Mobile Phones

YouTube has rolled out a new experimental layout for its mobile users which is now available to view as manual opt-in. Once enabled, the new YouTube layout design provides a darker colour palette that show video against dark backgrounds together with white navigation icons on a dark background. The YouTube Mobile experimental layout also brings with [...]

A new Android credit card payment SDK has been developed for Android by Card.io that takes the pain way from having to type credit card details on your Android smartphone to make a payment. To make a payment using Card.io simply hold up your credit card to your phones camera and within the blink of an eye payment is sent, [...]

I think most of us are in agreement that wireless contracts suck. If you want a reasonably priced Android smartphone and it doesn’t have to be the fastest, but you don’t want a contract Cricket Wireless has a new one for you. Cricket has announced that it will be the exclusive provider for the ZTE [...]

If you create a lot of SMS messages on your Android mobile device and would like to delete then but need to keep backup copies. An Android application called SMS to Text might be able to help you sort them out. The neat little SMS to Text  app allows you to transfer all your SMS [...]

Twitter has today rolled out a new feature to its service that will now allow you to post photos to your Twitter account using a text message (SMS) from your mobile phone. (A list of support carriers is provided after the jump.) Other features rolled out within the new update include worldwide roll out of [...]

Google has rolled out a new update to its mobile Gmail application which adds a number of new features, one of which is the ability to now login using multiple log-ins. Just like on your desktop computer, you can now sign into multiple accounts simultaneously using the mobile version of Gmail as well. Other new features [...]

Verizon Wireless has today announced that the LG Enlighten smartphone will be arriving on their network from September 22nd onwards for $79.99. The LG Enlighten will be shipped running Andorid 2.3 Gingerbread and is equipped with a  3.2-inch touchscreen display with a low 480 x 320 resolution and powered by a 800MHz processor. Its also equipped with a full [...]

Today Japanese mobile carrier Willcom has unveiled the new WX03A mobile phone which takes its place as the worlds smallest ten-key cell phone complying with the PHS standard. The new WX03A mobile phone measures just W32 × H70 × D10.5mm in size and weighs only 33 grams. In comparison my iPhone weighs 140 grams. The Willcom WX03A is equipped with a 1 [...]

A new adapter has been launched this week that will allow owners of Android, WP7 And BlackBerry Smartphones to be able to use the iOS connections on speaker docks ands simpler devices. The dockBoss+ cable and adapter simply plugs into the micro-USB port and headphone jack on either your Android, WP7 And BlackBerry smartphone and then connects to [...]

Logitech have unveiled a new system that will allow you to use either your iPhone, iPad or Android smartphone as a universal remote control. The Logitech Harmony Link is a new and innovative way to connect your HDTV and provide you with one-touch controls and can replace up to eight separate remote controls. To setup the system [...]

Its been reported this week that Samsung maybe looking to release its Bada operating system as Open-Source sometime in 2012 in an attempt to minimise its reliance on Android and Google. Bada is a mobile phone operating system which has been developed by Samsung and its name is derived from the word meaning ocean or sea [...]

New smartphones are being fitted with ever faster processors to help them power through the latest applications, but the flip side to using faster processors in our devices is the added strain it puts on our battery life. Researchers at the University of Michigan computer science and engineering have been looking into the problem and developed a new subconscious [...]