February 2011 Archive

28th February

• Falling Fred splats onto the iPhone and iPad
• HTC Jacket spotted in the wild
• Facebook Deals teams up with the Odeon: Is this the ‘ultimate free cinema accompaniment’?
• Welcome to The Phone O’Clock News
• Dell Venue Pro available to order from the 1st of March for £459
• Mobile phones overtake consoles and PCs as a gaming platform
• ‘Sexting’ and ‘Feature Phone’ hit the Oxford Dictionary
• Vodafone suffers voice and data problems in parts of UK
• iPad 2: Is this it? Back picture surfaces
• Samsung Galaxy Ace to come in white?
• Samsung Galaxy Mini and Galaxy Ace to land on O2 in March 2011
• BlackBerry Playbook to run Android apps as well as the web, Facebook, YouTube et al
• iPhone 5 will get bigger screen, thinner border, according to leaked parts
• New Android updates coming to HTC Desire, Desire HD, Desire Z and Incredible S
• White iPad 2 will be out before white iPhone 4 (probably)

25th February

• iPad 2: The ‘unlikely’ rumours.
• Vodafone 845 smartphone drops price to £67.99 at Play.com
• App Friday: Pocket Hipster app makes you cool
• iPad 2: What to expect from Apple’s new tablet next week
• iPad 2 rumours: No SD slot, no HD screen upgrade for latest tablet.
• Windows Phone 7 gets Angry Birds, Sonic and other animals this Spring

24th February

• Stupid Zombies for iPhone and Android: Angry Birds plus Worms plus zombies
• HTC Incredible S available to pre-order from Carphone Warehouse: From £30 a month on Vodafone and O2
• Samsung Galaxy S II: Spotted at Play, expect to pay £650.
• Samurai II Vengeance hits Android Market: For great justice and Tegra 2-running devices
• Xperia Play, Neo, LG Optimus 3D, and Samsung Tab 10.1 cases gearing up for release
• Hands on with the Vodafone-exclusive Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
• Xperia Arc gets hot pink paint-job in Japan
• iPhone 4 White: SIM-free at Expansys, just under £1000
• Does it come in white? Best white phones of 2011
• Motorola Atrix: SIM-free priced- £479.99
• Microsoft explains Windows Phone 7 update problems.
• Vodafone UK set up text donation service for NZ earthquake victims
• iPad 2 shots surface: Super skinny 7mm body, super skinny camera lens and 3D display?
• Android device activations from October 2008 to January 2011 visualised

23rd February

• Angry Birds conflict: Daffy and Miss Piggy join together in call for peace
• Rumour: White iPhone 5
• Flight Control touches down in Android Market
• Motorola Xoom goes gold for Oscar stars
• Final Fantasy III coming to iPhone
• Dell Venue: Photo gallery
• Dell Venue Pro: Photo gallery
• Dell Streak 7: Photo gallery
• Nokia E7: Hands-on photo gallery
• Three to release Gingerbread update for HTC Desire.
• Summer release for HTC Facebook phones.
• Colour-blindness help from augmented reality phone apps
• Motorola Atrix: Torn apart for your viewing pleasure
• Microsoft pulls Windows Phone 7 update for Samsung Omnia 7
• Hands-on Review: Motorola DynaTac 8000X
• Nexus One Gingerbread Android upgrade now available. No more Facebook sync for Nexus S.
• Rumour: Samsung to announce 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab in March

22nd February

• Windows Phone 7 update ‘bricking’ phones.
• iPhone 5 delayed until September?
• iPad 2 revealed next week? Apple event set for March 2
• HTC Gratia Review
• iPad 2 coming soon: iPads selling out in Carphone Warehouse, John Lewis, Argos. New stock incoming?
• Xperia Play and Optimus 3D priced: Over £500 at Play.com

