We aren’t trying to lump these two together or anything, but we figured we’d give those of you who opted for Palm’s second set of webOS handsets an opportunity to pool your thoughts in order to make the smartphone landscape an even better place to survey. We personally didn’t find too much new …

Skype for Symbian has gotten out of beta and appeared in Nokia’s Ovi Store today, enabling users of Nokia’s Symbian-based smartphones to make free voice calls over 3G or WiFi connection. Besides free Skype to Skype voice calls, the app enables you to send and receive instant …

Unlikely partners Intel and Nokia have joined forces in an attempt to fend off increasing mobile competition from Google, Apple, and Microsoft. The two companies have merged their mobile OSes into one entity: MeeGo . You can expect the first mobile devices running on MeeGo later this year. MeeGo is a merger of…

If case you haven’t noticed, Mobile World Congress is upon us, and you can bet that Samsung is here in a big way. The outfit is kicking things off with a couple of low-key releases: the S5K4E2 and S5K5CA CMOS image sensors. The former is a 5 megapixel…

We’re kinda chuffed about Sony Ericsson’s showing this year at MWC, and between the three launched sets — Vivaz pro , X10 mini , and X10 mini pro — this little QWERTY stands out as the best of the bunch. The idea behind the X10 mini series, of course, is to have all the features and functionality of…

You know, it’s sort of crazy to look back at what companies did and didn’t survive the Great Recession of 2009. Ugobe , Veoh, SGI , TZero and Circuit City all folded within the last year, yet Celio — of all firms — is still alive and well kicking. If you’ll recall, we spotted a “…

There’s no denying it: Google’s Nexus One, although being one of the best Android-based smartphones on the market, isn’t selling well . One of the reasons behind sluggish sales is lack of true customer support . Who does an owner of a Nexus One turn to in case of trouble? HTC, the phone&#…

Hello, Hollywood. On the heels of the Foursquare-Bravo TV deal , news of several additional major media partnerships involving the location-based social networking app have dropped this evening. According to various reports, Zagat, Warner Bros., HBO, the History Channel and ExploreChicago have all been added to Foursquare’s media…

Want the power and add-ons of the Firefox browser in the palm of your hands? That dream is quickly becoming a reality, starting with the Maemo OS and owners of the Nokia N900. Mozilla has officially introduced Firefox for Maemo , the first officially launched version of Firefox for Mobile. It’s been…

You know what’s great? My smartphone puts the world in my pocket. Broadband puts 2,454,399 channels on my HDTV. I can access the internet from a freaking airplane! You know what’s unsustainable? Paying for it all. Here’s why: a well-equipped geek will, in our research, have a subscription and service bill total…