The Palm Pre 2 has been unveiled as HP’s first sortie into the smart phone jungle, and it’ll run the brand-new webOS 2.0 software. The Palm Pre 2 will be released in France this week, unusually. So far HP hasn’t given us any information on UK availability or pricing, but we’ll be a little surprised …

The iPhone, iPad and iPod touch are about to have their first Lego video game, Harry Potter: Years 1-4, just as the next Harry Potter movie is about to be released. The game is arriving soon for iOS, according to our sister site CNET.com, hopefully before the movie’s premiere on November 19. Owners of the Apple devices will soon have …

ARM engineer David Gilday has combined the Google Nexus One, some Lego and a Rubik’s cube, in a tech demo that can only be described as the geek Holy Grail. We bow before him. Gilday’s Lego Mindstorm robotics kit untangled a Rubik’s cube puzzle in 12.5 seconds using HTC Android software, deviceguru.com reported from the US ARM tech conference. This …

We now have pictures of the next Android super phone, a successor to the Google Nexus One. It won’t be the Google Nexus Two though — it’s called the Google Nexus S. US retail chain Best Buy has accidently leaked information on the the Samsung-made Gingerbread-running phone. Photos published by Engadget show the Nexus S looking very much like previously …

One of the benefits of having a Windows Phone 7 mobile, we thought, was that updates would head straight to your handset without manufacturers fiddling with them. Microsoft has now confirmed this will be the case, but networks could still have a part to play in delaying them from getting to you. “Microsoft will push Windows Phone 7 software updates to …

This month saw Samsung and Sony Ericsson start rolling out Android updates, upgrading unlocked Galaxy S with Android 2.2 and the unlocked Xperia X10 with 2.1. And it appears that O2 could be the first UK network to stick them on handsets, from next Monday. Don’t count all your fowl yet though, as the source of this information is an anonymous …

Angry Birds might have cost you hours of lost productivity, but downloading an avian add-on from the Android Marketplace could be infinitely more costly. A couple of security researchers have found a bug in the Android operating system that allows apps to download onto your handset without requesting your permission, according to a report from Forbes. To illustrate the point, the …

If you have an iPhone 2G or 3G handy and you’re not too fussed about a spot of jailbreaking, it’s now possible to install Android 2.2 directly on it, without the use of a computer. You could already install Android with a tool called iPhoDroid, but that needed a PC. Now you can do it directly, thanks to an application …

Manufacturers and networks insist on labelling any new smart phone with a physical keyboard a business phone, which is understandable, but short-sighted. Upcoming phones such as the Nokia E7 and the Dell Venue Pro have been clumped in the colourless corporate category, but many people don’t like typing on touchscreens, and they’re not necessarily carrying a briefcase. To whit: the long-awaited …

Apart from the PlayStation phone, we’ve hardly heard a peep out of Sony Ericsson. The only time the company has broken cover was to announce sheepishly that Android 2.1 had only just started rolling out to its flagship Xperia X10. But pics have leaked of a smart phone that could put Sony Ericsson back in the game — a successor to …