May 2011 Archive

31st May

• Revealed: Acer’s new Windows Phone 7 device
• Android 2.3 Gingerbread delayed for HTC Desire HD customers on Three
• Geared and Geared 2: Head-stratching cog-turning puzzlers for iPhone, iPad and Android
• Nokia lets slip Windows Phone 7 details: First phone ETA Q4 2011
• Apple to unveil ‘cloud services offerings’, new iOS 5 for iPhone and iPad ranges
• Opinion: Why Windows Phone 7 isn’t selling, and why no-one cares
• Acer Liquid Mini coming with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and in a range of colours
• Video: Nvidia shows off in-game action from dual/quad-core mobile game, Shadowgun
• Nokia X7 and E6 start shipping: Symbian Anna phones a-comin’
• 12-megapixel camera phone from HTC gets leaked: video shows new Windows Phone Mango update
• Asus Padfone: Ice Cream Sandwich phone inside a tablet

27th May

• Hound for Android: Free voice search app from the makers of SoundHound
• SwiftKey X for Android public beta: Predictive text system learns your lingo from your Facebook, Twitter and Gmail
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Play comes to O2 in black and white: Free on £37 a month, £430 on pay-as-you-go
• Nokia E6 available to pre-order direct now: £349 SIM free, £25 on Vodafone contract, 6th of June ETA
• Google Wallet and Google Offers announced: Revolutionary NFC-powered e-wallet, US only for now

26th May

• Sony Ericsson begins rolling Android 2.3.3 out to Xperia Arc and Xperia Play phones
• (UPDATED) NHS Direct app: Check symptoms from your Android phone and iPhone
• Shadowgun: The future of mobile gaming looks like this
• Nonsense Button and Taffin Button for Android, as heard on Adam and Joe
• O2 reveals most eco-friendly phones: Nokia comes top.
• Google Wallet: Google to announce test of NFC payment platform, readers to arrive in the US this September
• BlackBerry Torch 2 lights up in rumour land: BlackBerry OS 7, Qwerty, 5-megapixel camera, 8GB memory
• Minecraft Pocket: First ever in-action video on Xperia Play

25th May

• Minebuilder for Android: Addicitive tree shredding game offers taste of Minecraft to come
• BBC News Android app arrives in Market: Works on 1.6+, live streaming of BBC News channel on 2.2+ with Flash Player
• 4G phone network trials by BT and Everything Everywhere to start in UK this September
• iZettle gives iPhone a portable way to pay with credit cards
• Analyst: More phone connections in the world than people
• Windows Phone 7 Mango in-progress hands on shots
• Minecraft to arrive on Android phones: Xperia Play gets exclusive early launch
• HTC Cha Cha: FaceBook phone gets early June release, can be pre-ordered now
• HTC Desire S slips into something red exclusively for Vodafone
• HTC Desire S Review: In Depth

24th May

• Microsoft unveils Mango update: hints at cheaper phones, gets all inter-connected
• Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ arrives early summer and new phone makers revealed
• HTC Flyer Review: In Depth
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 price leaked on Amazon.de, €606.50 or £530 in UK money

23rd May

• The Phone O’Clock News 23/05/2011
• The evolution of mobile phones: From brick to stick (thin) in under 3 minutes (VIDEO)
• HTC Sensation and ChaCha coming to Three UK in June
• Windows Phone 7 Mango update to get ‘over 500’ new features says Ballmer
• Exclusive Vouchercloud deals come to Orange pay monthly and pay-as-you-go customers
• HTC Sensation: First impressions

20th May

• HTC Sensation: What’s in the box?
• Take sneaky celeb snaps on Paparazzi, augmented reality on Android phones
• Sticky secret: Android Gingerbread hidden in Android Honeycomb tablets
• Orange launches NFC phone payment service: On Samsung Tocco, £59.99 PAYG

