Tethering isn’t just for balls on poles and tents on windy days — it means you can use your phone‘s Internet connection with your laptop. With the iPhone leaving its monogamous relationship with O2 to step out with Orange, O2 has announced a discounted tethering bundle it hopes will help tie us to it. iPhoners …

Nokia is replacing potentially dangerous phone chargers for free, the mobile giant said Monday. The recall affects 14 million chargers, according to the Associated Press. The affected chargers are manufactured by third-party suppliers, Nokia said. A loose cover could potentially expose the charger’s internal components and thus pose an electrical shock hazard if accidentally touched during use, the company said. …

Blu-ray: we’re sort of stuck with it now, aren’t we? We love our movies with glorious 1080p and beautiful lossless surround sound, but we’re not so keen on its restrictive DRM, which prevents us from using our films the way copyright law suggests we should be able to. We’re talking here about making a copy for personal use, so we …

You may not have heard of Oppo before — it isn’t a huge company — but we’ve reviewed, and loved, several of its high-end DVD players. The company, based in China but with an emphasis on the US market, concentrates on quality, so its DVD players use excellent scaling hardware to get the best possible quality out of standard-definition material. …

You see some funny things at gadget trade shows, but the highlights are often the overblown multimedia launches. LG excelled itself at IFA with a video on the theme of removing borders, with footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall segueing neatly into a discussion of the invention of the Internet — followed by some tellies. Our hogwash detectors …

Thought the first sneak peek at the Android UI for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 looked good? Check out the mouth-watering video above. Showing an extension of the video we stumbled on a few months ago, this latest video focuses on the multimedia aspects of the phone, an area overlooked by manufacturers using Android to date. This media player is …

Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists it’s justified because of the higher prices of today’s phones. “The cost of smart phones is considerably higher than feature phones for which the early termination fees were created …

I’m sure you’ve heard of Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. But have you ever heard of an independent mobile app store called GetJar? No? Well, that’s not surprising. The tiny company now based in Silicon Valley has done virtually no marketing. And yet in the nearly five years it’s been around, the company has managed to build the second …

They say the course of true love never runs smooth. But imagine if you were from two different worlds. One from a protective family who only let you out with certain people it had pre-approved. The other from a hippy commune who let their offspring see whoever they want, and enjoy a full range of life’s experiences. Imagine if these …

Android tablets with capacitive OLED multi-touch screens could be in our futures, if Moto Development has its way. Our friends at oled-display.net alerted us that the company has released a 127mm (5-inch) Android tablet. But it’s only a development platform, so we won’t see it in shops — instead, developers can use it to design their new products without having …