The Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One Google Play editions will both bag an Android 4.4 KitKat update today over in the US, keeping two of this year's most popular Android handsets up to date with Google's latest and greatest OS, without the bloat of each manufacturer's own re-skins. Read More >>

Five of HTC's blingin' 18ct gold One phones may've been snapped up by those happy to fork out £2,750 for the opportunity to lord their purchases over owners of the silver, black, blue and red models, but if you're willing to forego actual gold for a gold spraypaint jobby, HTC's got you covered with its new gold model, available in Europe shortly. Read More >>

Time waits for no handset, but at least HTC seems committed to keeping the impressive HTC One smartphone up to date. Read More >>

Last year's Nexus 4 was a wonderful phone paired with a miserably subpar camera. By contrast, the Nexus 5 is loaded with all the excellence Google and LG could muster, including a camera that can almost keep up with the big boys. Here's how it stacks up. Read More >>

You may well be religiously keeping to our smartphone battery tips, but there's only so much juice you're ever going to squeeze out of your blower's battery pack. So which phone will give you the most battery life for your buck? Read More >>

HTC is in trouble, there's no denying that, with the company posting its first ever quarterly loss last week despite being heaped with praise for the HTC One handset. But there's hope yet for HTC's survival, with Chinese computing giants Lenovo eyeing up a potential buyout. Read More >>

I've just had some very limited time with one of the five gold HTC Ones created to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the MOBO awards, and as you can see from the photos overleaf, this thing is gold. In a way the iPhone 5S' champagne version is not. Read More >>

Call that champagne iPhone 5S "gold"? Pffft. HTC and its 18ct gold paintbrush are laughing in your general direction. As leaked, HTC's gold One has come to light today, bearing the MOBO Awards logo to celebrate the 18th anniversary of Europe's urban music awards. It's the most expensive phone HTC has ever made, in case that much wasn't obvious yet. Read More >>

Look no further if you wanted proof of the HTC One's awesomeness -- it knocked Apple and Samsung out of its way, to pick up three awards at last night's T3 Gadget Awards. Winning the Design award; Phone of the Year, and the big one, the Gadget of the Year, HTC only lost in one category, Tech Brand of the Year, to Samsung. Read More >>

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft has asked HTC to put Windows Phone in more HTC phones. Specifically, HTC Android phones. The report says that the head of Microsoft's operating systems unit Terry Myerson asked HTC last month to "load Windows Phone as a second option on [Android] handsets." Read More >>

The ugly world of the tech patent wars is on the cusp of claiming another scalp today, after a significant patent victory for Nokia has resulted in the need for a redesign of the HTC One. Read More >>

A gold-coloured HTC One part has come to light in China. The start of a new trend, perhaps? Read More >>

This thing here doing the rounds on the internet at the moment isn't an official HTC One tablet, sadly, but is actually a cheap Chinese Android clone bounced up to tablet proportions with a completely plagiarised design. Read More >>

There have been rumblings suggesting that HTC is soon to launch a Galaxy Note rival in the shape of the six-inch HTC One Max. Now, @evleaks claims to have unearthed some press images of the monstrous new phone. Read More >>

Android offers a wide variety of advanced customization options, but that’s only scratching the surface of everything you can do with Google’s open source operating system.  Despite some concerns about rooting, with root access you can get down to the system level and tweak things to your liking, even going so far as completely replacing the OS. Read More >>