Prepare to be outraged, people who get outraged about things: experts say the screen on the new iPhone 5 is officially better than the Samsung Galaxy S3 — they’ve done tests and science and everything. Screen testing wonks DisplayMate Technologies pitted the two flagship phones in screen-to-screen combat. The iPhone 5 earned an A in in-depth …

Are you lost without Google Maps on your iPhone 5, iPad or iPod? Bad news, I’m afraid — Google is not working on bringing a Google Maps app to iOS 6. Since ditching Google maps with the new iPhone 5 and latest iOS software update, Apple has faced a storm of criticism over its incomplete own brand Apple Maps app. …

Make a note in your calendar: the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 hits shops on 1 October, Samsung has officially confirmed. You can be the first person in the country to get your hands on the Note 2 this very Monday, if you beat a path to the Samsung Store at Westfield, the enormoshopomall in Stratford in East London. You know …

Five is a big number right now — hard on the heels of the iPhone 5, we hear the giant HTC One X 5 could arrive as the Google Nexus 5. The 5-inch HTC blower will sport a giant screen and it’s a high-definition 1080p resolution job to boot. At that size, it’s a rival to the Samsung Galaxy Note …

Sometimes the best thing you can do with a map is find your way back to where you came from. Which is exactly what one hacker has done with Apple’s controversial new Maps app — which features on the iPhone 5 — by returning the old iOS 5 maps to iOS 6. Self-proclaimed iOS hacker and engineer Ryan Petrich has …

Mapocalypse, Cartogeddon, Navi-gate — whatever you want to call it, the arrival of the Apple Maps app in iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5 has been an unmitigated disaster. Compare that to Google, which employs no less than 7,000 people on its rival Google Maps. The Big G has more than 1,100 full-time Google employees and roughly 6,000 contractors …

Samsung is gunning for Safari and Chrome with its own web browser for the Samsung Galaxy line-up, reports say. The Electronic Times in Korea reports Samsung is developing its own WebKit browser for mobile devices. Samsung has advertised for WebKit developers with knowledge of browsers to work at the Advanced Software Platform Lab at Samsung’s US research and development centre …

Here’s a taste of how much Windows Phone 8 will cost: prices have emerged for the HTC 8X and HTC 8S as they prepare to take on the Nokia Lumia range. The dual-core HTC 8X will cost £400, challenging the Nokia Lumia 920 also announced this month. The 4.3-inch high-definition screen shows off the new Windows Phone 8 homescreen, which …

Jelly Bean could hit the HTC One X in a mere matter of weeks. Word on the street suggests the latest version of Android is finally coming to HTC’s flagship phone — and the 4G One XL will have Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on board from the off. Rumours from MoDaCo suggest Jelly Bean is coming to the One X …

What’s the first thing you’re going to do with your iPhone 5? Watch a movie on the new 16:9 screen? See if your house has disappeared? Or take a hammer and a chisel to it and break it into bits? Stop! Because someone has done it for you. The expert gadget-bashers-apart at iFixit have taken their tools to the new Apple …