19th May

• Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and Xperia Play gets Android 2.3.3 upgrade and deep Facebook features next week
• O2 announces NFC ‘mobile wallet service’, coming this year
• HTC Sensation released today, pre-orders dispatched
• Rumour: HTC Evo 3D to come to UK? Vodafone to release in July 2011
• Android phones get Nintendo 3DS-style AR gaming: HoopsAR
• LG Optimus 2X random rebooting bug fix available now
• Multiplayer Infinity Blade arrives, update brings more modes, more grunts- for half price
• The Top Ten Android apps and games we want to see ported to the BlackBerry Playbook
• HTC Flyer touches down on Three’s site: £169 for £31 a month, 24 month contract
• LG Optimus 3Ds spotted for sale on eBay: Developers flog preview phone
• HTC’s Florian Seiche announces Starship Troopers-style vision of future, NFC phone coming in the next 12 months

18th May

• Xperia Mini Pro coming to O2: Compact smartphone gets June 2011 release date
• HTC Bresson: HTC’s mystery 16-megapixel Windows Phone 7 phone?
• HTC Flyer: What’s in the box?
• INQ Cloud Touch goes free on £12 tariff, unlimited internet
• Data-hungry smartphone apps use up to 115MB per hour
• Future SIM cards could be even smaller than iPhone 4’s micro-SIM. Mini-SIM? Nano-SIM? Tiny-SIM?
• Wi-Fi-only Samsung Galaxy Tab available from Asda for £277

17th May

• Nokia N9: Alive! Promo video shows off phone curves and not much else
• Rumoured Sony Ericsson Xperia phones leaked: Again?
• 99 per cent of Android phones leaking security information over open Wi-Fi, report claims
• The best apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook
• Atlanta from Orange: £40 on pay-as-you-go, coming soon
• BlackBerry PlayBook: 16 June release date, now on pre-order at Carphone Warehouse
• Rumour: Amazon working on quad-core Tegra 3 ‘Hollywood’ and Tegra 2 ‘Coyote’ tablets
• Xperia Play gets price-cut: Now £419 SIM-free at Clove

16th May

• The Phone O’Clock News: 16/05/2011
• HTC Wildfire S crops up on Three The One Plan pay monthly and pay-as-you-go
• TagBak reward and return scheme free with Protect Your Bubble’s mobile insurance plan
• LG Optimus Black Review: In Depth
• Hot Springs Story opens doors on Android: Stupidly addictive Game Dev Story sequel
• Get spooked by sounds in space with the Nightjar
• Official: Samsung Galaxy S Gingerbread update coming “late May”, via Kies
• Android updates coming to Samsung Galaxy series: Galaxy Ace, Mini, Gio, Fit and Tab to get Gingerbread
• Nokia rebrands its services: Ovi is over
• Vodafone Smart: New Android smartphone, PAYG with a sub-£80 price
• HTC Sensation gets convincing video sell: Sense 3.0, Watch, and high-def weather!? (VIDEO)

13th May

• BlackBerry PlayBook: Hands-on gallery and iPad comparison
• Official: Samsung Galaxy S2 (II) with NFC confirmed for UK, coming ‘later this year’
• Motorola Atrix Review: In Depth
• BeBook Live Android tablet announced: 7-inch screen, Android 2.2, £229 price tag
• Future Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 ‘not ruled out’
• HTC Flyer 32GB and LG Optimus Pad coming to Carphone Warehouse: From £130 and £300 respectively
• HTC Flyer release today: Price? 3G+WiFi £599.99, WiFi-only £479.99
• HTC Wildfire S arrives on Vodafone in grey, purple and white from £20 a month

12th May

• Motorola Atrix: The HD Mutlimedia Dock, Keyboard, Mouse and Remote accessories
• Motorola Atrix Lapdock: £299 for a halfway house laptop? Or the shape of mobile accessories to come?
• Xperia Arc Black: Hands-on photos with the Orange-only edition
• Xperia Play: PlayStation Classics flop. Total game sales under 3000
• Android Market gets a much-needed clean-up: Editor’s choice and trending apps
• HTC Sensation price revealed: £500 SIM-free, release 30 June

11th May

• Unbranded HTC Desire HD and Incredible S to get Android Gingerbread: Release date, 16 May
• Nokia Angry Birds cases have landed
• Draw Race 2: Racing Evolved coming to iPhone this year
• Duke Nukem Forever: Coming to the iPhone?
• Google Movies to hit the Android Market, 3.1 Honeycomb tablets and 2.2 Froyo phones
• Recombu and Three’s All You Can Easter Eggstravaganza: The Winner
• Google Music Beta: Confirmed to be US-only (for the time being), coming to phones running 2.2 Froyo and above
• Google shows off effortless NFC: Share contacts, websites, across Android phones in an instant,
• Android Ice Cream Sandwich: coming Winter 2011, will unite Android phones and tablets, updates to be more regular
• Sony Ericsson Cybershot: Is this their new Android phone?
• Motorola Gleam Preview

