iChair Recent successful funding efforts from many independent designers, including Dan Provost and Tom Gerhardt’s iPhone 4 accessory The Glif, have inspired many new projects seeking to cash in on Apple’s vastly popular accessory market via crowd-source funding Web site Kickstarter. The Glif A simple search on Kickstarter for “iPhone” or “iPad” yields quite a …

3D-loving phone botherers looking for a handset that isn’t the LG Optimus 3D are in for a treat — HTC’s French division recently issued a tweet, spotted by Engadget, confirming le nouveau Evo 3D est arrivé en France tout de suite. This means the rest of Europe is likely to get a pointy-pointy 3D slice of the action as well. …

For Android devotees, Mozilla’s issuance of Firefox for Android has been a long wait. Sure, the browser maker added it to the Android Market in beta form months ago and made the release candidate (RC) available last week. However, today marks the first that the app is available in full, unfettered by qualifications that mark it a prerelease product prone …

Think you’re a dab hand at Angry Birds? Nailed three-star ratings for all its levels? And those for Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio? Good work. Bet you still can’t beat 19-year-old Jonas Koivula though. He’s the newly crowned Finnish champion at Rovio’s game, having seen off 2,600 rivals in the inaugural country-wide competition. Yes, that’s right: an Angry …

What sort of phone will you be using in 2016? We’re hoping for a handset with 3D printing, teleport check-ins, and the ability to not change the spelling of ‘me’ to ‘mr’. Well, we can but hope. Analyst firm Ovum thinks different though: it’s more focused on the respective fortunes of Android, iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. The company’s latest …

Got an Xperia X10? You’re stuck with the Android 2.1 Eclair software, with Sony Ericsson announcing last year that future updates to Google’s OS would not be pushed out to the device. But prepare to shout hallelujah and kiss random strangers in the street: the company has changed its mind. “We plan to bring an upgrade to Android Gingerbread for …

Another ding for Ping. When Apple rolled out iOS 4.3 a couple weeks ago, it quietly added a few features to the widely reviled Ping social-network service: push notifications for comments and follow requests, parental controls, and so on. Soon after, many users started reporting a sizable drop in iPhone, iPod, and/or iPad battery life–and it wasn’t long before Ping …

O2 has revealed more details of its 4G trial in Slough. Six mobile phone masts have been equipped to handle LTE signals for high-speed Web browsing when you’re out and about with your 4G-equipped mobile phone, tablet or laptop. O2 reckons the six masts in the trial can handle the same volume of traffic as O2’s entire 3G network. Cor! …

The iPad 2‘s new Smart Covers are great, but if everyone gets one, how will your tablet stand out from the crowd? Dutch company Miniot has just the thing: its own version of the Smart Cover made of wood. Its release came as Apple separately announced that there will not be a dedicated keyboard dock for the iPad 2, unlike …

O2 has slammed the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, pulling it from a planned launch on 1 April. Throwing down the gauntlet to other networks, O2 claims that if it launches as planned, the PlayStation phone “won’t give customers a great experience”. O2 claims to have discovered software problems that have forced the network to delay the Play’s planned release on …