21st February

• Rumour: More Sony tablets to come in 2011. Clamshells and sliders.
• HTC Flyer available to pre-order from Amazon for €669 – available in the UK for £563?
• Samsung Smart TVs to let you push content to Galaxy devices.
• Samsung Galaxy S II: SIM free, £649.99
• World’s Thinnest Phone? 7.7mm NEC Medias leaked in Japan
• Huawei offers to install underground mobile network as ‘gift’
• King of the app stores: Apple still winning with 82.7 percent
• Orange San Francisco gets price snip: £89.99 with credit at Argos

18th February

• Staying awake: Anti Sleep Pilot app aims to keep you safe on the road
• Free Nokia E7, Windows Phone 7 and Nokia World tickets for developers
• Red Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo hands on pics
• Xperia Play to arrive in the UK on O2, April 1st. Please no April fools.
• Xperia Play: O2 gets exclusive white version.
• White Nexus S hands on pics
• HTC’s Desire S spotted at Amazon: £419.99 SIM-free, coming in April
• App Friday: Back To The Future flies onto the iPad
• LG Optimus 3D now available for pre-order
• Cheaper iPhone could be inbound, but won’t be smaller
• iPhone and iPad: Bubble-wrapped

17th February

• MWC 2011: How we survived
• Androidify yourself with the Androidify avatar creation app
• Words With Friends arrives on Android: Play against your iPhone-owning mates
• HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa photos: Up close and personal with the Facebook phones
• HTC Flyer photo gallery: Digital ink notes and HTC Watch in action
• HTC Wildfire S: Photo gallery
• Angry Birds: “200 million minutes a day” spent throwing birds at pigs
• Samsung Galaxy Fit and Samsung Galaxy Gio: Photo gallery
• Samsung Galaxy Ace and Samsung Galaxy mini: Photo Gallery
• ZTE Skate 4.3: First impressions
• HTC Desire S vs HTC Desire HD vs HTC Desire
• Toshiba Tablet to be Android-powered. First half of 2011 release date.
• Sony bring PlayStation to the tablet with the S1
• Dell roadmap leaked: Ice Cream on the way!
• Android music service to ship with Honeycomb
• Motorola Xoom 3G coming to Carphone Warehouse, WiFi-only version to be stocked in Currys and PC World.
• Apple is top PC manufacturer of Winter 2010
• Nvidia’s processor roadmap revealed: Quad-core Tegra 3 coming 2011, codenamed Kal-El
• Tegra Zone Android app demoed on Motorola Xoom

16th February

• Sonos Controller for Android app arriving in March
• iPhone 4 vs Samsung Galaxy S II
• More Facebook phones en route?
• Acer Iconia Tab A500 Preview
• Facebook for SIM allows social networking on every phone
• Acer Iconia Smart Preview
• Motorola Pro Preview
• HTC Incredible S coming exclusively to Carphone Warehouse
• Xperia Play: Sony Ericsson release gaming video

15th February

• LG Optimus Pad Preview
• New Android to be Honeycomb/Gingerbread combo
• HTC ChaCha, Desire S and Wildfire S coming on T-Mobile
• Rumour: LG Optimus 3D to get Sky 3D content
• HTC Flyer vs Motorola XOOM vs LG Optimus Pad vs HP TouchPad
• Samsung Galaxy S II vs Motorola Atrix vs LG Optimus 3D
• HTC Desire S coming to O2. Preinstalled eBay coming to O2 phones
• Orange to stock HTC’s ChaCha, Desire S and Wildfire S
• Nokia’s Windows Phone 7: Is this it?
• LG gives Apple a sly kick in the gut with the new Optimus Pad video
• HTC Desire S: Photo gallery
• HTC Flyer: Hands-on video
• HTC Incredible S: Photo Gallery
• HTC Flyer tablet arrives on Three
• HTC Desire S, HTC ChaCha, and HTC Wildfire S all coming to Three UK
• HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC ChaCha coming to Vodafone
• HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa: HTC’s Facebook phones revealed
• HTC Flyer, HTC’s Android tablet lands: 7-inch screen, stylus runs on Gingerbread, will upgrade to Honeycomb
• HTC announces the Desire S: Android 2.4, 5-megapixel camera, 720p HD video recording
• HTC Wildfire S announced: 5-megapixel camera, 3.2-inch screen, not called Wildfire 2
• HTC Incredible S unleashed: Runs on Android 2.2, will upgrade to 2.4

