Nutty Mobiles

Production of the HTC Desire may be ceasing, with the last batch of stock reportedly having entered the UK. Online phone retailer Clove writes that, “we have been informed that no more [HTC Desires] will be coming in to the UK,” although it does note that HTC has not confirmed that it is stopping production. We’ve asked HTC whether the [...]

Bjork is set to release her new album Biophilia as a multimedia project, comprised of teb separate iPad apps. It’s an intriguing move from the pixie-like Icelandic songstress, though there is still no confirmed release dates or pricing for Bjork’s new songs/apps. An innovative app album Biophilia will be Björk’s seventh album to date, with the title itself meaning “love [...]

We’ve been treated to a cornucopia of high quality mobile phones recently, but it’s a certain two that have got the tongues wagging: the dual-core majesty of the HTC Sensation and the Samsung Galaxy S2. We’ve reviewed them both already, but so often we’re asked the question of ‘which should I buy?’ So here’s TechRadar’s detailed and in-depth look at [...]

We set the HTC Wildfire S up against the Samsung Galaxy Ace We compare two diminutive handsets with the HTC Wildfire S taking on the Samsung Galaxy Ace. Form: Samsung Galaxy Ace – 112.4 x 59.9 x 11.5 mm, 113 g HTC Wildfire S – 101.3 x 59.4 x 12.4 mm, 105 g The Wildfire S doesn’t look very different [...]

Vodafone has confirmed it will be putting the HTC ChaCha on sale imminently on its Facebook page. The next ‘Facebook Phone’ (after the HTC Salsa and INQ Cloud Touch) with a dedicated Facebook sharing button on the front still doesn’t have a price, but will come with a wider data bundle as the network looks to push a greater variety [...]

iOS sing-off Lyric Legend has come to Android, and is currently free to download Often wondered how well do you know your lyrics? Well, now you can find out with Lyric Legend. First released on iPhone, Lyric Legend amassed 1.8 million downloads since it landed on the App Store in August of 2010, and now it’s the turn of Android [...]

We review the new location-aware Quidco, an app that delivers vouchers and freebies to your iPhone as you walk through the shop’s door We remember when a corporate competition – on the back of a Corn Flakes packet, a bag of Crisps, or on Tiz Waz – required you to answer a question that was more challenging than ‘What’s your [...]

We pit the HTC Flyer up against the Android 3.1-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 HTC is no stranger to acclaim. Its smartphones are widely regarded as industry leading specimens and innovation and design excellence have become synonymous with the Taiwanese manufacturer. But up until recently it was a stranger to the tablet market, and we’ve decided to put the company’s [...]

This time the HTC Desire S takes on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc We compare the HTC Desire S to Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Arc. Form: HTC Desire S – 115 x 59.8 x 11.6 mm, 130 g Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc – 125 x 63 x 8.7 mm, 117 g The HTC Desire S doesn’t really stand out that much [...]

Sony’s Xperia Play takes on Apple’s iPhone 4 We take a look to see how the iPhone 4 stacks up when compared to the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. Form: Sony Ericsson Xperia Play – 119 x 62 x 16 mm, 175 g Apple iPhone 4 – 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm, 137 g The iPhone 4 looks like an [...]

Microsoft may have offered to take Nokia’s ailing mobile phone business off its hands for $19 billion, if industry insider Eldar Murtazin has got his facts right. He tweeted, “One small software company decided last week that they could spent 19 bln USD to buy a part of small phone vendor. Thats it.” When questioned over what two companies he [...]

Qualcomm has been showing off its latest dual-core mobile phone processing tech at Computex in Taipei this week. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are already in many of the smartphones already on the market, including the Google Nexus One and the HTC Incredible. Next up from Qualcomm are new dual-CPU chipsets that boost the mobile processor speed to 1.2 GHz and 1.5 [...]

