Now playing: Watch this: Best cheap Android phones 3:26 Want a brand new smart phone but don’t have £500 to splurge on the latest technological marvel? We sympathise. But take heart, because these days there are some cracking mobiles available to bargain-hunters. Click play on the video above to see five recent Android smart phones …

Sony’s newest smart phone has been shown off in a new teaser pic — though the Japanese tech giant is giving little away thus far. The image shows a protruding power button, of the kind that adorns the Sony Xperia Z and Xperia Z Ultra, and what looks like a softly curved side, suggesting Sony will scrap the boxy look …

What kind of app needs its own instruction manual? The new BBM app apparently, as user guides for the upcoming iOS and Android versions of the chatting service have appeared online. The lengthy guides appeared as part of a BlackBerry site that was put live early, Polish-language site BBNews reports. You can view the iOS guide here, and the Android …

The long-rumoured plastic iPhone is getting back to black — showing a glossy noir casing in freshly leaked snaps. The images of the slick black casing surfaced on Chinese website Weibo, Phone Arena reports, and suggest that the much-anticipated plastic iPhone will be coming in a standard dark hue, alongside a slew of more colourful options. Parts of the new …

Samsung’s 4K TVs have just become a bit more affordable — though you’ll still need to sell off several key organs to own one. The 65-inch F9000 went on sale in the UK just last month with a wince-inducing £5,999 price tag. A whole grand has been sliced off that price, Trusted Reviews spied, with the pixel-packing gadget wall-occupier now …

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 could be on sale mere weeks after its official unveiling, if a new report concerning Samsung’s sales plans is to be believed. The third in the South Korean company’s line of palm-ruining gigantophones is all-but-certain to be revealed on 4 September, and will go on sale that very month, SamMobile reports. The long-rumoured Samsung smart watch …

The long-rumoured cheap iPhone may not be quite so affordable after all, as an analyst estimates that the plastic ‘iPhone 5C’ will cost between 400 and 500 dollars. That equates to between roughly £255 and £320, though balancing US and UK prices is rarely as simple as a straight currency conversion. The figure comes via KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, …

Gold! Always believe in your phone — you’ve got the power to um, er, call?… Ahem. Apple has once more been strongly tipped to be cooking up a golden-hued version of its next iPhone. The next iPhone — reckoned to be called the iPhone 5S — will come in a subtle golden shade, TechCrunch reports, citing ‘multiple sources’ that have …

Last year’s phone gets this year’s features — the Android 4.2.2 update is reportedly now rolling out to HTC One X phones, with brand new features in tow. The long-awaited update is happening to One X devices across Europe, Android Central spied, pointing to XDA-Developers forums where owners of the Tegra 3-powered smart phone are discussing the arrival of the …

Nokia’s long-rumoured Windows tablet has been spotted in the wild, in a scarlet-tinted snap that points to Windows RT, and 4G-capability. The picture above appeared at Chinese-language site Weibo, and plainly shows a red slab of what can only be a tablet, proudly bearing the Nokia logo. The edges look to be slightly tapered, like those of Nokia’s Lumia smart …