Details have emerged on a follow-up to Samsung’s brilliant Galaxy S2 smart phone. Inventively dubbed the Galaxy S3, it could pack a 4.6-inch screen and a 1.8GHz processor. Specs of the new phone appear to have been leaked to Android site Phandroid, as part of what is reportedly one slide from an internal Samsung Mobile …

BlackBerry Messenger is back online at last. BlackBerry maker RIM has finally rectified the breakdown that saw BBM outages spring up across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. “Yesterday, some BlackBerry subscribers in the EMEA region experienced delays with BlackBerry services. The issue was resolved and services are operating normally,” RIM has said. “We apologise to those customers who were …

It wasn’t until the posters for 1998 Broderick-em-up Godzilla came out that we, as a people, realised that size does matter. Skip forward to 2011 and we’re facing a tidal wave of supersized smart phones that reckon understated is over-rated, and hold portability in high contempt. Step forward the 4.7-inch HTC Titan and HTC Sensation XL, and the 5.3-inch Samsung …

The official iPhone announcement is set to go down this evening, but a bit of late breaking news courtesy of the Guardian could spoil Apple’s surprise. The paper reports that phone networks have been told to expect two new iPhones, both due to launch on Friday 14 October, but because of Apple’s signature secrecy, none of the networks actually know …

Mobile maker HTC has admitted there’s a big security problem with its phones that lets third-party apps access your personal data. Last night we told you about the privacy problem, whereby a suite of logging tools that HTC itself introduced to some of its phones means any app you allow to access the phone’s Internet connection could get at your …

At last, there’s a new iPhone in town. The iPhone 4S is the latest iteration of Apple’s popular smart phone, and while it looks just like an iPhone 4 on the outside, it packs some surprises on the inside. A5 chip Apple’s own A5 chip is a dual-core affair Apple reckons will make the iPhone 4S seven times faster than …

A few lines of code apparently buried in the iTunes beta hint that Apple could be about to add the ability to rent apps on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, The Tech Erra reports. The nuggets of code were unearthed by Twitter user @SonnyDickson, and contain lines such as, “Apps are automatically removed from your iTunes library at the …

Sneaky-lookin’ spy shots have emerged from a Brazilian factory showing what appears to be a new version of the iPhone, rocking a casing remarkably similar to that of the current iPhone 4. The photos were snapped in a Foxconn factory by Gizmodo’s Brazilian site and while the casing appears to be your bog-standard iPhone 4, a peek at the accompanying …

Vodafone has a new offer called Data Test Drive, which gives new and upgrading Vodafone pay-monthly customers three months of unlimited, free data. Not too shabby. When you sign up with Vodafone, or when your contract’s ended and it’s time to upgrade, you’ll be given a choice of data plans. Regardless of which you choose, you get three months of …

A gang of enterprising Germans, sick of waiting for the iPhone 5, have crafted their own out of metal and glass, basing the design on computer-generated models, leaked hardware specifications and rumoured case designs. They used the same design method Apple uses when it’s crafting the iPad — the frame is machined from a solid block of aluminium, then treated …