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 …

After the success of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon is considering making a phone. The online bookseller-turned-everything-seller is reportedly working on a Kindle Fire 2 and could knock up its own smart phone too. But what would it be like — and would it ever come here? Bloomberg reports those slippery “people with knowledge of the matter” have revealed scant …

Online scammers have hijacked Android phones to fire off a tidal wave of spam emails. A Microsoft researcher has spotted spam emails that appear to carry authentic message IDs and declare that they are, “Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android”. Microsoft researcher Terry Zink reckons the spam is coming from Android phones that have been infected by a botnet. If …

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has disappeared from Google’s online shop — but it’s coming back stronger with Jelly Bean on board. The Galaxy Nexus is on sale directly from Google Play, Google’s online shop for apps, games, movies and music, and its own phones and tablets. Or rather it was — the Galaxy Nexus is not currently listed. But the …

Apple has lost its fight with HTC here in Britain over slide-to-unlock and other patents. The High Court in London has ruled HTC did not infringe four of Apple’s patents, and that slide-to-unlock is so obvious Apple has no right to claim it. The first patent involved unlocking a device by performing a gesture on the screen, or swiping your …

What would you do for free Internet on the go? A new phone network called Samba is offering free data if you watch a couple of minutes of adverts from the likes of Samsung, Volvo, Xbox Kinect, Unicef and Gillette. Sign up to Samba and you’ll get a 3G SIM card or micro-SIM costing £3, with a 3G dongle also …

Now playing: Watch this: YouView hands-on 2:01 It’s been a long time coming, but YouView is here. The new set-top box, unveiled by Lord Sugar today, is like Freeview with the Internet built-in — but is it any good? I tried it out today, and in my view, YouView is pretty sophisticated at looking simple. Hit play above for a …

Android explosion! The giant Jelly Bean-filled Android on the front lawn of Google headquarters has literally blown up — and been struck by a thief to boot. The statue celebrating Jelly Bean, version 4.1 of Google’s Android software for phone and tablets, overheated in the Californian sun. Google employee Dan Morrill revealed on Google+ that the top of the statue “partially …

Now playing: Watch this: Phone News: Jelly Bean launch 2:31 Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has arrived — but when’s it coming to your phone? Click play on our spiffy Phone News video to find out the latest. We’ll also update you on some new phone map technology that can go where GPS can’t, Firefox finding its way to phones, and …

GPS could drop off the map as British boffins work on a new location technology that navigates by signals from mobile phones and Wi-Fi. Defence firm BAE is testing Navsop, a navigation system that goes where others can’t. Navsop figures out where it is from a GPS signal, then learns about different signals including medium-wave radio frequencies, mobile phones, TVs and …