On your marks, get set, S3! The Samsung Galaxy S3 is the official phone of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Samsung and partner Visa have confirmed rumours that athletes heading to East London for this summer’s Olympiad will be issued with an S3 with Visa PayWave built in. That means they can pay for their …

Curvy is the new skinny, so I hear. The BlackBerry Curve 9320 is stuffed with social network features, instant BBM access and the latest BlackBerry 7.1 OS software — but you won’t need a fat wallet to make it yours. The phone is packed with features that appeal to young BlackBerry-ers. Not only is it available for pocket money, but …

What? No I can’t hear you very well, there’s people here rustling crisp packets. What’s that? Future phones could use your face as an amplifier? Clever stuff! Japanese tech giant and phone manufacturer Kyocera is showing off a new technology that vibrates the bones and flesh of your head to make a call sound crystal clear. Current phones have a …

Tu Me, to you, Tu Me, to you… Enough Chuckle-inspired messing about — Tu Me is a new app offering free calls and texts for iPhones. Created by O2’s parent company Telefónica, Tu Me is a VoIP app and rival to Skype and Apple’s owniMessage. Calls, texts and media messages are free, sent via Wi-Fi or your data plan instead …

Apple has ditched half of its legal challenges in the courtroom war with Samsung. The two companies are locked in battle over alleged similarities between the iPhone and iPad and Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets, and are narrowing down the focus of their fight to beat the ticking clock. Apple’s concessions come just days after the Samsung Galaxy S3 kicked …

Samsung is planning to charge future generations of Samsung Galaxy phones without the aid of wires. It’s teamed up with chip-maker Qualcomm to develop a method of charging your phone or tablet every time you put it down. The Alliance for Wireless Power — or A4WP, if you’re under 14 — is a group of companies coming together to find …

The hotly-tipped Apple TV is real, and comes with Siri built-in. That’s according to an inside source who has seen Siri make a video call on an actual prototype. Cult of Mac reports that the iTV prototype looks like one of the aluminum LED Cinema Display monitors currently sold by Apple, only bigger — previous rumours suggest the Apple telly …

Here’s your chance to check out the Samsung Galaxy S3 from all angles, with a spiffy spinning 3D animation you can control yourself. The image comes from 3D specialist 3D-desk. The S3 doesn’t land in shops until the end of the month, but you can see it in three glorious dimensions right here, right now. It’s not quite the same as …

Now the Samsung Galaxy S3 has arrived, we have to look elsewhere for super smart phone excitement. With perfect timing arrives some rather detailed rumours and mock-ups of the next iPhone, which is said to be longer, thinner and sporting a new dock connector. iLounge reckons the new iPhone — or iPhone 5, but we thought it would be called …

Nokia has admitted it was too slow to get stuck into the smart phone revolution — but it has plans to experiment with “hybrid” tablets to turn things around. Departing Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila told Financial Times that Nokia moved too slowly at the start of the smart phone revolution. He also shared some of Nokia’s plans to turn things …