Mobile operators love nothing better than sticking stupid restrictions on what you and I can do with the expensive gadgets we pay a large toll to own and use each month. And when they’re not doing all they can to dissuade us from watching iPlayer or using Skype on that thing we pay them a …

Cineworld has stripped off. All booking fees, that is. The cinema chain, which has 79 cinemas around the UK, is claiming it’s the first picturehouse in Blighty to give booking fees the long kiss goodnight — so shake a tail feather Empire, Odeon, Vue et al, or we’re breaking up with you. Cineworld partially removed booking fees last year, by …

If you thought the parade of Samsung Galaxy S3 ‘leaked photos’ would have to dry up soon, think again. Such is the thirst for news of Samsung’s fabled follow-up to the much feted S2 that the Internet’s photoshop wizards are being kept very busy indeed. The latest traffic generating purportedly bona fide snap has surfaced on Reddit, where it was …

You might assume the 12.1-megapixel camera on the Sony Xperia S would elbow past the 8 megapixels on Apple’s iPhone 4S. But spec sheets rarely tell the whole story — especially when it comes to mobile phone cameras, where a whole range of factors affect image quality, from the lens to the size of the sensor. Megapixel count is only …

Super-cheap phone operator GiffGaff’s network has gone down, according to an update on its community pages. My colleague Rich Trenholm is a GiffGaffer — and despite having three bars on his phone he can’t currently make or receive any calls. (So memo for Rich’s mum: please send him an email instead.) The network outage has been caused by a power …

Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy S2 Ice Cream Sandwich vs Gingerbread 3:20 The wait is almost over! Samsung has started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich to the Galaxy S2 — with Poles and Swedes among the first Europeans to get the update. Lucky them. The S2 ICS rollout isn’t due to reach Blighty til 19 March, but we couldn’t bear …

Another day, another leaked photo of the Samsung Galaxy S3. Could this be the face of the follow-up to the insanely popular Samsung Galaxy S2? Ffffffffffff. That’s the sound of me bursting your bubble. This picture is about as convincing as a sunglasses-wearing polar bear at a grizzlies-only party. In plainer lingo, it’s as fake as an estate agent’s handshake. …

Now playing: Watch this: MWC big phones comparison 3:04 Tech fans got an eyeful of some monstrous mobiles at Mobile World Congress this year as Samsung, LG, HTC and Panasonic whipped their huge handhelds out in a big blower phone-off. I got my hands on the lot of them to see how they measure up and perform in this video. …

Like cosplay and Hello Kitty, Fujitsu phones are big in Japan. If you’re wondering why you’ve never seen one of Fujitsu’s phones, that’s because they aren’t currently on sale in the U.K. All that is set to change though, as the Japanese giant is planning to shake a tail feather and export its smartphone smarts to Europe–imminently, if an FT …

Smart phones will be as cheap as feature phones next year, reckons Google chairman Eric Schmidt. The former CEO of Google, who’s currently taking a turn in the chairman’s chair, made the prediction after giving a speech at Mobile World Congress that was heavy on sci-fi predictions for the not-too-distant tech-fuelled future. Holographic robot-doubles anyone? Schmidt also made a veiled …