Apple wants to sell concert tickets on iTunes, and deliver the goods directly to your iPhone or iPod touch, according to a patent filed by the company.  The system is called Concert Ticket +, and the folks at Patently Apple have whipped out their Slap Chop and broken it down into easily digestible chunks. Concert …

It sucks to lose your phone in the pub — but it’s a whole world of fail if you lose a prototype of the next iPhone, currently nicknamed the iPhone 4G. Engadget reports that an iPhone 4G was found on the floor of a bar in San Jose, California — a mere drunken stumble from Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino. Further evidence …

HTC has created two of the most cravable phones of the season with the HTC Legend and the HTC Desire. It’s an embarrassment of riches for the new heavyweight of the smart phone ring. But which to choose? We’re like a donkey between two hay bales, torn between two tasty treats — what a perfect time for a head-to-head challenge. …

The Wave was the first handset to be announced with Samsung’s new operating system for not-so-smart phones, Bada. With four new Bada phones leaked at a developers’ conference in Russia, as reported by PhoneReport.info, the Wave looks like it will be the crest of the Bada swell. The four phones seem like they’ll be cheaper than the Wave, which has a stunning …

What ho! Seeking some merry japes in the country over Easter weekend? Then may we suggest the tweedy loveliness of the new iPhone app from the National Trust? The app has a browsable map of all the National Trust places and spaces in the officially recognised regions of England, Wales and Northern Ireland — Scotland has its own Trust, och …

Come on down — Ofcom is slashing prices! The regulator has decided to cut termination rates, the wholesale charges phone operators make to connect calls to each others’ networks. Under Ofcom’s plans, rates will fall from around 4.3p per minute today, to 0.5p per minute by 2015. Ofcom says the cut will lead to cheaper calls from landlines and more …

Need a phone that costs less than the spare change you can find in your sofa cushions? Orange is offering the Alcatel OT-S319, a pink phone with basic features, for a mere £4.50 when you top up with a tenner, leading Orange to claim that it’s the UK’s cheapest mobile. The OT-S31 offers cheap-and-cheerful features including an MP3 player, an FM radio, …

Spring is sprung, and Virgin is the latest operator to spring-clean its tariffs, following T-Mobile and O2’s efforts.  Prices for the new monthly contracts start at £10 for 100 minutes and 100 texts for either 18 or 24 months, with a choice of free budget phones. If you don’t need a new phone, Virgin offers deals for just the SIM …

We’re already drooling over the HTC Legend and the Sony Ericsson X10, the Android smart phones that are coming to Vodafone this April. But we’re not so hungry for Voda’s special sauce of Vodafone 360, which is going to be sprinkled over the phones’ Android deliciousness. Vodafone 360 is a cloud-based service that offers to sync your contacts and photos from your phone to the Web. …

Windows Phone 7 Series is courting developers this week at the Mix10 conference in Las Vegas, giving us a glimpse of the applications we can expect to see on our WinPhev phones at the end of the year. The spotlight was on apps from Associated Press (pictured above), which showed a ‘panoramic’ user experience — basically, multiple home screens that …