Barely six months after making its debut, the Droid 3 may be packing its bags and heading off into the sunset. According to information obtained by The Verge, Verizon Wireless is poised to discontinue a number of devices, including the Motorola Droid 3, LG Revolution, and various Mi-Fi Hotspots. Their source advises that the final …

Siri may have its drawbacks. It can’t look up local services thanks to Apple not signing deals with any in the UK. So ask it for a local information and you’ll be out of luck. But one young boy was shocked at more than Siri’s incompetence, when it blasted him with a four-letter tirade, The Sun reports. Charlie Le Quesne …

We thought this might be the case, and now we know for sure — the Samsung Galaxy Ace won’t be updated to Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich. The brilliant budget blower will not be feeling the cool caress of the latest, greatest version of Android, Samsung confirmed to us in a statement. The statement, which also confirms that the …

Good news if you’re not a fan of the Sense UI that HTC insists on slathering all over its Android phone — you can now download a program that lets you tweak your handset, so you can customise the user interface. And it’s not some dodgy program knocked up in a shed by hackers, it’s issued by HTC. It’ll work …

Continuing the Android handset push, this time into the low end of the handset spectrum, Samsung has just unveiled the Galaxy Ace Plus. Announced in Korea but also targeted at Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, it seems the only region the Ace Plus won’t be shipping is right here in the States. Of course I bet …

If you’re looking forward to the iPhone 5… you may be in for a bit of a wait, we’re afraid. The latest rumour says it’ll come in the autumn, a year on from the iPhone 4S, BGR reports. And it’ll be wearing rubber. Yes, you read that right. It’ll use rubber or plastic, according to BGR’s sources, similar to that …

An oddity. That’s how we described the Samsung Galaxy Note back when we reviewed it in November. And it’s fair enough: with a 5.3-inch screen, it sits halfway between a phone and a tablet. It’s thin ice territory, as some have failed before when they’ve strayed so far from the standard product classifications. But it seems the Galaxy Note is doing quite …

Research In Motion may be gearing up for an overhaul in its leadership. RIM co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie Co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie are preparing to relinquish their titles as co-chairmen, possibly giving way to independent director Barbara Stymiest, according to a report by the Financial Post. Stymiest is the leading candidate to replace the two, the …

It may look like a little like a Transformer (don’t tell Hasbro), with its stainless steel and leather casing, but on the inside the Porsche Design P’9981 is all BlackBerry — and it’s on sale now at Harrods, Phone Arena reports. Apparently the device is “in very high demand and is selling fast” a Harrods spokesperson told Phone Arena. Considering …

Half of the web surfing performed on phones or tablets is done on an Apple iPhone or iPad. It seems owners of Apple phones and tablets are more likely to hit the Internet than owners of Android, Nokia or BlackBerry devices. Data from NetMarketShare reveals smart phones and tablets running Apple’s iOS software performed 52.1 per cent of mobile browsing …