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While Apple’s next iPhone isn’t expected to arrive until later this year, details of what the device will look like and how Apple might change some of its key software features continue to trickle out. The latest comes from 9to5Mac, which earlier this week posted purported photos of the front and back of upcoming iPhone …

Nokia and Microsoft have run into problems with the new Nokia Lumia 610. While trying to avoid the fragmentation issues faced by Android, Windows Phone has properly shot itself in the foot — with a catapult and an Angry Bird. The budget Lumia 610 is the first phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone software to arrive with just 256MB of …

The new Nokia Lumia 900 is hard as nails — literally. The screen can not only survive having nails hammered into it, it can even be used in lieu of a hammer when there’s some nailing that needs doing. Nokia set out to prove the toughness of the Lumia 900’s screen by heading down to the hardware validation lab with …

Will the next iPhone actually sport a larger screen? A new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests it will. Citing “people familiar with the situation,” the Journal said today that Apple has been tapping into its suppliers for screens larger than the ones used in the current iPhone. The new screens are at least 4 inches, compared with the …

Do you know where your Samsung Galaxy S II is? When did you last see your iPhone 4S? If you’ve lost your smartphone, you’d better resign yourself to never seeing it again, as new research reveals that barely half of smartphones get returned. For its Smartphone Honey Stick Project, security firm Symantec decided to see what happens to lost phones …

Are all smartphones rubbish when compared with their ancestors? A spot of research from MyVoucherCodes.co.uk suggests that 24 percent of folks actually preferred their crusty old blowers to the glistening smartphones of modern times. Did phones used to be better? We need your help to settle the matter. Mobiles have changed a whole lot in the last few years–ever since …

BERLIN–With its new Galaxy Note, Samsung is adding another size category to its already broad range of Android devices. The company already had more conventionally sized Android smartphones with its Galaxy S line, larger tablets such as the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9, and intermediate ones such as the original 7-inch Galaxy Tab and the new Galaxy Tab 7.7. The …

SamFirmware The Samsung Galaxy S is officially still chilling with Android 2.2 Froyo. But if you’re fed up with frozen yogurt and you want to try a little Gingerbread, an update to bump up the phone to Android 2.3.2 has appeared online at the SamFirmware forum. Read more of “Samsung Galaxy S Android 2.3 Gingerbread update leaked” at Crave UK.

Dell has accused five Asian firms that make liquid crystal display panels of illegally colluding on prices. The world’s third largest PC maker filed a complaint against Hitachi, Sharp, Toshiba, HannStar, and Seiko in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Friday, according to a Reuters report. Damages sought by Dell have not yet been determined. Dell is only the …

BERLIN–Shelled out several thousands for a Philips Cinema 21:9 television? You’ll be pleased to hear it’s obsolete. Philips has bumped the firmware and added a micro polarizing lens to the screen, to create a prototype 3D TV. The TV gets its tri-dimensional input from a prototype 3D Blu-ray player. Philips said Thursday at IFA 2009 that it’s “actively participating in …