Bing for Android (Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) Microsoft’s Bing for Android may not technically be the first Microsoft-made app for Android phones (that honor belongs to the rather obscure Microsoft Tag Reader,) but the Bing is its highest-profile app. Released on Monday, Bing for Android closely resembles Bing for iPhone, with an image of the day marking the backdrop, [...]

Act one, the Droid X. Act two, a Motorla-Verizon tablet? (Credit: Motorola) Who will give the iPad a run for its money? I would bet my bottom dollar on Motorola, or better yet, the dynamic duo of Motorola and Verizon. The BlackBerry “Black Pad” from RIM, or Google gPad via HTC, or even or the self-proclaimed LG Optimus Tablet dark horse make for riveting speculation (among many [...]

According to figures recently released by Millennial Media (a pretty big mobile advertising network), 55% of smartphone ads are displayed on an Apple iPhone. Millennial’s Mobile Mix report for July 2010 highlights Apple and its iPhone as holding the majority of mobile ads. Out of all mobile ads, Apple holds 35%. After Apple lingered Samsung (17%), RIM (10%), Motorola (9%) and HTC (7%). As [...]

Phil Nickinson from Android Central has done a full review of the Verizon Motorola Droid 2, the second coming of the first Android phone to really rocket into the mainstream. With a big screen, ample app marketplace, full hardware keyboard, and Android 2.2 Froyo, it seems to improve upon the original in every way, even if it now faces stiffer competition from its own sibling on its own network, [...]

The Torch 9800 is a high-end BlackBerry smartphone, but its core internals lag other high-end offerings from Apple and Motorola. (Credit: Research In Motion) Let’s state up front that the Torch is a BlackBerry, which is to say it’s for the corporate market and doesn’t necessarily aspire to be a more consumer-centric Motorola Droid or Apple iPhone. That said, the display and [...]