We’ve heard word of the Galaxy Note 2 before, but now the benchmarks have leaked, Engadget reports. It’s not certain it’s the Note 2, but the device is listed as the GT-N7100, and the original Note was the N7000, so it looks pretty likely. The page was subsequently pulled, but PhoneArena managed to nab a …

Beats — the company behind the Beats by Dre range of headphones — has bought back 25 per cent of its shares from HTC for $150 million. The Taiwanese phone manufacturer ploughed $300 million into Beatslast year, which at the time made it the majority shareholder. It still leaves HTC as the largest single external shareholder, owning around 25 per cent …

Great news if you pre-ordered a Nexus 7 — they’re officially shipping now. If you signed up to buy yourself this slab of tech at launch, the postie could come calling with a package of Google tablet goodness any time. It’s not such great news if you failed to pre-order though. Head to the Google Play store, and you’ll be …

You know those Samsung products Apple succeeded in having banned in the US? Well it seems Apple was more aggressive than previously thought, writing to retailers and carriers warning them about selling said devices — and the most suspect thing about this? In one case it was before the ban was stayed, CNET reports. No wonder Samsung has called the …

Apple’s TV set is just about the worst-kept secret in tech. But here’s something you may not have thought of: it could well pack a Retina display, as seen on the new iPad and the latest MacBook Pro. That’s according to Raymond Soneira, founder, president and CEO of DisplayMate Technologies, a company that makes test patterns to check your screen is …

Remember the Samsung Galaxy S3 that exploded in someone’s car a few weeks ago? Well apparently it was down to “external energy” rather than the handset itself, according to an investigation by Samsung and a third party. Samsung revealed the findings in a blog post. So rest easy, all you hot-pocketed Galaxy S3 owners. Last month, pictures emerged on a forum …

Apple isn’t one to adopt new tech just for the sake of it, and it looks like that’s not going to change anytime soon. The Cupertino company refused to use NFC for its Passbook app in iOS 6 due to the fact it’d sap the iPhone’s battery life, according to The Wall Street Journal. But with the iPhone 5 due …

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus was banned in the US a couple of weeks ago, following a court kerfuffle with Apple. But now a federal appeals court has ruled that the ban should be lifted, though only temporarily. The question is, will it last? It was just a preliminary injunction slapped onto the Galaxy Nexus, so we could well see the ban …

First it was banned in America, and then a court overruled the decision, granting it a temporary stay, but the Galaxy Nexus is now back on sale in the US via Google’s Play store. How long it might remain there is anyone’s guess. CNET reports the Galaxy Nexus has hit the shelves again in Google Play. (It’s not available from …

Apple has succeeded in having the Samsung Galaxy Nexus banned from sale in the US. This comes just days after the same judge slapped the same pre-trial injunction on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, yanking it from the shelves. Not only is this two in a week for Samsung, the patents relate to Android, so it could also have massive repercussions for …