The other night, completely sober, I dropped my HTC Hero. It bounced down the stairs, hitting pretty much every step and came to a stop against the stair-gate. I feared the worst, but after finding the battery and cover it all seemed to power on just ...

Yesterday you may have noticed a quick glimpse of Android 2.2 right at the end of the Flash Player demo. The guys at AndroidPolice have also got a Nexus One running the new Froyo version, and they've clocked it going 450% faster than Android 2.1. That...

Getting tired of this now? Yes, us too. Hero owners have had the Android 2.1 upgrade dates moved around more than Gordon Brown's luggage. At Mobile World Congress we were told "late March" and this was mentioned again shortly after. We were then told ...

Microsoft have launched their own turn-by-turn navigation system in the latest version of Bing for WinMo. It's restricted to a few US network handsets at the moment, but here's hoping they'll do a "Google" and roll out the car-nav system to the rest o...

Orange Accessories have a great deal on the "Orange HomePlug dLAN Starter Kit". It's just £30 and for your money you can instantly turn your home power circuit into an ethernet network. Plug an ethernet cable from your router into one HomePlug, then ...

Remember the HD2 battery with the kickstand? The official one? It's now avilable to buy from easydevices and they're currently going out to pre-orders. More stock is due in soon, so if you're looking to extend the life of your HD2 battery you can now ...

No, it's not "T-Orange", "OrMobile" or "TOM", the name for the Orange and T-Mobile joint venture is "Everything Everywhere". The press release is below and details the merger of the two companies and the teams. The switch-over will happen on July 1st ...

Motorola are loving Android at the moment. The OS has pretty much brought them back from the brink and now this square device has popped up on gizmodo. It's a device we saw briefly last month but we can now see the interesting keyboard mechanism. Moto...

Now, you've probably heard. Adobe Flash and Apple have had a big falling out. Flash on Android is working well though, and now it's working silky smooth on this Nexus One complete with Android 2.2 (Froyo). This YouTube video shows Ryan Stewart browsin...

Yesterday we reported on the rise and rise of Android in the USA. Stats from the NPD Group now put the Android OS ahead of the Apple OS in terms of unit share. Although these figures are based on consumer surveys, it does also show that the Windows …

According to stats from NPD, Android sales for the first quarter of 2010 were greater than iPhone sales in the USA. This puts Android into the number two position, behind RIM, with Apple trailing third. The difference is quite substanstial too, with A...

I had a Rubiks Cube when I was a kid (y'know, in the late '90's) and quickly became a master at peeling the coloured stickers off. Apparently though this isn't the way to do it, and now someone has built a robot out of lego to speed the …

Windows Mobile users can try out their old Playstation One games thanks to FPSEce. It'll run games like Wipeout XL and Time Crisis quite smoothly and there's a video of it in action below. Available free you just need enough space on your storage card...

We've heard from the traditional tech sites, but what do the target users think of the KIN ? Matt Miller has drafted in his two daughters to have a look - they're 14 and 16. There were a few stumbles, like setting up the Zune functionality and the …

Back in February we snapped the T-Mobile Pulse Mini on the Huawei stand at Mobile World Congress. The Pulse Mini is actually the Huawei U8110 with a T-Mobile logo stuck on it - although T-Mobile wouldn't let us near one in their MWC area. No matter, b...

The official HD2 extended life battery (complete with kick-stand) sells for around £41.11. For less than half the price you can have this one instead. It'll boost the existing 1230mAh HD2 battery up to 2400mAh, which is more than the official battery...

Some interesting news which was just found tonight and is sending shockwaves through gadget fans in the UK is that from 1st June 2010, Vodafone will change the conditions on charging for data use on mobile phones. At present all phones with exception ...

On checking the Carphone Warehouse Coming Soon section tonight I came across the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro listed on there for launch sometime this July. There is no information on possible pricing or networks but they at least have a coming soon dat...

We've been banging on about Dropbox for quite a while now and the official Android app arrived just yesterday. However, Windows Mobile users have been left out a little, so Ruttensoft have come to the rescue with CloudFiles. It's a front end for the f...

So, just a short while ago we told you that the HTC Hero would at last be getting the 2.1 update tomorrow. We saw a picture from a Best Buy store proving it but, according to Sprint Forums they're now stating that no, it won't be coming out …