Android KitKat features are taking a break from the Google Nexus 5 and coming to Jelly Bean phones. Google is updating older phones with Search version 3.1.8 to give you a taste of KitKat. In KitKat, Google Now is integrated into the home screens so the latest information is right at your fingertips. Although this …

Attention bargain hunters: Asda’s got its bum-patting hands on a 7-inch Android tablet from Medion that it’s selling for just £77, following up the £5 phone it launched last week. Don’t expect too much of the Medion LifeTab E7310. Its most obvious shortcoming is its low-res 1,024×600-pixel screen, which isn’t hi-def (despite what Asda claims on its site) and has …

Apple’s new iPad mini crams a much higher capacity battery in order to power its retina-quality screen and new 64-bit chip, a teardown of the high-res tablet has revealed. Every time Apple releases a new gadget, the website iFixit gleefully rips it apart, ostensibly to find out how you would repair it if anything broke, but really so we can …

Google’s flagship tablets are to start updating to its latest Android 4.4 KitKat operating system today, the company has announced. The 10-inch Nexus 10 and both 2012 and 2013 Wi-Fi models of the 7-inch Nexus 7 will receive the update “starting today”, according to the official Android Twitter account. Starting today, Nexus 7 (2012 and 2013) and Nexus 10 will …

Apple just plonked its new iPad mini — the one with the fancy retina display — on sale here in the UK, and if you hurry it’ll be in your hot little hand by the middle of next week. It’s only available online for now, with Apple’s Regent Street store unable to tell me when they’d have stock. The new …

It may be an Oscar front-runner and acclaimed as one of the best space movies ever made, but Gravity‘s depiction of astronauts’ underwear is far too glamorous, according to the world’s favourite astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield. The moustachioed Canadian spacefarer, who shot to fame earlier this year for his fascinating tweets and spectacular photos from the International Space Station, disparaged …

Vodafone is gunning for Orange Wednesdays with a new offer for pay as you go customers that gives you £10 to spend at the cinema every month. The big red network’s Freebee Rewardz — poorly spelled sweeteners to liven up your off-contract custom — now include a Cinema Pass. This is a prepaid Visa credit card that you can only …

Is this the Moto G’s real UK price? Amazon has put up a page, spotted by a Pocket-Lint reader, listing a £160 quad-core Motorola phone due to launch on Thursday 14 November — and while the title is ‘Motorola DVX/XT1032’, in the description it specifically says it’s the Moto G. Other specs teased include 16GB of storage, a 4.5-inch HD …

A long time in the future, in a cinema near you, you’ll finally find out what happened to Luke, Han and Leia after they defeated the evil Emperor. Star Wars: Episode VII will open on 18 December 2015, its makers Disney announced via the StarWars.com website. That’s a delay of six months or so, as the next instalment of the …

Good news if you’re desperate for a matte black slice of cutting-edge Android in your life — the black Nexus 5 with 32GB of storage is back on sale. The bad news is you’ll be waiting up to 5 weeks for it to arrive. The in-demand mobile sold out two days ago, but this morning the Google Play Store will …