Tethering isn’t just for balls on poles and tents on windy days — it means you can use your phone‘s Internet connection with your laptop. With the iPhone leaving its monogamous relationship with O2 to step out with Orange, O2 has announced a discounted tethering bundle it hopes will help tie us to it. iPhoners …

Windows Mobile generally leaves us with a powerful sense of life’s essential ennui. Despite its extensive features, and the improvements of the latest 6.5 version, its little icons and dated user interface are deeply uninspiring. But we just got our hands on the HTC HD2, and it’s the first Windows phone that didn’t remind us of the unbearable lightness of …

You might think jailbreaking your iPhone will set you free, but you may find you’re Rick Astley’s plaything. Sophos, the security and anti-virus company, reports that the first iPhone worm is now wiggling its way into jailbroken iPhones in Australia. Sophos says that the virus, called ‘Ikee’, changes the phone’s background picture to a dreamy shot of the swoopy-haired ’80s …

Android tablets with capacitive OLED multi-touch screens could be in our futures, if Moto Development has its way. Our friends at oled-display.net alerted us that the company has released a 127mm (5-inch) Android tablet. But it’s only a development platform, so we won’t see it in shops — instead, developers can use it to design their new products without having …

Xperia X10 Sony Ericsson Sony Ericsson has released details and a video of its upcoming Xperia X10 smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system. The X10, which had been code-named Rachel, has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, which should make this one of the fastest Android phones yet. The phone will sport version 1.6 of Android–aka Donut–and it will run applications …

As if to flaunt its shelves soon to be stacked high with iPhones, Orange has released an app for iPhoners to take advantage of their two-for-one cinema tickets on Wednesdays. The app is similar to the Flixster app — you can search for current and upcoming films, and nearby cinemas — but the app only shows movie houses that accept …

Locatorz takes ramblers-favourite Ordnance Survey maps and turns them into slightly ominous people-tracking tools. Install the app on a Nokia Series 60 phone or BlackBerry and you can use it to track your “employees or loved ones”, says Locatorz — unless you’re a Tory MP and your loved ones are your employees. Locatorz uses Ordnance Survey maps, so your pizza-delivery …

Ladies and gentlemen, start your iPhone engines: Orange says it will start selling iPhones on monthly contracts and pay as you go on 10 November. The iPhone 3G will be from free on a £30-per-month contract and the iPhone 3GS will be from free on a £45-per-month contract — both for two years. And if you’re an international movie star …

Today we’ll be sidling up and introducing ourselves to the Sony Ericsson Rachel — or is it the Sony Ericsson Rachael? Either way, we hope to have well-conditioned hair flipped in our faces by Sony Ericsson’s first phone powered by the Google Android operating system. We’ve shown you the Rachel’s groovy customised user interface, and we’re also expecting to see …

Last night, London’s BT Tower went mental. Twitter posters reported that it looked like it was about to explode or take off. But don’t fear. It’s not the end of the great phallus of Noho — it’s just a new lighting system. You know the lovely lights that gently lit up the BT Tower in a cycle of colours? Well, …