Regulator Ofcom has named the contenders who’ll be battling to take home chunks of spectrum in the upcoming 4G auction, with all four major UK networks ready to fight it out. The full list includes heavyweights Vodafone Limited, the Spanish Telefónica UK Limited (which owns O2) and Hutchinson 3G UK Limited (that’s Three). Everything Everywhere …

We recently asked our loyal podcast listeners and Facebook fans to vote for their favourite phone of the year. We were looking for a smart phone that had snarled, snapped, hunted and mated its way to pack domination — a true alpha leader among gadgets. But which devices dominated, and which didn’t quite tickle your fancy enough to win the top …

Samsung’s bringing a host of new features to its hot-property Galaxy S3 smart phone, including some ported over from the Galaxy Note 2, and some intriguing camera tweaks. The goodies will arrive in an update Samsung calls the Premium Suite, which begins rolling out in the UK today. If you’re a Galaxy S3 owner, keep a weather eye on your …

Deep within its cavernous mountain headquarters, Amazon’s army of orcs are rumoured to be forging a smart phone that could fight the likes of Samsung and Apple with a dirt-cheap price tag. Having found tablet-shaped success with the Kindle Fire, the online bookseller has apparently booked iPhone-maker Foxconn to produce a mobile phone, Taiwan Economic News says — a claim that chimes …

Apple’s released a new version of iOS, designed to squash a Wi-Fi bug that’s been frustrating owners of its shiny toys. But the update is seemingly only applicable to the iPhone 5 and iPad mini. If you’ve heard about the update and are gazing, brow furrowed at your older iPhone or iPad, don’t be alarmed as it appears that Apple …

Samsung has lifted the lid on a new 5-inch smart phone — hooray! But despite boasting a palm-filling display, this phone has middle-of-the-road hardware that is unlikely to set your pulse racing. Boo! The impossible-to-not-say-in-a-Northern-accent Galaxy Grand is a slender 9.6mm thick, has an 8-megapixel camera and looks almost identical to the flagship Samsung Galaxy S3. Good stuff, but the …

Sony’s given some precious time estimates on when customers can expect updates to Android Jelly Bean, so if you own an Xperia phone that came out this year, get ready to mark your calendar. You may have to flip forward quite a few months, though. On its official blog Sony says that the Xperia T, Xperia XT and Xperia V …

It’s another rum do for those hoping to buy Google’s new Nexus 4 smart phone, as the 16GB model is now listed as sold out — just like its smaller 8GB brother. Google finally found more stock of the quad-core mobile earlier in December, following a weeks-long drought during which the phone was unavailable to snap up through the Big …

Samsung’s most popular mobiles could be vulnerable to app-based attacks, a developer says, thanks to a security wobble in Samsung’s own-brand Exynos 4 processor. XDA Developers member alephzain says they discovered the potentially damaging problem when investigating new ways to root the Samsung Galaxy S3. The vulnerability lies within Samsung’s Exynos 4 chip, and means any app could — in theory …

The Ministry of Defence is auctioning off chunks of spectrum that it owns, increasing the amount of available bandwidth to be used for 4G. The MoD, which says the sale is the first of its kind by a government department, will be flogging 200MHz of delicious bandwidth to the highest bidder, giving companies the chance to increase the amount of …