Now this is a bit of a head-scratcher. A mystery new Nokia device has leaked online, but there’s no word of what it is, or when we’ll see it. It comes from the usually reliable @evleaks Twitter account. All @evleaks says on the matter is, “remember that Nokia Asha design language preview?” This is a …

Windows Phone may not be challenging the likes of Android or iOS in most places, but devices running Microsoft’s mobile OS are actually outselling the iPhone in some countries. That’s according to IDC, a market research company. Frank Shaw, corporate vice president of corporate communications at Microsoft, quoted the research in a blog post, and now the New York Times has …

Apple’s next iPhone has a possible release date. If Japanese site MacFan is to be believed, we’ll see the iPhone 5S unveiled on 20 June, and it’ll hit shop shelves in July, our sister site reports. The much-rumoured cut-price iPhone could also make its debut in August, the report says, though it’ll be targeted at developing markets like China and …

Smaller Windows 8 tablets could be on the way, if Microsoft’s new guidelines are anything to go by. This month, the Redmond-based company relaxed its certification specs for manufacturers, The Register reports. The minimum screen resolution has been dropped from 1,366×768 pixels to 1,024×768 pixels, meaning future Windows 8-running slates could have smaller screens than the current crop. Does Microsoft have …

This isn’t the first advert to mock Apple, but what makes it different is the fact it’s not made by a rival tech company. It’s made by Somersby Cider, which is owned by Carlsberg. Somersby’s produce is made from apples, so it decided to take a few potshots at the Cupertino company’s ads, complete with plinky-plonky music. It’s more hit …

The HTC One is hitting the UK next week! HTC said we wouldn’t see the flagship handset until the end of March or beginning of April, due to a shortage of parts, and now has announced it’ll be with us in just a few days, our colleagues at CNET News have learned. It hasn’t given an exact date, so keep …

File this Apple invention under B for bonkers. The company has just been granted a patent that protects your iPhone when you drop it, Apple Insider reports. It apparently adjusts the device’s position as it’s falling, so it lands on its back or edge instead of the screen. And if you think that’s crazy, that’s just the tip of the …

The 4G auction didn’t have to come up £1.2bn short of its target, according to figures published by Ofcom. The telecoms watchdog has gone public with the theoretical maximum that the Treasury could have raised, and it turns out to be £5.2bn, the Guardian reports. That’s more than double the £2.3bn actually raised, and billions more than the £3.5bn chancellor …

Pinch of salt time: a render of what purports to be the Nexus 5 has surfaced online, along with a spec list. There are plenty of reasons to think it’s fake, but a few that hint it could be the real deal too. An anonymous source claiming to work for Google sent the image and specs to Android and Me. …

Samsung has already said it would launch phones that use the Tizen operating system, but now here’s confirmation the company will launch a high-end device running that OS at the end of the summer. “The Tizen phone will be out in August or September, and this will be in the high-end category. The device will be the best product equipped with …