Do you love gold — only gold? Then golden words will pour in your ear when you’re talking on your gold-plated £1,700 Samsung Galaxy S4. The gold-loving mad Midases at Goldgenie are behind the gold-plated S4. These are people who never laid on eyes on something they couldn’t drape in gold, securing backing from James …

4K is getting closer to becoming something you don’t have to be a Russian oligarch to afford, as Samsung reveals a 55-inch and 65-inch UHD TV. 4K — also known as ultra high definition — is the next generation of eye-meltingly detailed home cinema. It’s also wallet-meltingly expensive, but with these two new models Samsung is joining Sony in bringing …

Like a geeky stepson, the Samsung Galaxy S4 is very clever but we’d like to toughen it up a bit. Enter the rugged Galaxy S4 Active, glimpsed for the first time in leaked photos — and for my money, looking even better than the original. The Active is reported to be a ruggedised version of the S4, Samsung’s flagship Android smart …

The Samsung Galaxy S4 has sold more than 6 million phones, selling as many in five days as the S3 managed in three weeks. Korean paper The Chosun Ilbo quotes an unnamed Samsung boss who claims the S4 shifted a whopping 4 million units in its first five days on sale. Samsung reckons that by the end of this month, more …

The Microsoft Surface Pro lands in Britain next week, costing £720. The Windows 8 tablet is finally on sale from next Thursday, 23 May. That’s Microsoft’s price for the 64GB version. A model with a roomier 128GB memory will set you back around £800. The Surface Pro is Microsoft’s tablet showing off Windows 8 — not to be confused with …

Windows Phone has overtaken BlackBerry in the smart phone hit parade. But as Windows Phone sales double, the latest figures reveal that Android still dominates. BlackBerry’s share of the smart phone market dropped by a third to 2.9 per cent, allowing Windows Phone to slide into third place after doubling sales from this time last year. The new lineup of …

What’s black and white and green all over? The Samsung Galaxy S4, which is the first smart phone to be handed a prestigious industry award for its sustainable credentials. The S4 has been certified by TCO, a body that evaluates gadgets to see how socially-conscious, environmentally-friendly and economical a device is. The certification shows that Samsung’s flagship Android phone is …

Fancy the Samsung Galaxy S4 but not keen on all the extra stuff Samsung puts in it? Rumours suggest there’s a version with pure Android on its way. The S4 is packed with Samsung apps, such as fitness-tracking S Health. But if you’re not interested in the extras, Geek.com quotes sources at today’s Google I/O event who claim an S4 …

Tests suggest that when new 4G services launch this summer, they won’t have as much of an effect on Freeview TV signals as previously thought. 4G signals zap high-speed Internet into your phone on a frequency perilously close to the frequency used to send Freeview to your telly, leading to concern that 4G would interfere with Freeview. But in the …

The Nokia Lumia 925 has just been officially announced in London, and O2 and Vodafone are quickest off the mark to confirm they will sell the new Windows Phone flagship — with a different colour each. The 925 comes in black, white or grey metal. O2 is the only network to sell the white version when it launches, and Vodafone …