Fans of the free music discovery and management program Songbird will soon be able to enjoy that experience on the go–if they have an Android device, that is. The developer recently announced a beta app for the mobile operating system; those who are eager to give the software a spin can download the APK (link) …

Nokia’s N9 has been a thing of myth since early last Summer, when the first images and specs began to leak out. We’ve known for some time that the smart phone with slide-out Qwerty keyboard would be one of the first devices to run Nokia and Intel’s MeeGo software. Since then there have been several more leaks of video and …

Apple is screwing around with your iPhone yet again. This time JobsCo is preventing you from taking your iPhone apart by using proprietary pentalobular screws. The pentapointy screws were first used by Apple in the MacBook Air but they’re more commonly seen in cars. The Japanese and other international iPhones are held together by pentalobular screws, while US versions that …

HTC continued its recent winning streak as fourth-quarter sales and earnings both climbed dramatically on demand for its lineup of Android phones. HTC’s Evo 4G Sarah Tew/CNET For the quarter ended December 31, the mobile phone maker took in a net profit of NT$14.59 billion (US$500 million), a leap of 160 percent from 2009’s final quarter. Sales climbed to NT$104 …

Future Android phones may be button-less monoliths, according to a Google spokesperson. Google could ditch the requirement for the traditional Android buttons — home, menu, back and search — when the phone version of its software receives the same user-interface refresh as the tablet stream. Android forked into big-screen and small-screen versions with the recent launch of Android 3.0 Honeycomb …

Sony Ericsson’s PlayStation Phone is already the most-leaked handset ever in advance of its expected debut at the Mobile World Congress show next month. In fact, it might be time to stop using the word ‘leak’ — it’s more of a Queensland-style deluge. The latest footage to emerge of the new gaming smart phone is the clearest yet, shot in …

Comcast and NBC Universal have jumped the last regulatory hurdle before making their multibillion-dollar marriage a reality, but what does it all mean to average consumers? Earlier this week the companies, which are planning to form a joint venture that Comcast will control, got approval from both the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice. The companies are …

US company mSpot is launching its music service in Europe. The cloud service gives you 2GB of space in which to store your songs, and then lets you access them from Web-connected devices. mSpot has been available in the US since last year. After signing up more than one million Americans, it’s now crossing the Atlantic to tempt us with its remote-storage charms. Europeans will …

We’re looking forward to big things from HTC at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and leaked renderings of the company’s new phones on mobile blog PocketNow have got us salivating. First up is a rounded phone (left) that’s the spitting image of the HTC Desire, except for a prominent front-facing camera. The touch-sensitive buttons evoke the Google Nexus …

Mobile e-mail is growing in popularity while the use of Web-based e-mail seems to be waning, according to a new study from ComScore. Looking back at November, ComScore found that the number of people sending e-mail via a dedicated client on a mobile device was up 36 percent from the prior November. Over the same period, the number of visitors …