HTC One X owners are reporting a battery boost — having applied an unofficial update to the quad-core smart phone, Engadget reports. According to a thread on XDA-Developers, a user by the name of mike1986 has identified that there’s a problem in the way HTC’s latest toy’s Tegra 3 chip manages its power reserves, and …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 has been pegged for a 3 May unveiling at a London launch event. After months of waiting and speculation, the invites have finally been sent out. There’s one in my inbox, and Samsung’s asking me to “come and meet the next Galaxy”, on an invite daubed with splodges of blue and white paint. That will see …

Samsung’s sent out invites to its ‘next Galaxy’ event on 3 May, nigh-on certain to be the official revealing of the Samsung Galaxy S3. But what can we glean from the cryptic splodgy graphic accompanying the invite? I asked our crack team of tech’sperts to have a guess level their immense intellects at decoding the invite. CNET UK editor Jason Jenkins …

Last night I saw Titanic 3D at the IMAX and — surprisingly — the 3D is actually pretty good. Why is that surprising? Because Titanic wasn’t filmed using 3D cameras. Back in 1997 we were perfectly content to watch Leo and Kate legging it around the sinking ship in the usual two dimensions. Filming a 3D movie using proper 3D cameras …

HTC has responded to claims that the black version of its One S smart phone is prone to picking up unsightly silver marks, and has promised that the problem is being addressed, with a fix offered to customers. “There have been a few isolated reports of this issue,” the Taiwanese company said in a statement sent to CNET UK. “The …

Good news, Bond enthusiasts, Sky has acquired the rights to show all 22 movies in HD and without ruinous ad breaks later this year — a feat which the broadcaster reckons is a first for UK telly. As well as showing on Sky Movies Showcase HD, the films will be popping up on Sky’s on-demand service, and will also be …

The Nokia Lumia 610 NFC will be launching in Europe later this year, with Orange set to be the first to flog the budget Windows Phone blower. Unveiled earlier today, the Lumia 610 NFC is a version of Nokia’s wallet-friendly Lumia 610 smart phone, but comes with near-field communication tech that lets your phone talk to other technology when you …

A software bug is stopping Lumia 900 phones in the US from connecting to the Internet. But Nokia says the glitch won’t affect devices in the UK. The Lumia 900 has just launched across the pond, but Stateside shoppers who splashed out for the 4.3-inch Windows Phone handset have been struck by a glitch that kills the phone’s connectivity. “In …

Nokia could be cooking up another 41-megapixel phone, this time running on Windows 8, if leaked slides supposedly snapped at a Nokia presentation are to be believed. Spotted by Androsym, the images — originally posted at it168.com — show a blocky-looking mobile bearing the PureView camera-tech logo, as well as specs that peg the device as owning a curved 4.3-inch HD …

Reports are surfacing online that the HTC One S could be suffering from an issue that causes the black casing to become chipped, leaving unattractive silver marks all over the device. The problem, spied over at MoDaCo, concerns the black version of the One S, the ceramic finish of which is crafted using a process called micro arc oxidisation. MoDaCo founder …