Thought the first sneak peek at the Android UI for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 looked good? Check out the mouth-watering video above. Showing an extension of the video we stumbled on a few months ago, this latest video focuses on the multimedia aspects of the phone, an area overlooked by manufacturers using Android to …

Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists it’s justified because of the higher prices of today’s phones. “The cost of smart phones is considerably higher than feature phones for which the early termination fees were created …

I’m sure you’ve heard of Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. But have you ever heard of an independent mobile app store called GetJar? No? Well, that’s not surprising. The tiny company now based in Silicon Valley has done virtually no marketing. And yet in the nearly five years it’s been around, the company has managed to build the second …

They say the course of true love never runs smooth. But imagine if you were from two different worlds. One from a protective family who only let you out with certain people it had pre-approved. The other from a hippy commune who let their offspring see whoever they want, and enjoy a full range of life’s experiences. Imagine if these …

Android tablets with capacitive OLED multi-touch screens could be in our futures, if Moto Development has its way. Our friends at oled-display.net alerted us that the company has released a 127mm (5-inch) Android tablet. But it’s only a development platform, so we won’t see it in shops — instead, developers can use it to design their new products without having …

Consumer demand for smartphones seems to be unstoppable. In the third quarter, vendors shipped a record 43.3 million devices, up 4.2 percent from last year’s third quarter and up 3.2 percent from this year’s second quarter, says a report released Thursday by market researcher IDC. IDC Among smartphone vendors, Nokia still enjoys the greatest market share, according to IDC, with …

Perhaps the biggest letdown of the LG Chocolate Touch VX8575 from Verizon Wireless is that it’s not the LG Chocolate BL40. After getting teased for months by the sexy shots of the LG BL40, we thought there might be a chance we would see it stateside. Alas, the LG Chocolate Touch VX8575 looks nothing like its European cousin. In fact, …

One of the latest misconception to make its way around the blogspehere was that the Motorola Milestone features multitouch functionality whereas its Droid counterpart does not. As it turns out, Verizon’s first Google Android smartphone does offer multitouch, just not in the same capacity. What’s the difference and, more importantly, who made the decision to water down this feature for …

It’s been about a month since we got a peek at the first generation of the Slacker Radio streaming music app for the Android platform. We liked what we saw. On Thursday, other Android users can also cast their own vote about Slacker Radio 1.0 for Android by downloading it for free from the Market application on their Android smartphone. …

Welcome to today’s episode of Recycling Old PC Games for Fun and Profit. Our first contestant: Doom Classic, the first-person shooter that spawned a thousand imitators, several hundred ports, and one horrendous movie. Next up: Command & Conquer Red Alert, the real-time strategy classic responsible for a massive drop in global productivity. In my youth I was a tremendous fan …

NEW YORK–The new Motorola Droid got a sleepy reception on Friday morning when it officially went on sale across the country in Verizon Wireless stores starting at 7 a.m. in some places. From New York to San Francisco, most stores around the country had few if any lines when doors opened Friday morning. There was a handful of people waiting …

NEW YORK–More than a hundred people were lined up at midnight outside a Verizon Wireless store in midtown Manhattan to be among the first people to buy the new Motorola Droid. More than a hundred people showed up at a Verizon Wireless store in New York City at midnight to buy the new Motorola Droid Thursday night. Marguerite Reardon/CNET About …

Philips Net TV does exactly what you’d expect from the name: it’s an app that puts the Internet in your television. You connect up your Philips telly to the intarwebs and you’ll be able to browse sites such as YouTube and eBay in a Philips-friendly format, with large text and simplified layout. Other sites will be displayed in the usual …

Apple’s iPhone 3GS introduced video recording, trimming, and sharing by adding a higher quality camera and iPhone OS 3.0. These new features introduced a simple way to edit videos, but they won’t be replacing iMovie on the Mac–the phone’s video-editing capabilities are far too simple, since all you can do is simple trimming and no special effects. ReelDirector (iTunes link), …

HTC Droid Eris Josh Miller/CNET When it rains it pours. On Thursday, Verizon Wireless opened the floodgates and unleashed a handful of cell phones and smartphones that should make their way into your hands just in time for the holiday shopping season. It looks like there’s a little something for everyone, so let us know which you are most excited …