We’d love to see the Nokia N9‘s polycarbonate case stuffed with Android apps as much as the next geek, but our interview with the company that can make it happen reveals it’s far from a done deal. The Nokia N9 runs MeeGo, and it looks as though it could be the only one. That means …

Slap on those legwarmers and get ready to sweat with the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active, a rugged Android smart phone. Up until now, those of us who like to get dirty only had one smart-phone option, the excellent Motorola Defy. But the rubbery phone population is about to double, with the dust- and water-resistant Active due to launch in the …

The HTC Desire was one of our favourite phones of last year, but the new Desire S could cause you to be a bit stumped. It’s got the same name, same screen size and same processor speed, but is it just the same phone in a new, aluminium suit? It’s time to sort the stats from the specs. Size and …

With Facebook and Twitter on the go, texting is officially old school. So if you’re keeping it real OMG LOL, take a look at the Sony Ericsson txt. Unlike its similarly-named sibling, the Sony Ericsson txt pro, the txt doesn’t have a sliding keyboard. Instead, it’s a BlackBerry-style candybar phone with a full Qwerty keyboard. It also has a shortcut …

The iPhone 5 will be launching in September with a souped-up processor and camera, according to Bloomberg. Two unnamed sources are reported to have risked the wrath of Jobs by confirming the facts. The CPU will be bumped up to the same A5 chip that’s used in the iPad 2. The camera sensor will grow from 5 megapixels to 8 …

We’ve charted the dates, earwigged the rumours and consulted our iPod Ouija board. After 16 hours of number-crunching on the CNET UK supercomputer, we have determined the most likely release date for the iPhone 5 — 7 September 2011. Let’s break down the facts, Poirot-style. We know this for certain: Apple didn’t announce the iPhone 5 at this year’s Apple …

The iPhone 5 could swap its numerical unlock codes for a gesture-based unlock screen inspired by Google’s Android operating system, based on screenshots released by the 9to5mac.com blog. The nine-dot unlock gesture was spotted by the blog in an app called AppleConnect, which is only available for Apple resellers, corporate network users and other insiders. Android users will feel a twinge …

Update: Read our iOS 5 complete guide to see all the features that were announced after this article was published.  We’re expecting to see iOS 4.3 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch burst out like the unexpected addition to a delightful delivery of quadruplets at this week’s Apple event. But, other than the addition of tethering over Wi-Fi, we’re …

Now that the excitement of yesterday’s iOS 5 launch has died down, we’re left with an empty hollow in our hearts, because no iPhone 5 was announced at this year’s Apple WWDC. Previous Apple blowers, from the original aluminium iPhone to the twins — the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS — landed in the halcyon days of summer, in either June …

The Alcatel VM665 is from a simpler time, when neighbours chatted over the fence, kids pushed bread-laden bicycles up hills, and phones were as simple as dirt. To return to this bucolic past, you have to invest a mere £29.99 with Virgin Mobile on pay as you go, plus top up with £10. For that paltry sum, you get a …