O2 is giving £10 to all its customers to say sorry for last week’s 24-hour network disaster. Some customers will also get 10 per cent off their bill — but only if you stick around. The network provider told us: “we recognise that this caused inconvenience and frustration for those who had a disruption in …

The iPhone 5 is so close now that phone networks are stocking up on a new type of SIM card unique to the hotly-anticipated next Apple phone. The iPhone 5 — or new iPhone, or whatever it’s called — is set to be the first to use nano-SIM cards. Nano-SIMs are a new format of SIM card, even smaller than …

If you think your phone bill is shocking, get a load of the iPhone that delivers a 650,000-volt electric shock. A charged-up robbery victim is calling for money to help develop the Yellow Jacket, an iPhone case with a Taser-style stun gun built-in. The Yellow Jacket iPhone case contains an electroshock zapper, and when applied to an attacker the resulting …

Red alert! The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the hottest phone around, and will soon be available in a blazing hot scarlet case to match. If you can’t picture the blood-red blower, check out our painstakingly-created and no doubt highly accurate fancy Photoshop mock-up above to see what the crimson quad-core calling kit will look like. This little red Corvette of …

From tomorrow you can watch Sky Movies without a dish or Sky contract, as Now TV begins streaming movies and TV to almost any gadget with an Internet connection. Now TV offers Sky programmes and movies online. It has a different name so that customers don’t start thinking of it as cheapo Sky. At first, Now TV will let you rent …

Hooray for Hollywood! The Orange Hollywood, that is. A budget phone with built-in Facebook and Twitter apps and a Qwerty keyboard, it’s not exactly a blockbuster — but it should do well at the box office thanks to a low admission price. For all the details on the Hollywood from Orange, grab your popcorn, stick your mobile phone on silent, and …

You’ve seen what the new iPhone looks like from the back — now feast your eyes on what Apple’s next blower will look like from the front. New leaked photos published by Chinese blog Apple.pro purportedly show the front section of the new iPhone casing — and it’s not much different from the old one. There on the right of the …

O2 has apologised for the day-long network failure earlier this week, admitting that multiple backups failed and left up to 7 million people without service. Chief executive Ronan Dunne appeared on the BBC to apologise for the network failure, which O2 reckons affected up to one third of the network’s customers — potentially as many as 7 million people. Dunne …

More snaps have emerged of the iPhone 5. The new iPhone is shrouded in secrecy, but leaked photos of a ‘test sample’ appear to confirm a new widescreen 4-inch look. The photos originally appeared on Kitguru.net, only to be unceremoniously yanked shortly afterwards. That leads me to wonder if Apple’s legal stormtroopers have been on the phone, and lends a …

The O2 network is down in parts of the UK, leaving customers with an intermittent phone or data signal. O2 is investigating the problem, which is also affecting GiffGaff customers. We first spotted complaints popping up in our Facebook news feed, as friends around the country wave their phones in the air with a puzzled look before turning to Facebook …