The Motorola Droid will be called the Milestone in Europe. The Droid is exciting techheads’ trousers in the US as one of the first handsets to be specifically designed for Android 2.0. The headline-grabbing feature of Google’s next mobile OS update is turn-by-turn sat-nav. The official Milestone page, however, notes that Google Maps and Motonav …

While we’re excited by the arrival of the high-capacity Blu-ray disc format, the exorbitant price of dedicated players is a big stumbling block. But there’s a way around it that doesn’t involve breaking the bank, although it will still leave a dent. LG’s latest Blu-ray disc drive, the GBW H10N, is an optical storage device that lets you read, write …

It’s the worst-kept secret in the history of mankind, but freesat is finally getting access to the BBC’s iPlayer service. We’ve known for a very long time that the plan was to make on-demand TV available on freesat since the platform launched in May 2008. For this reason, all freesat receivers have had an Ethernet socket fitted to them from …

Sky is hoping its customers don’t end up with a Hangover after holding a Sky+ HD party, complete with free high-definition film. Ten thousand partymeisters get a choice of movie, from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Hangover (pictured) or Angels and Demons. The parties will take place any time over the weekend of Friday 11 to Sunday 13 …

The Klipsch Image S4i earphones are nearly identical to their sibling, the Image S4. They not only provide the same comfortable fit and stellar sound quality, but also offer the added bonus of an integrated mic and call answer button, as well as volume controls and remote playback for the iPod. Call quality through the inline mic is solid, though …

After a long engagement, Nokia is jilting the N-Gage gaming platform, which will be closed down at the end of next year. paidContent:UK reports that games will still be sold, and the N-Gage Arena open to users, until September 2010. N-Gage never really took off, after launching as a gaming handset in 2003 then being relaunched as a platform last …

Today we’ll be sidling up and introducing ourselves to the Sony Ericsson Rachel — or is it the Sony Ericsson Rachael? Either way, we hope to have well-conditioned hair flipped in our faces by Sony Ericsson’s first phone powered by the Google Android operating system. We’ve shown you the Rachel’s groovy customised user interface, and we’re also expecting to see …

Sanyo SCP-3810 Sanyo In case you’re tired of all the smartphone news lately, here’s an entry-level phone from Sprint that won’t cost you anything at all. The Sanyo SCP-3810 is a basic camera phone with a 1.3-megapixel camera, a “hidden” external LCD, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, mobile e-mail, and threaded text messaging. And yes, the SCP-3810 is free after rebates and …

Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, is under assault as companies like Apple challenge it in the increasingly popular smartphone market. The Finnish device maker says it’s fighting back with its own cool phones and an Internet services platform called Ovi that will allow consumers to buy digital content, such as music and videos, get maps for navigation service, …

Ladies and gentlemen, start your iPhone engines: Orange says it will start selling iPhones on monthly contracts and pay as you go on 10 November. The iPhone 3G will be from free on a £30-per-month contract and the iPhone 3GS will be from free on a £45-per-month contract — both for two years. And if you’re an international movie star …

If we said to you, “Here’s a cake. Eat as much as you want, but don’t exceed our fair-eating policy,” what would you say? It’s most likely you’d reply, “Sweet! But how much am I allowed to eat under the ‘fair eating’ policy?” A reasonable question indeed, because how can you eat within the limit if we don’t tell you …

At a Japanese trade show on Thursday, an LG executive predicted that OLED panels will be cheaper than LCD ones by 2016. Won Kim, LG’s vice president of OLED sales and marketing, also indicated that the company plans to release OLED TVs of 20 inches and above in 2010, 30 inches and above in 2011, and 40 inches and above …

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iPhone OS hacker GeoHot has announced the successful creation of an iPhone unlock for the iPhone OS 3.1.2 baseband. The new app called, Blacksn0w, will allow iPhone users to use their phone on non-Apple sanctioned carriers. You’ll have to wait a bit though, since the application will not be released by GeoHot until November 4th, 2009. GeoHot, “To clarify, I …

Google’s Android chief has put the kibosh on rumours that the search giant is creating its own handset. A report last week claimed that Google was working with a smart-phone manufacturer to bring its own Android phone to market in the US this year, available through retailers and bypassing carriers. As reported by our intrepid US colleague Tom Krazit, however, …