Those who love the iPad 2 but aren't willing to spend $499 to get one can turn to imitations. These fake products generally not too high-quality, but they're getting better and better by the day (literally, since there are so many).
Apple's iPhone 4 is pretty much accepted by all to be the best smartphone when it comes to industrial design. Say what you want about Apple's closed ecosystem, iOS and relationship with developers but you can't knock that beautiful handset.
If reports are to be believed, Google is working on yet another Android smartphone, successor to the current Nexus S. According to rumors, the new model will be one of the first LTE 4G AT&T smartphones and will include greatly enhanced hardware once it ships around Thanksgiving (that's late November for our non-US friends).
Wallpapers are the strangest things. Chances are they're one of the things you see most on a device, especially on a smartphone. Oddly enough, your wallpaper is probably one of the least utilized and most boring aspects of your otherwise tricked out Android device - perhaps a boring black affair, or if you're really adventurous you'll be using the same boring image your friend sent you you last year that seemed mildly amusing at the time. Thanks to Wallpaper Changer, your Android's home screen need never get boring again.
If you're an Android user, you better stay on the lookout for a new form of Android malware: DroidKungFu. Discovered by Assistant Professor Xuxian Jiang and Ph. D. student Yajin Zhou, both from North Carolina State University, this reflects yet another evidence that hackers are interested in this open but also largely unprotected platform.
Call of Duty Elite, Activision's recently announced subscription based stat tracking oddity has many interesting facets, but one that's not been talked about too much is the mobile applications that will give users access to the world of Call of Duty on their travels. New apps for iPhone, iPad and Android are on the horizon and promise to go some way toward making the yet unspecified subscription free worthwhile.
iAndroid is a new iOS application for jailbroken devices that simulates the Android operating system experience on the iPhone or iPod touch. While it's still very far from completion, the project is taking shape.
FaceNiff is a new Android App that makes it literally effortless to log into someone else's Facebook account, if that person is on the same Wi-Fi network. Yes, any Wi-Fi network.
According to Lookout, an Android anti-malware maker, there's a new threat in the wild that is said to have affected between 30,000 and 120,000 headsets already.
There is nothing more irritating than having your phone spammed by calls from numbers you don't know. Chances are they're either robots asking you automated questions from a list on a questionnaire, or one of the many company's that manage to get hold of the renewal date for your mobile phone. The problem is though, there's only one way to really find out and that means giving the offending number a call back. Not ideal.
