Samsung’s got a new TV service that aims to make smart TV viewing a tad easier, letting you search multiple apps for the single programme you’re trying to watch. Dubbed ‘Samsung TV Discovery’ (bold — I like it), the service will search through services like Netflix, Lovefilm, YouTube, as well as live TV listings. Samsung’s …

LG is serving up two new Android smart phones for hungry phone fans. The LG Optimus F7 and F5 are two mid-range mobiles that pack 4G and a recent version of Android. The F7 has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, which bubbles away beneath the phone’s 4.7-inch display, alongside 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. The F5 meanwhile is a …

Asus has teased its biggest new gadget in a cryptic Cloverfield-esque trailer that promises “Miracle Metal”, and possibly a hostile takeover of the Catholic Church. The clip itself, embedded below, gives little away, but shows a large metal object flying over Barcelona in Spain, before plonking itself down in the middle of a large church. Some fervent investigation (I Googled …

O2, Vodafone and Three have all won slices of 4G spectrum, meaning networks other than EE can begin rolling out speedy data services this year. This morning Ofcom confirmed that after more than 50 rounds of bidding, every major UK network has walked away from the now-concluded 4G auction with barrelfuls of bandwidth, including spectrum that was freed up in …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC One wows with stunning design, premium parts 3:17 With its new flagship phone, the 4.7-inch HTC One, HTC has made the seemingly baffling choice of opting for a 4-megapixel camera, instead of an 8- or 13-megapixel unit of the kind seen on the high-end smartphones of its rivals. That doesn’t seem to bother the Taiwanese …

BlackBerry’s new Z10 smart phone may cost you an arm and a leg to acquire, but a recent teardown reveals that BlackBerry isn’t spending nearly as much on actually bolting the thing together. The analysis was conducted by the intrepid chaps at TechInsights, who pulled a 16GB model of BlackBerry’s new blower apart and tallied the cost of each individual …

HTC’s freshly unveiled HTC One smart phone will be out in the UK in a number of weeks, slated to hit shops on 15 March. The Taiwanese phone-maker’s newest smart phone, which has a 4.7-inch 1080p display and a 9mm metal chassis, will be lining the shelves of British brick-and-mortar shops in less than a month, HTC has confirmed to …

Google has something special up its search-engine sleeves for the next Nexus phone’s camera capabilities, a holiday-bound Google exec has hinted. Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra, who last year posted holiday photos from the then-unreleased Nexus 10 tablet, took to Google+ to discuss camera tech, saying “We are committed to making Nexus phones insanely great cameras.” In the …

Contrary to what it would have you believe, Apple didn’t invent the tablet — but it did have some promising concept designs sketched up as early as 1982. The snap above, which shows an Apple tablet design decades before the introduction of the iPad, is one prototype gadget detailed in a recently published book of design written by Hartmut Esslinger. …

The iPhone 5 is better at pleasing the UK’s smart phone shoppers than the Galaxy S3, according to a new survey — though the figures suggest neither is as well received as HTC’s One X. A study of a whopping 52,140 Brits, conducted by ondevice research between July 2012 and January 2013, asked smart phone owners to rank how pleased …