While I take some time off from my App Review show I thought I could do some written ones instead, since they don’t take much time. So here we go with the first. A few weeks ago the powers that be at Best Buy Mobile offered their latest …

A few days back I had a mail from Josh. He told me about some serious lag and black screen hangs on the Galaxy S. Unfortunately our server then decided to explode so I never got around to looking at it. He's written to Samsung and there's a …

A never-seen-before Samsung Windows Phone 7 device has just been snapped by andrejt. He can't say much about it, other than the fact that it's "a prototype samsung and that's it's larger than your ordinary phone". Whether this will actually make it to...

Two HTC device specs have just appeared on the web. The HTC Bee is up first and seems to be a mid-range Android device with 528Mhz CPU, 5 megapixel camera, QVGA (240x320) screen and a 3.2" screen. Next is the HTC Lexikon, which has a huge 3.8" screen …

o2 have just announced availability of the iPhone on Pay & Go. The 32GB version has a £595 price-tag, with the 16GB version coming in at £495. Whilst this may sound a lot, it compares to total ownership costs of around £2000 for people taking free ...

When we get an invite from HTC it's usually about something pretty special. The HTC Hero event was a big deal, as was the HTC Legend launch. Today this invite appeared in our inbox, which says.. "Come see what HTC has dreamt up. 15 September in London...

Oracle are set to sue Google for the use of Java in the Android OS. They state... "In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for the...

This morning I had the misfortune to read this engadget article. It relates to some apps that appear in the Android Market when you do a search for the word "Jewish". Amongst the apps you want are a few Hitler / Nazi apps that you really shouldn't be …

This video of the new HTC Schubert popped up a few days back but now there's a bit of confusion. Pics from Twitter user Xmoo show the same device again, but with a "HTC Mozart" sticker on. It could be that this is a slightly different version or …

Yes, you're probably all getting tired of hearing about this now, but hey - it's the truth. Android is continuing to grow at a quite alarming rate. New numbers from Gartner show that the OS has grabbed a 17.2% market share - just behind RIM with 18.2%...

It's certainly been busy these last few days. Our main server decided to go nuts and we've pretty much lost a drive. Hopefully everything is back up and running now but, while we were moving everything, an aPad appeared. We've not had much time with ...

According to Engadget, Sony are readying a PSP Phone which will run on Android 3.0  Android currently lags the iPhone for gaming, for various reasons, but Sony are looking to change that dramatically with a dedicated PSP phone. Highlights in...

If you're reading this then welcome to our temporary home. We've rapidly moved servers due to a rather severe drive problem on our existing server. I've got to go down to the data centre at some point and swap the drives on it but, with any luck, you …

Vodafone's recent update for the HTC Desire got lots of people hot & bothered, when instead of getting the FroYo update people were hoping for, they just got Vodafone 360 apps instead.  Seems that Vodafone have listened, and have confirmed th...

With Verizon USA seemingly giving anything with "Windows Phone" in the title a miss, it's AT&T who will take a Windows Phone to market in Q4. The network, along with Orange here in Europe, are to carry HTC handsets powered by Windows Phone 7. If earli...

I did a speed test with the speedtest.net Android application last night. I tend to take results like this with a pinch of salt, but it seems that - even on full-blown HSDPA, I was roughly getting 512Kbps up and 512Kbps down. This compared to my 12Mbp...

BGR have managed to get details of upcoming Verizon Wireless devices. The US network is said to be introducing an 7" Android tablet device from Samsung, a 10" Android tablet from Motorola plus phones from Samsung and HTC. Motorola is apparently work...

One of the new features in Android 2.2 is the ability to move an app from your phone's onboard memory to the SD card.  This sounds like a great feature, removing the shackles of stingy average 512mb onboard storage and giving up to 32gb through y...

On Saturday we had a little peek of the HTC Desire HD but now things have got a whole lot more detailed thanks to 247Android.com. According to the rumours this will run Android 2.2 and specs include an 8 megapixel camera with flash, 1Ghz Qualcomm CPU,...

This rather swish looking device is the HTC Shubert. 247WindowsPhone.com have got their mitts on the new handset and they've even got a video preview too. Not much is known as yet apart from the fact that it'll meet the Windows Phone 7 minimum specs (...