Andrew Lanxon

Google launches official YouTube app for iPhone

Google has today released a standalone YouTube app for the iPhone in anticipation of the launch of iOS 6, which will see the existing YouTube app discontinued. The new app features an updated design and improved channel browsing. The less tech-savvy among you might be scratching your noodles thinking: “But I already have the YouTube …

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Samsung Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean update confirmed for October

Samsung has confirmed its flagship phone the Galaxy S3 will receive the update to the latest version of Android, known as Jelly Bean, as soon as October. If you can’t wait that long then the 4G version will be available with Jelly Bean as standard. Samsung doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to updating its Android phones, …

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Amazon Kindle Fire 2 and backlit Kindle teased in TV ad

Amazon’s evidently not content with letting us make up our own wild ideas about what it might be showing off at its launch event this evening — it’s teased what appears to be a larger Kindle Fire tablet and a Kindle ebook reader with backlighting in a new TV advert. Towards the end of the ad — shown on a …

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Samsung Galaxy Tab range finally getting Ice Cream Sandwich

Samsung is finally bringing the delights of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to its range of Galaxy Tabs, just in time for us to immediately start asking when they’re going to get the more recent version, Jelly Bean. The slates that will see the update include the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Tab 7.7 and the Tab 8.9, Pocket-lint reports, with …

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How to unlock your Samsung Galaxy S3

If you’ve bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 from a network and want to use a couple of different SIM cards in it — maybe you’re on Vodafone but want to use Orange Wednesdays — here’s an easy way to unlock it. The simplest way is to get something called a network unlock code from the phone’s original operator, which will …

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Samsung Galaxy S3 best prices compared

Samsung’s Galaxy S3 super-phone is tearing up the smart phone charts, promising bumper sales for its Korean crafter. Packing an enormous 4.8-inch screen and quad-core processor, it’s easily one of the best phones of 2012. But where can you buy it the cheapest and what minutes, texts and data can you get with it? SIM-free Galaxy S3 deal: £740 for …

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Nokia 808 PureView won’t be offered by UK networks

Bad news if you’re hoping to splash your upgrade credit on Nokia’s new 808 PureView mega-camera phone — all the UK networks seem to have unanimously decided not to offer the bonkers blower. The PureView may have stolen the show at this year’s Mobile World Congress trade show with its outrageous 41-megapixel sensor, but it seems that hasn’t curried any …

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Samsung Galaxy S3 battery performs well in our tests

The spanking-new Samsung Galaxy S3 is on its way to the shops this week, but we’ve already wrestled it into the CNET UK testing arena to see how it performs. One thing we were particularly keen to test is the battery, so mobile phones editor Natasha Lomas took it for a spin to see just what it can do. The …

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Sony Xperia Tipo is no typo, has dual

No, it’s not a typo — Sony’s latest budget Android phone is called the Xperia Tipo. It’s a 3.2-inch smart phone that packs the latest Ice Cream Sandwich software and can take two SIM cards at once for all the network switching you could want. I’m reliably informed by Sony that Tipo actually is pronounced “typo”, which makes it the …

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Samsung Galaxy S3 blue due ‘in some regions in 2

The blue version of the Galaxy S3 will be delayed by at least two weeks, Samsung has confirmed, following reports of manufacturing problems that resulted in Samsung throwing out over 600,000 blue cases. “Samsung’s Galaxy S3 Pebble Blue version comes with a newly invented blue colour and special hyperglaze material,” the company said in a hard to understand statement. “In …

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