LG’s future looks like a blast from the past, if you believe the leaked mobile-phone roadmap that’s popped up on Pocketnow. Familiar faces will get a revamp, including the LG Prada phone, the new version of which will be called the LG Prada K2. The K2 is pictured above in a rendering that Pocketnow says is ‘based on …

9to5Mac Apple has released the latest update to iOS, now version 4.3.5, to address security flaws. This update comes quickly after the 4.3.4 update which addressed a similar security flaw used to jailbreak iDevices. Users should download the update via iTunes when their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is plugged into their computer. From the Apple knowledge base article about …

What’s this? The first hint of a release date for the Nokia N9? A European website is offering the hotly anticipated, much-debated, MeeGo-powered smart phone from 19 August — but with Nokia yet to confirm whether it’ll come to the UK at all, we need your help. Free the Nokia N9! Kazakhstan site TexhoDom is offering lucky Kazakhs the chance …

I’ll be honest: the most fun I had this weekend was not eating pizza and watching “Cool Hand Luke.” It was not sitting on the deck and reading “Game of Thrones” on my Nook Color. It wasn’t even playing with my kids (because they’re out of town–how shallow do you think I am?!). No, the best part of my weekend …

Research In Motion promises to give more details about devices featuring the BlackBerry 7 operating system tomorrow. RIM announced on its official Twitter feed that it would release details tomorrow of forthcoming devices featuring the company’s new operating system: You got it! New #BlackBerry devices are coming w/ our new OS, BlackBerry 7! Check back tmrw 4 deets on #BB7FanNight. …

Samsung has passed Nokia and may have passed Apple in global smartphone sales during the second quarter, according to estimates from Strategy Analytics analyst Neil Mawston. Smartphones like the Galaxy S II have boosted Samsung’s sales. Josh Miller/CNET Responding to a recent series of questions from Bloomberg, Mawston pegged Samsung’s second-quarter smartphone sales at anywhere from 18 million to 21 …

Apple Though portability has been at the forefront of Apple’s game plan since the introduction of the first iPhone, a new rumor reinforces recent speculation that your living room could be where Apple sets its sights next–specifically with a 55-inch OLED TV. Apple may be introducing the set sometime in 2012, according to a source cited by Smarthouse, an online …

The News of the World phone hacking scandal exploded across every aspect of public life with such force — Charlie Brooker called it EverythingGate — that we’ve become a bit touchy about every security loophole we encounter. Today we learn that Android devices store passwords as plain text. That sounds unsecure, but should we be worried? Passwords for email accounts …

The Thrive allows you to spice up your tablet with swappable back plates in one of five extra colors, in addition to the black back plate included with it. Toshiba The Toshiba Thrive Honeycomb tablet has garnered a lot of interest due to the fact that one, it’s a tablet in the year 2011, and two (and maybe more importantly), …

Samsung’s Galaxy R may not be a member of the elite smart phone club with its big brother the Galaxy S 2, but that hasn’t stopped us being more than a little excited since its announcement last week. We were hoping to have the phone turning up in our hands round about now, but instead we’re given a quick video …