The Nokia C6 is now available free on contract from Vodafone, following a period where you could only get it SIM-free. A free C6 is available for a reasonable £20 a month, but it ties you to a two-year contract. This gives you 100 minutes, 500 texts and 500MB of mobile Internet every month. If …

Facebook is making changes to its much criticised chat feature, which should make those annoying cut-offs in the middle of conversations a thing of the past. Facebook software engineer Rodrigo Schmidt admitted in a blog post that many people had complained about chat sessions coming and going, or stopping completely. “We’re working hard to end those interruptions so that your …

The number of women using the Internet on their smart phones is fast catching up to the number of men, according to new research from Opera, makers of the Opera Mini mobile browser. Opera Mini is catching on with both male and female users, but the rate of increase is larger for women, according to the report. Between May 2008 and July …

Gameloft is asking Android smart phone gamers to give some of its top titles a go for free. The games are Real Football 2010, Asphalt 5, Assassin’s Creed, Dungeon Hunter, Gangstar: West Coast Hustle, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X., Hero of Sparta, Let’s Golf!, Modern Combat Sandstorm, N.O.V.A Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance and UNO. A game based on James Cameron’s Avatar will …

Orange has a major project in the pipeline — it’s planning to bring out its own Android tablet, working with a “large Asian manufacturer”, according to French financial newspaper Les Echos. Buoyed by the success of its budget Boston smart phone, the network operator wants to bring out a 3G-enabled tablet device on pay as you go for less than …

The iPad may seem like an oversized iPhone to some of you, but for sumo wrestlers in Japan that is exactly the point. According to Reuters, Japan’s sumo association will be handing out free iPads to make sure they can get in touch with the grapplers, as telephone and faxing had become unreliable. And before you mention that the iPad …

O2 has produced a list of the most eco-friendly mobile phones, in which LG performed badly, while Apple did not take part. Based on data given by manufacturers, O2 has given the LG GW520 the joint worst eco rating, with a score of 2.7 out of 5. Incidentally, it did pretty badly in our review too. Matching it for environmental …

The Nokia 5250, the low-cost touchscreen phone first glimpsed in the Ovi Store last week, has now officially been launched. Obviously aimed at the cheaper end of the market, Nokia’s official blog makes a big deal about the phone’s music capability, offering with it a free mobile version of Guitar Hero 5 preinstalled. To carry your downloaded music there’s a …

Vodafone is in yet more hot water over Android updates, having to backtrack over a threat to Samsung Galaxy S owners that upgrading their phones with official firmware could invalidate their warranty. Posts on the official Vodafone forum show the problem started a couple of weeks ago, when some Galaxy S owners indicated they had downloaded Samsung’s official JM1 Android …

The prospect of a MeeGo-running N9 may have left you salivating, but now Intel and Nokia have opened a lab working on 3D graphics for mobile phones and other devices. The companies said the research could look into technologies previously only seen in science fiction, such as a rather far-fetched sounding 3D hologram of the person you’re talking to on …