Ever since the upcoming smartphone grabbed the spotlight at CES in early January, the tech press has been waiting for the Motorola Droid Bionic to make its official debut with Verizon Wireless. Armed with 4G (LTE) support and a dual-core processor, the handset had a lot to like and (at least for the time) it …

Apple’s asked the US courts to issue an injunction that would stop Samsung from selling four of its hottest gadgets in the States. Patent blog Foss Patents reports that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is among the targeted devices. It’s an imminent iPad rival that underwent a redesign to make it slimmer and lighter after the iPad 2 was announced. Apple’s also asked …

Update on Tuesday, July 5 at 1:15 p.m. PT: The $10-per-month data plan will not be available for smartphone users. Verizon Wireless officially confirmed today that it will replace its unlimited data plans with tiered options starting Thursday. Spokeswoman Brenda Raney told FierceWireless that consumers will have their choice of four data allotments: $10 for 75MB per month, $30 for …

Apple has placed an order for a monster 15 million iPhone 5s, and is on track to start shipping the hotly anticipated handset in September, according to DigiTimes. Needless to say, Apple hasn’t issued an official statement regarding the newest iteration of the iPhone — we don’t even know what it’s going to be called officially. But Taiwan-based tech manufacturer …

Samsung’s sold 3 million Galaxy S 2 handsets worldwide, within just two months of the Android-toting smart phone going on sale. The figure is an early indication that the phone’s been hugely successful. We aren’t half pleased for Samsung, as the S 2 is one of the finest Android mobiles around, and quite possibly the best on the market today. …

A new version of the smash-hit Samsung Galaxy S 2 appears to be in the works — and it’s ditching Android to rock out with Windows Phone. Windows Phone site WMPU spotted a handset called the Samsung SGH-i917 in the listings of the people in charge of Bluetooth. The Galaxy S 2 is also known as the SGH-i927. That listing reveals …

Cut the Rope, one of our favourite iPhone and iPad games, is now available to download from the Android Market. Android fans can also get hold of it via the Amazon Appstore and GetJar. The app costs 62p without ads. If you’re determined not to spend any money, then the GetJar version, which launched a few weeks ago, is free (yay!) but …

Tim Newton of Neul–the company running the radio side of the white-space trials in the U.K.’s Bute and Cambridge–detailed the engineering challenges of the task when he spoke at the Future of Wireless conference in late June. His thesis (PDF)–that the radio world white-space systems inhabit is very different to that of classic wireless engineering, and much novel thinking is …

Mobile phones probably don’t cause cancer after all, according to a new study from boffins in Britain, Sweden and the US. The brainiacs concluded that “the trend in the accumulating evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile-phone use can cause brain tumours in adults”. The researchers haven’t ruled out negative effects on younger phone users, however. Reuters reports that the team …

Welcome to Smartphones Unlocked, my new monthly column designed to explain the ins and outs of smartphones to help you better understand how they work. The world of smartphones is fast-paced and can sometimes be confusing and difficult to keep track of all the new technology in these devices, particularly if you’re new to them, so if there are any …