Images purportedly showing the rear casing of the next iPad mini have surfaced online, and suggest that Apple won’t be tinkering with the design of its tiny tablet too much. The snap above, which is one of several to surface at Fanaticfone.com, shows the rear housing of what’s tipped to be the follow-up to the …

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 …

Giffgaff and Tesco Mobile are poised to go 4G, O2 has confirmed. The oxygenated operator told us that it would be making 4G available to both Giffgaff and Tesco Mobile — which already use O2’s network — though wasn’t able to offer any specific details on 4G launch plans for either company. That’s potentially great news for anyone who subscribes …

EE, currently the UK’s only 4G network, has bundled nearly 700,000 Brits onto its super-speedy tariffs. The number of customers using the faster mobile ‘net technology is 687,000, EE proudly boasted today, claiming that the rate of people signing up doubled in the months from April-June, compared to the previous five months. EE also said that it’s “on track” to …

The cheaper iPhone 4 is Apple’s best weapon against Android and other rival operating systems, new stats suggest. Numbers from the fantasically-named Kantar Worldpanel ComTech say 30.5 per cent of British smart phones in the three months up to June were running iOS, up from 25.3 per cent in the same stretch last year. That growth is down to the …

If you’re sick of figuring out how to trail an Ethernet cable up to your Sky box’s rump, salvation could be just around the corner — the broadcaster has revealed that it’s cooking up a Sky HD box with built-in Wi-Fi. The swanky new box, which will connect to the Internet wirelessly, will be handed out as standard to new …

Massive orange supermarket Sainsbury’s has launched its phone network today, with three pay as you go deals that net customers extra Nectar points. Those who regularly harvest and collect Nectar points will be happy to learn that signing up to one of Sainsbury’s tariffs will double the Nectar points you earn when you shop in the supermarket, and also earn …

The follow-up to the Nexus 7 has already leaked extensively, but it looks like the Google-branded tablet could be about to lose one of its initial major selling points: the dirt-cheap price. US retailer Best Buy has jumped the gun on Google’s announcement later today, posting pre-order pages for the new Nexus 7 — or Nexus 7 II as it’s …

Motorola’s much-anticipated Moto X phone is in line for some swanky camera software if leaked screenshots are to be believed. The snaps, which Android Police claims to have received via an anonymous source, show arrows encouraging users to swipe their digits from the left or right of the long-awaited Android phone’s screen to call up settings. Dragging in from the …

Ubuntu Edge, the conceptual smart phone that’s looking for funding, has raised over 2 million quid since its debut yesterday. Proving that lots of people are keen on the idea of a mobile that runs both Android and the new Ubuntu OS platform, the Indiegogo page where donators can throw money at the hypothetical phone now shows over $3.3m has …