O2 says its phone network is back up and running. After nearly a day of unreliable service affecting hundreds of thousands of customers across the country, the 2G and 3G networks should now be working again — and the thoughts of disgruntled customers are turning to compensation. “Our tests show that 2G and 3G services …

Update: This story refers to the O2 problems in May 2011 — click here to find out more about problems with the O2 network in July 2012. The O2 network is down in parts of London and the South East after thieves done some crime in East London. Vandalism and “well-organised” theft at an O2 site has knocked out voice, …

It started with a kis — the ZTE Kis that is. And this smoochy smart phone puckers up for a very kissable £50. Mwah! Okay, technically it’s £60 because you have to buy £10 credit from Virgin Media as well, but that’s no reason to kiss it goodbye. What about the phone itself: is this a deal worth sealing with …

It may not be available to the public yet, but the Google Nexus 7 has already had its first update. Both the Nexus 7 and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first tablet and phone to run Jelly Bean, the next generation of Android, are both receiving an update from today. The sweetly named Jelly Bean is version 4.1 of Android, …

You don’t need to be rich to smarten up your act — the Motorola Motosmart is an Android smart phone that costs just £99.99. Yes, for a penny under a ton you can get smart with this 3.5-inch Android blower on pay as you go — or it’s free on a two-year contract that will set you back just £7 …

If you thought the Samsung Galaxy Note was big, wait until you get a load of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 — it’s set to be even bigger than the ginormous current model. The Note 2 is reported to be a 5.5-inch slab of a phone, a slight but potentially noticeable size increase over the current version’s 5.3-inch screen. Korean …

A bunch of potential new Nokia Lumia phones powered by Windows Phone have whispered their names online. Various clues suggest a new Nokia Lumia 910, a Lumia 1001, a Lumia 920 and a Lumia 950. Oh, and something called a Dogphone. Other codenames appear in developer’s logs spotted by Chinese blog WPDang, including the Nokia Fluid, Nokia Phi, P4301, and …

LG’s top executive has personally ordered the company’s struggling smart phone division to build an all-conquering quad-core smart phone powerhouse. The planned phone will feature a quad-core processor and a camera of more than 10 megapixels to try and stand out from other Android smart phones. Korean newspaper The Chosunilbo reports LG’s boss of bosses Koo Bon-moo has complained that …

I got 99 problems and my phone is one. Whether it’s the battery, the screen or the volume, it seems every new smart phone has something wrong with it. A new report has gathered together the top complaints about the iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia Lumia 900, HTC Titan 2 and the BlackBerry Curve 9300, along with …

MeeGo may not be gone after all. A group of former Nokia employees has banded together to resurrect the ill-fated operating system — previously seen only on the doomed Nokia N9 — ready to create new smart phones powered by MeeGo. Describing MeeGo as “something wonderful — the world’s best smart phone product”, the ex-Nokia staff have banded together to …