Reports started trickling in early this week that T-Mobile was issuing an over-the-air software update to the Samsung Vibrant. Although it’s not a major release like Froyo, it will likely be met with great enthusiasm. What’s so great about the update? To put it simply, it fixes the GPS. Readers may recall that early Vibrant …

Acer’s looking to get the Mobile World Congress 2010 party booming by supplying attendees with a Liquid e hit. It’s got three other smart phones running the Android operating system up its sleeve as well: a mysterious Ferrari handset, the beTouch E110 and the beTouch E400. Sharing the same name as a date-rape drug, rather alarmingly, the Liquid e is the successor to last year’s surprisingly good, but …

Details are emerging of the LG Optimus 7, a Windows Phone 7 handset that will hit shops before the end of the year. The Optimus range is set to put the first smart phones with WinPhoSev — and a fancy new Nvidia Tegra 2 chip — into customer’s hands. Previously known as the E900, the Optimus 7 got its first outing at technology trade …

LG has lifted the covers off its first Windows Phone 7 mobile, the LG Optimus 7, and then swiftly put the covers back on. The debut of the smart phone was announced on the official LG blog, which Recombu spotted, but the blog post was quickly taken down as it was ahead of this afternoon’s official Microsoft unveiling. We suspect …

After RIM’s big PlayBook announcement two weeks ago, Google and Microsoft knocked out several Android and Windows Phone 7 devices of their own at CTIA and at Microsoft’s recent Windows Phone 7 event, drowning out RIM just a tad. But it looks like the company is ready to fight back, or at least that’s what this leaked Sprint ad from …

Forget Android 2.2 — early next year may see the debut of the Droid T2, a new Motorola super phone running Android 3.0 Gingerbread on an Nvidia dual-core Tegra 2 processor. The unstoppable killer robot phone is secretly being worked on by development teams at Motorola (who clearly don’t realise they’re threatening the future of humankind), according to an article …

The New Yorker An interesting story reported by The Huffington Post suggests Conde Nast iPad (and iPhone) apps have a critical flaw that can allows anyone inclined to change a preference file to download new issues of magazines for free. Conde Nast publishes iOS versions of its popular magazines including GQ, Vogue, Wired, and The New Yorker. The hack, which …

Official press images of the LG Optimus 7 have leaked, five days before we expect to see it premiered as one of the Windows Phone 7 launch devices on 11 October. The pictures floated on to the Web thanks to German site BestBoyz.de. The images can be seen here — it’s slim, but hardly ground-breaking. We saw a video of …

Orange will exclusively offer the HTC 7 Mozart, while Vodafone is the only one with its hands on the HTC 7 Trophy. Both are among the first Windows Phone 7 handsets and will be available from 21 October. The availability of the HTC 7 Mozart was already leaked by Orange, but exclusivity is something of a coup for the network. …

Screenshot by Jasmine France In terms of music apps, Napster lagged behind the competition until its caching-capable mobile program hit the iTunes music store. Luckily, what finally did arrive is a pleasure to behold. Clearly a lot of effort went into designing the look and feel of the Napster for iOS app. The interface is quite simply one of the …