LG has unveiled its latest effort in the mobile-phone arena — the GD880. If you find that name a little tricky to wrap your tongue around, you’ll be delighted to learn it also goes by the Mini moniker. As you may have guessed, the Mini’s main draw will be its size. When it’s released to …

A start-of-the-week treat for iPhone fanboys — Google has released a new entry in its series of behind-the-scenes Nexus One videos, this time featuring the search giant’s smart phone being squeezed, dropped, bent and subjected to several other flavours of abuse. This being a Google production you won’t get to see the phone actually splinter and break — frustrating stuff …

The Symbian Foundation has announced that its mobile operating system will become completely open-source from today. The newly branded ‘Symbian Platform’ is available for anyone to muck about with right now on the developer Web site. Symbian will be hoping that making its code open to everyone will encourage more third parties to start developing applications for the platform, whether …

The decidedly hawt Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 — previously known as the even sexier-sounding Rachel — will finally be available in the UK from April. At the time of writing, Vodafone is the only UK network provider confirmed to be offering the X10 — but stay tuned as this may well change. With Mobile World Congress coming up in just …