T-Mobile has announced that it is joining its Everything Everywhere label-mate Orange in offering the Motorola Atrix. The network will be offering the super-charged smartphone for free on a £35.75 per month 24-month contract, which nets you 900 minutes, 500 texts and a 500MB data allowance to boot. Up your monthly payment, however, and you can grab the ‘Work and [...]

Our verdict on the best smartphone / best phones – constantly updated We’ve all got at least one mobile phone each, right? The trouble is, how do you decide which is the best one for you? If you’ve read our list of the hottest pre-release new mobile phones and are still stumped, well, this is where we make it easy. [...]

Voting on the longlist for the TechRadar Phone Awards 2011 closed earlier this week. We’ve been hard at work totting up the votes and can now exclusively reveal the apps, games and phone innovations that have made the shortlist. So far, we’ve had over 75,000 votes; the following shortlist represents the best of all things mobile and now you have [...]

Sony Ericsson has opened pre-order on its physical-QWERTY-toting Android handset, the Xperia Pro, revealing its UK price as £349.99. Perhaps you’re having trouble picturing the Xperia Pro, in which case simply cast your mind back to February; it’s Mobile World Congress, Sony Ericsson is officially unveiling its PlayStation Phone after months of leaks but look beyond, just there – behind [...]

We’re partying like it’s the 1890s* here at TechRadar, rocking out with some moving pictures showcasing our top 10 free iPhone apps. That’s right; we’ve waded through the App Store to fish out the best of the best and then turned them into a video so you don’t even need to scroll through the page or anything. While you’re probably [...]

Asus CEO Jonney Shih unveiled a prototype of the company’s new Padfone at Computex 2011 in Taipei this week with an Android-based 4.3-inch smartphone capable of turning itself into a tablet with a handy 10.1-inch touchscreen dock. Although details are limited, we’d bet the new tablet/phone hybrid will be running Android Ice Cream Sandwich by the time it debuts in [...]

We review FunDroid, a pretend Android OS app from Polipone for Windows Phone 7 So your friends ignored your advice and followed the crowd by purchasing an Android handset – how can you remind them Windows Phone 7 was the right choice? You could try and out-feature them, although that rarely ever results in a successful argument for Windows Phone [...]

The Top Apps chart on Android Market makes less money than most other app stores The Top Apps section on Android Market isn’t as profitable as other app stores according to Distimo research. During April, the top 10 free and top 10 paid applications only showcased 26 applications in the Google Android Market, while there were 94 applications in the [...]

The BBC has launched its news application for the Android platform The BBC has launched its news app on Android in the UK. Like the iPad app the Android BBC news application is only available to UK users. The app means you can view and share all the top news stories wherever you are, in a simple to use format. [...]

We review Get Running (Couch to 5K), an iPhone app that helps you build up your fitness level gradually so you won’t even know you’re getting fit It’s much easier to be unfit in winter. The days are so much shorter, so heading out onto the dark streets is often unwise, and even if the long nights don’t discourage you [...]

Mozilla Firefox 5 beta has hit the Android Market, bringing performance improvements and a ‘Do Not Track’ mode Mozilla’s Firefox 5 has hit the Android Market, bringing with it some much needed speed improvements and a few notable features, such as the new ‘Do Not Track’ mode. The news comes via PhanDroid who reports that Mozilla has made ‘several enhancements [...]

We take a look at the Windows Phone 7 version of the British Airways app to see whether we should expect a smooth landing or a spot of turbulence Paper was doomed from the start. It’s served us well but the combination of cutting down dear old trees, a reliance on computing and the push towards condensing as much technlogy [...]

Apple’s App Store now has more than half a million apps available, with games the most popular section Half a million apps are now available on the apple App Store. An infographic on Facebook by Chomp, 148 Apps and Chillingo shows also shows the split of those apps. 15 percent of all the apps on the App Store are games, [...]

We review GhostTown, a music discovery app for Android that has a neat trick up its sleeve With all the recent fuss about Google’s cloud-based music service and Amazon’s similar Cloud Drive app, the concept of streaming your record collection to your phone is fast becoming a reality. In a few years time it’s conceivable that your mobile won’t need [...]

