HTC has revealed some of the intricate and innovative design and manufacturing techniques that go into making the gorgeous sliver of metal it calls the HTC One. The design video, first shown as part of the One’s launch presentation according to Engadget, is replete with cromulent phrases such as “holistic, beautiful experience”, “no part-breaks”, “electro-chemical …

Thorsten Heins isn’t a big fan of big screens. The BlackBerry boss reckons mobile phones will become so good you won’t need a tablet. “In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet any more,” he told Bloomberg. “Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not …

The original iPhone is now so old that Apple will soon regard it as “vintage” and “obsolete”, and will no longer provide repair parts or documentation. The venerable mobile is six years old — gosh, doesn’t time fly? It feels like only yesterday — and from 11 June this year it’ll be abandoned to fend for itself in the wilderness …

Sony’s new Android phone, the Xperia SP, has a disco-flavoured coloured light strip and it’s partying it up right now on Orange and T-Mobile for £250 pay as you go. The SP’s more fun than your usual dowdy mid-range blower, with a see-through strip underneath the screen that glows different colours. It’s part notification light, part glitter ball — it’ll …

Microsoft’s new projector concept, IllumiRoom, could let the next Xbox take over your whole room. First shown off at CES in January, the company’s research division has explained the idea in more detail in a new video embedded below. IllumiRoom isn’t a real product yet, but the idea is that it’s a projector that sits on your coffee table, wirelessly …

The next stage in the evolution of Android might be further away than we’d hoped, with clues popping up online of Google testing Android 4.3 Jelly Bean ahead of its Google I/O conference next month. Android Police reports that devices running ‘Android 4.3 JWR23B’ — the J stands for Jelly Bean — have accessed its site, and that those users’ …

Using only a Philips screwdriver, a plastic stick, some tweezers and a spudger (my current favourite word), the experts at iFixit have completely disassembled the magnificent Samsung Galaxy S4, reducing it to a pathetic pile of parts. Not to make a million nerds cry out in anguish, you understand, but to find out how fixable the Galaxy S4 is. If …

Drama! Crisis! Shortages! It’s launch day for the fabulous — and CNET UK Editors’ Choice winning — Samsung Galaxy S4, but the Android superphone is proving so popular that phone networks and mobile retailers are struggling to keep up. “There has been unprecedented demand for the Galaxy S4 in the UK,” the Korean company boasts in a statement. “Samsung is …

Initial supplies of the Samsung Galaxy S4 could be limited thanks to “overwhelming global demand”, the Korean company has warned. “We expect to fulfill inventory to meet demands in the coming weeks,” a Samsung spokesperson told our sister site CNET News. US networks Sprint and T-Mobile have already limited the phone’s availability to people who buy online, with no specific …

Mobile phone theft is on the rise in England and Wales — unlike virtually every other kind of crime. New official figures from the police show an 8 per cent rise of ‘theft from the person’ — a fancy way of saying mugging — to 107,471 incidents in 2012. Police told The Guardian that was down to a rise in …