LG has taken the covers off its latest tellybox, which boasts phenomenal colours and superb contrast thanks to its OLED technology. It also offers a mind-bending 4mm thickness. It’s up for preorder in July, but the bad news is you’re going to have to lay down £8,000 if you want one. Eight. Thousand. Pounds. OLED …

An Apple store in Paris was the target of a New Year’s Eve armed robbery. An estimated £1m of fruit-themed products were taken, in particular, iPhones and iPads. In an undoubtedly calculated move, the robbery took place a few hours after closing time on New Years Eve when local police were busy controlling crowds of celebrators. Although the thieves were …

The next iPhone and its accompanying iOS 7 software has apparently turned up in developer logs, indicating the next-generation phone is already in the testing stages. The log, shown off to The Next Web, highlights the code ‘iPhone 6,1’. The iPhone 5 — Apple’s current flagship — bears the moniker iPhone5,1 or 5,2 in the logs, suggesting that this is …

Barnes and Noble’s Nook HD tablet has finally been given access to a video store, offering both rental and purchase of TV shows and movies. Sadly though, its prices are a little steeper than those offered by the Google Play store or iTunes. On the Nook store, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix costs a princely £16.09 to …

LG is rumoured to be hard at work on the Optimus G2, the successor to the still fresh Optimus G. The G2 is set to boast a Full HD display and pack the next version of Android’s operating system, Key Lime Pie. According to LG insiders speaking to MK Business News, the new blower will pack a 5-inch display boasting …

Google has confirmed that batches of its wildly popular Nexus 4 smart phone are shipping to some of its pre-order customers in the US. But it isn’t able to shed any light on when more models will be available to buy here in the UK. In emails sent out to certain customers west of the Azores, Google explains, “Your Nexus …

Prepare your best gormless phone face and rehearse those bad accents — Skype is finally available on the Windows Phone 8 app store. Out now and free to download, the new version shares many characteristics with its Windows 8 desktop counterpart. The clean, minimal design of Windows 8 apps is in full effect, with the People, Favourites and Recent sections …

HTC’s 8X running Windows Phone 8 is upon us, sporting an 8-megapixel rear camera. To see what it’s capable of, I took it for a walk along the Thames with the iPhone 5. Both cameras were set to their maximum resolutions and all settings were put on automatic. The results were generally fairly pleasing. Image quality was fair and fine …

I’ve got my hands on the HTC 8X — the first phone to be running the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system Windows Phone 8. I’ve given it the full review treatment and while it’s pretty cool, I don’t think it offers much over its rivals. With a pitiful app store to boot, it’s probably not worth investing in …

Now playing: Watch this: iPad mini vs Google Nexus 7 vs Amazon Kindle Fire HD 4:26 The iPad mini sports a 7.9-inch screen and lighter, slimmer design than its big bro — desirable traits for sure. But how does it compare to the other popular 7-inch slates? Here I pit it against Google’s Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD …