The Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray offers a glimmer of light for smart phone fans looking for a smaller handset. It’s got a 3.3-inch screen packed into a 9.4mm-thick case that offers a spot of bling in black, gold, white or pink. Android 2.3 Gingerbread software ensures you’re up to date with the latest apps and games …

Take those tin foil hats off your rugrats, because a new Swiss study says kids who use mobile phones don’t raise their risk of getting brain cancer.  Researchers interviewed children between 7 and 19 years old about how often they used their mobiles. They found the 352 children studied who had developed brain cancer weren’t any more likely to be …

BlackBerry is promising a “shiny, new and social all over” phone will be launched today. Late last night, BlackBerry’s Facebook wall and Twitter feed lit up with the news that we’ll see “new devices” with the lastest BlackBerry 7 operating system on board. Based on the company’s leaked roadmap, we’ve got our fingers and toes crossed for the BlackBerry Storm 3, an …

LG’s future looks like a blast from the past, if you believe the leaked mobile-phone roadmap that’s popped up on Pocketnow. Familiar faces will get a revamp, including the LG Prada phone, the new version of which will be called the LG Prada K2. The K2 is pictured above in a rendering that Pocketnow says is ‘based on images that we’re not at …

Prices for the BlackBerry Bold 9900 have leaked out by way of uSwitch.com. The website reports the thinnest BlackBerry ever will be free on a £30.64 contract from T-Mobile, or just over £35 from Orange, Vodafone and O2. Three will also be selling the phone, but its prices are still under wraps. We’re suckers for a traditional BlackBerry, because of its …

I saw the best minds of my generation starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves though the streets. Happily, if my compatriots are on the O2 network, they can now feed and clothe themselves at a healthy discount, which should calm them down a bit. O2 has launched a new app for iPhone and Android, along with a web app for feature …

Now you can gaze into the steely blues of Jon Snow on the go, thanks to the Channel 4 News app for iPad and iPhone. The app’s extra-big photo galleries could have been inspired by the Guardian’s EyeWitness, but there’s more than just eye-candy on this app. It will offer the ability to catch up on the last seven days …

Confused about the two tablets named Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1? Ditto. With the iPad fighters tipped to arrive in shops on 4 August, we knew it was time to sort out these wily tablet twins before they trick us into taking each others’ GCSEs. Galaxy Tab 10.1, meet Galaxy Tab 10.1v Back in March, Samsung slimmed down its Galaxy Tab 10.1 …

We’re jaded phone junkies with a pocket full of busted-up smart phones, but even we’re excited about what’s coming out of this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. After getting warmed up with the dual-core wonders of the Motorla Atrix and the LG Optimus 2X, let us assure you this fight is getting real. We’ve taken the hottest phones that …

The HP TouchPad is coming to the UK in mid-July. The precise arrival date on our shelves is still unknown, but pre-orders will open here on 19 June. That gives HP some wiggle room before it has to actually ship the tactile tablet. The TouchPad will come in 16GB and 32GB flavours, and it’s Wi-Fi only, with no 3G option. …