If you haven’t updated your apps lately, there’s a nice surprise awaiting you in the App Store: Angry Birds Seasons 1.5.1. (Note: That link is for iTunes. Android users can find the game in Android Market.) Instead of a holiday-themed update, this one actually involves a season: Rovio has added 30 new levels (twice as …

Ah, Wimbledon. Rafa Nadal, Andy Murray, Sue Barker and the cream of world tennis are in SW19 for two weeks of athletic excellence, strawberries and weird grunting noises. This year there’s an added dimension to the hallowed competition, as the BBC broadcasts the finals in 3D for free. CNET UK has gone behind the scenes to see how 3D is …

Vodafone’s new Android-powered own-brand Vodafone 858 Smart is a pay as you go way of jumping on the app-happy bandwagon. Officially shortened to ‘Smart’ — but not to be confused with last year’s HTC Smart — it’s an attempt to bring the luxuries of owning an advanced phone to those who don’t want to pay out hundreds of pounds up …

On Call runs every two weeks, alternating between answering reader questions and discussing hot topics in the cell phone world. It’s been a few months since I’ve used On Call to answer reader questions, but this week offered the perfect opportunity. Being that tomorrow, June 29, is the fourth birthday of the original iPhone, I wanted to tackle a great …

The next flagship Android phone will be made by Samsung and called the Google Nexus Prime, according to the word on the street. The latest version of Android, called Ice Cream Sandwich, will make its debut on the Google-branded smart phone sometime this autumn. As the flagship device showcasing the most up to date version of Android, the Prime is …

The next collaboration out of Sprint and Motorola’s renewed partnership looks to have already landed online. A blurry photo passed to Pop Herald shows an Android handset with a portrait QWERTY slider that doesn’t look all that different from the Motorola XPRT. According to the source, this phone will run Android 2.3 Gingerbread and may possibly support Sprint’s 4G network …

Sick of staring into your boring two-dimensional phone screen? Fear not, flatness haters — the HTC Evo 3D will be arriving in good old Blighty in July. A launch date next month puts the HTC Evo 3D head to head against the similarly depth-tastic LG Optimus 3D, which will be available around the same time. Both handsets run on the …

More power! as a noted scholar once said. Samsung seems to have taken that maxim to heart, if rumours are to be believed about a beefed-up version of the already rather tasty Samsung Galaxy S 2, known as the Samsung Galaxy S 2 Plus. The Pop Herald claims it heard the news from credible sources in Asia, although noted that …

Microsoft says it has the fix to the world’s spectrum crisis: unused broadcast TV spectrum called “white space.” But consumers shouldn’t get too excited. It could take years before technology supporting white space spectrum finds its way into popular mobile products. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it has joined forces with broadcasters and technology companies in the United Kingdom to …

The T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide claims to have the most advanced camera of any smartphone. Bonnie Cha/CNET Today, T-Mobile finally put the rumors to rest and officially unveiled the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide. Expected in July for $199.99 with contract, it’s the latest addition to the carrier’s line of consumer-friendly Android smartphones, and it’s more than just the next-gen version …