Orange and AT&T to get HTC Windows Phone 7 devices

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...

How fast is your mobile network?

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...

Verizon Roadmap leaked – Windows Phone not mentioned

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...

Android 2.2 FroYo – app to SD card "feature"

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...

HTC Desire HD handled on film

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,...

HTC Shubert – Fine looking Windows Phone 7 in video

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 (...

Zendesk app for iPhone (& Android)

Zendesk have updated the iPhone app for their Helpdesk software to optimize it on iOS4. Zendesk is a web based helpdesk system with Twitter integration, and some nice smartphone apps. The iPhone app now features: • iOS 4 optimized application inc...

Stressfighter – beat up stress…

Stressfighter is an iPhone app that lets you take a picture, and then beat it up.  You can use the built in camera or select a picture from your library, and then use the various built in weapons to beat them up.  Now you just need to find …

HTC Desire HD (Ace) snapped

The HTC Ace was recently spotted as on a Vodafone Germany inventory and there was more news too - it was going to be called the HTC Desire HD. This leaked image has now appeared on uwants.com and it instantly seems similar in looks and specs to the …

Vonage – talk to Facebook friends for free

Although the Facebook app on the iPhone allows you to use Facebook chat to your friends, the Android version doesn't yet (annoyingly). But, there's an app that can help.  Vonage is an app for Android or iPhone, which allows you to chat to or...

Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Review

OK, I'll be honest and up-front. I need to apologise to Sony Ericsson. I've had their X10 Mini for quite some time now, and when I say "me" I actually mean my wife. She loved the handset, especially the size of the thing, although it did mean that …

Acer Android and XP dual-boot netbook coming soon

Android seems to be popping up in various different bits of hardware lately. Now Acer has revealed to Aspire One AOD255. It looks like pretty much every other bargain-basement netbook running XP, but this one can also boot into the Android OS. This is...

200,000 Android phones selling now – Every day

Well, here we are again with another story about the success of Android. According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt there's now around 200,000 Android-based phones selling every single day, which has risen from around 100,000 just two months ago. “It...

Vodafone HTC Desire tweaks annoy owners

Gah - can open, worms everywhere. The complaints about the new Vodafone HTC Desire update seem to have exploded all over the Vodafone forums with the moderators hurriedly editing posts from customers and stating that ... “We customise phone so...

Many Three customers still waiting for Hero update

Still using a Hero and Android 1.5? Chances are you're with Three and they'd like to apologise for the delay in providing the Android 2.1 update. Following a truck-load of negative comments in their blog the network released a statement stating.. &ldq...

Official Android Facebook app updated

The official Facebook app for Android has just been updated to version 1.3. The new version now includes video playback from inside the app, support for events and you can respond to friend requests without leaving the application. There's also a "pic...

HTC Glacier performance stats revealed

The HTC Glacier is a name we've heard some time back and there's rumours that the device, whatever it is, will be coming to T-Mobile as part of "Project Emerald". Things get a bit misty now, as we're not sure if it's a T-Mobile USA thing or a …

HTC Desire on Vodafone gets an update

It looks like Vodafone customers with the HTC Desire have just received an update but, before you get too excited, it's not FroYo (2.2). What it actually does is brand the previously "untouched" handset with lots of lovely Vodafone stuff including 5 a...

Windows Phone – Crunch time

We've been bouncing around the web since 2002 and it all started thanks to Microsoft and the Orange SPV. Earlier today we carried a story about the continued growth of Android and, although iPhone 4 sales figures haven't been included, this news story...

What Mobile Meet-Up Overview

Recently the annual What Mobile Forum Meet-Up was held in London and was the place where members of the site and fans of mobile can get together and chat tech and drink, plus get to meet a few more people like yourselves who want to check out the …