Sony has treated its Facebook fans to a sneak peek of an all-new Xperia smart phone heading their way in the next few months. It’s been christened the Sony Xperia Miro and — unlike Sony’s other Xperias — comes fully loaded with the latest version of Android: Ice Cream Sandwich. Yay! Sony is touting the …

Apple’s iPhone 5 is likely to include contactless NFC technology, according to mobile network Orange. NFC, or near field communications technology, allows phones to be used to make tap-to-pay transactions by swiping the phone over a compatible reader. It can also be used to share data between two NFC phones or grab data by tapping on an NFC tag. Apple’s …

Now playing: Watch this: S3 vs 4S vs One X vs Xperia S camera test 2:25 Very high-end smart phones can now also be excellent cameras — so don’t assume you have to make do with grainy, blurry snaps just because you don’t have your digital SLR to hand when your pet is doing something especially cute. If you’re willing …

When Apple unboxed the iPhone 4S it also uncorked Siri — the sometimes smart-arsed robotic genie/butler that can fetch stuff from your calendar, tell you what the weather’s like or do a web search for Kevin Costner’s age. Now it has a challenger — the Galaxy S3‘s S Voice. Siri was not the first voice-control app on a phone — …

Orange and T-Mobile are confident they will be able to launch 4G mobile services in the UK this year, despite fierce opposition from rival operators who don’t want them getting a 4G head start. The launch of 4G services in the UK has been long delayed thanks to spectrum squabbles as operators seek to protect their existing businesses and jockey …

Mobile network O2 UK has started rolling out the current fastest variant of 3G. Don’t get too excited yet: this isn’t the 4G speed hike we’ve all been waiting for — it’s an incremental improvement while operators jockey for position ahead of the 4G spectrum auctions. DC-HSPA, which stands for dual-cell high speed packet access, could see typical mobile data …

Now playing: Watch this: Phone News: Galaxy S3 arrives 3:08 Another week, another dose of PHONE NEWS. You waited a whole year for the sequel to the Samsung Galaxy S2 — a phone so perfect Mel Gibson cries like a baby when he sees it. You ran a patience marathon, hurdling every leaked Photoshop job and pole vaulting the wildest …

Question: What European technology company, once undisputed champion in its category, is haemorrhaging cash, customers and senior staff at a terrifying rate? The answer, of course, is Nokia. The phone giant’s reversal of fortunes in the smart phone and mobile arena is the sort of story Finnish parents will be telling their kids to scare them into doing their homework. …

T-Mobile has confirmed it has finally started rolling out the Ice Cream Sandwich update for Samsung Galaxy S2 owners. T-Mo is the last UK operator to make ICS available for download to Galaxy S2 handsets locked to its network. “We’ve been working closely with Samsung on this, and we can confirm that we will be rolling out the ICS update …

The Samsung Galaxy S2 ICS update saga has been dragging on for weeks — and it’s not quite over yet. Brits who bought a SIM-free device should now all be able to download the update, according to Samsung, round about a month after it originally said the update would start to roll out to their phones. S2 owners who bought …