It looks like Samsung’s follow-up to the Samsung Galaxy S, the inventively nicknamed Galaxy S2, will be formally announced at Mobile World Congress — the massive phone trade show in Barcelona that kicks off on Valentine’s Day, 14 February. The MWC arrival was tipped by Korean newspaper Chosunilbo just before the new year, and new …

Steve Jobs, the iconic chief exec of Apple, has been granted permission by the company’s board of directors to take a medical leave of absence. He has placed chief operating officer Tim Cook in charge of the iPhone maker’s day-to-day activities. Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer for several years. In an email sent from Jobs to all Apple employees, Jobs …

In a dramatic and potentially frustrating change to the Android Market, the time period in which you can get a refund on purchased apps has shrunk from 24 hours to a mere 15 minutes. Google will roll out an update to the Market to all devices running Android 1.6 or higher over the next two weeks. The update will focus …

After six weeks of techno-trash talking and silicon-based slander, one gadget has climbed to victory atop a mountain of dead, to crown itself the winner of our Greatest Gadget of the 21st Century tournament. And that singular piece of gorgeous, gallant gadgetry is the iPhone. We knew from the start Apple’s smart phone was a formidable contender, and over the …

Google’s next-gen smart phone, the Nexus S, is now available to pre-order from the Carphone Warehouse, with the mobile retailer promising you can have it delivered by the end of December if you order now. We wouldn’t bet our houses on getting the hotly anticipated Google phone delivered before Christmas, however — the phone is released on 20 December, and …

Intel’s Atom line of processors will be bringing their own brand of sub-particle action to smart phones late next year, the chip manufacturing wizard promises. The plan is to bring Intel’s upcoming 32 nanometer ‘Medfield’ processor to the mobile market, eWeek Europe reports. The Atom line of chips is best known for powering just about every netbook built in the …

We’re massive fans of Infinity Blade — the eye-meltingly gorgeous iPhone game that was unleashed on the App Store today. We’ve written up a proper review (hint: we like it), but already it looks as if Infinity Blade fans might be in for some rather tasty updates in the near future. As videogamer.com spotted, in the ‘coming soon’ section of …

Dell is now rolling out version 2.2 of Google’s Android operating system to its Streak enormophones in an over the air update, and we’ve had a go with a Streak running the upgrade. The most important benefit Streak owners will enjoy as a result of the upgrade is support for Flash Player 10, which will let Streakers cruise all manner …

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has claimed he was misquoted when he reportedly said Android phones offered more features and will eventually dominate the smart phone market. Talking to Engadget, Woz said that during the original interview with Dutch newspaper De Telegraff he was actually giving the reporter a demonstration of voice commands on the iPhone. He commented that one thing you can’t do …

Android fans assemble! The HTC Desire HD is taking a pasting at the hands of the Apple iMac in our Greatest Gadget of the 21st Century tournament. The competition is currently in its second week of voting, and we’ve already seen gadgets such as the Nokia N8, the Asus Eee PC and the Sony PSP unceremoniously dumped out of the …