Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin. Orange has launched a phone line where stressed out city-folk can dial a beach. Orange customers can dial 347 for free from their mobile, and everyone else can call 0207 050 6888 and pay their normal network rate to get a choice of what Orange has chosen as …

Vodafone is the first network to announce a home for the Nokia N900, which will be coming to the network in January. The Nokia N900 is a mobile computing powerhouse, with a slide-out Qwerty keyboard and an 89mm (3.5-inch) touchscreen. Although the touchscreen is the resistive type, so it takes some pressure from a fingernail to work, we found it …

Enter our competition and you could be one of the first people in the UK to flaunt a Motorola Milestone mobile phone. eXpansys is selling the Milestone exclusively until 2010, and has supplied us with one of the hotly anticipated handsets to give away to a faithful reader. We haven’t even got our hands on the UK version of the …

The Nokia N97 mini is a slimmed-down and sleeked-up version of Nokia’s smart phone powerhouse, and you can score one pre-loaded with Vlingo Plus in our competition. Vlingo is a free voice-control app that allows you to search the Web, dial your phone, and even update Facebook and Twitter using only the dulcet tones that come out of your cakehole. …

You’re nobody in this town unless to have an app store these days. Our pet monkey has an app store, where he sells balls of faeces to other monkeys. Now Orange has one too. You could already spend your pocket money on jazzy new ringtones and Java games at Orange’s Web-based app store in your phone’s Web browser, and most …

Samsung is going to give its feature phones a shot of brain food and make them more like smart phones with the launch of its new Bada platform. It hopes Bada will make it easy for developers to make apps for phones such as the Samsung Jet. There’s a Bada SDK for developers to start coding apps for a range …

HTC has shown it can accomplish Android awesomeness with the Hero and Magic, but, in our heart of hearts, we want to see a big-screen, Snapdragon-powered phone like the HD2 running the little green robot. If we can believe a leaked roadmap for HTC’s 2010 Android phones, our dreams could become a reality next year. Android fan blog Android and …

Why live in the boring normal world when life seen through your phone‘s camera is so much better? That’s the approach taken by Layar, the augmented-reality app. Rather than augment the image on your phone’s screen with a single layer of information, as is the case with the Nearest Tube app, Layar lets you browse through numerous different layers created …

Christmas is traditionally a time of babies in mangers, warm family embraces, and pagan tree worship. But, for those of us who are more into Babycham than the baby Jesus, Christmas can be a liver-destroying drink-a-thon. You Booze, You Lose, a new iPhone app from Channel 4, hopes to help you rein in the Christmas spirit by giving you a …

Would you like an iPhone for free on a £24 contract? Sure you would, but you can’t have one. You can, however, bodge together an iPod touch and a MiFi wireless modem, add a dash of wishful thinking, and just pretend. Mobile network 3 is offering a MiFi and an 8GB iPod touch, including 5GB of data per month, for …