Samsung’s not one to shy away from releasing zillions of different versions of essentially the same phone, but its two latest models are intriguing in one specific way. The Galaxy S4 and S4 Mini are getting ‘TDD/FDD Dual Mode LTE’ versions, the company has announced. What the what? LTE is the formal name for 4G, …

HTC’s miniature metal marvel is within touching distance. The HTC One Mini is due in the UK next week, with online retailer Unlocked Mobiles undercutting rivals with a £365 pre-order price-tag. If you’re desperate to get your hands on the One Mini, Carphone Warehouse reckons it’ll be in stock from 9 August — next Friday — three days ahead of …

BT Sports 1 and 2 start at 6pm tonight with no charge for anyone, for one day only. The new channels are part of BT’s plan to wreck Sky’s live sport monopoly and are available to YouView, Sky and BT Vision users — and free for a limited period to BT Broadband subscribers. Apps have appeared too, on the iOS …

Apple’s testing a wide variety of new screen sizes for its mobile products, including a 13-inch iPad, according to anonymous manufacturing sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal. No specific sizes were mentioned for the iPhone, but recent leaks have hinted at a 4.3-inch display, which might cause it to be later than planned. A slo-mo video mode has also …

We’ve got woes in different area codes — number shortage woes, that is. Ringing your neighbour from your landline could require more button presses in future as Ofcom, the UK’s telecoms watchdog, gets people in several areas of the country to dial the area code. Callers in Aberdeen, Bradford, Brighton, Middlesbrough and Milton Keynes could have to add on their …

Honey, HTC’s shrunk the kid! The HTC One Mini was officially unveiled this morning. Check out Andy’s glorious hands-on photos, video and carefully considered opinions here. Go on, I’ll wait. Pretty nifty, huh? The One Mini will be available in the UK “later this year” according to high-street phone-flogger Phones 4U, who’ll be selling the bejeezus out of it. EE …

It’s an expensive business, launching a tech product. Especially when no one buys it. Microsoft has admitted it’s written off a jaw-dropping $900m worth of Surface tablets, which it describes as “best selling” on its website. Brian Hall, Microsoft’s general manager of Surface marketing, and surely a man who feels the Sword of Damocles hanging over him right now, told …

Despite having literally nothing to watch on them, 4K TVs are popping up all over the place, with Britain’s favourite telly maker Samsung the latest to bring its Ultra HD efforts to the UK. The Korean company’s 55- and 65-inch F9000 TVs will set you back £4,000 and £6,000 respectively. They’ll both be lighting up specialist retailers and rich people’s …

The sequel to Google’s cracking little Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus 7 II, is rocketing towards an official launch, with a cache of specs, pics and loads of other details leaked to Google fansite Android Central. Again built by Asus, the slate retains its 7-inch screen but adds a 5-megapixel snapper on the back, so you can be one of …

Nokia’s planning its biggest phone yet — and it could be one of the cheapest too. The Lumia 625 has appeared on the website of China’s official government telecoms equipment certifier Tenaa. A real back-to-basics Windows Phone after the excitement of the Lumia 1020 launch, the 625 reportedly has a hefty 4.7-inch display — the same size as the HTC …