The auction that would see slices of the radio spectrum doled out to make a 4G phone network — speeding up our mobile data — has been delayed again, following legal threats from O2, Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile. The UK may not see 4G phones until 2013 as a result. The three main providers (Orange …

HTC’s Flyer tablet is soon to be receiving the Android update it so heartily deserves after screenshots surfaced showing it running the tablet-specific version of Android — Honeycomb 3.2. On the surface, the HTC Flyer wasn’t a bad piece of kit at all — its 7-inch size fit snugly in our hands and we even found ourselves enjoying using its …

The iPhone 5 may well be on its way to our shelves in the next month, if rumours of Apple Store staff training and reports of Best Buy preparing Apple installations are to be believed. A tipster writing to CNET UK, wanting to remain anonymous, claimed his local unnamed “mobile phone store” (he didn’t want to get them in trouble …

Personally, we’re not keen on having to sit in a darkened room wearing glasses that even Lady Gaga wouldn’t go near. So we’re delighted to learn the new 55-inch Toshiba 55LZ2 lets you watch 3D movies and TV without the hideous specs. Rather than using the standard glasses that separate the images to each eye to create the 3D illusion, …

Sony has taken the covers off of a bunch of audio peripherals including two sets of noise cancelling headphones — one in-ear, one on-ear — and a pair of speakers that are just aching to link up to your smart phone to play some Bluetooth tunes. Both the in-ear MDR-NC100D headphones and the on-ear MDR NC200D on-ear ‘phones clearly hate …

An Apple employee has left his prototype iPhone 5 in a tequila bar in San Francisco, proving once and for all that lightning does indeed strike twice, after an identical situation arose with the iPhone 4 last year. Our buddies over at CNET.com explained the “phone went missing in July, sparking a scramble by Apple security to recover the device …

If you love the Samsung Galaxy S2 but really can’t abide phones in such a dark colour, today is your lucky day — the S2 is now available with a dazzling white coat of paint! There won’t be any change to the hardware of the phone itself; it’s still running a dual-core 1.2GHz processor which makes swiping through those screens …

It was only in February that we laid our elegant hands on the Motorola Pro, but Moto has already updated the handset and given us the Pro+, a Qwerty keyboard Android phone hoping to sit sharply in a businessman’s briefcase. The Pro+ — not to be confused with the CNET UK fuel caffeine tablets of the same name — offers …

HTC’s new phone — the Omega — has turned up on website PocketNow flaunting what appears to be Windows Phone Mango and a front-facing camera for all kinds of Skype video calling fun. We heard earlier this week about the Omega and its massive 4.5-inch screen from a source at the company. The same source also gave word about HTC’s …

If you recently read our article on the Samsung Galaxy R and like the idea of having a cheaper alternative to the cosmically brilliant Galaxy S2, then here’s some smashing news — your buying decision has just been made much harder by the Samsung Galaxy S Plus. It’s a cheaper alternative to the Galaxy S2 and it’s available through Vodafone. …