We've seen blurry pics and reports from inventory systems, and now the official confirmation. This morning's joint press conference between Verizon and Google has resulted in a holy matrimony of sorts; a melding of the minds; a promise of new hardware to come. Yes, it's just a promise for now as neither company took the chance to confirm the Sholes or any of the other devices that have been popping ... Read More

Today Google announced that it has released a new version of the Google Mobile App for the Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphone platform. The new application adds My Location and Google Suggest support to the search service. My Location automatically determines what area a user is located in so that localized search results can be returned (think "pizza"). Google Suggest reduces the number of keystrokes required for search queries by automatically ... Read More

Some of you who have been restlessly awaiting the arrival of Google's official Gmail push solution for mobile phones can relax now. On Tuesday, Google expanded the over-the-air syncing capabilities in its Google Sync service to include Google's e-mail--but only for the iPhone and iPod Touch (version 3.0), and for Windows Mobile phones. Google Sync began as a beta service to sync Google calendar items and contacts to iPhone, Windows Mobile, ... Read More

Unless you're using a jailbroken iPhone or are working at one of the companies concerned, it's unlikely your Apple handset is home to a Google Voice application, but what's the latest on an official version of the app? That question is proving almost impossible to answer after a public row intensified this weekend between Google and Apple over an application to give iPhone users access to the Google Voice service. Still thinking The ... Read More

Google has updated Android to version 1.6 - colloquially known as Donut - bringing with it a number of additional tools to help enrich the mobile experience. The update has only been made available for developers as a Software Developer Kit (SDK) but should appear on mobile phones in October, meaning the Motorola Dext is in line to pick it up in the UK. Android 1.6 brings a number of minor, but ... Read More