Microsoft has showcased the British Airways application on Windows Phone 7 Mango, and it looks very impressive British Airways has showcased its app on Windows Phone 7 Mango. The BA app looks like one of the most impressive app yet on Windows Phone 7. Not only can you check your flight status from the homescreen, you can view al the [...]

Tesco has launched a new satnav app to make grocery shopping easier for smartphone users Tesco has launched a new app for Android smartphone users that makes grocery shopping easier for customers who shop at Tesco Extra stores. Tesco’s in-store satnav system app will allow customers to locate grocery items on their Android smartphone and pick up the products quickly, [...]

How will the LG Optimus Black fare against the Samsung Galaxy S2? We find out We compare the LG Optimus Black to Samsung’s Galaxy S2. Form: Samsung Galaxy S2 – 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm, 116 g LG Optimus Black – 122 x 64 x 9.2 mm, 109 g You could be forgiven for thinking both phones were designed [...]

We pit the LG Optimus Pad up against the HTC Flyer We see how the HTC Flyer fares against LG’s 3D capable Optimus Pad. Form: LG Optimus Pad – 243.8 x 150 x 12.7 mm, 621 g HTC Flyer – 195.4 x 122 x 13.2 mm, 420.8 g The Optimus Pad is larger and heavier but it has nicer proportions. [...]

We compare the HTC Flyer to Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 8.9 We set the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 on the HTC Flyer and let them duke it out. Form:HTC Flyer – 195.4x122x13.2mm, 420.8gSamsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 – 230.9×157.8×8.6mm, 470g For the company’s first venture into tablet territory the Flyer is not one of HTC’s most attractive devices, not only is the [...]

We compare the LG Optimus 2X and the LG Optimus Black to see which Optimus is truely prime Infighting from LG this time as we compare the Optimus Black to the Optimus 2X. Form: LG Optimus Black – 122 x 64 x 9.2 mm, 109 g LG Optimus 2X – 123.9 x 63.2 x 10.9 mm, 139 g Being from [...]

It’s time for HTC’s Incredible S to earn its moniker as it goes head-to-head with LG’s bank balance friendly super phone, the Optimus Black As the successor to the fantastic Desire HD, the HTC Incredible S has had some pretty big shoes to fill, but fill them it has. Now it’s time for a new challenge as we pitch the [...]

We compare two of 2011′s most promising up and comers, the HTC Desire S and LG’s Optimus Black The HTC Desire S and LG’s Optimus Black have generated a lot of positive buzz this year so we felt it was time to let the two devices duke it out for bragging rights. But which of these powerful mid-range devices will [...]

We take a look at how the new HTC Sensation stacks up against LG’s new Optimus Black We compare the LG Optimus Black to HTC’s Sensation. Form:LG Optimus Black – 122x64x9.2mm, 109gHTC Sensation – 126.1×65.4×11.3mm, 148g The Sensation is one of HTC’s most up-to-date looking handsets and the company seems to have paid attention to many of the current industry [...]

Nokia’s share price dropped a whopping 15 per cent on Tuesday and, as a result, is now at its lowest since 1998. The shock tailspin came after the company was forced to realign its profit forecasts for the forthcoming quarter, admitting it may only break even between April and June 2011. The crisis-hit Finns admitted that profits will be “substantially [...]

Apple has announced that it has redesigned its iWork software for iOS devices – including the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Not content with announcing just what we will see at WWDC this year, Apple has decided to unveil a mobile version of iWork which is “completely redesigned for iOS and Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch interface”. Office, sweet Keynote, Pages and [...]

Acer has shown off a prototype of its first Windows Phone 7 handset, known as the Acer W4. Along with giving the W4 its first photo opportunity, Acer revealed a few juicy spec-related titbits for its Mango-running handset. It will offer a 3.6-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen with 480×800 screen resolution, a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM 8255 processor and 8GB of storage. [...]

