The Angry Birds games have reached half a billion total downloads since its original launch in 2009, its developer Rovio proudly boasted today. The figure — that’s 500,000,000 if you’re impressed by zeroes — includes all games featuring the frustrated fliers: the original Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio. Across all …

We may have been sad not to have been given a totally new iPhone 5 at Apple’s launch event, but the iPhone 4S packs some great features and some pleasing improvements over previous models. Let’s take a look at how it stacks up against the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3GS. Design Outwardly, the new iPhone 4S shares the same …

One of the features of the new Nokia Lumia 800 that Nokia is most proud of is the camera — it has an 8-megapixel sensor, high-quality Carl Zeiss optics and an f/2.2 aperture. To see how it really stacks up as a snapper, we pitted it against the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the iPhone 4S, both superb phones with excellent …

The new Samsung Galaxy Nexus will soon be arriving in the UK, courtesy of Phones4U, as well as networks O2, Three and Vodafone. Phones4U will be the first independent UK mobile retailer to offer the flagship Android smart phone, but don’t get your hopes up unless you’ve recently sold some organs. It’s available free from a whopping £46 per month …

Samsung today makes the proud boast that its Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 Android smart phones have together found their way into 30 million pockets. Samsung reached the 10 million mark for its flagship Galaxy S2 phone faster than any other device in its range. The older Galaxy S has so far totted up nearly 20 million sales, making it …

The latest version of Android, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich has been postponed. An official release date of 11 October was earlier leaked by Google’s very own Android Developers YouTube account, but Google and Samsung have decided to hold the launch event at a later date. The Android update was scheduled to coincide with the unveiling of Samsung’s superpowered new Nexus …

We may not have the iPhone 5 yet, but the iPhone 4S is here, packing an improved camera, a faster processor and intelligent voice control. If you’re going to splash your cash on one of these — or on an iPhone 4 (they’re the same size and shape) — you’re going to want a good case to go with it. …

As new Apple CEO Tim Cook was winding up last night, we held our breaths for “One more thing…” But it didn’t come. The iPhone 5 with its rumoured slim design and much bigger screen was not to be. Instead we got a minor update — the iPhone 4S. We were pretty upset about the lack of a full refresh …

Apple has been showing off Siri — a new voice-control feature on the iPhone 4S that may very well be magic — at its otherwise pretty disappointing product unveiling in Cupertino. It’s called Siri after the company that originally made the software, rather than the less friendly ‘Assistant’ that was rumoured. Rather than poke around like a chump on your …

HTC, mercurial maker of the magnificent Desire HD and marvellous Wildfire, has invested in game-streaming firm OnLive to the mighty tune of $40m, the Wall Street Journal reports. OnLive is a simple idea, powered by some complicated tech — it houses farms of powerful gaming machines that stream the latest games to users, who only need an Internet connection, a …