Sources tell AppleInsider that Apple has developed a “full-on solution” to multitasking on the iPhone OS and that the feature will be released as iPhone 4.0.

An odd lot, those Android modders. Clearly bored, one of them tinkered with Android a bit until it responded to the accelerometer all the way round. So now, whenever you turn your T-Mobile G1 round, the display turns too. But not just between portrait and landscape modes – all they way round, turning your homescreen completely upside down.

Playing with apps on an Android phone is fun. Building your own apps, even more so. But what about using the phone to operate a moving, talking bot? Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman have done exactly that.

Developers kicked out of the iTunes store for using private APIs are turning to the unregulated Cydia store, and think the demographic might even suit them better.

Is it our imagination, or have an unusually high number of so-called “sexy” apps started to appear on the Android Market this last week or two, ever since Apple launched its POWER-MAD attack on all sex-related apps on its App Store?

Pictures of the HTC Incredible have appeared on the web courtesy of Silicon Valley-based Twitterer, Devdroid, who apparently maintains the Linkedin Android Developer Group.

Self charging devices have been dreamt about for a long time now, and there have been many attempts to come up with a good implementation of such a concept. Now Nokia has managed to lay claims to a patent that could result in a self charging mobile phone (or gadget).

Microsoft has made an application that works with Google's Android phone. Called Tag, the free software uses a handset's camera to turn it into a mobile barcode reader.

Realistically, Apple and HTC are going to reach a settlement outside of court, and the impacts on actual hardware are unpredictable. But we thought that rather than barrage you with boring patents to explain the suit, we'd illustrate the suit's potential implications by describing a Google phone in the hypothetical situation where Apple won — a phone stripped of every feature that Apple's patents lay claim to.

There have been many renders of what the new Apple iPhone 4G will look like, but have you ever seen one that made you stop what you were doing and just laugh. Well this is just what happened when I came across this photo of the smartphone that has just been stretched.

Apple issued a press release stating that it has filed suit against cell phone manufacturer HTC for patent infringement. No mention of Android or Google was in the press release. But the actual legal complaints, which we've obtained and embedded below, make no bones about it. As expected, this lawsuit is about Android. HTC, of course, is one of the largest manufacturers of Android handsets.

One Android developer is earning more than $400 a day from his find-your-car application, proving it's not just Apple fans who'll pay for basic apps.

When it comes to patent applications Apple are always applying for them, and the latest one could be implemented on the new iPhone 4G. The new feature that Apple could be working on would see the iPhone user control incoming calls just with a swipe over the camera lens.

Nearly three-quarters of Android users are guys, according to a new report. So what gives?

QWERTY lovers look away now, this is officially a button-free zone (well almost) courtesy of the latest touchscreen phones to rock up at MWC 2010. Preparing to serve all your finger-swiping needs suitably in the next twelve months, we've picked out the finest phones to liberate your digits and landed at Barcelona last week.

With so much news coming from so many different sources, though, it's easy for some tasty tidbits of info to get drowned out. So we compiled this little guide to all the best announcements from MWC 2010, together with a compilation of some amazing facts about the mobile phone industry today and over the next five years.

Rumours! Heresay! Speculation! Yes, this article has it all. In my interview with Aaron Vronko we touched briefly on the possibility that the new iPhone would pack a Super AMOLED screen. This new display technology (developed by Samsung) would give Apple a head's up on their plain-old AMOLED-packing competitors, like the Nexus One.

Finally, Microsoft has shown its cards for the successor to the sputtering Windows Mobile: The Windows Phone 7 OS debuted at the Mobile World Congress this week, and it should hit store shelves by the Christmas holidays. Also, Nokia and Intel dropped their respective smartphone OS contenders -- Maemo and Moblin -- and instead said they would merge the two efforts and produce a new smartphone OS called MeeGo this spring, with devices to follow by the holidays.

Apple has been urged to provide more specific guidelines on suitable content for iPhone applications after it pulled one that had apparently been downloaded by nearly a million people.

I'm a happy user of both the original iPhone and the 3G successor – though, I confess, not an obsessive collector of App Store trinkets or hot tracks from the iTunes Store. Perhaps that's why it took me a while to figure out exactly what I was looking at, when I paid a visit to my friend and glanced at the knock-off iPhone.