BlackBerry's either extremely confident about its forthcoming Q10's chances of success or desperate to pull in any money while it can, with the new QWERTY BB10 model now up for pre-order in the UK at the astonishing price of £579. That's a super-high price usually reserved  for established smartphone kings Samsung and Apple. An audacious move by BlackBerry, or commercial death-wish madness? Read More >>

Rumour has it RIM might "pull an Apple" at tomorrow's big BB10 reveal, with sources suggesting it might put the new BlackBerry Z10 on sale right after the launch event. The news comes via a supposed internal communication from Vodafone UK, which suggests the Z10 will be available for order at 5.00pm tomorrow. Mind you, internal emails are easy to fake, and pre-order campaigns are very different from actual delivery dates... [The Verge] Read More >>

Google has given us some hard dates on shipping schedules for its Nexus 7 tablet, helping end some of the confusion over who's getting their tablets and who's still stuck in the queue for machines bought direct from Google. Read More >>

Despite supposedly launching at the end of May, Samsung's stock difficulties and the mega bank holiday weekend have come together to ruin the Galaxy S III's big moment, with stock of the blue version nowhere to be seen and the white model missing its launch day. However, the blue one is now landing on the doorsteps of excited men. Read More >>

Samsung's already counting the cash and planing a nice little holiday with the proceeds from the sales of its new Galaxy S III model, which has accumulated 9million advance orders from phone shops and networks around the world. Read More >>