Samsung has been forced on the defensive yet again over reports that its top-notch smart phones are cheating at benchmark tests. The Korean company has denied its Galaxy Note 3 superphone exaggerates its performance when it detects well-known benchmarks running, as was claimed yesterday in an extensive, well-documented report on the website Ars Technica. “The …

Samsung has been forced on the defensive yet again over reports that its top-notch smart phones are cheating at benchmark tests. The Korean company has denied its Galaxy Note 3 superphone exaggerates its performance when it detects well-known benchmarks running, as was claimed Tuesday in an extensive, well-documented report on the Web site Ars Technica. “The Galaxy Note 3 maximises …

Google’s new Nexus 5 phone could pack some very cool new camera tech that lets you refocus your photo after you take the shot. The LG-built new Android flagship is set to use a MEMS sensor, according to data logs apparently obtained by tech site Myce.com. It found the product code IMX179 in the phone’s camera data, which corresponds to …

There’s a sad symmetry to the contrasting fortunes of Samsung and HTC — as the former rises, it seems, the other can only fall. Samsung has announced record profits for the third quarter of the year, while HTC confirmed it had lost money for the first time since going public over a decade ago. Samsung’s estimated profit for the quarter …

Smashing news, bargain hunters! Samsung’s got a brand-new Galaxy Ace on the way, the Ace 3, and it’s packing 4G. Wait, what? Yes, the follow-up to the phenomenally popular Galaxy Ace 2 — famous for providing good Android times for under £200 — will be able to use the ridiculously expensive data service. 4G isn’t compulsory, of course, and it …

Hooray! LG’s made something bonkers! I was beginning to worry it had gone a bit safe — after years of making the most unbelievably weird and often hilariously unusable devices, its most recent phones have been disappointingly conventional. This bendy phone, ZDNet Korea reports, is a flexible 6-inch smart phone, curved like a banana. The curve mimics that of LG’s …

The only Android manufacturers who aren’t cheating at benchmarks are Google and its subsidiary Motorola, according to a new report from hardcore testing site AnandTech. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 is the latest high-end Android phone found to be gaming the tests tech sites use to rank processor performance by artificially optimising for them, with Samsung yesterday denying that that …

If your wallet’s as bottomless as Scrooge McDuck’s and your hunger for calfskin and titanium knows no bounds — not even good taste — then Vertu’s new €4,900 (£4,090) Android phone should be heading towards your pocket post-haste. The new Constellation is the British luxury phonemaker’s second blow-out blower to run Google’s mobile software, but it’s no high-end powerhouse. Your …

Apple has a message for you — it knows iMessage is borked and it’s sorry. We reported yesterday that many iPhone and iPad users have had trouble with the instant messaging service since the upgrade to iOS 7. “We are aware of an issue that affects a fraction of a percent of our iMessage users, and we will have a …

Tech companies dominate a new list of the world’s most valuable brands, with Apple taking the top spot from perennial champ Coca-Cola in the respected Interbrand global survey. The half-eaten apple is worth a staggering $98.3bn to the Californian company, according to Interbrand’s analysis, up a whopping 28 per cent on last year. But Google is snapping at its heels …