We’ve seen a couple of gaming controllers for the iPhone in recent months, and now here’s one for Android devices. Like the iPhone offerings from Logitech and Moga, both halves of the Wikipad Gamevice fit around your device, as you can see in the picture. This means you can play games using physical buttons, rather than on-screen …

We’re sure to see a host of new wrist-worn devices at CES — LG and Samsung are just two companies rumoured to be readying their own fitness trackers — but here’s one that’s ridiculously, unashamedly lavish. It’s designed by Miami-based tech wearables firm Christophe & Co, which has a partnership with Pininfarina, the company that has designed Ferrari’s cars since …

A woman from County Durham has been jailed for two years for scamming hundreds of people in an iPad swindle, the BBC reports. Kirsty Cox duped customers into thinking she could get them the tablet PC at a reduced price. The scam went on between March and December 2012, and was worth £450,000. Customers paid the 37-year-old for the devices, …

Remember webOS? I can’t blame you if you don’t. It was a smart phone operating system originally developed by Palm, and which ran on its devices including the Palm Pre, Pre 2 and Pre 3, the Palm Pixi, and the Palm Pre Plus. HP acquired it when it bought Palm, and used it on its HP TouchPad. Then HP announced …

HP could be about to get back in the smart phone game in a big way. According to The Information’s sources, HP plans to launch 6- and 7-inch mobile devices before the end of the year. Which gives it five days. Despite their big sizes — this is well into phablet territory — the devices will be pretty affordable. According …

Samsung has unveiled a new chip that could give its next flagship handset superpowers. The South Korean company has lifted the lid on the first 8-gigabit (1GB) low-power DDR4 memory chip, snappily called the LPDDR4. Basically, shove this in a device, and you could be walking around with 4GB of RAM in your pocket. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 boasts …

Big telly klaxon! This is Samsung’s 110-inch Ultra HD TV, that kicks sand in the face of Samsung’s puny 85-inch model. And it’s not just a concept to roll out at trade shows — you can actually buy this thing from today. It’s available in China, the Middle East, and “a few European countries”, according to Engadget, but there’s no …

We are a nation addicted to tablets, according to new research. Between 12 million and 13 million tablet PCs were sold in the UK this year, which was an increase of more than 50 per cent on 2012, according to research company Deloitte, the Telegraph reports. By the end of January, that should mean half of all Britons will own …

“Siri, make yourself useful and sort out my holidays snaps, will you?” This could soon be a legitimate command, if Apple makes use of a recent patent application. The patent is for voice tagging, AppleInsider reports, meaning that you could just describe your photos by speaking, and your iPhone would do the rest. The patent application was filed with the …

HTC’s ex-lead designer has been indicted for leaking the company’s upcoming icon designs to an outside party. It’s thought he was planning on setting up a rival business with the person he leaked to. Engadget reports that Thomas Chien leaked the designs, which were most probably from HTC’s yet-to-be-released Sense 6.0 UI, by showing a presentation to his then-future business …