It’s been a good half-year since we went hands-on with the Sagem Puma, a sportscat-branded smart phone with a quirky menu interface and a solar charger slapped on its behind. This purr-fect (we’re not apologising) mobile is finally headed to our fair shores, now that Sagem has signed a deal with Elite Mobile to distribute …

The BBC News app, which lets iPhone users check out the very latest happenings the world over, has finally popped up in the UK. The BBC Trust has decided that the Beeb’s plans to launch dedicated smart-phone apps don’t require any further review. The News app is launching for the iPhone and iPad today, but Auntie has announced she intends …

Skype has released an update to its iPhone app that takes advantage of iOS 4‘s multitasking capabilities. You can now make and receive calls while working outside the app, and even when the iPhone itself is locked. The ramifications are impressive — it’s now possible to pretend you’re listening to your Skype contacts wittering on about the birth of some …

iPhone 4? Oh yeah, that old thing. T-Mobile has finally unveiled its price plans for Apple’s latest Jesus phone, and — good news! — it’s kinda expensive. Yes, T-Mobile customers eager to be parted from their hard-earned cash will be delighted to hear that if you’re after a 16GB iPhone 4 and fancy paying £25 per month (the lowest monthly price …

The clever folks aboard the good ship Omio have posted what they claim is a manufacturer roadmap for a huge number of UK mobile phones. They’ve listed more devices than it’s possible to shake a stick at, so we recommend you check out the article in its entirety, but we’ve selected a few of the more interesting devices for you …

A survey conducted by Tesco has found that mobile phone users — so, everyone — are unhappy with the sharp rise in the number of 24-month contracts in the last few years. In 2008, shorter 12-month contracts made up 13.4 per cent of the market, 18-month contracts held 83.4 per cent of the market and 24-month contracts a minuscule 3.2 …

VoIP and IM client Fring has updated its iPhone 4 application to allow users to make face-to-face video calls over a 3G connection, and to a host of mobile devices — not just other iPhone 4 handsets. That pretty much clears up the gripes we had with FaceTime, Apple’s own video-calling platform, which restricted calls to friends who owned an …

You’ve been able to install Apple’s iBook app for a while, but iPhone and iPod touch users have had to wait for iOS 4 to use it. But how do ebooks fare on screens smaller than the iPad‘s? What is it? iBooks is Apple’s answer to Amazon’s Kindle e-reader. You can buy books for it in the same way you …

In last week’s podcast we asked you, the listening public, to draw an iPhone 4 in Paint (or equivalently rubbish software) and post it to our Facebook wall. It was a decision we instantly regretted, as our writhing fanbase spewed forth a bilious torrent of nonsense and pixels arranged in such horrifying arrangements as to rent the Earth asunder. Good work, …

Our recent Facebook poll asked whether you would be buying an iPhone 4. The results are in, and a majority of voters said they won’t be forking over their hard-earned moolah in exchange for Apple’s latest smart phone. Forty per cent of respondents ticked the box marked ‘I wouldn’t touch one with a 50ft barge pole that I was planning on later throwing into …