Averse to buying glossy black smart phones? You may be in luck, as Google’s upcoming Nexus 5 may be coming in white. Pictures that appear to portray the Nexus 5’s packaging were spied by Phandroid, seemingly having surfaced at Korean-language site Underkg.com. In the purported pictures of the Nexus 5 boxes, which you can see …

New Android software for the Samsung Galaxy S4 has reportedly hit Europe, suggesting that UK S4 owners will soon be enjoying all that the version 4.3 update has to offer. The latest version of Jelly Bean — which is already up-and-running on Google’s Nexus 4 — has landed in Germany, SamMobile reports. I’ve contacted Samsung for confirmation that the update is indeed …

Tesco Mobile is turning on 4G, for any existing customer that’s happy to pay an extra £2.50 per month. Tesco told me that the new 4G tariffs are open to anyone no matter how old the contract. The deals launch today, hitchhiking on O2’s network, so as long as you’re happy to pay the extra £2.50, you could be enjoying …

Amazon’s latest Kindle Fire tablets have landed in the UK, just in time to stuff into your pals’ Christmas stockings. The angular new Kindle Fire HDX comes in both 7-inch and 8.9-inch sizes. The smaller option has a 1,920×1,200-pixel display, a quad-core processor and costs £199. You can pre-order today for a 13 November delivery. The 8.9-inch model meanwhile has an …

Crikey, as if choosing a phone contract wasn’t complicated enough, EE has split its 4G offering into two distinct sets of contracts, one of which gets you much faster data speeds — for a price. There’s 4G, and then there’s 4G Dubbed ‘4GEE Extra’, the new contracts get you theoretical maximum speeds of 150Mbps, though EE says you’re more likely …

Amazon’s Italian site has listed a protective case for the Nexus 5 with a 30 October release date, suggesting that this may be the day we see the next Nexus go on sale. You’d be wise to take that release date with a pinch of salt, as it’s entirely possible that the case-maker listing its products is merely taking an …

Is your Galaxy S4 losing charge like a decelerating rhino? Fear not, smart phone fans, as Samsung has offered to swap your dodgy battery for a shiny new one. The scheme comes following a report from German site MobiFlip, which claims that the S4 is stricken with faulty, swollen batteries. Samsung has responded, saying that the issue is ‘limited’, and …

EE is adding pay as you go to its roster of 4G services, with new plans that see you paying for calls, texts and data separately, and a selection of budget 4G phones. The new deals, which launch on 30 October and sit alongside the operator’s pay monthly and SIM-only contracts, let you top up on calls, minutes and data …

The new iPad will play host to the iPhone 5S‘ fingerprint scanner, a freshly leaked picture suggests. The above snap, which surfaced on Chinese site CtechCN, appears to show an iPad that features Apple’s ‘print-scanning home button — easily distinguishable from a regular home button by the missing square in the middle. To our eyes, the dimensions suggest that the …

Fans of free telly rejoice — Humax has a new Freeview HD box, that’ll be on sale later this week. The HDR-2000T plugs into your TV and handles high-definition Freeview from over 50 channels, and also packs on-demand programmes from iPlayer and YouTube via Humax’s TV Portal service. Perhaps best of all, the box lets you record shows to its …