Nokia’s sent out invites to a London event on 14 May and a new Lumia phone is on the cards — “The Nokia Lumia story continues” it promises. CNET will be there in force to bring you all the news in a live blog and hands-on reports with the new Windows Phone kit, don’t you …

Acer’s new Liquid E2 is a low-cost quad-core Android Jelly Bean phone that looks to cut the right corners. It’s due out in the UK and Europe in mid-May for €229 (around £200) — although exact prices and dates for a British launch have yet to be announced. It’s an interesting hodge-podge of specs that looks to hit most people’s …

HP’s new 7-inch Android tablet, the Slate 7, undercuts the brilliantly bargainous Nexus 7 by £30, going on sale next week for the jaw-droppingly low price of £129, direct from HP. The Slate 7 is HP’s new effort at a touchscreen tablet for normal people, after the utterly disastrous TouchPad. Its strategy now seems to be to make it as …

Most people won’t really notice or care whether their Galaxy S4 has four cores or eight, according to Samsung mobile boss JK Shin. Hardcore phone fans were disappointed to learn the S4 wouldn’t be coming to the UK with Samsung’s cutting-edge Exynos5 eight-core processor. We have to make do with a still powerful, but rather less exciting Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 …

Got £35,000 burning a hole in your pocket? If you don’t fancy putting down a hefty deposit on a house or driving an Audi A6 straight out of a showroom, you might consider this television. The 85-inch Samsung S9 is mounted on what looks like a very large deckchair and boasts 4K Ultra HD resolution — 3,820×2,160 pixels of opulence. …

After a week of in-depth testing, CNET.com’s Jessica Dolcourt is calling it: the Samsung Galaxy S4 is “the most powerful superphone anywhere in the world.” Jessica’s extensive review has just gone live on our US sister site and I encourage you to read it forthwith. If I may take the liberty of summarising, Jessica loved the S4’s up-to-date Android 4.2.2 …

London’s Air Ambulance is using EE’s 4G network to power its sat-nav system. The capital’s rapid-response helicopter medics previously relied on paper maps because 3G and conventional sat-nav systems were too patchy at high speed. Using 4G means mapping apps refresh fast enough to keep up with the twin-engine choppers and 2-litre Skoda Octavias the medical charity uses. It also …

Microsoft’s proper Windows 8 tablet, the Surface Pro, is coming to the UK “before the end of May”, according to a company blog post. The software behemoth has yet to announce prices. The last we heard about the delayed Pro was several weeks ago, when Microsoft said it was due “in the coming months”. It’ll arrive in other countries next …

Netflix is bringing its new family-focused multi-stream deal to the UK, a company spokesman confirmed to me, but the company is yet to announce prices or a launch date. Whereas now you can only stream two things at once on the same account — to your TV and a tablet, say — under the new plan you’ll be able to …

EE has signed up 318,000 paying punters to its 4G service in its first five months — and says its pricey data has been “validated”. EE’s data plans don’t include an unlimited option, despite the network’s rapid download speeds — but the network insists they’ve been a success. ‘Non-voice revenues’ are up to 51 per cent of the average revenue …