The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus go on sale on Friday. James Martin/CNET If you’re a New Yorker, Pope Francis may be the reason why your new iPhone may be a day or two late. The world’s second-largest smartphone maker sent out emails to New York residents who have ordered a new iPhone 6S or …

The Vertu New Signature Touch is a $10,000 smartphone. A wearable product may be next. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Luxury brand Vertu is known for selling phones with price tags that make an iPhone 6S look like a bargain. Now, it’s mulling over creation of a wearable product that you also likely won’t be able to afford. The British phone manufacturer, once …

The Nexus 6 is going cheap ahead of its successors’ launch. Josh Miller/CNET If you’re in the market for a bargain you can currently pick up a new carrier-unlocked Google Nexus 6 on eBay for just $299 (which converts to £195 or AU$425), or for $349 (£230 or AU$495) on Amazon.com. If you were to purchase the same 32GB model …

BT has outlined plans for faster Internet tech. BT BT has promised to support universal minimum broadband speeds of 5-10 megabits per second for every home and business across the UK, as well as extending the reach of its superfast fibre networks. The telecoms company has detailed plans to surpass broadband requirements laid out by the government in terms of …

Now playing: Watch this: Top 5 reasons people switch phone networks 2:43 Whether you love to hate them, or just plain hate them, phone networks — like all services that take your money — can be a real pain to deal with at times. Leaving them ain’t easy though — partly because it’s a right old faff if you want …

Chat apps such as WhatsApp and Viber are more popular than texting for the first time ever, according to stats from research firm Informa. Almost 19 billion messages were sent per day using chat apps in 2012, compared to only 17.6 billion SMS messages, the BBC reports. Users of chat apps were found to be about six times more sociable …

Family, eh? With all the preparation in the world, there’s only so much you can do to ensure your wedding goes smoothly if you’ve got unpredictable rellies — as can be seen in Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone ad. The ad pokes fun at the idiocy of overzealous fanboyism, showing nuptials being disrupted by warring Samsung and Apple fans who can’t …

TalkTalk is coating theatre’s fourth wall in glass, and bringing some of Britain’s finest stage performances to its telly customers with a new Digital Theatre Channel. The channel bursts into song — jazz hands and all — on TalkTalk Plus TV today, and will charge a minimum of £3 to customers wishing to take in a show. The telecom giant …

Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Home hands-on 1:56 In an attempt to dominate your phone and encourage you to live your life even more vicariously through Facebook, the social network has launched ‘Home’, an Android skin which will splatter your homescreen with your friends’ updates. We go hands-on with the new app in the video above. Home works as a …

Waggish American comedy Arrested Development starring Jason Bateman is all set to whimsy its way onto Netflix on 26 May, the show’s makers have announced on its Facebook page. The new series contains 15 episodes, all of which will be available at once on the streaming service from 12.01am PT, or 8am here in Blighty — which should make for …