Panasonic only revealed last week it was launching its smart phones in the UK, and now there’s a second handset coming our way. And this one’s higher-specced than the first. The Panasonic Eluga Power comes with Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Android. And it’s huge too, with its 5-inch LCD screen verging on …

The Lumia 900 is heading for the UK, Nokia announced at Mobile World Congress this morning. The 900, which has been in the US for a while, is LTE-enabled for faster browsing, but will also be coming to countries like Blighty where 4G isn’t yet active in a ‘DC-HSPA’ variant. That means it’ll run smoothly on our boring old 3G …

The ZTE Era comes packing Ice Cream Sandwich and a quad-core processor, the company announced this morning at Mobile World Congress, while its new Kis and Acqua phones pootle along on Android Gingerbread. So there’s plenty to choose from at the new-look ZTE buffet. But which is for you? ZTE is showing it can mix with the big boys, with …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the most keenly awaited smart phone since a certain iPhone 5 failed to make an appearance last year. Well it’s one step closer to becoming reality, as we have a spec list right here. And the big news is it has a 1080p screen, quad-core processor, and Android Ice Cream Sandwich, according to BGR’s sources. …

We saw it leak a couple of weeks ago, but now Nokia has lifted the lid on the Lumia 610, the most affordable Windows Phone to date. And it’ll be here in the spring, which is good news if you want to get in on the Windows Phone action this season without breaking the bank. It has a 3.7-inch LCD …

Samsung outed the 7-inch Galaxy Tab 2 a couple of weeks ago, and now here’s its 10.1-inch bigger brother, which confusingly has the same name. Like the 7-incher, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1-inch (sigh) runs Android Ice Cream Sandwich, but the screen resolution has been bumped up to 1,280×800-pixels (from 1,024×600 on the smaller model). But aside from these differences, …

Huawei reckons the Ascend D Quad is the world’s fastest smart phone. Hear that Samsung? Hear that HTC? Them’s fightin’ words! But with a K3V2 quad-core 1.5GHz processor, it may well be onto something. In a presentation at Mobile World Congress, Huawei chairman Richard Yu compared the Ascend D to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and Asus Transformer Prime tablet. Suffice …

More Sony phone news — the Xperia Ion will come to the UK this summer, Sony announced during its press conference at Mobile World Congress. And not only that, T-Mobile is the first network to announce it’ll take one of Sony’s freshly unveiled handsets, the Xperia U, this spring. Expect to see a lot more Sony handsets around in time …

These patent wars have been interesting to us tech watchers so far, but this is the first time they’ll actually impact on people using the products. Apple has been forced to disable its push email notifications in Germany. Anyone using its iCloud or MobileMe services will have to collect email, contacts and calendar updates manually, or set their device to …

Google has patented a new way of using shortcuts from your smart phone. And it’s pretty clever. Here’s how it works. You write a letter that you’ve assigned to go to a website or carry out a set action, then, without breaking the stroke, you draw a circle round the text or image you want to apply that action to, …