The presumed “little brother” of the Motorola Droid, the Calgary, appears to be nearing release. Just last week, the handset was spied in Verizon’s Cellebrite device, which is used to transfer information such as contacts, messages, and pictures between handsets. We’ve also seen a couple of leaked images hit the Internet over the last few …

Unfortunately for iPhone owners, it appears that features included in the new Apple iPad OS won’t be compatible with Apple’s phone. According to Engadget, Apple’s updated human interface guidelines describe new User Interface(UI) elements, split view and popovers as “iPad-only” features. Though this shouldn’t come as a surprise since those UI elements were built for larger displays, it may mean …

Apparently, there was something called the Apple iPad announced today. We’re not really sure what all the hubbub is about, but we share a few thoughts on the device and take a couple of jabs at its unfortunate name. Also, though there was no mention of iPhone 4.0, there was plenty of other cell phone and smartphone news. The FCC …

Article updated 1/28/2010 at 4:25 PM PT with clarification from Apple about the availability of the iBooks app. Apple We only got a glimpse of Apple’s new iBooks app when CEO Steve Jobs demoed it at the January 27, 2010 Apple event in San Francisco. What we saw was a stylish, crisp-looking, colorful e-book reader and storefront that will run …

iPhone users can now evolve, or at least their Spore counterparts can, thanks to the release of Spore Creatures for iTunes. Hitting the iTunes market on Monday, Electronic Arts’ Spore Creatures picks up where Spore Origins left off. In that game, your baby swam around the primordial ooze trying to stay alive by eating smaller, defenseless lifeforms and avoiding bigger, …

Whew! Finally we can stop all the speculating and rumor-mongering. The Apple iPad is here, and it’s an…interesting device, to say the least. Some folks are no doubt gaga over it, while others probably came away thinking, “That’s it?!” How about you? Think you’ll pull the trigger on an iPad? If so, which of the six (!) available configurations will …

If this Crave story is a little shorter than normal, that’s because we’ve got 18 episodes of The IT Crowd to watch, and then The Inbetweeners, Drop the Dead Donkey and The League of Gentlemen to keep us busy for the rest of the week. Yup, we’ve got access to new online streaming TV service SeeSaw, which has hundreds of …

Why is the mobile phone signal in our house like a holiday in Saudi Arabia? They’ve both got no bars. Honk! So we’re happy to see Vodafone’s signal-boosting femtocell, the Vodafone Sure Signal. Previously known as the Vodafone Home Gateway, the Sure Signal plugs into your home broadband connection and beams out a bubble of 3G goodness. That means no …

The Federal Communications Commission is asking all four major U.S. cell phone operators and Google to explain their early termination fee policies and how they communicate these to customers. FCC Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Chief Joel Gurin and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Ruth Milkman sent letters (PDF) on Tuesday to AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, and Google …

Corinne Schulze/CNET Hello, iPhone fans. We know that you’re tingling with excitement at what Wednesday’s Apple event will bring. Sure, the elusive tablet should grab the spotlight, but the iPhone may show its face during the infamous “one more thing” portion of the program. Will it be a new OS or will we get a whole new iPhone? Or maybe, …