There are many different reasons that a phone may need to have a factory reset performed. You may be experiencing too many issues with apps loading slowly, or malfunctioning when they finally do load. Or perhaps a friend or customer service person suggested the process to help with connection issues. Luckily, a factory reset doesn’t …

After holding the top spot in the global smartphone market for years, Nokia may soon lose its dominance to Samsung and Apple, according to an investors’ note from Nomura Securities. Sometime this quarter, the investment firm expects Samsung to grab first place, followed by Apple in second, a move that would shake up a landscape led by Nokia since 1996. …

Sky Go is go. Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV, the two services for watching Sky away from your telly are being combined to form Sky Go — and it’s free to all Sky customers. Sky Player lets you watch Sky online, and Sky Mobile TV lets you watch on your phone. With the introduction of Sky Go there’ll be …

The iPhone 5 will be launched in September, but it may not have all the features we’d been hoping for, according to “a previously accurate Apple source” who’s been talking to 9to5Mac. With the WWDC come and gone and an iPhone 5 no-show, we’re back to speculating on an early autumn launch for Apple’s next handset. Hopefully this is the …

Apple has slipped up and shipped a batch of US-bound iPad 2 tablets with non-unique IDs, prompting a limited recall, according to Reuters. An “extremely small number” of devices destined for the Verizon network were given duplicate MEID (Mobile Equipment Identifier) codes, an Apple spokeswoman admitted. As each mobile device is supposed to be uniquely identifiable, this can cause trouble …

Lady Gaga and the Backstreet Boys will have to come up with some new excuses, because the battle for bars could be coming to an end thanks to the advent of co-operative mobile networks that turn every phone into a tiny cell tower. Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have designed a network that uses your mobile to …

The O2 network is down in London and the South-East. O2 is working on fixing the mobile phone network, with an unidentified problem nixing O2 users from making calls or surfing the Web. O2 says, “We’ve got a problem that means you can’t make calls, use the Internet, or send/get emails the east London/Essex area.” The snafu appears to have …

The Orange Barcelona, like a jewel in the sun, has the look of BlackBerry to it, but in fact runs Android 2.2. The network has just added the Catalan-themed own-brand smart phone to its shop. If slim’s your thing you’ll be happy to hear its body is less than one centimetre thick, so it’ll look great as you amble down …

CHICAGO–Cable giant Comcast is teaming up with Skype to offer its subscribers video calling on their TVs, in a move that could bring more affordable video conferencing to the home. On the eve of the Cable Show here, the companies today announced that Comcast will be offering the Skype service through the TV to its broadband subscribers. The companies are …

Back in December I leased a 2011 Kia Sportage, and one of my favorite features by far is the Bluetooth stereo. No more messy cable running from my iPhone to the aux jack; now all my audio gets beamed automagically via Bluetooth. Alas, what I don’t get is any information about the song that’s playing. So if I hear something …