Google Maps is getting a handy Android update, allowing you to use maps without running …

Android phones and iPhones pack pretty powerful processors — powerful enough, in fact, to deliver laptop-level performance, if only they had big screens and keyboards for your viewing and working pleasure. Enter the ClamCase ClamBook, a kind of laptop extension for Android and iPhone. It works like this: Your smartphone sits in a wired dock and drives the ClamBook’s screen …

Details of an LG “Snapshot” have found their way online this week suggesting that Sprint, or one of its postpaid partners, will offer the handset later this year. Features for the smartphone reportedly include a single-core 1GHz CPU, 768MB RAM, 4GB storage, and a 5-megapixel camera. Somewhat thin with an 8.8mm chassis, the LS730 also offers a front-facing VGA camera, …