Andrew Hoyle/CNET Fast shutter speeds are great at freezing action in place, but slow the speed right down and watch as movement in a scene turns to smooth, abstract forms. Long-exposure photography is a great technique to play with and lends itself particularly to clouds moving across landscapes, waves crashing onto rocky shores or busy …

The Karbonn Sparkle V is the first Android One phone to launch in a developed country. Andrew Hoyle/CNET The Sparkle V, from Indian brand Karbonn Mobile, is the first smartphone to hit the UK — or any developed country — that follows Google’s Android One specification. Made in partnership with manufacturer Santok, the delightfully named Sparkle V will cost only …

Jolla Finnish smartphone manufacturer Jolla has successfully taken to crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to seek funding for its new Jolla Tablet. The campaign hit its $380,000 goal in just over two hours of going live. Although the first batch of the 7.9-inch tablets have sold out at a price of $189, a small number of $199 tablets are still available at …

Josh Miller/CNET Amazon’s first smartphone, the Fire Phone , is now available to preorder in the UK — but it’s exclusively available on contract from O2. Amazon won’t be selling the phone as a SIM-free version, at least at launch. The phone will be free on O2’s Refresh contracts starting at £33 per month, which will come with 2GB of …

The Huawei Ascend P7 (pictured) will soon be available with a scratch-resistant sapphire display. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Huawei has taken the wraps off a new version of its Ascend P7 smartphone which has a sapphire screen and ceramic back to make the phone more resistant to scratches. Huawei announced the Sapphire P7 at the IFA tech show in Berlin but has …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET Nokia has a couple of fun new accessories to go with its shiny new Lumia phones at IFA — a wireless charging pad that glows to show notifications, and a device to let you wirelessly share your phone’s screen on your TV. The charging pad, officially named the DT-903 Wireless Charging Plate, works like any other charging plate; …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET The G3 is LG’s latest flagship phone , hoping to tempt your cash from your wallet with a strong lineup of specs, including a ludicrously high definition 5.5-inch display, quad-core processor and a camera that uses an infrared laser to assist its autofocus. That’s right, a laser. That may seem like a bizarre addition and one that LG …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET The LG G3 has a dizzying lineup of specs, including a supercharged quad-core processor, 3GB of RAM and a camera that uses lasers to focus. Arguably its most mind-boggling feature is its 5.5-inch display, which has a whopping 2,560×1,440-pixel resolution. That’s way more than the 1,920×1,080 pixels of the Samsung Galaxy S5 , but does packing in extra …

Andrew Hoyle/CNET New phones launch almost every day, it seems, but it’s the flagships that steal the headlines and, indeed, our hearts. With the latest cutting-edge technology, these top-of-the-range phones are intended to showcase the absolute best a mobile maker is able to offer. Design is of the utmost importance if a company hopes to put its phone into pockets …

HTC’s latest metal flagship packs a heady lineup of the best tech, from a supercharged quad-core processor to its Full HD display and latest version of Android KitKat. The One M8 maintains the same 4-megapixel camera as its predecessor — with the physically larger sensor to let in more light — but HTC says it’s been tweaked to improve clarity. …