14th February

• Acer Iconia Smart: Photo gallery
• Acer Iconia Tab A500: Photo gallery
• Windows Phone 7 Update: Coming in March, with more updates later this year
• ZTE Skate coming to Europe-get some smart-priced Gingerbread Android.
• Acer Inconia Tab A500 joins the tablet fight
• Motorola Pro: Photo gallery
• LG Optimus 3D and LG Optimus Black headed to an Orange Shop near you.
• €999 price tag for LG Optimus Pad?
• Acer launches Iconia Smart
• Xperia Play specs and stats
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, Xperia Neo and Xperia Pro: Photo gallery
• Motorola Pro coming to the UK
• LG Optimus Pad: Photo gallery
• LG Optimus 3D: Photo gallery
• LG Optimus Pad: Hands-on video
• LG Optimus 3D: Hands-on video
• LG Optimus 3D and Optimus Pad official: Record your own 3D videos
• Orange and Samsung announce their first NFC SIM phone
• Orange Gestures and Live Wallpapers spice up their forthcoming smartphones
• LG teams up with YouTube for 3D videos online

13th February

• Samsung Galaxy S II to arrive on Vodafone
• Xperia Arc Black coming exclusively to Orange
• Xperia Pro and Xperia Neo: Sony Ericsson reveal more phones. Neo coming to T-Mobile and Three.
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: Available only on Vodafone
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: Photo gallery
• Samsung Galaxy S II: Photo gallery
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: Hands on video
• Samsung Galaxy S II: The world’s thinnest phone
• Samsung Galaxy S II coming to UK on Three
• Samsung ‘announces’ forthcoming Galaxy S2 and Tablets ahead of their big press event

11th February

• App Friday: iTunes goes gaming giddy. Sega, Gamesloft, and Capcom cut their prices
• Did Nokia use Apple’s music for its Microsoft partnership video? Yes, LOL
• Samsung showing 10.1” Honeycomb tablet at MWC
• Samsung Galaxy Tab joins Three’s new range of tablets
• Nokia and Microsoft: a return to form
• Traffic Panic goes top of iTunes games chart. Plus: Exclusive high score tips
• Low-cost, smaller iPhone coming soon?
• Rumour: Vodafone to offer iPhone 4 and other smartphones on 12 month contracts
• Motorola Gleam: RAZR’s spiritual successor?
• Nokia and Microsoft form “strategic alliance”. Nokia shares drop 10%

10th February

• BBC iPlayer app now in Android Market
• Ringtone stereotypes
• Wi-Fi only Motorola Xoom spotted, coming to the UK?
• Android tackles Pro Evo 2011
• Rumours indicate iPad 3 in 2011
• Lose your iPhone, get everything hacked in under six minutes
• INQ Cloud Touch: Hands-on with the Facebook phone
• Meet Orange’s latest affordable Android phone, the LG Pecan
• INQ Cloud Touch and INQ Cloud Q Facebook phones announced
• Rumour: Nokia N9 not dead. Nokia-Windows Phone 7 tests “positive”
• Hands-On: BBC iPlayer on iPad

9th February

• The HP Tablet: The 9.7-inch, dual-core TouchPad announced
• Official: HP announces the tiny Veer and Pre 3 smartphones
• Nokia’s Greatest Hits (and a few of their misses)
• The best sat nav apps for Android
• Nokia fail memo
• Europe gets universal charging standard
• Is this the HTC Wildfire 2?
• Google Translate app comes to the iPhone
• OS wars: Brits love Blackberry, iOS rules Europe
• iPad 2: In production now, say ‘people familiar with the matter’

