another reason to buy an Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray player — only our favourite home theatre gadget of last year — then the newest features added overnight may interest you: it now (sorta) does DLNA streaming. This means you can now stream music and movies from your network and watch them on your TV, and the files …

Sony has made one thing clear at this year’s CES in Las Vegas: it wants to be the “undisputed leader in 3D”, and to do this it has unveiled a suite of new Bravia TVs and other 3D services. The LX900 is Sony’s premium 3D TV and features a slanted viewing angle. (Credit: Sony) “It is my pleasure to introduce …

If you’re a T-Mobile customer and tried to buy a Nexus One today, you might be surprised that you don’t qualify for the $180 contract price that was mentioned in today’s press announcement. This is apparently the case even if you’re out of contract with T-Mobile and just want to renew your plan. Here is the plan breakdown, according to …

In addition to the features announced on Tuesday at the Google press conference, the Nexus One will be getting even more functionality down the road, specifically Flash Player 10.1. In the video above, Adrian Ludwig of Adobe shows off the some of the work the company has been doing to bring Flash player to mobile devices. He demos several sites …

In the early 1990s, giving away free flights with its vacuum cleaners cost Hoover £50m and lost the board its jobs, but Carphone Warehouse isn’t letting that stop it. It’s giving away two free return flights to Europe to everyone who buys a Palm Pre between 26 December 2009 and the end of January. You can choose to take your …

We do everything on our phones, from ordering our groceries to getting our groove on. But on some phones, actually making phone calls makes us want to scoop out our eyeballs with a melon baller. Poor connections, tinny sound and echoes are just some of the voice-quality issues that leave us shouting impotently into our mobiles. Orange is promising to …

So now we know the full story of the Nexus One. After the newest Google Android device was sightedlast month, Google formally released the handset to the world Tuesday morning. Though the Nexus One’s specs are promising–particularly the Snapdragon processor and the enhanced voice control capabilities–it’s not necessarily the best Android phone yet. Indeed, the real story of the Nexus …

We knew it was coming, but we had to wait for Google to spill the news before we could talk about it with authority. And the company did so Tuesday morning at a press conference at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. Now playing: Watch this: Google Nexus One 3:22 As expected, the Nexus One is a new Google Android …

New Year’s Eve is always a whopper of a night for phone fingering. This morning O2 tipped us off to the fact that between 7:15am on 31 December and 7:15am on 1 January, its revelling UK customers sent nearly a quarter of a billion text messages to other phones. “O2 customers sent 227 million text messages [over New Year],” an …

To celebrate (pictured) the excruciating lateness of the Palm Pre to the UK late last year, Palm has set a date for paid-for applications to be available on the device in Europe: this March. Yeah, that’s only, what, a billion years later than it should be? It might not seem like a big deal, but paid apps are usually the …

Here at CNET Australia we want the information in the reviews to answer all the questions you have about a particular device. So instead of posting our thoughts and then having you ask us questions after the fact, we thought we’d let you ask them while we have the product still whizzing through the CNET test labs. The Nokia N900 …

As we now know, the Consumer Electronics Show will not be the only thing going on in the gadget world next week. Google is getting a jump on CES with a January 5, 2010, press conference where the company should unveil its Nexus One phone. Details on the HTC-made device remain sketchy–though we have seen some leaked specs–but most signs …

A tipster just sent in these Nexus One screenshots that supposedly confirm two things: that Google will sell it unlocked and unsubsidized for $530, and that Google will sell it itself. Plus, some other very interesting details. Some of the most important bits of info we extracted (assuming the tipster is accurate, and it seems like he is). Oh, and …

AT&T has resumed selling iPhones through its Web site to New York City customers, with no indication as to what prompted the halt. Over the holiday weekend, New Yorkers who tried to order an iPhone through AT&T’s Web site were left out in the cold. Making matters worse, explanations ranged from network congestion problems to online fraud to this fine …