A 6-year-old girl in the US has racked up a $150 bill while playing a game on her mum’s Android smart phone. The charges, equivalent to £90, were incurred through in-app purchases made while playing Restaurant Story. Restaurant Story is free to download from the Android Market. The game sees you design and build an eatery, using …

HTC may be working on a Windows Phone 7 handset that features a record-breaking 16-megapixel camera, as well as two LED flashes. The smart phone in question appears in a video posted by PocketNow. The website doesn’t say where it found the ad, and the flick doesn’t give the name of the phone or details about any of its other …

An image of the LG Optimus Big has leaked, along with some specs. As befits its charmingly blunt name, this smart phone is a whopper, sporting a 4.3-inch touchscreen. That’s it above, making the 3.5-inch display on the old iPhone 3GS feel all inadequate.  The Optimus Big Boy will also have a 1GHz single-core processor, Korean site XportsNews reports, rather than …

Orange has launched the Tiny Top Ups scheme, allowing punters on pay as you go deals to add credit to their blower from as little as 10p. Under the new scheme, you can take your Joey Ramone into an Orange shop, deposit your loose change in the hand of the customer-service representative and demand satisfaction. A 10p top-up will allow you …

Photos of a Samsung phone that’s rumoured to be the Galaxy S Mini have leaked like a mouldy peach. The images of the S5830 handset were posted by the SamFirmware website, which claims to have received them from an “insider”. It does indeed look a miniature version of the rather delightful Samsung Galaxy S. Specs are thin on the ground, but …

First Direct has launched a free banking app for the iPhone and iPod touch that will let you pay your eye-watering bills on the move.  While not the first banking app for Brits with iPhones, it’s the first such app we’re aware of that will let you actually make transactions. You can check your balances, view your 20 most recent …

Toshiba will showcase its second Android-flavoured tablet at tech tradeshow CES, which kicks off on Thursday. The company will also show off a glasses-free 3D laptop. Our much-loved cousins at CNET.com have already manhandled both. The unnamed successor to the Folio 100 tablet will run Android Honeycomb, an upcoming version of Google’s mobile operating system. The device will, like Apple’s iPad, have a capacitive …

Samsung’s wacky boffins have developed some zany audiovisual treats in time for upcoming annual tech fest CES. Among them are an asymmetric 3D TV, transparent and bendy AMOLED displays, and the world’s lightest 3D glasses. Samsung’s new 3D glasses weigh 28g. That’s 10g lighter than previous versions, and 9g lighter than the packet of Maltesers we just got from the vending machine. …

Pick up the Alcatel OT-222 mobile phone from Asda over the next few days, and you could effectively find yourself £1 richer. Sacred blue, as they say in France. The supermarket is selling the £9 pay as you go phone with £10 free credit on the Orange network. It will flog the handsets in its supermarchés from tomorrow. You can, however, also …

Earlier today, we noticed Orange was flogging its San Francisco Android smart phone for the ludicrous price of only £20 on a pay as you go deal. We were just about to mainline that information directly into your eyeballs when Orange went and pulled the deal, like an absolute rotter. There’s a chance the deal could reappear after the phone, …