Rumours suggest Microsoft recently had a pop at buying its Windows Phone buddy Nokia outright, before hang ups over price and other technicalities derailed the planned acquisition. Read More >>

Remember in the Dark Knight where Bruce Wayne fires up his seriously badass privacy invading phone sonar machine to map out the whole of Gotham to track the Joker? Researchers studying echolocation have essentially just made it an amazing reality. Read More >>

Normally associated with budget chubsters Huawei's latest Ascend P6 is anything but fat. At just 6.18mm thick, it's the thinnest Android out there, but is being the most anorexic phone enough? Read More >>

Here's a silly little invention that is wonderful because it'll either make you more drunk or more human, preferably both. It's a beer glass. Huh? Yeah, the base of this beer glass is shaved down so that it needs to be rested on top of your cell phone to stand up straight. If you're too busy using your phone? The beer will spill over. If you want to be a human and talk to people? You can sit your beer down perfectly fine. Read More >>

Some tech specs purportedly describing Sony's first monster-sized "phablet" have appeared online, suggesting the company is about to launch an enormous 6.44-inch Xperia model powered by a a top-of-the-range Snapdragon 800 processor. Read More >>

No matter how careful you try to be, you're going to do some damage to your phone. Accidents happen, especially when you try to avoid them. So to emulate your tender, loving care, Samsung took its Galaxy S4 through hell and back before it got to shelves. Somebody has to prepare that phone for you, you monster. Read More >>

I don't know if I'm quite convulsing, but I'm sat at my desk shaking with some kind of overwhelming physical reaction to the fact Samsung's pumped another Galaxy device into this landfill we call "Earth." For those not keeping count like me, that's the 116th Galaxy phone/phablet/tablet Samsung's released just this past month. Anyway, it's the Galaxy S4 Zoom, and the first smartphone with a 10x optical zoom. Read More >>

There may soon be even more wrist action associated with Apple fans in the near future, thanks to the Russian wing of the company registering trademarks that seem to conform to the "iWatch" wearable computer/clock hybrid we're expecting Apple to launch as the next big thing in tech. Read More >>

Whether Google's dumping the Nexus line or not, it seems the "Google Edition" series is growing fast. First we had the Samsung Galaxy S4 without all that bloat, then an HTC One with stock Android, and now rumours are circling that we'll get a Sony Xperia Z with Jelly Bean sans skin the way Google intended. Read More >>

Slapped on the front page of Wednesday's New York Times Business page was a picture of Steve Jobs, resurrected. It's clearly taken at a new product launch where a black-shirted, blue-jeaned CEO stands confident and alone on stage. But there's something off. The product description is in Mandarin. The CEO is wearing Converse, not New Balance. Oh, and Steve Jobs is dead. Read More >>

Following rumours about the future existence of an HTC One Mini, Estonian site forte.delfi.ee claims to be in possession of a device which fits that very description. Spoiler: if it's real, it's not that mini. Read More >>

For most of time medicine was a guessing game. Doctors, or witch doctors, or shaman would inspect a patient, stir a potion and hope it would work. With some notable exceptions, modern medicine isn't so different. The data collection — blood pressure, heart rate, weight, reflexes — is largely rudimentary. We're getting by, but technology can take us so much further. Even technology that fits in your pocket. Read More >>

Making a departure from its steadfastly SIM-only approach, it seems O2's cheaper, community-run arm is going to start flogging phones. How GiffGaff's going to actually do it, well, that's still up for debate. Read More >>

Sony continues its baffling race through the alphabet with the announcement of the Xperia M, which looks like being a pretty decent attempt at bringing all the power you might need and a 4-inch display to the budget phone world. Read More >>

It's the little details that go into each and every GTA game that really make it. From the insane stunts, to the random driving experiences and mini games, there's so much chaos-causing fun to be had. Even the in-game phone-cum-menu interface is hilariously rich. Here's what the iFruit phone would look like if it was real. Read More >>