Do you need a new iPhone 4 like a drowning man needs air? Like England needs a second centre forward? Like Russell Brand needs a good ticking-off from his mum? Smashing news from O2! You can buy your way out of your existing contract for a discount and get your hungry hands on the gadgety …

Google’s adding some advanced new features to its Android operating system in the latest version — 2.2, deliciously codenamed Froyo. USB tethering and the ability to act as a Wi-Fi hot-spot will be included in the next update, TechCrunch reports, meaning you can use your phone’s 3G connection to pump the Internets to your laptop. Frozen yoghurt is clearly Google’s …

Here’s another date to add to the Apple iPad UK launch rumour mill: 26 April. CNET UK has learned that a major publisher’s app team is readying its iPad app for release on that date to coincide with the much-hyped tablet’s launch. Previous rumours suggested Apple Store staff had been told not to take the day off on Saturday 24. …

Dell is working on some tempestuous new phones, if a leak — more like a Dell-uge — on Engadget proves true. The Windows Phone 7-packing Dell Lightning, the Android 2.1-toting Dell Thunder and the innovative Qwerty candybar Dell Smoke could well raise pulses — and umbrellas — should they make it to the UK. Knock on wood that they do. …

The latest version of the iPhone‘s software will give you 100 new features, including the much-wanted multitasking. Steve Jobs, looking more like Montgomery Burns with every announcement (“Schiller! Unleash the hounds.”), launched iPhone OS 4 at an event at Apple’s headquarters in California this evening. Launched this summer on iPhone 3GS and third-gen iPod touch, it’ll come to the iPad …

The BBC Trust has suspended development of Auntie’s iPhone apps while it considers the potential effect on the market. The apps, announced last month at Mobile World Congress, would have delivered rich news and sport content direct to your iPhone. Rival media organisations, headed by the Newspaper Publishing Association, howled in protest at the mooted apps, saying they would hamper …

With the UK launch of the iPad imminent, we asked our readers what they made of Apple’s latest hoopla generator, whether they were going to buy it and what they thought of JobsCo in general. As always, your responses were illuminating. Some 255 readers answered the survey, with 53 per cent saying they would definitely not buy an iPad. Only …

What’s that stench? Is it a French trench? Or a drenched wench? No, it’s Motorola, stinking up Mobile World Congress with the worst name for a phone since the Krzr. It’s not all bad though: the Motorola Quench is a touchscreen Android phone with Motoblur, the social-networking savvy UI we first saw on the admirable Dext. The Quench is a …

Apple’s legal war with Nokia has hit DEFCON 1, with JobsCo seeking for Nokia to be banned from the US. Apple has applied to the International Trade Commission, a US body that covers patent infringement, to block the import of Nokia phones, on the grounds that Nokia is violating its patents. This is in response to an identical claim to …

Sony has lifted the lid on its new top-of-the-range Blu-ray player, the BDP-S760. Jammed full of exciting new features — some of which may actually make a difference to your viewing experience — it’s also packing a walloping great price tag: £340. The S760 and its more reasonably priced sibling, the S560 (£240), do share an interesting common feature: Wi-Fi. …