Nokia will sell its headquarters in Espoo, Finland, before leasing it back, in a move to inject cash into its struggling business. Nokia’s headquarters in Finland. (Credit: Nokia) The phone maker expects to complete the sale to Exillion by the end of the year, for a total of €170 million. It will not leave the …

Vodafone today formally announced the Windows Phone additions to its range, pricing the HTC Windows Phone 8X and Lumia 820. (Credit: HTC) With prices matching the phone’s respective specifications, the 8X is more expensive at $0 upfront on a AU$60 per month plan, while the Lumia 820 requires no handset repayment on an AU$50 plan. Both phones feature 4G hardware …

Australian telcos Optus and Telstra will add new 4G-capable Windows Phone models over the next few weeks. The HTC Windows Phone 8X and 8S, nearly in store. (Credit: HTC) The Optus smartphone range will grow by two new Windows Phones over the weekend, with the HTC Windows Phone 8S and Nokia Lumia 820 joining the telco’s line-up. The HTC comes …

A video has appeared on YouTube showing the first successes of a group who are attempting to create a hybrid Android and webOS mobile operating system. The reason why is less clear. A group of webOS enthusiasts going by the ambitious title Phoenix International Communications (PIC) has reached the pre-Alpha phase of this project, working with the open-source WebOS components …

Research in Motion (RIM) is gearing up for its massive BlackBerry 10 (BB 10) launch in January next year, and it’s pitching its reasons for you to jump on the BlackBerry bandwagon this week at BlackBerry Jam Asia in Bangkok, Thailand. (Credit: Joe Hanlon/CNET Australia) The message from the bevy of RIM execs that we’ve heard from at the event …

Can a mobile browser be better than the one on your desktop PC? The new BlackBerry 10 browser is, according to its designers at Research In Motion (RIM). A slide used during RIM’s BlackBerry Jam keynote, illustrating the browser’s HTML5 test result. (Credit: Joe Hanlon/CNET Australia) That is, when you’re measuring HTML5 compliance. “We have a more [HTML5] standards-compliant browser …

If you have a head for numbers, the following is a curious brain boggler. A blog called TenFingerCrunch has collected data from IDC and NetMarketShare that suggests that iOS users access the web on their devices vastly more than Android device owners — despite the fact that the lion’s share of devices are sold on Google’s platform. (Credit: TenFingerCrunch) Android …

Microsoft will release an over-the-air update for Windows Phone 8 devices in December, aiming to squash a bug in the code that has devices randomly rebooting. (Credit: CNET Australia) Following on from user complaints on Windows Phone forums and from our sister-site’s own Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet, the tech giant confirmed the update in a statement. “We’re continuing to …

Optus today announced that it has introduced its first 4G tablet to its range: Apple’s fourth-generation iPad. The latest iteration of the iPad is now available on contract through Optus, with both 12-month and 24-month repayment options complementing the telco’s data-only SIMs. Buying an iPad through Optus comes with a minor subsidy by the telco, with a 16GB model costing …

This week on CNET Australia, we’ve kicked off an exciting partnership with award-winning film-maker Jason Van Genderen to create a brand new video project using the Sony Xperia TX. Jason will be working over the next few weeks to put his new film together, and will be taking us behind the scenes as he gets to know the new smartphone …