Looking for the perfect gift for the iPhone, iPod, or iPad lover in your life? Let’s face it: iTunes gift cards have been done to death. For something original, clever, creative, and even practical, check out the App Magnets. As you can see in the photo, they’re near-perfect recreations of the core iPhone apps. They …

There are already plenty of emulators for Android that will allow you to play classic games from yesteryear. One hacker has gone a step further, though, modifying an old Super Nintendo controller so he could stick it in his Dell Streak and use it to play SNES games. Using the Dell Streak’s PDMI port, the Streaks’s USB cable, a USB microcontroller board and an old …

The HTC Desire HD lives up to its name — it’s our favourite smart phone of the moment. And there’s nothing we like better than dressing our favourite gadget du jour up in the best of its accessories, be they car kits or hand-knitted bobble hats. There aren’t nearly as many accessories for the Desire HD as there are for …

Earlier this week, T-Mobile USA, the fourth largest cell phone operator in the U.S., launched a marketing campaign calling its newly upgraded network “America’s Largest 4G Network.” The claim has ruffled more than a few feathers at T-Mobile competitors, namely Sprint Nextel, which has been helping its partner Clearwire build a nationwide network using a technology called WiMax that it …

It’s finally here! If you’ve been hankering for your Samsung Galaxy S to enjoy a better class of Android loving, version 2.2 Froyo is rolling out now. Samsung UK said in a tweet yesterday that Froyo had started rolling out, and everybody who wants the update should download the latest version of Kies, located in the support section of the …

Dell has stuck its middle finger up at RIM, telling its 25,000 staff to throw away their BlackBerry devices in exchange for one of the company’s own Venue Pro smart phones. The changeover, which begins next week according to the Wall Street Journal, is a show of valour from Dell, who has high hopes for its Windows Phone 7 mobiles …

IntoMobile is reporting today that the next release of Android–Gingerbread–is expected to debut November 11. Likely to be marked as v2.3, Gingerbread is said to focus more on aesthetics as opposed to additional features. Other details include WebM support, better copy and paste functionality, and improved social-networking features. Reading the tea leaves, it certainly appears that an SDK announcement is …

Mobile-app developers still cite the iPhone as their platform of choice, but Android is increasingly winning their hearts and minds, according to the results of a survey released today by Millennial Media. Among the several hundred developers and publishers polled for Millennial Media’s “State of the Apps Industry Snapshot,” 30 percent said they’re currently creating apps for the iPhone, the …

We can break a phone just by leaving it on a desk or lending it to Rory Reid, but some idiots have found more creative ways to destroy their expensive handsets. We hate to see a good phone suffer — although we once shot a Vodafone 540 just to watch it bleed — so we’ve created the Mobile Darwin Awards …

Mobile network 3 has picked up the LG Optimus One, one of the first handsets running Android 2.2 Froyo, and will be releasing it on pay as you as go as of next week. The Optimus One, along with the Optimus Chic, is a handset designed for people starting out with Android. It has reasonable specs, a 600MHz processor, a …