Champagne corks are no doubt popping at Samsung Towers, as the Korean company celebrates selling 30 million Samsung Galaxy S3 smart phones. The S3 first hit shop shelves seven months ago amid a maelstrom of anticipation. 30 million phones — and a coveted CNET Editors’ Choice Award — later, the S3 has helped Samsung unseat HTC …

The first smart phone contender of the year has been unveiled, and phone networks are falling over themselves to get it in your pocket. The Sony Xperia Z is coming to Vodafone, O2, Three, Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U in March. Other networks will no doubt follow, but Vodafone, O2 and Three are the first out of the gates for …

Mobile phones just got a whole heap more powerful. Announced at annual gadget-fest CES in Las Vegas, the Nvidia Tegra 4 packs four cores, 4G and head-swimming graphics power to speed up the Web, gaming and video. The Tegra 4 chip sports four ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores, with 72 GeForce GPU cores to handle graphics, giving it around six times …

HTC has slumped to its lowest profit in all its time making Android smart phones — could the impending M7 turn things around? As rumours swirl about the forthcoming M7 — and new Sense 5.0 software that comes with it — HTC is hitting new lows. Having made £21.5m profit in the past three months, the results for the final …

In just a few years, your phone will have one, two, three, four, five, senses working overtime. That’s according to IBM, which reckons phones will soon see what you can’t, taste what you like, smell when you’re ill, hear what babies are saying and let you stroke someone’s skin through your screen. In its annual round of 5 in 5 …

Updates are arriving for both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8, and should be hitting the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 800 any minute. The update to Windows Phone 8 will save the Lumia 920 from randomly rebooting without any warning, a problem that’s affected the new phone since launch. Dutch site WP7.nl reports that Netherlanders can update …

The Google Nexus 4 makes waves with its super-cheap price — but it seems no-one told Three, which is now selling the Nexus 4 at an inflated price. If you buy the Nexus 4 direct from Google, it costs a bargainous £240 for the 8GB model or £280 for the 16GB model. But Three — and O2, which also sells …

Like a suffering office worker the morning after a Christmas party forlornly mixing an Alka-Seltzer, EE has dropped two tablets. With a plink and another plink, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE and Google Nexus 7 are the first tablets to fizz up the UK’s first 4G network. The Nexus 7 isn’t actually a 4G device, but comes with a …

The Microsoft Surface is in shops at last. It hits shelves at John Lewis this weekend and the retailer’s never knowingly undersold website today. Up until now you’ve only been able to get hold of the Windows 8 tablet online, or at Microsoft Stores in the US. But from tomorrow you can pop down to your local John Lewis, which …

The best photos yet have emerged showing off the first BlackBerry 10 L-series phone — and it looks a lot like the iPhone 5. The snaps come from Vietnam, where leakmeisters Tinh te have got their hands on the new phone. The pics, including the shot above, reveal more than a passing resemblance to the latest iPhone, with its tall …