Vodafone is ditching its range of mobile phones that were specifically tailored to its Vodafone 360 service, including the successor to the Samsung H1, which was unsurprisingly named the Samsung H2. Instead of pushing phones that are dedicated to delivering the service, Voda is going to focus on getting Vodafone 360 on to a broad …

In the battle between iPhone and Android, one of several things Android users can hang over the heads of their iPhone-toting brethren is the built-in talk-to-text capability. Luckily, owners of the Apple device can easily retort, “Well, there’s an app for that!” In fact, there are several dictation programs available. Better yet, the two I’ve outlined below are free (for …

With all of the awesome Android phones on the market now, it’s easy to forget the models that came before them. But today, we take a moment to remember the device that started it all, the T-Mobile G1, as it goes into retirement and finds its place in the tech history books. After almost a two-year run, the G1 is …

If you’re toting around an iPhone in one pocket and a bulging wallet stuffed with loyalty cards in the other, let us respectfully say this: You’re doing it wrong. With only a bit of legwork, you can lighten your load by scanning or manually adding your cards for your supermarkets, book stores, pet shops, sports stores, and the library, and …

The Desire is one of four phones to be sold in China under the HTC name. HTC HTC announced Tuesday that it’s launching its own name brand of smartphones in China, with four phones set to take the stage this year. Although the mobile phone maker already holds a presence in the Chinese market, its phones there have previously been …

If you have even a passing interest in sports (or just want to show off your iPad), get TheScore. Screenshot by Rick Broida When I see an app like TheScore for iPad, it forces me to think in big-picture terms, as in: this is how sports news was meant to be consumed. Not in some day-old newspaper or tiny iPhone …

3 is to drop the iPhone 4 this Friday. The last of the major networks to get Apple’s latest smartphone into shops will offer it on sale from Friday, 30 July, according to an email circulated to potential customers today. The 16GB iPhone 4 will be free on a two-year, £45 monthly contract, while the 32GB model starts at £90 …

A short post on the official Android Developers blog last weekend brought big news for Android app developers and Android users: carrier billing will soon come as an option for the Android Market. The blog didn’t reveal a specific date, but “authorized carriers” are now considered an indemnified party. Current developers have 30 days to accept the new conditions to …

Shoppers perusing Wal-Mart for a cell phone will soon have double the options–that is, a choice of purchasing a prepaid phone on two carriers instead of just one. Wal-Mart’s Straight Talk wireless service, which has previously run only on Verizon’s networks, is expanding to AT&T. StraightTalk is a brand made by TracFone, and is sold exclusively in Wal-Mart stores. AT&T …

Invitation to BlackBerry event in NYC We received an e-mail today from RIM inviting us to an “exclusive BlackBerry event” next Tuesday, August 3, in New York City, so you can bet that we’ll be out there to see what exactly RIM and AT&T has in store for us. Might it be a brand new device with BlackBerry OS 6? …