10th May

• Google announces Honeycomb 3.1: Plug external keyboards, mice and Xbox 360 controllers into your Android tablet
• LG Optimus Black: What’s in the box?
• DoubleTwist demos new DoubleTap feature: Tap to share songs and videos
• Angry Birds flip-flops, cash-ins and getting Angry Bird tattoos: Photo gallery
• Google’s Music Locker: Stream up to 20,000 songs, looks to be US-only from launch
• Update: no Nokia Windows Phone 7 devices will be appearing in Greece next week
• Motorola Gleam shiny flip phone available now from Carphone Warehouse: £50 on pay-as-you-go plus £10 top up

9th May

• The Phone O’Clock News: 09/05/2011
• HTC Salsa, HTC ChaCha: Preorder at Amazon now
• Samsung Galaxy S vs Samsung Galaxy Ace vs Samsung Galaxy Mini vs Samsung Galaxy S2 II – Galaxy Wars
• What is NFC and how does it work? Absolutely everything you need to know
• Lame Castle for iPhone and Android: Robot Unicorn Attack plus lame castles, sans robot unicorns
• HTC Sensation vs iPhone 4 vs Samsung Galaxy S II 2 vs LG Optimus 2X
• Nokia N8 shown running new Symbian Anna
• Official Google I/O 2011 app available: Follow the event from your Android phone
• Death Worm for iPhone and Android: Kill helicopters and eat camels for a reduced price
• DoubleTwist for Android update adds AirPlay and DLNA streaming and beta support for Sonos speakers
• HTC Flyer: UK will have free in-box stylus
• Nano-tech could charge mobile phones with your voice
• Mango update to bring turn-by-turn navigation and Shazam-style Bing Audio to Windows Phone 7

6th May

• Zinio for Android on a Motorola Atrix: Hands-on photos
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Xperia Mini Pro: Hands-on gallery and X10 Mini comparison
• Facebook inside Xperia: Sony Ericsson turns up to the Facebook party
• Vodafone 858 sneaks out: Super small Huawei-made Android 2.2 phone
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro revealed: Tiny keyboard, big specs.
• Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini revealed: HD video-recording, Android Gingerbread
• Taptu for Android updates to 1.4, now works on Android tablets

5th May

• Chalk Ball: The latest addictive physics based puzzler for Android phones
• HTC Desire HD Gingerbread update rolls out to Vodafone customers
• ‘Paper phone’ e-ink prototype to be presented next week
• Microsoft Photosynth creates free panorama shots- but only on your iPhone
• Three’s The One Plan now on SIM-only rolling contracts: Unlimited internet for £25 a month
• Navigate London buses with the Busmapper app on the iPhone
• Orange San Francisco: Android phone now under £70

4th May

• LG Optimus Black: In-store release date ‘before 14 May’
• 7digital “not powering the new download offering from Spotify”
• HTC Desire HD and Incredible S Gingerbread update arrives across Europe.
• 7digital updates Android app: MP3 downloads and compressed downloads
• HTC Sensation arriving 19th of May exclusively on Vodafone, open for pre-order now
• Spotify iPhone and Android apps available to non-Premium subscribers, playlist purchasing coming later today
• New BlackBerry Bold 9900 coming to UK on Three network

3rd May

• Motorola Atrix: What’s in the box?
• Vodafone to stock new BlackBerry Bold 9900 on release day
• BlackBerry search and maps to be powered by Microsoft’s Bing
• Dell Venue Pro Review: In Depth
• Motorola Atrix comes to Orange tomorrow: free on £35 contracts, laptop dock and mouse available for an extra £50
• RIM announces Facebook and Video Chat apps for BlackBerry PlayBook, updates BlackBerry Bridge to support BBM
• Vodafone customers to be able to pay for taxis with a text message
• BlackBerry Bold 9900: New BB is thinnest, most powerful yet