Spring is coming. And with it a new season of HBO’s wintry celebration of incest and backstabbing that is Game of Thrones. The highbrow US TV maker says the fourth series of the fantasy gorefest will start on 6 April in the US. Sky will be airing the episode in the UK on 7 April …
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There is no spoon — but the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo seems to be a real thing. This photo, snapped by an anonymous tipster for the SamMobile fan blog, shows a very slightly smaller Note 3 side by side with the real thing. Deja vu, or a glitch in the Matrix? Screenshots and benchmarks obtained by the leakster appear …
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Nokia’s updating all the Lumia phones you can buy in the UK, all at once. The update, codenamed ‘Black’, brings a boatload of new features to your Windows Phone and is rolling out today. The biggest change is the addition of app folders (pictured above), so you can keep groups of similar apps all together, just like in iOS and …
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A new update to Google Play means Android games can now begin to offer turn-based multiplayer modes via the store’s built-in gaming system — a real boon for strategy fans looking for a quick fix on the bus. Asynchronous multiplayer, as it’s known, means you can play turn-based games — think chess — without needing a continuous connection. You just …
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The Galaxy S5 will launch in March or April and bring with it a sleeker, better Galaxy Gear watch, Samsung’s executive vice president of mobile Lee Young Hee has revealed in an interview with Bloomberg at CES. That would appear to make an appearance at February’s Mobile World Congress trade show less likely, after a Korean official said an MWC …
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New pics purporting to show Nokia’s own customised version of Android have appeared online, showing the internal project’s interface for the first time. Notorious (and frequently correct) Twitter-based mobile mole @evleaks published the renders, showing what a Finnish phone might look like running Google’s software. Nokia has reportedly been working in private on its own ‘forked’ version of Android for …
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Tesco’s Hudl tablet was unquestionably the Brit hit of the Christmas season, with another 100,000 of the family-friendly devices flogged in the last month. That takes the oddly spelled own-brand Android device up to 400,000 sold since its launch in September, the company announced. It’s a much bigger success than the supermarket was expecting, with the tablet out of stock …
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Woah — Samsung is working on a phone called Neo. The Galaxy Note 3 Neo appears to be a low-cost addition to the Note line of big-screened blowers, with a detailed leak pointing to specs very similar to the Note 2. Previously referred to by leakers as the Note 3 Lite, GSM Arena’s anonymous tipster reckons the Note 3 Neo …
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Razzie-award winning director Michael Bay has explained — if not apologised for — what went wrong during his brief appearance at Samsung’s press conference in Las Vegas last night. “Wow! I just embarrassed myself at CES — I was about to speak for Samsung for this awesome Curved 105-inch UHD TV. I rarely lend my name to any products, but …
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With Windows 8.1 and proper honest-to-goodness Office for just £300, Asus’ new VivoTab Note 8 is worth a heads-up if you’re looking for a tablet to do more than just surf the Web. Announced today at the seething morass of tennis racquet sensors and Bluetooth toothbrushes that is CES, the VivoTab Note 8 comes with Wacom’s well-regarded Digitizer stylus software …
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