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 …

Barclaycard has got tired of waiting for people to abandon cash and pay for every little odd and sod with one of its contactless credit cards. But it’s not sitting back on its lucrative laurels, oh no. The company has a cunning contactless plan: it’s sending out miniature sticky-backed contactless credit cards (pictured above on the rump of an iPhone) …

Not content with building and renting an entire neighbourhood in London, Ikea has knocked up a range of TVs that come with the TV equivalent of the Billy bookcase stuck to them. What has Ikea christened this one-stop-electro-MDF concoction? Uppleva, obviously. Which may or may not mean ‘experience’ in Swedish — and sounds like some kind of pelvic floor exercise …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 will be the official Olympics phone, according to a story in the Telegraph. The paper is light on details as to what this will mean in practice, but we assume being the official Olympics phone doesn’t mean it will be a prerequisite for athletes to have an S3 strapped to their forehead during track and field …

Samsung Galaxy S2 owners who own SIM-free devices can now download the Ice Cream Sandwich update, Samsung has confirmed to CNET UK. “Samsung UK has been working as hard as possible over the last few weeks to get Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) rolled out to all our Galaxy S II customers,” the company said in a statement. “We can …

Love skyscrapers, hate having no mobile signal? Google is reportedly working on a system that could use smart phones to plug mobile connectivity gaps in urban areas prone to patchy signal. The system, codenamed Google Local Messaging Service — or LMS for short — is being developed by Google’s South Korea R&D lab, according to a source who contacted CNET …

The HTC One X, a quad-core behemoth with a 4.7-inch display, can suffer from weak screen sides, according to CNET readers who have bought the device. I flagged up this issue earlier this week — demonstrating how the curved ‘waterfall’ edges of the One X’s screen flex when pushed, causing patches of discoloured pixels to track your finger movements. During …

Android lovers prepare to be spoilt for choice, because HTC is bringing its bevy of Ice Cream Sandwich-slathered lovelies to market. Of course lots of Droidheads have been tippety-tapping away on their beloved Samsung Galaxy S2s for nigh on a year now — so how does Samsung’s classic slice of Android compare to the latest Droidy phones: HTC’s One X …

A design flaw that afflicts the two curved edges of the HTC One X’s screen, which we flagged up in our review of the handset, may only be a problem with demo devices — and may not affect the final retail build of the units being sold to mobile users, according to the company. While testing the HTC One X, …

It’s no exaggeration to say the Samsung Galaxy S3 is one of the most anticipated smart phones in tech history. Not since the iPhone 5 rumour mill began spinning its siren songs has the Internet been so deluged with a flood of ‘leaked photos‘. But while Android lovers have been distractedly salivating over all that Galaxy S3 photoshoppery, they’ve failed …