The Samsung Galaxy mini promises to be a teeny phone at a tiny price — but still sporting plenty of Android smart-phone perks. The mini is a mere 110mm tall, 60mm wide and 12mm thick, and manages to fit in a 3.1-inch display. With only 320×240-pixel resolution, the screen will be as sharp as a blob …

We’re looking forward to big things from HTC at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and leaked renderings of the company’s new phones on mobile blog PocketNow have got us salivating. First up is a rounded phone (left) that’s the spitting image of the HTC Desire, except for a prominent front-facing camera. The touch-sensitive buttons evoke the Google Nexus …

Future Android phones may be button-less monoliths, according to a Google spokesperson. Google could ditch the requirement for the traditional Android buttons — home, menu, back and search — when the phone version of its software receives the same user-interface refresh as the tablet stream. Android forked into big-screen and small-screen versions with the recent launch of Android 3.0 Honeycomb …

O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Tesco Mobile, 3 and Orange are all jumping into the jelly wrestling pool for the fight over our iPhone 4 cash, but we won’t leave you to compare the deals on your own. Our bank of supercomputers, aided by an almost infinite team of monkeys, will find the best iPhone 4 prices for you. With T-Mobile pulling up …

If you fancy the cut-price curves of the HTC Gratia or the Qwerty qualities of the HTC 7 Pro, you may have to do some skulking around on the Internet to find them. HTC has announced that the phones are coming to the UK next month, but only to its distributors, the coincidentally named Brightpoint and Brightstar. The means it’s …

Yet another version of Acer’s Android smart phone, the Acer Liquid, has surfaced — and this one is made of metal. The Liquid Metal was spotted on a Russian blog, so take these specs and images with a delicious spoonful of salted cucumbers.  Acer stuck with the design of the Liquid, but bumped up the version of Android, when it released the Acer Liquid …

Recent changes to T-Mobile’s fair-use limits for mobile data had customers clamouring to get out of their contracts. Vodafone met a similar furore when it slashed its data allowances, as did Orange when it upped its call charges. Such changes can give you the right to break your mobile phone contract — you just need some spare time and a geological …

Forget RIM’s previous whack-a-doodle touchscreen efforts — the clicky-screened BlackBerry Storm or the chubby BlackBerry Torch slider. The latest touchscreen BlackBerry could bring us a design that’s easier to swallow, by simply adding touch to the iconic Qwerty ‘Berry. Photos of the phone, which is codenamed ‘Dakota’, were leaked on the Boy Genius tech blog. The Dakota looks similar to the …

Rarely do we feel phone envy for the US, where its freakish CDMA network and its citizens’ love of belt holsters has led to the evolution of an alternate universe of hideous flip phones and BlackBerry wannabes. But last week’s CES gadget-fest unleashed some crave-worthy phones that have made us feel a twinge of jealousy. Most of them take advantage …

T-Mobile has changed its tune quicker than a trumpet player with his flies caught in a meat slicer, saying in a statement that it won’t be cutting the fair-use limit from 3GB to 500MB, but only for existing customers. A wave of derision washed over the Internet after the company previously published a clumsily written missive telling customers, “if you want …