Samsung HM1700 Bluetooth headset Samsung Look for three new Samsung Bluetooth headsets to arrive on T-Mobile and Samsung’s virtual and retail shelves: the HM3700 ($59.99), HS3000 ($69.99), and HM1700 ($39.99). The HM3700 is a dual headset with mono and stereo modes. Similar to the Samsung Modus series, it combines noise cancellation (dual mic and echo) …

According to Apple’s most recent patent application, “Wireless power utilization in a local computing environment,” you could soon be charging your iOS device simply by keeping it close to your computer system. In case this sounds too pedestrian for you, the research comes from the field of midrange wireless power transfer physics. Near field magnetic resonance is used to power …

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 goes on sale tomorrow running Android Honeycomb 3.1. Samsung I’m a little disappointed in you guys. Here we are, on the eve of the Samsung’s nationwide rollout of the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and you aren’t even lining up for it yet. What gives? If there’s a tablet out there right now that’s worthy of Apple-level hysterics, …

Now playing: Watch this: LG Optimus 3D 1:52 It is shaping up to be a very good week for 3D phones. First Sprint offered its new HTC Evo 3D for review and now LG finally has released its Optimus 3D smartphone. First announced in February at Mobile World Congress, the Optimus 3D is LG’s smartphone counterpart to its Optimus Pad …

So much good content is now freely available in the iTunes Store that choosing a mere five apps for this round-up almost made us foam at the mouth. As such, we haven’t included any of the apps featured in our recent round-ups of the iPhone‘s best Twitter, photography, news and games apps. Nor have we included some of the more obvious free …

iPad 3? Apple hasn’t even announced the iPad 2 yet, let alone started selling it. But with an April launch looking very likely for the company’s second-generation tablet, the blogosphere has already moved on to rumours of a third iPad coming as early as September this year. They’re not just any rumours, either. Blogger John Gruber has a very good …

Apple’s iPhone 5 may look much like the iPhone 4, but with a bigger screen and smaller surrounding bezel. That’s the conclusion from a series of images leaked in China, based on “mould engineering drawings” used to make cases for the next-generation device. The images have been published on iDealsChina, which explains how it got its hands on them: “We …

The iPad 2‘s A5 processor is one of its key selling points, upping the grunt within Apple’s tablet to handle richer games and processor-intensive apps. Now it seems the iPhone 5 may be shipping with the A5 too, judging by references buried in the code for the iOS 4.3 software update. Which, by the way, was released last night. The …

Just because Mobile World Congress is taking place doesn’t mean the iPhone rumour mill is going to stop churning out speculation-flavoured flour. Two separate reports today have predicted the form factor of Apple’s next-gen iPhone 5 smart phone. Firstly, DigiTimes claimed — via the obligatory ‘upstream component suppliers’ sources — that the iPhone 5 will have a 4-inch, rather than 3.5-inch, …

Apple may be grappling with Japan-related production issues for the iPad 2, but preparations seemingly continue apace for the launch of the iPhone 5 this summer. New reports from manufacturing partner Foxconn back up previous speculation about a metallic rear and larger screen for the new device, while NFC mobile-payment technology may be back on the menu too. 9 to …