For us Brits it’s another foodstuff that we’ve probably never tried but, Ice Cream Sandwich is now official. It seems that reducing fragmentation and pulling all the good stuff from the tablet OS – Honeycomb – into one new OS. Arriving in Q4 this year, it’s one OS …

Below is a live feed from Google I/O 2011. Hit play to join in on the action. There’s two feeds to choose from …

Google announced at their I/O conference today a new music streaming service where you can stream your own music to your Android device both tablet or handset.  There has been mixed feedback from people so far who heard about this announcement mostly being ‘Why would i want to …

Clove recently added a blog post stating that the HTC Salsa would be exclusive to O2. We’ve done some digging and have now received confirmation that the keyboard-less Facebook phone (on the left) will be exclusive to O2. The Salsa has a 3.4″ screen with 480×320 pixel screen, …

Following our news item this morning we can now confirm everything thanks to a full press release on from the company. The figure paid by Microsoft is indeed $8.5 billion (£5.2bn), and was paid in cash. Microsoft state that … The acquisition will increase the accessibility of real-time …

The Acer Iconia W500 Tablet we covered last month has now got a keyboard-less brother running Android for £391.66 (ex VAT), which works out at £469.99 with the VAT. The A500 tablet is powered by Android Honeycomb and features a 10.1″ WXGA (1280×800) screen, 1GB DDR Ram, microSD, …

I’ve got a strange attachment to the HTC Desire. It’s a crackin’ device that still stands up to the newer phones coming into shops now. Android Gingerbread has just leaked out for the Desire so we should be seeing this “unofficial official” version rolling out “properly” to Desire …

As promised, I’ve put up my thoughts on the O2X a couple of weeks after I bought it. I’ll try to give an honest, everyday opinion of the phone, consider it’s my only phone and gets some decent use actually as a phone for my day job and …

The Motorola ATRIX went on sale just a few days ago and we’ve already detailed the pricing but, just to give you a nice graphic showing you the prices for this device, here’s a snap from the Orange launch site. As you can see, if you’re after the …

Hey! Got yourself a HTC Flyer ? No ? Us neither. We’re being told that this tablet will either arrive “any day now”, “soon” with Amazon stating “June 1st”. The 32GB version with 3G and WiFi seems to be going for £599 at PC World, Expansys and Amazon, …

Android 2.3 is now arriving on HTC Desire HD and HTC Incredible handsets. Updates seem to be rolling out to the SIM-free phones first with update notices showing in About->Phone->Software Update. Improved copy and paste functionality, better power management, a new UI, download manager, SIP Internet calling and …

Tweakker is a free application for setting up all those tricky internet / MMS and APN options on your Android phone. Although some phones have this built-in now, there’s still a fair amount that don’t. I’m sure there’s many who have felt the pain of changing to a …

With Microsoft supposedly on the back foot it’s all too easy for critics to write off their mobile offerings. In a word, don’t. If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s never to underestimate Microsoft. The agreement with Nokia has been done. A new Windows Phone release is about …

Microsoft has announced that the latest version of Windows Phone 7 will be released in a ‘VIP Preview’ event on May 24th, in NYC. We reported some of the cool new features that this next version of Windows Phone will have, including Bing voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation. The release …

You may have seen news of the LG Optimus Black floating around the web this past week. It’s interesting and, for the most part, completely wrong. A UK network has already been announced, back in February in fact. They’ll end up in stores this week and we’ll have …

Although Microsoft are making some pretty admirable advances, the numbers coming out of the US are still a little worrying. The new handsets landed in November last year but the percentage share of the market is still down from 8.4% in December 2010 to 7.5% in March this …

The new Windows Phone “Mango” release is rumoured to have some rather nice extras including song recognition through “Bing Audio”, turn-by-turn voice directions, a podcast player and something called “Bing Vision” for reading barcodes and text. This should provide OCR capabilities to effectively scan your documents by snapping …

After using the iPad 2 for a couple of weeks it’s interesting to hear opinions on other new tablets. The BBC’s Marc Cieslak takes a look at the new Motorola XOOM here but seems to be fairly critical of it due to the current lack of microSD functionality …

Vodafone have a short exclusive on the HTC Sensation which is due this month, rumors even point to a shipping date of 14th May so not too long to wait now. On passing a Vodafone store today they have the new business brochures on display and as expected the Sensation …

You can grab the HTC Mozart, powered by Windows Phone 7, for £349.99 on Pay and Go when you also grab a £10 top-up. The Mozart is one of the new HTC handsets released last year as part of the Windows Phone 7 launch. Link – o2.co.uk