The HTC Desire Android 2.3 update will not meet its end of May deadline, according to 3 Mobile. A tweet from the numerical network apologises for the ongoing delays to the Desire Gingerbread update. It reads, “Re HTC [Desire] 2.3: V[ery] sorry to say that HTC hasn’t been able to meet the late May timings that were set. We’re awaiting [...]

New sources have claimed that the iPhone 5 will launch at WWDC next week, complete with an 8MP camera, multiple internal antenna and, potentially, a Qualcomm chipset. We’ve lost track of the number of rumours about the next generation of iPhone, with myriad analysts and anonymous sources suggesting that we wouldn’t see hide nor hair of it until September 2011. [...]

TechRadar has teamed up with ADATA to provide you with some top-end kit for your PC to help your system make the leap to the next level. We’ve got four pieces of kit to give away, from super-fast solid state drives to cutting edge memory to make your set-up stand out. First up from ADATA is the 240GB S511 SSD, [...]

Part of the reason Flight Control has been a massive hit is because it offered something entirely suited to touchscreens, rather than try to force control conventions from traditional consoles onto an iOS game. The path-drawing concept that underpins the entire game, with you guiding aircraft to runways and helipads, is intuitive for newcomers, but the game also quickly ramps [...]

Windows Phone 7 is set to undergo a major update with the launch of the new Mango version of the operating system, and TechRadar was present to get its paws all over the new software. The good news is that the new Mango update brings features rather than massive UI enhancements – we’re big fans of the Live Tiles and [...]

Apple’s uncharacteristically detailed announcement hasn’t just confirmed that next week’s WWDC will be a Stevenote: it’s also told us what he’ll be talking about. So what can we expect? New hardware? Probably not Apple doesn’t usually tell us what Steve Jobs will introduce. While it’s nice to imagine a One More Thing where Jobs unveils a solar-powered iPad that can [...]

Apple may be about to make it easier for users to upload images to Twitter in iOS 5 from within the operating system’s menus. It’s another unusual move from Apple, which yesterday announced the topics for its WWDC keynote which include revealing the new iOS. Multiple sources have apparently confirmed the Twitter integration to TechCrunch, saying that ‘Send to Twitter’ [...]

We compare the iPhone 4 to the rumoured specs we think will be appearing on the iPhone 5 to see what’s different With the grand reveal for Apple’s iPhone 5 expected to be a short while away, we compare the rumour with the reality and look into what’s on the agenda for the biggest device launch of the year and [...]

We send one of HTC’s old guard, the HTC Wildfire, into battle against LG’s new Optimus Black We pitch the HTC Wildfire against LG’s new Optimus Black. Form:HTC Wildfire – 106.8×60.4x12mm, 118gLG Optimus Black – 122x64x9.2mm, 109gThe LG looks like an LG, which is code for saying it looks really nice. Elegant lines, minimalist features and flattering proportions means this [...]

Windows Mobile 6.x’s days are numbered as Microsoft will no longer support the OS after 15 July. On that date, the various versions of the OS will gather atop a hill, ready to be welcomed into the big HTC handset in the sky. Or, rather, Microsoft will simply stop accepting new Win Mo apps and application updates from 15 July [...]

We pitch the Samsung Galaxy S2 against LG’s new arrival, the Optimus 2X We compare the Samsung Galaxy S2 with the new LG Optimus 2X. Form:Samsung Galaxy S2 – 125.3 x 66.1 x 8.5 mm, 116 gLG Optimus 2X – 123.9 x 63.2 x 10.9 mm, 139 g Both these phones seem to come from the same school of design [...]

Fuel has been added to the iPhone 5 delayed launch fire by yet another supplier, which claims that orders for the new build are “several months later than usual.” Gene Munster, analyst for Piper Jaffray, cites two “concrete data points” as his source, one of which is an iPhone manufacturing equipment supplier who told him that they received orders for [...]