Dell to unveil new smartphone ‘as early as next month’

Almost exactly a year ago we brought you a rumour that Dell was considering making a smartphone with the help of Google – using the then-untested Android OS to make a ‘Google Phone’.
A year later, and now there is a Google Phone – kind of – but Dell stil hasn’t come through with the goods.
A [...]

Kogan still working on Android phone

You have to hand it to Aussie mobile outfit Kogan Technology – they are tryers. The Kogan Agora Pro was meant to be the second commercially-available Android handset and, what’s more, it was aimed squarely at the budget end of the market while remaining fairly fully-featured.
Alas, it was not to be with the phone running [...]

Opera Mini 4.2 arrives on Android

Opera has released version 4.2 of its lightweight, free mobile browser Opera Mini – as distinct from Opera Mobile, which costs actual money – for Android mobile phones.
The initial Opera Mini outing on Android was a bit shoddy, with no video support and plenty of bugs. The new release CAN do embedded video – it [...]

Nokia cures the Curse of Silence

Anyone worried by the announcement of the spooky-sounding Curse of Silence bug earlier this month can breath a sigh of relief. Nokia has finally come up with a fix for the damage the ‘Curse’ can cause.
If you missed the memo and are assuming we have gone mad, the Curse of Silence is a particularly nasty [...]

General Mobile to debut DSTL1 Android phone at Mobile World 2009

The new Android handsets are starting to roll in as manufacturers begin to realise that they can save a bit of cash by using the OS and start using the word ‘leverage’ a lot in their Powerpoint presentations. Next up on the hopper is the General Mobile DSTL1.
The phone is one of those dual-SIM jobs [...]

Apple wins multitouch patent in the US

Apple has been granted the US patent for its multitouch technology, as used in the iPhone and iPod touch.
US Patent #7,479,949, awarded to ‘Jobs et al’, credits Apple with the technique for “detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display” and details some of the gesture controls (such as pinch-zooming) that make [...]

WinMo 6.5 ‘Honeycomb’ appears in leaked photos

There seems to be a rash of leaked photos of up and coming handsets around at the moment – either the mobile industry is staffed entirely by untrustworthy moles or marketing types have cottoned on to an easy way of getting plenty of blog mentions.
The latest slice of photographic gold comes in the form of [...]

US considers making cameraphone shutter noise a legal requirement

US Congressman Pete King (pictured) is worried that people with cameraphones might be using them to take photographs of things that they are not meant to be taking photographs of. Think of the children!
To combat this modern menace, he is sponsoring the “Camera Phone Predator Alert Act” – a bill that aims to make a [...]

Bluetooth file transfer comes to Jailbroken iPhones

Since the App Store opened its shiny doors, many iPhone owners have questioned the need for Jailbreaking their devices. You can get all the apps you need in one handy place – usually for less than a quid. Why risk turning your phone into a brick?
Apple still holds the platform on a tight leash, however, [...]

Rogue Android app can wipe your phone

Uh-oh. The open source Android operating system may just have received its first piece of malware – MemoryUp.
Following the pattern of so many examples of Windows crapware, MemoryUp promises to optimize your G1 phone’s performance by freeing up system memory. While some on the Android Community Forums where the app was posted question th eneed [...]