A recent investigation has discovered that women care more about their mobile phones than their boyfriends. Pawnbroker Borro.com surveyed 4000 women and discovered that a woman's mobile phone comes in at number 3 on a list of most treasured possessions list. Boyfriends lose out a bit on the list, they're (we're) stuck down …

Something that is not often talked about is the thickness (or thinness) of tablets. Toshiba's AT200 currently holds that title but Archos' G10 XS is to soon take this particular featherweight title. The G10 XS will be a mere 7.6mm thick, just 0.1mm thinner than Toshiba's own 10 inch tablet. The tablet …

Not wanting to be left in the dark after Samsung's announcement of its own Android 4.0 upgrade plans, HTC has today revealed a full list of smartphones that will recieve the latest Android version in the coming months. The 16 lucky phones set to recieve the upgrade are as follows: …

Sony has just announced its latest smartphone to follow the new Sony Xperia styling that has already been seen in the Xperia S, the Xpera sola. The NFC equipped Android smartphone will come bundled with two Xperia SmartTags. These can be configured to do things on the phone, such as …

I've been running Chrome since its market share was in single digits and am constantly updating it to the latest beta version every three days, so why would I want to use anything different if I were to use Windows 8 in the not so distant future? Frankly, I just wouldn't want …

Samsung has finally announced the availability of the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the world's most popular Android smartphone, the Galaxy S II. The update will begin in European countries, starting with Poland, Hungary, Sweden plus Samsung's homeland, Korea. The Korean smartphone giant also confirmed that Android 4.0 …

Analysts at UBM TechInsights have done some extensive component research and have estimated that the total BOM (bill of materials) for the 16 GB 4G LTE model of the new iPad to be $310. This makes it the most expensive iPad to manufacture to date with the iPad 2 and …

Microsoft has recently sent out emails to Windows Mobile 6.x users stating that the marketplace will soon be shutting down in early May. Windows Mobile 6.x is not to be mistaken with Microsoft's current Windows Phone 7 platform. Starting from the 9th of May users rocking Microsoft's old mobile operating …

Dropbox has just gone public with a cleaner and perhaps much needed website refresh. The refresh has a “simpler, more powerful, and more beautiful web experience,” according to Dropbox themselves. What is new is an updated action bar and a new right click menu that allows you to quickly download, …

A few days ago Apple launched its new iPad, that's right, not the iPad 3 or the iPad HD, just the iPad. While it does offer a better display and chipset, the functionality and practicality of the software to replace a PC just isn't there. Apple CEO Tim Cook loves …

The U.S. Justice Department has recently warned Apple and five large book publishers that it has plans to file a lawsuit unless they change business practices for alleged price fixing of e-books. This comes about after the European Commission launched a antitrust investigation on the same issue late last year. …

Rumours started floating around the internet last week that Valve had plans to launch a gaming console known as the Steam Box. The gaming console was rumoured to have at least an Intel i7 processor, 8 GB of RAM and a Nvidia GPU. Now those fantasising about a powerful next-generation …

Yesterday Google announced its new Google Play brand which integrates Android applications, music, movies and books all into one service. Now magazines and audiobooks may be on the way to help turn Google Play into a more developed and expansive ecosystem. This development came about as an audiobooks page was …

Last week Google's new privacy policy came into effect and today Google has announced Google Play. Play is an integration of several services and is the “digital entertainment destination where you can find, enjoy and share your favorite music, movies, books and apps on the web and on your Android …

In a surprising move Samsung has waited until the end of Mobile World Congress to announce their newest Android smartphone. Unfortunately it is not the Galaxy S III but it is the Samsung Galaxy Pocket, which conveniently, due to its small size will be able to fit into any trouser, jeans …

I am sure many of you will never have heard of bada and for those who have no idea what it is, it is Samsung's home brewed mobile operating system. The reason why you have never heard of it is likely due to its little share in the smartphone market place. Right now it …

If you have happened to receive an update to Ice Cream Sandwich on your Android device in the last few months consider yourself part of the lucky few. Google has just announced the latest figures for platform version market share and the latest Ice Cream Sandwich update holds just 1.6% of the market. This …

The Verge has today been tipped by a “reliable source” that the next version of its Android operating system is to be known as Key Lime Pie. It is due to succeed the currently unannounced Android 5.0 Jelly Bean iteration that we already know a little bit about. Like everyone else we currently …

If you can imagine a fully featured $199 tablet being released into the market you may not be all that crazy. Recently there has been reports surrounding a 7 inch Nexus tablet that would be available for just $199 later this year. Android and Me has heard from two independent …

Valve, in case you didn't already know, is that wonderful company that has brought us hits such as the Half Life series and Steam. Recently there has been talks of Valve producing their own hardware and The Verge has unveiled some more information on the topic. They have gathered information …

Well, well, well, what do we have here? It must be another Samsung Galaxy S III rumour. The flagship Android that has previously been rumoured to be launched at Mobile World Congress earlier this week or as late as late-summer to keep American carriers happy. It is also the Samsung …

If you buy any Android smartphone these days you can expect the manufacturer to slosh together a custom skin to overlay the stock Android experience. Samsung has TouchWiz, LG and Motorola has their own nameless skins, while HTC has Sense. In recent times HTC has gone against what made them …

For the statistic lovers among us there is a new number to compliment the Windows 8 boot time figure we saw yesterday, the Consumer Preview has already been downloaded one million times. This achievement comes just 24 hours after it was available for download. The new Microsoft operating system “beta” …

The Pirate Bay has just completed a rather large upgrade to their website with its ever-changing URL. They are nearly 100% .torrent file free and are resorting to magnet links from now on. This has been done in order to future proof and protect the website while barely affecting users. The …

Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has given a keynote speech at Mobile World Congress today, his third in as many years. He touched on the fact that everyone could at some stage could own an Android smartphone if current levels of growth are maintained. This will be done by extending …

The team behind the cheap-as-chips ARM mini-PC have just announced you can now pre-order your Raspberry Pi Model B units. If you're lucky enough to get a sucessful pre-order you should get your unit within 4 weeks or so by my estimates. The Raspberry Pi team have partnered with Premier …

Revealed alongside the Padfone last night were a couple of new Transformer series tablets. The tablets in question are the Transformer Pad Infinity 700 series and the Transformer Pad 300 series. Starting off with the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity 700 series (buzz-word galore) there is a really impressive 1920×1200 Full …

The Asus Padfone has been no industry secret and after some teasers last week the device has been officially announced at Mobile World Congress. The smartphone component of the Padfone has a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED qHD display, a red-hot Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. There …

Samsung has just announced two new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablets, the Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) and the Galaxy Note 10.1. Just like I speculated when the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) was announced I knew Samsung would announce a larger 10.1 inch version fairly soon, and I was …

Today at Mobile World Congress the mobile world's underdog Huawei announced the MediaPad 10 FHD. The tablet is still fairly early into the production process with the model on show today being handmade. The tablet has Huawei's home-brewed chipset, the K3V2 quad-core Cortex-A9 chipset inside. This chipset is apparently “more than 49% faster …