Microsoft is taking a more Apple-like focus on elegant design with the latest versions of its operating systems. Though most agree that it has succeeded in creating a beautiful platform with Windows Phone 7, the company may want to work on employing... 

During the last year, Google has learned about one of the potential drawbacks of having an open (or semi-open) platform. In yet another parallel between Android and Windows, Google’s mobile platform has been the recent target of several high-profile... 

Don’t quite remember the Peek mobile email device? Back in 2008 the email-only handset (a TwitterPeek was announced in 2009), was a pretty hot gadget, that is at least among some small parts of the tech crowd and the for non-smartphone users. Others... 

RIM‘s 2012 roadmap was purportedly leaked recently, and it didn’t look like there was going to be a flood of exciting hardware flowing out of Waterloo. Of course, no one had actually seen any of the company’s as-yet-unreleased handsets.... 

Steve Jobs loved clean, minimal designs. He rather famously hated cables and buttons, and he’s certainly not the only person in the tech industry to feel that gadgets should be uncluttered and beautiful. Nokia‘s design chief Marko Ahtisaari... 

Ahh, bamboo. Strong, beautiful, renewable, bamboo. Green gadget lovers everywhere were abuzz when Asus launched a bamboo-clad laptop. Even manufacturing giant Foxconn has outed some snazzy bamboo designs in the past. Now there’s ADzero, an Android... 

At some point or another, nearly every smartphone that was released in 2011 has crossed my desk. I’ve been able to experience the mobile ecosystem to its fullest extent, with one unfortunate result: I find it extremely difficult to purchase a smartphone... 

It’s been just over two months since the last Humble Indie Bundle was launched in time for Thanksgiving, but this time around we’ve got a new platform supported. Mobile users may now be enticed to pick up some cheap games and donate money... 

It’s a pretty safe bet that the iPhone will be getting an NFC chip sometime soon. Though Near Field Communications haven’t found a lot of customer adoption yet, merchants are getting prepared for it. Perhaps the biggest piece of the puzzle... 

You’d be right in assuming that downloading all your songs from a cloud locker service is a simple, standard feature. They’re your songs, after all. But with Google Music, you could only use its desktop app to download songs purchased through... 

HTC Sense 4.0 isn’t ready for public consumption yet (that’s v3 above), but there’s a good chance the company will show it off in its full glory at MWC2012 in the coming weeks. It looks like some select individuals have already had... 

When LTE was introduced to the US last March (with Verizon’s launch of the HTC Thunderbolt), geeks everywhere salivated at the prospect of wireless data that was (in many cases) faster than their home internet connection. Then they actually used... 

It’s only been a few months since the Droid Razr released, and Motorola has already given us a sequel. OK, so maybe the Droid Razr Maxx isn’t a proper sequel — after all, there are only two differences between it and its predecessor.... 

Do you remember all of those complaints we heard a couple of months ago about iOS 5 battery life? Things have been (mostly) quiet on that front for a while. Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 update helped some users’ handsets to last longer, but not everyone... 

The majority of us treat our mobile phone number like a closely guarded secret. We only give it out to a trusted few, and hope we never get added to any lists that lead to unwanted marketing/sales calls. But if you’re phone is on O2‘s network...