What’s the only thing better than iPhone games? Free iPhone games, of course! I’ve rounded up five titles that’ll give you hours, days, maybe even weeks of portable fun, and they’re all absolutely free. But not for long. Some of these games are part of short-term promotional giveaways, and I don’t know when those promotions …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC 7 Pro: U.S. Cellular Windows Phone 2:32 Even glancing at U.S. Cellular’s smartphone lineup, one thing stands out. With the exception of a couple of BlackBerrys, Android completely dominates. Or it did, until the HTC 7 Pro muscled its way in, a rebranding of Sprint’s HTC Arrive. As staunch supporters of mobile platform diversity and …

Samsung The Samsung T404G is one of those messaging phones you don’t hear much about, offered by Net10, a prepaid wireless company you don’t hear much about. With service ultimately supplied by TracFone Wireless, the Samsung T404G has a full, sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera and camcorder, and Bluetooth support. There’s also mobile Internet, an MP3 player, and a …

Screenshot by Bonnie Cha/CNET Google has been fined for selling apps in the Android Market in Taiwan without offering a seven-day refund period, as local regulations dictate, and has responded by halting sales of apps in the country. According to a statement from the Law and Regulation commission of Taipei City Government, the California company was fined NT$1 million (about …

Google and Samsung could be teaming up once again and this time for the first Android 4.0 handset. According to sources close to Boy Genius Report, this latest collaboration bears the code name of Prime and could ultimately arrive as the Nexus Prime when it debuts late in the year. The handset should significantly improve upon its predecessor Nexus devices …

Analyst firm IDC has reported that Apple is the leading mobile brand in Australia following a 13 per cent increase in iPhone shipments in Q1 of 2011. (Credit: CBSi) Apple holds nearly 40 per cent of shipments in the smartphone-only segment and nearly a third of the mobile market as a whole, of which smartphones account for 79 per cent …

A Microsoft-led consortium will begin a test in Britain this week to investigate how unused TV spectrum could be employed for new wireless broadband networks, according to a Financial Times report. The group, which includes the BBC, British Sky Broadcasting, and telecommunications giant BT, hopes to tap “white spaces” to create “super Wi-Fi” networks to sate bandwidth-hungry smartphones, according to …

Telstra today confirmed that it will be the exclusive retailer of the HTC Sensation when the handset launches in Australia in July. The upcoming HTC Sensation with Telstra’s apps installed. (Credit: Telstra) “This epic multimedia smartphone is HTC’s flagship, and will launch exclusively on the Telstra Next G network in July,” said Andrew Volard, Director of Telstra Mobile Products. The …

With more than 500 new and enhanced features coming to Windows Phone this fall in Microsoft’s version 7.5, or “Mango,” update, you’d think we’d be hard-pressed to discern the cream of the crop. Not so! After spending almost a week with Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, we found that five major features stood out above the rest. These features are time-saving …

The previews for the next version of Windows Phone 7 are out, and overall, the response from the press has been largely favorable, including CNET’s. The Mango update brings more than 500 new features to Microsoft’s mobile operating system and continues to build on a solid platform, with smarter integration of apps, more-robust features, and a faster browser. It also …