And so it goes on. Samsung is dragging the iPhone 5 into an existing patent lawsuit against Apple. No, not the one it lost $1 billion in recently, another one. Reuters reports Samsung will add the smart phone to the list of Apple products it says are violating its patents. The company had made up …

While the United States is just getting familiar with its version of the Optimus Vu, LG may soon be ready to introduce its successor to the rest of the world. The details for the presumed Optimus Vu II have spilled online, pointing to a moderately improved competitor to the Galaxy Note II. According to Korean blog Bad IT Tong (translate), …

Sometimes the best thing you can do with a map is find your way back to where you came from. Which is exactly what one hacker has done with Apple’s controversial new Maps app — which features on the iPhone 5 — by returning the old iOS 5 maps to iOS 6. Self-proclaimed iOS hacker and engineer Ryan Petrich has …

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You know the old saying: you can never be too rich or too thin, or have too much battery power for your Android phone. If you’re forever running low on juice, you’ve probably thought about packing along a spare battery — but that’s a hassle. Not only do you need a way to keep it charged, you also need a …

Mapocalypse, Cartogeddon, Navi-gate — whatever you want to call it, the arrival of the Apple Maps app in iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5 has been an unmitigated disaster. Compare that to Google, which employs no less than 7,000 people on its rival Google Maps. The Big G has more than 1,100 full-time Google employees and roughly 6,000 contractors …

Samsung is gunning for Safari and Chrome with its own web browser for the Samsung Galaxy line-up, reports say. The Electronic Times in Korea reports Samsung is developing its own WebKit browser for mobile devices. Samsung has advertised for WebKit developers with knowledge of browsers to work at the Advanced Software Platform Lab at Samsung’s US research and development centre …

Generally, I’m not a fan of apps shooting push notifications out to my phone. No, “Words with Friends,” I don’t care that I’m about to forfeit my game. There’s a reason I stopped playing it. I don’t need an alert any time I get a new friend on Facebook. But apparently, notifications do make a difference when it comes to …

A man stole 252 iPhone 5s from the London phone shop he worked in just hours before they were due to go on sale. Meanwhile, similarly minded thieves struck in Japan. Twenty-three-year-old Usman Sethi is accused of taking the devices — estimated to be worth £170,000 — from the O2 store in Wimbledon in the early hours of Friday morning, the …

The enormous Samsung Galaxy Note 2 has broken cover like a whale coming up for air — it’s available to harpoon now for pre-order at Phones 4U, with contracts available from O2, Orange and Vodafone starting from £31 for 24 months. That’s only if you pay £150 upfront though, a total of £894 over the course of the contract. In …