Still hanging on for a white iPhone 4? We salute your courage, strength and indefatigability. We just think you’re a bit barmy, given the lengthy delay in Apple putting the device on sale. Here’s some good news though: an industry analyst reckons it will finally be available early in April. Ming-Chi Kuo from Concord Securities …

Our favourite feature of this week’s iPhone update, iOS 4.3, is the personal hotspot. It lets you share your iPhone’s 3G data connection over Wi-Fi with your other gadgets. That means, for example, you can tether your Wi-Fi-only iPad to your iPhone to get connected. But how much is this little treat going to cost you? That’s where we come …

Nokia has failed to launch a new phone at Mobile World Congress for the second year running. The Finnish mobile phone manufacturer has offered up more details on its adoption of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 software, but there’s no sign of new devices based on Nokia’s Symbian or MeeGo operating systems. MWC is the biggest blow-out of the mobile blower …

Apple allows streaming music apps on to its App Store for iPhone and iPad, but digital music stores are given short shrift. That’s the reason you won’t find an Amazon MP3 store app for iPhone, unlike Android and BlackBerry. UK store 7digital has found another way on to iOS devices though: a new HTML5 mobile Web version. We’ve been trying …

More than 7.5 million people are using social-location app Foursquare to check in to real-world places to earn badges and mayorships, but now the app has been updated to version 3.0 on iPhone and Android. The major new feature is recommendations. “For years we’ve wanted to build a recommendation engine for the real world by turning all the check-ins and …

The New York Times website is going behind the paywall, and it’s playing ball with Apple’s contentious subscription service to do it. The venerable American broadsheet announced today that it will start charging a monthly fee for visitors to its website, and users of its smart phone and iPad apps. New York Times apps are available on the iPhone, Android phones …

A white iPhone 5? This might seem like a cruel joke on our part, given the fact that the white iPhone 4 still hasn’t gone on sale. We’re not making it up though: reports in China claim that Apple has got its suppliers sorted for a blanc-generation version of the iPhone. Specifically, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News claims that local …

The white iPhone 4 may finally go on sale in the coming weeks, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek article.  The article cites “three people with knowledge of the plans” as saying the white handset will be available “in the next few weeks” in the US at least, through operators AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The article specifies that this means an on-sale date before the end …

High-score hotshots assemble! The excellent Nintendo 3DS and the upcoming Sony NGP mean there’s never been a better time to gamify going out. But not everyone’s keen on lugging around a dedicated console, and with the Android and Apple app stores full to bursting with delicious downloadable games, many gamers are sticking with their phones. The two front-runners in the …

The iPhone 4 and unlimited data go together beautifully, even if operators have pulled back from the idea, preferring to cap users to prevent their networks being overloaded. Now Three is bucking the trend again, letting pay as you go iPhone 4 users have limitless data for the handset, as well as contract customers. The operator has just already been …