After years of banging on about Samsung short-changing punters with its rubbish Galaxy S Minis, it’s a delight to see a company other than Apple taking small-screened phones seriously. Sony’s new Xperia Z1 Compact is exactly what it says on the tin — just as good as its flagship Z1, but packed into a smaller …

Samsung’s biggest ever tablet is so massive it just can’t stay under wraps — not only has the 12-inch Galaxy Note Pro popped up on a huge billboard at the CES tech show in Las Vegas, but its specs and those of a similarly gigantic Tab Pro have leaked online. The billboard, snapped at the Las Vegas Convention Center by …

Lenovo’s looking to extend its laptop dominance to Android devices, extending — or rather retracting — its range of Google-powered tablets to a new smart phone, the promising Vibe Z. The Vibe Z is a far cry from the company’s dismal IdeaTab from this time last year. Where that miserable bit of junk had an appalling screen and ancient Android, …

Le chic, c’est cheap. Here’s a couple of cheapish new Android phones from French company Archos that look much classier than its previous budget efforts and have respectable specs too. The Archos 45 Helium and 50 Helium (pictured above, but the 45 is virtually identical) will set you back a penny less than £200 and £240 respectively. Both have 4G …

Samsung’s taken the wraps off its brand-new TV remote control, which’ll be changing channels on its high-end 2014 TVs. It has every control method imaginable baked in, from buttons to a touch pad to motion control and even voice recognition. The curvaceous controller, which the Korean company describes as a ‘pebble-like oval’, is a pretty radical departure from its previous …

Samsung’s blitzing 2014 with an early helping of big-screen portable power with the Galaxy Note Pro 12.2, a massive new tablet that’s been thoroughly leaked online. Set for release at Mobile World Congress next month, but so well leaked I wouldn’t be surprised if it pitched up at CES in Vegas next week, the Note Pro 12.2 is at the …

If Santa dropped a new mobile in your Christmas stocking you’ll have set it up and got playing with it by the time the turkey came out of the oven. Come Boxing Day though — happy Christmas by the way! — you’re probably looking for more stuff to do. And in the spirit of the season, we’re happy to provide. …

Sony’s flogging off some old stock, with its 26-inch smart TV from 2012 going for a cut-price £199 direct from the Japanese company’s outlet store website. That’s a saving of £230 on the RRP and around £150 on the price elsewhere. It’s a very decent little telly — when we reviewed it just over a year ago, our main gripe …

Good news if you’re jetting off somewhere nice for Christmas — from tomorrow, 19 December, British Airways will let you use phones, tablets and other devices during takeoff and landing, as long as you have flight mode turned on. BA is the first airline in Europe to make the change, just a week after the European Aviation Safety Agency updated …

Sky’s £10 day pass to Sky Sports is now available on Apple TV, the company has announced. Your crisp tenner buys you 24 hours of live sporting action via your little square box, with no contract. The pass starts the moment you pay for it, and gives you direct feeds of all six Sky Sports channels, so you can watch …