If you’ve spent as little as £100 on a new phone, you might expect some teething troubles while you get to grips with it, but Motorola’s Moto G — possibly the best value smart phone ever made — is a gift that keeps on giving. A refreshed version of Motorola’s Migrate tool holds you by …

YouView has today added Yesterday and really added Really to its lineup of catchup TV channels, joining the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Dave on the online service. The futuristic set-top box lets you scroll back in time on the programme guide so supported channels’ on-demand services are accessed in the same way as live TV, in nearly …

Google is looking to expand its Nexus range in more ways than one with an 8-inch version, according to supply chain sources anonymously quoted by industry gossipmonger Digitimes. Likely to be built by Asus, like the Nexus 7, it could feature the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon or Intel Bay Trail-T chips. This mooted Nexus 8 would appear some time in the …

February or March? That’s the big decision for Samsung’s crack team of marketing gurus — while its engineers put the finishing touches to the Galaxy S5, they have to pick the right date and location for maximum impact. So far we’ve heard noncommittal noises from company execs that leave open the door for either a late-February launch at Mobile World …

Samsung’s zhuzhing up its TouchWiz Android interface with a new look that’s inspired by Google Now’s context-sensitive cards, according to a fresh leak. All we have to go on is an apparent screenshot or design mockup from the prolific Twitter-based leakmeister @evleaks, but they appear to show a wide variety of slides related to what you’ve been doing or have …

LONDON — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is joining The People’s Operator, a UK-based mobile provider focused on raising money for charity, as co-chairman. The company plans to expand to more countries, with the US first on its list. “I get a lot of pitches for a lot of things, which fall into two camps: they’re either well meaning but unworkable, …

Sky and Vodafone are considering offering mobile-broadband-TV bundles, partnering up to fight the onrushing might of BT, according to a report in the Sunday Times (paywall link). The two companies are scared of BT’s growing pulling power now that it has serious football TV rights as well as an upcoming mobile venture with EE, the report says, and have held …

Sub-£100 Android phones have generally been ropy old tat, and poor value for money, but Chinese companies such as ZTE are making low-cost phones more worthwhile. Its latest effort, the Blade Q Mini, looks perfectly respectable. It’s only available on Virgin Media as a pay as you go phone, from Argos today and later from Sainsburys, for just £60. What …

Amazon’s knocking £25 off its Kindle Fire tablets this weekend. That means the retail giant’s Android-based slates now start at just £94 for an 8GB Kindle Fire HD, with the offer ending on Monday 20 January. It’s £174 for a 16GB Kindle Fire HDX 7-inch — then add £30 to double the storage to 32GB, and the same again to …

Change that light bulb to green and wind up the Official Klaxon! Samsung’s pulled the trigger on the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite, officially announcing the budget tablet after it was put on sale by a Polish retailer yesterday. Glancing down the official specs list, there are few surprises, but it seems highly likely this will be Samsung’s cheapest tablet yet. …