Fancy the Xperia Z but don’t find Sony’s software particularly alluring? You may be in luck, as fresh rumours peg the 5-inch flagship to get the Nexus treatment before long. Android Central claims to have confirmed the existence of the ‘Google Edition’ Xperia Z with its sources, and reports that the phone will be sold …

FairPhone, the project to build a smart phone out of ethically-sourced materials, has hit its pre-order targets and will put the phone into production this year. The morally-sound mobile will be built using minerals mined in areas without human rights abuses, and bolted together in factories that have a good record for employment conditions. FairPhone was looking for 5,000 pre-orders …

Samsung Samsung’s long-rumored Galaxy S4 Active has entered the realm of officialdom at last, and will be out in the U.K. this summer, Samsung has confirmed. The S4 Active is a rugged version of the regular S4, aimed at outdoorsy types who don’t want a phone that’ll faint at the first sight of dust or water. The phone has a …

Samsung’s long-rumoured Galaxy S4 Active has entered the realm of officialdom at last, and will be out in the UK this summer, Samsung has confirmed. The S4 Active is a rugged version of the regular S4, aimed at outdoorsy types who don’t want a phone that’ll faint at the first sight of dust or water. The phone has a sealed …

Pictures purportedly showing Nokia’s photo-centric ‘EOS’ smart phone have appeared online, suggesting the long-rumoured mobile will play host to a gigantic camera unit. The photos appeared on Chinese-language site WPDang, and appear to have been sent to the site by an anonymous tipster. The photo above shows a device that looks just like a normal Lumia phone, but has a …

Lovefilm subscribers will enjoy a glut of extra shows in the next few months, as parent-company Amazon has tied up a new contract with Viacom. The freshly-inked deal will see TV programmes from Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central hitting the streaming service. That could see Lovefilm becoming more kid-friendly, as Nickelodeon owns the rights to cracking childrens’ shows including Dora …

Apple may be plotting a golden-hued addition to its gadget family, if fresh pics purporting to show the next iPhone’s innards are to be believed. The snap above, spied by French site nowhereelse.fr, appears to have come out of Chinese site iColorOS, and seem to compare components from the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and the much-anticipated iPhone 5S, which is …

Do you trust your iPhone charger? Or could it have been sneakily replaced by a cruelly-warped changeling cable, curled up like a plastic viper that’s intent on poisoning your smart phone with hacked software? That’s the question asked by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, who’ll be showing off a concept malicious charger at the Black Hat 2013 hacker …

UK operator Three has released a video that gives us a close-up look at the freshly-unveiled Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. Although the miniaturised mobile doesn’t even have a British release date, the numerical network has shown off the new phone, in a slightly surprising move that even throws in a comparison with the Galaxy S4 and the 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega. …

Smart phones ain’t so pricey these days — Huawei has lifted the lid on two new mobiles that are unlikely to break the bank, as well as a spangly new Android tablet. The Huawei Ascend Y210 is the cheapest of the lot, with a starting price on TalkTalk of £5 per month. For that you get a 3.5-inch display, 2-megapixel …