A photo that purportedly shows one of Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone blowers has popped up online, as well as a few tentative specs for the make-or-break mobile. That phone in the blurry photo on the right is the Sabre, according to Pocketnow. Running Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system, the site’s sources reckon it’s packing a …

Good grief, there’s a tonne of new phones flying about all of a sudden! Fear not, dear reader, for CNET UK is the flood barrier that stands between you and a baffling smart phone tsunami. We’re stood on the banks, pipe in hand, ushering the latest mobiles through our calming breakwater and settling them safely into harbour, so you can see …

The iPhone 4S might look disappointingly like its predecessor, but Apple thinks beauty is only skin deep — asking us to look beyond a familiar frame to the hollow of hopped-up hardware hiding inside its new smart phone. One of those new components is the A5 chip, a powerful processor Apple reckons makes the 4S perfect for gaming and other …

Siri, the voice-controlled assistant that lives inside the iPhone 4S, has been gossiping about us behind our backs. Specifically, it’s been been sneaking its pet name for us into our contact information, where it could be accidentally shared the next time we message someone with our details. The heartless trust-breaker Siri has the ability to call you whatever you want …

BlackBerry Messenger and other BlackBerry services such as email and Internet are slowly returning, according to maker RIM. But irate BlackBerry users are demanding the company to compensate them for the three days they spent offline. On a page set up to keep users informed about repairing the thoroughly broken Web services, RIM said, “All services across Europe, the Middle …

Apple has scored another point in its legal battle against Samsung, with an Australian judge decreeing that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 be temporarily banned from sale. “I am satisfied that it is appropriate to grant an interim injunction,” Justice Annabelle Bennett ruled, which means Samsung can’t flog its 10.1-inch tablet down under until the patent battle is resolved. Apple …

BlackBerry maker RIM has said it hopes to resolve the BBM outage that sees BlackBerry owners without email, Internet or messaging services before the weekend, as the company admits the outage is “unacceptable”. The company hopes to fix the service “before the weekend, but can’t offer any commitments or guarantees, because it is important not to underestimate the complexity and …

Sky Anytime is heading to Virgin Media, flooding Virgin’s on-demand service with tonnes of new TV shows at no additional cost to Virgin Media customers. Like the love between Kermit and Miss Piggy, a deal between Sky and Virgin Media might seem frightening and wrong at first. But it will soon have you feeling all warm and fuzzy, because it …

Sony is recalling 1.6 million of its Bravia TVs around the world, after it emerged that the LCD sets are prone to melting and catching fire. Here in the UK, if you own one of the affected sets, a nice man will come and fix it for you. Sony was ordered to recall the tellies by Japan’s trade ministry, citing …

Details have emerged on a follow-up to Samsung’s brilliant Galaxy S2 smart phone. Inventively dubbed the Galaxy S3, it could pack a 4.6-inch screen and a 1.8GHz processor. Specs of the new phone appear to have been leaked to Android site Phandroid, as part of what is reportedly one slide from an internal Samsung Mobile presentation. But unlike most PowerPoint …