Who needs a TV remote when you have a smartphone or tablet? Samsung has released an app to the Android Market that turns your Android-powered Samsung smartphone (OS 2.1 or up) or Galaxy Tab tablet into a digital remote–so long as you use it with a compatible TV. The Samsung TV Remote uses Wi-Fi to …

Will Nokia announce next week that it’s going to start making Windows Phone 7 smart phones? Industry analysts are hoping so, even if the comments last month by Nokia CEO Stephen Elop that fuelled the speculation made no direct reference to Microsoft’s software. “I don’t know if this is just wishful thinking, but it could definitely be the big announcement …

Although an iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak has been around for a couple months, it came with a catch: if you ever had to reboot your device, you’d have to connect (i.e. tether) it to your computer in order to start using it again. That’s a semi-major inconvenience; if your battery died while you were on the go, you wouldn’t be able …

HP and Palm have revealed a tantalising glimpse of the first webOS tablet, set to be announced next week. The video, entitled Think Beyond, shows off a couple of buttons. But what does it mean? The 8-second video hints at close-up details of the device, without revealing whether it’s a smart phone or tablet or some other kind of device altogether. …

More people are trying to tap into unsecure but easily available Wi-Fi networks around them, according to the results of a poll from the Wi-Fi Alliance. Conducted by Wakefield Research in conjunction with the Wi-Fi Alliance, the results out this week found that 32 percent of those polled admit to trying to hop onto an unsecure Wi-Fi network that wasn’t …

Itching to install iOS 4.3 on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad? Assuming you haven’t already bagged the developer beta version of Apple’s new software, you shouldn’t have long to wait: iOS 4.3 is expected to be made available in the next ten days. Why are we so sure? It’s all tied into the launch earlier this week of News …

The HTC Pyramid looks set to be HTC’s answer to dual-core processor-toting rivals at the top end of the Android market. The new device is tipped for a May launch, packing a 4.3-inch display, and a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor. The Pyramid has been unmasked by two separate websites in the US: Android and Me and TmoNews. Both suggest that …

The long wait for the Verizon iPhone is almost over, but consumers are wondering if they should hold out a little longer for Apple’s next-generation device. Will Verizon’s eventual version of the upcoming iPhone 5 work on the LTE network? Will that service be cheaper or more expensive than what Verizon is offering with the iPhone 4? These are some …

Nokia is facing a barrage of advice that it should dump its MeeGo smart phone software in favour of Android or Windows Phone 7. A new prototype handset from Aava Mobile suggests that there’s a third way: combining MeeGo with Android on one device. Before you get excited, know this: you won’t be able to buy Aava’s smart phone in …

We first glimpsed the Huawei Ideos X5 at CES and declared it a good-looking, midlevel Android phone. It runs the standard version of Android 2.2 (Froyo), which means that it doesn’t have any of the extra interface graphics that manufacturers sometimes add for visual flare and to differentiate their phones from rivals’. That’s sure to please those campaigning to let …