I confess, I’m intrigued by BlackBerry 10. Surprised? So am I. It’s been easy to pre-emptively count BlackBerry out of the smartphone wars based on its performance over the last two or three years, but there’s an element of mystique and personality t…
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HTC’s M4 and G2 Androids likely to launch after the M7
Now that we know the M7 is alive and well, we can look at the other goodies that HTC is going to bring us this year. According to the pretty reliable @evleaks, two more Android phones will be launched at some point after the M7′s pre-MWC debut: a fai…
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Path settles with the FTC over contact privacy violations
Path was quick to mend its ways after a dust-up over collecting contact information from iOS users without their consent, but it wasn’t quick enough to avoid FTC claims of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. All that is just water…
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HTC’s Peter Chou flashes M7 at company gathering, screams the name
Guess who’s super excited about HTC’s upcoming flagship phone? Why, Peter Chou, of course! At the company’s year end party in Taipei earlier today, the CEO went on stage to thank the M7 team for working overtime last week in order to finalize the dev…
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Verizon to offer new 3G-only prepaid plans beginning today
Verizon’s got a new set of prepaid plans for smartphone users that are hoping to keep costs down. The monthly plans, which appear to be restricted to a small number of phones unable to access Big Red’s LTE network, both offer unlimited talk and text;…
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Sony Xperia Z priced at £529, less if you buy it from Three (update: free headphones with preorders)
The humble islanders who inhabit Great Britain are waking up to the news that Sony’s Xperia Z has been priced in the local currency. They can pre-register the unit for £529 in a choice of black, white or purple hues direct from Sony, or pre-ord…
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BT offers mobile cloud storage service to broadband customers in the UK
Your BT broadband account now comes with one more perk to justify its existence: a locker service that takes a leaf out of AT&T’s book in offering online storage accessible via iOS and Android apps. How much you get depends on the value of your c…
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Strategy Analytics: Apple tops US phone market for Q4 2012, but Samsung takes the year
Strategy Analytics have shared the state of the global smartphone OS market, but today it’s focused specifically on the US, where the iPhone 5 helped Apple to reclaim the last quarter from Samsung. iPhone claimed 34 percent of vendor shipments in the…
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Verizon green-lights HTC Thunderbolt’s Ice Cream Sandwich update
Sweet relief from Gingerbread is finally here for HTC Thunderbolt owners who haven’t jumped ship or upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich without Verizon’s blessing. Big Red’s finally approved Android 4.0.4 laced with Sense 3.6 for the device and is serving…
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OpenKit aiming to fill OpenFeint-sized hole, launches in private beta tomorrow
OpenFeint seed investor Peter Relan is fed up with his former creation’s lack of existence — the open source software once powered the social integration behind many mobile games. After Japanese social gaming giant GREE bought OpenFeint in April 201…
