The next Galaxy Note could come with a gigantic battery, if fresh rumours concerning Samsung’s next smart phone are to be believed. The Note 3 will pack a 3,450mAh battery, PhoneArena reports, citing an anonymous source who claims to have “seen the engineering sample of the phablet first hand”. While it’s always worth taking unconfirmed …

Virgin Media is the fastest Internet provider in the UK, according to Netflix. The streaming service has published the average speeds achieved by the UK’s major broadband floggers in July, and the results make for interesting reading. Virgin Media comes out on top, with an average speed of 2.63Mbps, while BT is in second place with a 2.4Mbps average. Netflix …

HTC appears to have some manner of rebrand in mind, roping in Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr to promote a campaign about ‘change’. The ads — the first of which you can see embedded below — see Downey Jr reeling off alternative interpretations of the HTC acronym, such as “humongous tinfoil catamaran”, or “hold this cat” (pictured above, aww). …

BlackBerry could be about to be sold, as the ailing firm confirms that it’s considering “alternatives” in a bid to stay afloat. The Z10-maker says it has “formed a special committee” that is dedicated to exploring new ways of making cash. “Strategic partnerships or alliances, a sale of the company or other possible transactions” are all on the table, according to …

Sony’s next smart phone will be frighteningly thin and painted a royal purple — if a leaked promo image is anything to go by. The image above, which was spied by XperiaBlog and surfaced at Chinese-language site digi-wo.com, appears to be a teaser for a new Sony smart phone. The date on the graphic teases a 4 September reveal in …

Crowd-funded smart phone Ubuntu Edge has dropped its price, in a bid to harvest more backers before its funding period reaches an end. The mobile, which will only become a reality if it can harvest $32m (£20.5m) in the next 14 days, now costs $695 (roughly £445) — a price that’s down to company Canonical renegotiating with suppliers. The price …

The rumoured super-sized version of the HTC One has surfaced online once more, in a new leaked pic that teases a suspicious hardware switch. The so-called One Max, which recently appeared in some leaked photos, has popped up in another picture courtesy of Chinese-language site ePrice, posing with a phone that looks to be the Motorola XT882, a phone with …

Quick, get the protective wrap onto the sofa — Nokia has got its claws out, and is scratching away at Apple’s iPhone. Specifically, the Finnish firm’s latest advertising opus takes aim at the iPhone 5‘s camera. “Every day, more photos are taken on the iPhone than on any other phone,” the ad (possibly unwisely) begins, before wading into the fray …

You lie on the bleached-white sand, staring out into the heaving expanse, the sound of grey waves crashing on nearby shoals, echoing off stark, surrounding cliffs. You remember the curve of the ship’s prow as it slipped, groaning beneath the waves, and the outline of the sunken hull, briefly illuminated in the glow of rupturing electrics. You try to stand, …

Bad news Brits, Motorola’s newest smart phone — the much-hyped Moto X — won’t be coming to the UK. The Google-owned company, which boasts that its new phone was designed and is assembled in the US-of-A, has confirmed that it’s only bringing the X to the US, Canada and Latin America, with the rest of the world forced to watch …