Just in time for Father’s Day, T-Mobile has announced a one-of-a-kind deal to take place on Saturday: for only one day, every single phone in every T-Mobile store across the nation will be free. The catch? A family plan is required; either sign up for a new one, or add another line to an existing …

Get your tin-foil hats on, because Samsung has three more Android phones coming down from the swirling galactic skies. The Samsung Galaxy 3, Samsung Galaxy 5 and Samsung Galaxy Beam all aim to bring reasonably-priced smart phones to our planet. The Galaxy Beam (pictured centre) has a little projector on board so you can share photos and video on the …

Samsung’s first phone to run its new Bada operating system, the Samsung Wave, is only just out, but sequels are already in the air. The Samsung Wave 2 and Samsung Wave 2 Pro, the second and third phones to rock the new OS, were shown off in Singapore today. Both the Waves have 81mm (3.2-inch) touchscreens, while the Wave 2 (pictured) …

“Reliability” is a word that comes to mind when I think of BlackBerry phones. Research in Motion may not have the flashiest smartphones around, but they’ve won a well-deserved reputation for being functional and user-friendly e-mail machines. And in the process, the company has garnered a loyal following. As time develops, however, I’m becoming a little concerned for RIM’s future. …

Got a song stuck in your head that you can’t place? Instead of clicking up Shazam, music-ID app SoundHound may soon be the first stop for budget-conscious, Android-loving music aficionados. Today, SoundHound for Android, ordinarily $4.99, followed in the footsteps of its iPhone kin by debuting a free version. Like Shazam, SoundHound (known as Midomi, once upon a time) can …

Well, well, well, look what just arrived in my in-box. Verizon Wireless has just sent out invites for a press event on Wednesday, June 23, at which it will unveil its next Droid device, and judging by the speakers list–Google Vice President of Engineering Andy Rubin, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen–it looks like it we’ll see …

The iPhone 4 is sweeping into Tesco Mobile’s supermarket  shopping cart on 24 June. Britain’s biggest retailer already stocks the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS, and it offers some innovative Tesco iPhone tariffs. The shop hasn’t announced its prices for the iPhone 4 yet, but we hope that it’s going to have some similarly unique deals for Apple’s latest must-have mobile. …

Samsung is set to make the an entry to the increasingly-crowded tablet computer market. The Samsung Galaxy Tape shares its name and Android operating system with its smartphone stablemates, and even makes phone calls. The Tape sports a 7-inch Super AMOLED screen, and will pack the tasty treat Android 2.2 Froyo with Samsung’s TouchWiz front end. Critics were being facetious …

Google’s Android platform may only command 8 percent of the marketshare, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his keynote speech at WWDC 2010. But if you let the burgeoning number of Android smartphones in the market, Motorola’s commitment to Android phones, and the fact that Sprint stores sold out of the Android-powered HTC Evo 4G guide you, Android is …

Tiered pricing for wireless plans could mean mobile apps are going to get squeezed down to size by their developers. As unlimited mobile data plans become a thing of the past for many wireless smartphone subscribers, developers will have to think more carefully about how efficiently their apps use network resources. For the past couple of years app developers haven’t …