Mobile Phones
Adobe launches Photoshop Mobile for Android handsets
Just last night we were messing about with our Android phone, trying to make the best of the photos we'd taken of fireworks exploding overhead. Of course, the image editing on most phones is pretty atrocious, and a far cry from the awesome tweak-fest of Photoshop on a proper computer. Luckily, Adobe wants to help us out, and has followed up its iPhone Photoshop app with one for Android phones.
The catch, and there usually is one, is that the application is currently only available to Americans and Canadians. Which means us Europeans are bang out of luck. Of course, if you've got a rebellious streak in you, you could probably hunt it down through other methods and install it manually, but we'd never condone that. Continue reading...
OMG it's OLED: Android Web tablets for devs
Android tablets with capacitive OLED multi-touch screens could be in our futures, if Moto Development has its way.
Our friends at oled-display.net alerted us that the company has released a 127mm (5-inch) Android tablet. But it's only a development platform, so we won't see it in shops -- instead, developers can use it to design their new products without having to start from scratch. An 89mm (3.5-inch) version and a 245mm (10-inch) version are on their way. Continue reading...
Phone love: When an iPhone meets a Hero 
They say the course of true love never runs smooth. But imagine if you were from two different worlds. One from a protective family who only let you out with certain people it had pre-approved. The other from a hippy commune who let their offspring see whoever they want, and enjoy a full range of life's experiences.
Imagine if these two youngsters met in a coffee shop one damp winter morning and fell instantly in love. Imagine their story, told on a technology Web site in full colour, with ravishing and graphic detail of their romance. Now imagine they're phones. Continue reading...
LG GD510 Pop: Solar-powered tiny touchscreen phone
If you're craving a touchscreen phone, but can't collect enough bottle tops to cover the iPhone's massive price tag, the LG GD510 Pop could be the fizzy drink you're thirsting for.
The Pop has a 76mm (3-inch) touchscreen and will suit the smallest pocket at only 98 by 50 by 11mm. It sports a 3-megapixel camera and a microSD card pre-stuffed with 8GB of memory, which is a respectable amount of song-storage space for an inexpensive phone. Continue reading...
Best iPhone Apps of 2009: CNET UK's Home Screen Awards
With 85,000+ apps to choose from on iPhone's App Store, it's increasingly tricky to sort the wheat from the chaff. Apple is serving up recommendations with its Genius feature, while user ratings and social-media buzz are also helping the best apps bubble to the top.
There are certainly more than 16 worth having, yet you can fit 16 app icons on every individual iPhone screen. So in a daring and in-no-way spurious move, here are the 16 applications that should take up those slots on the discerning iPhone owner's home screen. Lovingly cradling your iPhone for the first time? These are the apps you need. Continue reading...
HTC HD2 first impressions: The Windows Mobile phone we've been waiting for?
Windows Mobile generally leaves us with a powerful sense of life's essential ennui. Despite its extensive features, and the improvements of the latest 6.5 version, its little icons and dated user interface are deeply uninspiring.
But we just got our hands on the HTC HD2, and it's the first Windows phone that didn't remind us of the unbearable lightness of being, thanks to a few features that set this phone apart from its Windows brethren. Foremost is its beautiful, and massively huge, 109mm (4.3-inch) screen. Not only is it so big that the keyboard is easy to use, even in portrait mode -- it's also the first Windows Mobile phone to feature a capacitive touchscreen. Continue reading...
Orange Wednesdays for iPhone: Two-for-fun
As if to flaunt its shelves soon to be stacked high with iPhones, Orange has released an app for iPhoners to take advantage of their two-for-one cinema tickets on Wednesdays.
The app is similar to the Flixster app -- you can search for current and upcoming films, and nearby cinemas -- but the app only shows movie houses that accept Orange's two-for-one vouchers.
Once you've chosen the entertainment vehicle for you and your Wednesday-night companion, you can generate your Orange voucher code right in the app, without having to text 'film' to 241 as you normally do.
You don't have to be an Orange customer to use the app, but you will in order to get the voucher. Your iPhone also has to be connected to the Orange data network, rather than Wi-Fi, or you'll have to enter your phone number and receive a text message to confirm your account.
We can't wait for 10 November to roll around so we can compare the performance of the iPhone on Orange to its old O2 stomping ground. Will it remain the worst phone in the world? Continue reading...
Locatorz app finds you on an OS map
Locatorz takes ramblers-favourite Ordnance Survey maps and turns them into slightly ominous people-tracking tools.
Install the app on a Nokia Series 60 phone or BlackBerry and you can use it to track your "employees or loved ones", says Locatorz -- unless you're a Tory MP and your loved ones are your employees. Continue reading...
The iPhone is the worst phone in the world
That's right, we said it -- and we're not taking it back. The iPhone may be the greatest handheld surfing device ever to rock the mobile Web, and a fabulous media player to boot. It may be the highest-rated mobile phone on CNET UK, rocking the pockets of half of our crack editorial team. It's certainly the touchscreen face that launched a thousand apps. But as an actual call-making phone, it's rubbish, and we aim to prove it. Continue reading...
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 hands-on photos: Hello, Rachel 
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will always be called the Rachel in our hearts, but we're willing to forgive its sterile name -- because this is a beautiful phone that could combine the media skillz of Son Eric with the smart-phone power of Google Android.
Like the Acer Liquid, the X10 has a powerful 1GHz Snapdragon processor inside, which should make this one of the fastest Android phones yet, although the prototype we tried wasn't polished enough for us to tell. Continue reading...
