Unlimited data — smart phones made it, and smart phones can break it. The latest network to give it a bolt through the brains is Vodafone, which will start charging you for going over your data allowance starting on 1 October. In June, Vodafone stopped referring to ‘unlimited’ data in its contracts, and started firing off …

Armageddon is nigh, smart-phone lovers — O2 has ditched unlimited data bundles for new customers and anyone upgrading their contract. Just like our granddad brags how he used to drive on the motorway before speed limits, we’ll be able to tell our grandkids how we used to stream YouTube on our iPhones without a care in the world. As of …

The party is over, people, and all you can eat data plans are dropping faster than a pair of trousers at a Chippendales convention. But smart phones are getting thirstier than ever for a foaming pint of gigabytes. T-Mobile slashed one of the best data plans in the business yesterday, following similar changes by Vodafone and O2. So where should …

T-Mobile has slashed its mobile Web browsing fair-use cap to 500MB, bringing it in line with its new bed-fellow, Orange, in a woeful tale of fail. In a badly written statement on its website today, T-Mobile said “you’ll never need to worry about… the ‘data/GB’s'”. But despite those incoherent platitudes, the warning is stern: “If you want to download, stream …

The LG Optimus Black — formerly known as the LG B — proves that you can never be too bright or too thin. Not only is it the thinnest smart phone in the world at 9.2mm, just beating out the iPhone 4 by 0.1 millimetre, it’s also got bragging rights to a new kind of display. LG says that the display, which …

The Alcatel OT-209 was stupidly cheap when it cost 99p. But that seems exorbitantly expensive compared to its new price — just 1p on pay as you go from Carphone Warehouse. This badboy may be ugly as a mud fence on a rainy day, but it does the job without any fuss. In fact, we deemed it well worth buying, …

CES, the Consumer Electronics Show that fills Las Vegas with the pitter patter of geek feet every January, promises to be a corker in 2011. Last year was all about 3D TV, ebooks and wireless charging, all of which left us shaken but not stirred. Sure, telly, books and um, charging, are okay, but wait till you hear what’s in store …

Forget Christmas — that’s so last month. Mobile World Congress in February is the most wonderful time of the year for portable gadget fans, and it looks like HTC will be dropping down the chimney with a 7-inch Android tablet called the HTC Scribe.  Pocketnow pointed out that HTC has filed for a patent on a tablet and a trademark on the …

We gave the screen on the iPhone 4 the gong over the Google Nexus S because of its retina-searing sharpness and clarity, and now the boffins in the CNET US lab have gone and backed us up with some proper science-y measurements. Our amusingly accented cousins from across the pond strapped on their stars-and-stripes lab coats and subjected the iPhone …

Expect a tidalwave of tablets from Asus to sweep over this week’s CES tradeshow like a wall of touchscreen water. The company that built the netbook bandwagon with its Eee PCs is going finger-friendly for the new year. We’re expecting a bouquet of Windows 7-powered touchscreen tablets to break cover in Las Vegas. Asus already announced the 12-inch EP121 and …