It looks like Acer is getting in on some Android 2.2 smartphone action and may just be ready to launch a new Acer smartphone in the form of the Acer Liquid Metal handset, a smartphone with an aluminium casing. According to an article over on Engadget by Donald Melanson, and by way of Habrahabr, the…

With the new iOS 4.1 release comes HDR photos to the iPhone 4, HDR standing for “high dynamic range”, which is the reange between the lightest and darkest areas of a photo which then is supposed to look more similar to that seen by the human eye. But is HDR photo capability really worth it?…

A couple of months ago Opera pushed out Opera Mini 5.1 for the Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Java platforms, and now Opera has released Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows based mobile phones. According to an article over on Techtree, other than being optimised for faster mobile web browsing, Opera Mini 5.1 delivers new features and…

The other day we posted an article concerning Bing becoming the default search preference for a Android devices on the Verizon network, you can refresh you memory on that by hitting up (here) however the Big Red says otherwise. According to an article over on Engadget by Chris Ziegler, and by way of The Droid…

Google has now rolled out their Street View smart navigation app along with Google Walking Navigation beta for Android smartphone that run Android 1.6 and above, with the Google Walking Navigation beta being bundles into Maps for Mobile 4.5. According to Darren Murph of Engadget and by way of the Google Mobile Blog, Street View…

Back in 09 Apple decided to kick out a couple of Google Voice apps from the App Store, namely the official Google Voice app and GV Mobile; however now that Apple has made some changes to the rules we may yet see Google Voice make it into the App Store and onto the iPhone. According…

In the past Apple has been somewhat closed to 3rd-party developer tools for their iOS applications, but apparently Apple has had a change of heart and now done a big u-turn to welcome iOS app all comers with the proviso that “as long as the resulting apps do not download any code.” According to an…

Over the last few months we’ve been seeing numerous new smartphones popping up on the new waves sporting Microsoft’s new operating system Windows Phone 7, but as yet Microsoft has been quite tight lipped as to just when there may be an official launch of Windows Phone 7. However, according to an article over on…

There is a cat and mouse game that has gone on for years between Apple and the jailbreakers, hackers come up with a jailbreak solution, Apple update to close it and so on. However over the years the hackers have become quite adept at finding exploits rather quickly. Apple released iOS 4.1 yesterday and apparently…

Apple released iOS 4.1 yesterday and with it a supposed fix for the iPhone 4 proximity sensor issue, something they had promised to do. However it is starting to look like Apple hasn’t fulfilled that promise of fixing the proximity sensor. According to an article over on Softpedia by Filip Truta, some iPhone 4 users…

If you just can’t wait for the real deal Droid 2 R2-D2 special edition smartphone to hit sometime this month, you can apparently grab the next best thing, being Star Wars themed live wallpapers and boot animation, of which we have a couple of videos below for your consideration. The Star Wars boot animation and…