Talkmobile, a new mobile network from Carphone Warehouse, will focus on short-term contract deals and a very tasty looking pay as you go tariff. We like to pronounce it all as one word, rather than ‘talk mobile’, and imagine it’s what Oprah calls her car, like the Batmobile. But anyway — Talkmobile’s Essentials tariff charges …

Helped by a funky looking robot called Nowi, Now Mobile has launched a pay as you go service specifically aimed at immigrants to the UK who simply want to phone home without any hidden charges or contracts. It’s plugging cheaper international call charges compared to traditional pay as you go tariffs, which would obviously be very attractive to people in …

The same vulnerability used to jailbreak your iPhone 4 can be used by a hacker to take complete control of it, security firms have warned. This rather worrying caution comes from Symantec, Lookout and Vupen, licking their lips at the prospect of Apple users buying their security software. But the threat is real and simply needs an iPhone user to …

Sharp will enter the three-dimensional fray with a 3D smart phone by the end of the year, taking inspiration from the Nintendo 3DS, which showed that 3D can be done without headache-inducing glasses. Sharp said its phone would feature a 3D panel that didn’t require special glasses and will also “likely” have a 3D camera, Reuters reports. The firm didn’t …

Vodafone has angered HTC Desire owners, after it updated the phone with a little present many of them did not want at all. Believing they were going to get the latest Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ update with all the latest goodies, users eagerly installed a hefty download, only to be mightily disappointed when instead Vodafone sent over a number of branded …