Last weekend Motorola refreshed its support forum for Android software upgrades. This latest round of news can be broken down into three categories: good, bad, and downright disappointing. Let’s start with the good news, shall we? As many of you are already aware, the Droid currently is receiving its 2.2 “Froyo” update. Meanwhile, the Droid …

In a move that will bring high-quality — and almost certainly high-priced — sound to mobile phones, Bang & Olufsen will link up with fellow Danish firm Lumigon, whose T1 phone we had a gander at last week. “We are pleased to announce our partnership with Bang & Olufsen which will bring ICEpower audio into our products for optimal sound …

According to a growing thread in the Apple Support Discussions forums, the Apple bumper case, made specifically for the iPhone 4 (and a major part of the “Antennagate” solution), is scratching the steel antenna band. ASD user Dayvidpriddy reports: “I received my black bumper about a week ago now. Took off the bumper tonight to clean my phone down and …

The new BlackBerry Torch 9800 has been listed by a retail site with a UK release date of 1 October, together with a bank-busting price-tag that makes it more expensive than the 16GB iPhone 4. Expansys is offering the long-awaited smart phone SIM-free for £570. It replaces the BlackBerry Bold as RIM’s flagship consumer phone. The first BlackBerry to offer …

Apple has filed a patent for technology that could enable it to ‘kill’ or shut down jailbroken iPhones, our sister site CNET.com reports. The patent covers tech that would allow Apple to detect whether somebody was doing anything it didn’t approve of with one of its haloed gadgets, such as hacking, removing a SIM card, or texting nasty jokes about …

New technologies are making it easier to get high-quality video streams just about anywhere and on any device, but content owners are still calling the shots. What this means for consumers is that the dream of cutting the paid-TV cord and getting everything you want streamed over the Net without a subscription and largely for free is a pipe dream. …

The times they are a-changin’; our phones are getting smarter and the stats are showing we are making less calls and we’re instead using them more for a wide range of different tasks — web browsing, gaming, multimedia. One of the areas this impacts most is in the average battery life of modern smartphones. At CNET we strive to determine …

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has checked into Bittersville — mayor: him — and described new rival service Facebook Places as “boring”. Crowley says he doesn’t feel threatened by the 500 million-strong site’s rival service as it lacks gaming incentives. Following the US launch of Facebook Places last week, Crowley told The Telegraph that Facebook’s only advantage is its much larger …

Early adopters of Motorola Android smart phones may be feeling listless and abandoned right now, as it was revealed that the Dext and Backflip won’t be upgraded to Android 2.1. Motorola can’t blame the limitations of the hardware, as its software upgrade screen also revealed that the Backflip and the Cliq (the US name for the Dext) will be getting …

It’s not an overstatement to say that Sprint pulled off a significant coup earlier this year when it introduced America’s first 4G smartphone to rave reviews. The HTC Evo 4G not only attracted new customers to a carrier that had long been losing them, but it also gave a much needed boost to a struggling brand. Though the Evo 4G, …