Now playing: Watch this: Samsung Galaxy S4 hands-on 3:02 Update 15 March: The Galaxy S4 has now been announced. You can read our S4 hands-on here, keep track of the UK pricing and availability here, see how the S4 compares to the iPhone, Lumia 920, HTC One and Nexus 4 here, read what’s changed over …

Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S4 apps and software 2:39 The Galaxy S4 is real, and has a 5-inch touchscreen, a massively powerful processor and a 13-megapixel camera. But who cares about hardware — these days we’re all about exciting new apps! Click play on the video above to check out the S4’s coolest apps and software treats. Group Play …

The Samsung Galaxy S4 has been given its first official airing, confirming that the company’s next major mobile is a 5-inch blower with a 1080p screen, slimmer design and a 13-megapixel camera. It’ also has a monsterously powerful processor and the ability to control on-screen action using your eyes, or by hovering your hands over the touchscreen. There’s a lot …

Senior Apple exec Phil Schiller has taken a pop at Android ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S4’s launch, blasting the slow pace of updates to Google’s software and saying that more people switch to iOS than switch to Android. In an unusually direct attack for the normally-aloof company, Schiller told Reuters, “Over 50 per cent [of Android users] are still …

LG has erected a parody advert atop a teaser poster for the Samsung Galaxy S4, using the wave of hype surrounding Samsung’s next mobile to promote its existing phone! Lawks, what a wizard wheeze! The mischievous mobile-maker bought the billboard space above Samsung’s portentous ‘Be ready 4 the next Galaxy’ poster in New York’s Times Square, crafting a near-identical advert …

The HTC One won’t be hitting UK shop shelves on Friday as expected — instead the 4.7-inch smart phone will be arriving at the end of this month, or the beginning of April. When the One, which plays host to HTC’s Sense 5 interface and risky 4-megapixel camera was revealed in February, HTC said it would be on sale in …

The Samsung Galaxy S4 isn’t even announced yet, but already we know that Samsung’s next flagship will be available on Three, EE, Orange and T-Mobile. Ahead of the Galaxy S4’s official debut tomorrow night, UK networks have revealed that they’ll be stocking the next Galaxy smart phone, in a gun-jumping manoeuvre surely crafted to whet the appetite of British phone …

Start stretching out those palms, people — fresh rumours suggest Samsung is cooking up its biggest smart phone yet, to debut in the second half of 2013. The mobile, which if real would surely be the third Galaxy Note smart phone, is reckoned to sport a 5.9-inch OLED display, the Korea Times reports, citing a company official speaking “on condition …

A bug lurking within the Samsung Galaxy S3 lets any old so-and-so access your smart phone’s personal data, bypassing the phone’s lock screen completely. The glitch was discovered by one Sean McMillan, ZDNet reports, and follows on from a similar glitch which allowed momentary access to the homescreen and apps on the Galaxy Note 2. The glitch is tough to …

Apple’s follow-up to the iPhone 5 will be with us before September, if fresh rumours concerning the so-called iPhone 5S are to be believed. An August debut is pencilled in for the anticipated follow-up, iMore reports, citing ‘sources familiar with the plans’. The phone itself meanwhile is tipped to have the same basic shape as the iPhone 5, but pack …