In a hint of what might happen when we see it over here, the BlackBerry Torch‘s US debut has opened with an overwhelming feeling of ‘meh’. Early indications are the best you could say about sales of RIM’s new device is they were ‘mixed’, with Goldman Sachs calling sales “underwhelming”. The Wall Street Journal quoted …

Music-identification app Shazam has been updated for the iPhone and iPod touch, making it even easier to pin a name on that unknown tune you keep humming. Shazam’s music-recognition technology allows you to use your mobile phone to recognise a song wherever it’s playing. You hold your phone up to the sound source and the recorded clip is run through a database of 8m tracks …

Thanks to a recent FCC listing, we may have a pretty good idea of what Verizon Wireless’s next big Android phone might be. Listed as the HTC PD42100, the slider phone boasts what appears to be a 4-inch screen with a spacious keyboard spread across four rows. A quick glance and one might mistake it for the upcoming G2 from …

Android is coming to your telly. Crave chatted to to manufacturers working on televisions powered by Google mobile operating system at technology trade show IFA this week. As all the big names showed off their Internet-connected tellies, less well-known names are going ‘Droid. The amazingly-named Swedish company People of Lava is the first to develop an Android-powered television, while Vestel …

LCD TVs have evolved significantly in the past five years. They’ve gone from sporting unsophisticated fluorescent-tube backlights to LED arrays with hundreds of different, independently dimmable areas, for improved contrast. So, what’s next? LG reckons its Nano lighting technology is, because it improves light distribution across the screen. The technology will make its debut on the company’s LEX8 TV, which was …

As smartphones get more sophisticated, so does the software that runs them. And that means a major pain in the neck for consumers: buggy software upgrades. Just like with your computer, smartphone software is constantly evolving and upgrades are rolled out all the time. While new versions of software often add more functionality, sometimes they’re buggy and they break things …

R2-D2 Droid 2 Dock Verizon Verizon’s DroidLanding Twitter account started back up earlier this week, dropping vague clues and toying with the Star Wars faithful. Once used to help promote the Droid X ahead of its launch, the DroidLanding account is now a source to leak R2-D2 Droid 2 details. As some of you may know, the special edition of …

Apple has released a dedicated page on apple.com detailing some of the features of the forthcoming iOS 4.2 update that will unify the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad operating systems. The page highlights some of the most coveted features of iOS 4 (currently only running on iPhone and iPod touch) that will finally debut on iPad, including: Multitasking. A simple …

The Royal Mail is dragging itself kicking and screaming into the 21st century with a new ‘intelligent’ stamp, which can be read using image recognition technology by your iPhone or Android devices. The ‘intelligent’ stamp is a claimed world first, incorporated in Royal Mail’s latest Great British Railways edition. The way it works is very simple. You need an app …

Virgin Media is offering a good-looking deal for those students who are looking for a BlackBerry smart phone, but can’t quite afford a new top-of-the-range model. Available is the Qwerty keyboard and 2-megapixel camera sporting entry-level Blackberry Curve 8520 for £12 a month, or £10 per month if you’re an existing Virgin Media customer with a TV package. Students with …