Android smart phones and tablets with powerful dual-core processors are going to be increasingly common in 2011, with games set to be one of the best ways to show them off. Two separate announcements — from Gameloft and Nvidia — highlight the dual-core gaming goodness to come this year. Nvidia’s Tegra 2 is already making …

It’s official: the iPad 2 has arrived. And to be brutally honest, I’m underwhelmed. Where’s the Retina display? The SD and/or USB slot? The high-resolution rear camera? All MIA. Meanwhile, Apple made no changes to storage capacity or price, and knocked only 0.2 pound off the overall weight. I’m glad the iPad 2 is thinner, but I was hoping it …

Starting today, SoundHound Infinity for iPhone ($4.99) gets infinitely more useful. The latest version, SoundHound Infinity 3.6.1, includes a recommendations feature that suggests other songs you’ll like based on the ditty you’ve just chosen to identify, either through recorded “tagging,” text, humming, or singing the tune into the app. SoundHound uses a proprietary engine based on intelligence collected from a …

People who bought Angry Birds also bought Fruit Ninja? Amazon is set to apply its recommendations technology to the world of Android apps, with the launch of its dedicated Amazon Appstore for Android. The new store is set to go live this month, with mobile advertising network Millennial Media letting the cat out of the bag in a tweet yesterday. …

This week, we tell you what we thought of the Xperia Play’s gaming controls. We also discuss T-Mobile shutting down the Danger service, the latest HTC phones, Android news, and the continuing debate over radiation. Also, yes, we do talk a little about the latest Apple announcement. Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In 164: Mashing Xperia Play’s Buttons 48:29 Podcast …

Currently there are only a handful of applications in the Android Market that have been written specifically for Honeycomb. One such title, Pulse News Reader, is a shining example of how gorgeous these new OS 3.0 apps truly are. Indeed, I’ve noticed that my tablet user experience on the Xoom is completely different from what it was on a Galaxy …

We previewed iOS 4.3 back in January, and now the time has almost come: the latest version of Apple’s iOS software will be available March 11. What’s new this time around? Well, not as much as iOS 4.2, but there are some notable upgrades–especially if you’re an iPad owner. New features in iOS 4.3 (photos) +4 more See all photos …

Now playing: Watch this: Apple iPad 2 1:31 What does the world’s most successful tablet computer do for an encore? More of the same. The second-generation iPad from Apple is thinner, faster, lighter, and whiter, but not a radical departure from the original. Pricing is also holding steady, starting at $499 for a 16GB Wi-Fi-only model, up to 64GB with …

If you enjoy watching Flash video on your iPhone browser, you’ll want to check out Skyfire 3.0 for iPhone, updated today. Skyfire is a WebKit-based alternative to the iPhone’s default Safari browser that uses Skyfire Labs’ servers to render pages more speedily by first compressing data before delivering it–up to 85 percent, the company claims. However, the app’s most significant …

Vodafone is back up and running after a break-in brought parts of the network to its knees yesterday. Voda admits several thousand customers were affected, so we asked the company how the world’s largest mobile telecommunications outfit could be so severely affected by a couple of burglars — and asked you for your reactions in comments on Facebook and on …