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, …

Pour yourself a snifter of brandy and settle into your comfiest chair — it’s time for a history lesson! Click play on the video above to learn the history of phone-giant Nokia, from its humble roots producing paper through to constructing some of the greatest gadgets ever held by mortal men. From war reparations to tyre manufacture, magnificent muttonchops to …

Ice Cream Sandwich, the next version of the Android operating system, has apparently been revealed in a video, after someone who bought a Google Nexus S on eBay found themselves with a phone running an early version of the upcoming update. In a two-minute video acquired by Engadget, you can get a glimpse at how Ice Cream Sandwich handles the …

Beleaguered phone giant Nokia is working on yet another new operating system for low-end mobiles, the Wall Street Journal reports. Citing folks “familiar with the matter”, the report reckons Nokia is constructing a Linux-based OS for cheap blowers. Codenamed ‘Meltemi’, it’s named after the Greek word for the dry north winds of the Aegean Sea. That’s impressively specific for just …

Samsung has signed an agreement to fork over cash to Microsoft for every Android device it sells, in a move that Google is calling extortion. The deal is to cross-licence Samsung and Microsoft’s patent portfolios, so the two companies can share the patents they own. The subtext to the agreement is that when the two companies have agreed to share …

Apple might be about to give its iPod classic and iPod shuffle the Old Yeller treatment, killing off both products to give the iPod touch and iPhone more room to breathe. Rumours of an iPod massacre have been doing the rounds for a while, but now TUAW says its sources reckon Apple will indeed be retiring two of its four …

Good news for Windows Phone fans — yep, both of you. Windows Phone 7.5, aka Mango, is out now, and will be available to spruce up your Windows Phone device at some point in the next few weeks. Microsoft told us the global launch commences tonight, with network operators starting to roll Mango out to customers. The plan is to …

Samsung’s Galaxy S2 smart phone has passed the 10 million worldwide sales mark, making it a very popular mobile indeed. In late July we reported that Samsung had shifted 5 million of the Android-powered blighters. That was eight weeks ago, suggesting the incredibly slender S2 is continuing to go great guns. Those 10 million devices appear to represent channel sales, …

They may have spelt the name wrong, but there’s not much else to begrudge Huawei’s newest smart phone, the Huawei Honor — a 4-inch Android beastie that will apparently last for three days away from the mains. That’s right, thanks to a 1,900mAh battery, the Honor is set to offer three — count ’em — days of use without having to …

Samsung will soon launch a new version of its brilliant Galaxy S2 Android phone. The Samsung Galaxy S2 HD will pack a 4.7-inch display and a 1.5GHz processor. The bad news? At the moment, this souped-up smart phone is only coming to Samsung’s native land of South Korea. The S2 HD was announced alongside another new version of the S2 that has a 1.5GHz processor …