8th February

• Gmail Priority Inbox now accessible on the iPhone and other mobile browsers
• The BBC iPlayer app: Coming to the iPad and Android
• Happy Valentines: Angry Birds Seasons and Cut The Rope get all mushy
• X Construction for Android: Send commuters plummeting to their doom
• Last.fm radio to cost £3 a month on iPhone and Android from the 15th of February
• Confession App gets blessing from the Catholic church
• Los Angeles Police in massive haul of fake Apple gear.
• 14th Feb release for iOS 4.3?
• Three to stock Xperia Play. Now available on all networks
• LG Optimus 3D shown off in (another) video, comes with dual cameras
• Android apps on Nokia phones
• BBC iPlayer: iPad-only app coming this week.
• Kinetic iPhone Dock is made of wood, gears and awesome
• LG’s G-Slate (aka Optimus Pad) previewed in video
• Yell.com joins the world of apps- no more JR Hartley?
• Kyocera Echo: Dual-screened Android

7th February

• Xperia Play coming to Orange and T-Mobile. So who won’t be stocking it?
• Nokia E6-00 pictures leaked
• Future phones ‘could print onto your skin’
• Angry Birds for Android: Mighty Eagle to be paid for via texts
• Android 2.4 due out in April
• Nokia E7 ships today: Qwerty-toting, fast-typing Symbian
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Play coming to O2, price and release date TBA
• Phojazzled: The most expensive ways to show off your phone
• Motorola shows off the Xoom tablet in Superbowl TV ad
• Google Nexus S coming to Vodafone
• Confirmed: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, coming to Vodafone
• HTC Desire 2: new info

6th February

• PlayStation phone finally official

4th February

• HTC Desire 2: Is it the European HTC Pyramid?
• The best radio apps for the iPhone
• HTC Pyramid: the dual-core flagship?
• American prisons suffering cell phone smuggling explosion.
• Jenson and Lewis: iPhone users. Lewis not big on the apps.
• Phone with built-in projector launches in Japan
• Confirmed: LG will officially launch the Optimus Pad at MWC 2011
• Apple patents future iPad stand; maybe built-in, maybe not
• Smartphones won’t be getting Honeycomb
• Video: Samsung Solid Immerse, attacked, ran over…immersed
• App Friday: Music Sync PushLife

3rd February

• Android 2.2 update comes to the HTC Wildfire on Three
• LG Optimus Black coming to T-Mobile in March
• BlackBerry Curve 3G comes to T-Mobile in ‘Smoky Violet’
• Xperia Play: TV ad leaked
• Funambol brings wireless syncing to your BlackBerry
• Optimus 3D coming to the UK. Vodafone and Three to stock.
• Windows Phone 7 update: Here comes cut-and-paste
• BlackBerry Torch and Bold 9780 come to Virgin Media pay as you go
• Nokia E7 extensively previewed in video
• Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb event uploaded, watch it in full
• HP counts down to Palm event: HP tablet and ‘the future of webOS’

2nd February

• In-app purchases coming to Android apps, Angry Birds Mighty Eagle update soon?
• SwiftKey for Tablets launched alongside Android 3.0 event
• Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb event in pictures
• Android Market webstore launched; search for and buy Android apps from your desktop
• Nokia E7 coming soon to Vodafone contracts
• Photo gallery: Murdoch’s iPad paper arrives. Here is The Daily.
• Blackberry faces India ban after company fails to meet government deadline
• Vodafone to offer BlackBerry Torch White and Xperia Arc. Jenson and Lewis camp out for tickets
• Nokia sells £25 phone cycle charger
• Yahoo confirms IMAP mail problems using data but WP7 specific.
• LG G-Slate headed stateside in March
• Figures show decent Windows Phone 7 sales.
• LG release Optimus 3D teaser. Funnier than you’d think.
• Google to launch web-based Android Market and Google Music tonight?
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc coming to Three this April
• White iPhone to land end of March

1st February

• Download and delete: 26% of all apps used only once.
• Android most popular Smartphone OS in the world.
• HTC Desire HD Black coming soon to Orange.
• Samsung’s Wave II out today in the UK
• Egypt protesters get speak-to-tweet service
• Yahoo Mail to blame for Windows Phone 7 ‘phantom data’ bug
• LG confirms Optimus 3D. “The world’s first 3D smartphone.”
• Samsung Galaxy S2: Teaser videos revealed