In our recent Sonos ZonePlayer S5 story, we said the S5 was the most affordable entry into the world of Sonos. That was a total lie, we’re afraid: the cheapest way is to win one from us. To celebrate the launch of the new system, Sonos has not only given us a brand-new ZonePlayer S5 …

HTC has unveiled what it is claiming is a new type of smart phone, focusing on ease of use rather than advanced features. The HTC Smart will run on a platform from Qualcomm called Brew. It’s a pretty little touchscreen phone, and it runs the same ‘Sense’ user interface as seen on other HTC phones, including the Hero — a …

To celebrate the sudden outbreak of crystalline precipitation currently falling on Britain, Amazon.com has announced it’ll now ship an international version of its massive, designed-for-newspapers-and-textbooks Kindle to the UK — the Kindle DX. In principle it’s the same as the standard Kindle (which we reviewed late last year), but features a larger 246mm (9.7-inch) E-Ink screen. “Kindle DX is great …

Consumer demand is what you’d see if Ford said it was working on building a car powered by sneezes. It’s not what we’re seeing for tablet computers. Let’s look back to 2006, when nobody was asking for £200 robot dinosaurs, but Ugobe said it had designed one anyway. People continued not to demand them into 2007, but in oblivious response, …

New Year’s Eve is always a whopper of a night for phone fingering. This morning O2 tipped us off to the fact that between 7:15am on 31 December and 7:15am on 1 January, its revelling UK customers sent nearly a quarter of a billion text messages to other phones. “O2 customers sent 227 million text messages [over New Year],” an …

To celebrate (pictured) the excruciating lateness of the Palm Pre to the UK late last year, Palm has set a date for paid-for applications to be available on the device in Europe: this March. Yeah, that’s only, what, a billion years later than it should be? It might not seem like a big deal, but paid apps are usually the …

Today is Nate‘s birthday. To celebrate, Teletext is being switched off. That’s a birthday-present fail if you ask us. The service’s owners, Associated Newspapers, confirmed the analogue and digital TV editorial offerings were being shut on 15 December, claiming they “had been loss-making in recent years and no viable business model could be found.” The hearing-impaired needn’t worry, as the …

Greetings, Androids. Some good news for you from Spotify today: the new version of its app for Android has been released, with additional support for version 2.0 of the OS (aka Eclair), which means it’ll work on the snazzy Motorola Milestone, or Droid as it’s known in the States. It’ll add a feature previously available on the iPhone version, which …

Orange is now selling the iPhone, and O2 is no longer the UK’s exclusive iPhone network. But it puts you, dearest consumer, in quite the pickle: not only are the two models offered identical, but so are the prices (almost). So how on Earth do you decide which network to choose? We’re here to help. First, we’ll examine the tariffs …

MySpace Music launched in the UK today, and we just don’t get it. Not only is it ludicrously late to the party (even Sky — a TV company — beat it to market), it’s just horrible to use. The idea is that you can stream as much free music as you want (think Spotify, Sky Songs, et al), from major …