The best pics yet of the Samsung Galaxy S4 have appeared online, just as the Korean company is rolling out the red carpet and firing up the arc lights for tonight’s massive New York launch. The 19 images posted at Chinese blog Mobile.it168.com — if genuine — leave nothing to the imagination. They convey the …

Samsung is leakier than dear Henry’s bucket this week — a new video of its flagship Galaxy S4 has emerged, from the same people who brought you those Note-ish leaked photos yesterday, 52Samsung. The video is a no-holds-barred hands-on with the new phone, which looks absolutely huge. There’s metal-looking trim round the sides and a nondescript plastic back, with a …

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is just 10 days away from its big launch, and Samsung’s attempting to wind up the hype machine with a staggeringly embarrassing new teaser trailer posted on its Facebook page. The video, embedded below, all but confirms that the next Galaxy smart phone will indeed be called the Galaxy S4, with the tagline, “Be ready 4 …

Ever fancied dipping a Jelly Bean in your T? Sony says the hotly anticipated Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for its Bond-endorsed Xperia T is on its way, but users hoping for the very latest version of Android will be left sorely disappointed. The update brings Google’s robotic concierge, Google Now, into Xperia users’ hands, as well as more control …

Smaller Windows 8 tablets could soon take on the Nexus 7 and iPad mini, according to Microsoft’s chief financial officer Peter Klein, speaking during a Q&A session at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet conference yesterday. When asked about Microsoft’s plans to address different sized form factors, ranging from 4 inches all the way up to 13 inches and even …

Facebook has added the ability to record and post video from inside its iPhone app, less than a week after Twitter launched its video snippets service Vine. The update, to version 5.4, also adds voice messaging and improves the Nearby tab. It brings Facebook’s iOS app in line with its Android equivalent, which added these features last week. To add …

Bonnet de douche! The hotly rumoured Samsung Galaxy Note 8 has been snapped au naturel with a Galaxy Note 2 by Gallic phone paps Frandroid. It’s the first time we’ve been able to compare the new tablet to one of its stylus-toting freres. It’s not an official pic from Samsung, of course, but it looks exactly the same as the …

Chinese phone maker Huawei is officially the ‘new HTC’ — a formerly obscure manufacturer catapulted into the big leagues by making great value Android mobiles. New figures from industry analyst IDC show Huawei sold more phones in the last quarter of 2012 — the most important part of the year — than anyone bar Samsung and Apple. In doing so, …

Nokia’s next top mobile will be a proper PureView — a Windows Phone with all the impressive camera gubbins of the ludicrous Nokia 808, according to the Verge. Codenamed ‘EOS’ — surely a nod to Canon’s range of high-end dSLR cameras, and I wonder how the Japanese company will feel about that — the new PureView will have a “similar …

Sky Go, the app that lets Sky subscribers watch TV on their smart phone, laptop or tablet, is now available on the HTC One X+, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and Motorola Razr i — but still not on any Android tablet larger than 7 inches, such as the Google Nexus 10. Sky Go updated to version 3.0 last night, …