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 …

Stone the crows! Samsung has unveiled a cutesy MP3 player alongside the Samsung Galaxy S3, called the Samsung S Pebble. The S Pebble has a similar curved look, feel and colouring as the S3, also announced today. It’s a tiny clip-on music player measuring 32mm x 43mm x 13mm. Inside this heart of stone is 4GB of tunes — about …

Nokia has launched a legal war against HTC and BlackBerry. The Finnish folks behind the Nokia Lumia 900 and Lumia 800 have gone to court claiming Android and BlackBerry phones and tablets are infringing patents related to the app store, multi-tasking and assorted other gizmology. Claims have been filed in the US and Germany that HTC, BlackBerry manufacturer Research in …

YouView set-top boxes have arrived in living rooms. Reports of delays still linger, but the coalition of the BBC, ITV, Channels 4 and 5, TalkTalk, BT and Arquiva has started testing YouView boxes in the wild — and they could be in your living room in time for the London 2012 Olympics. YouView told me that the box is currently …

Samsung’s next generation of Galaxy Tab tablet could have not one screen but two. A new patent shows Samsung is considering a dual-screen folding tablet similar to the Sony Tablet P or Nintendo DS. The dual-screen concept folds in the middle. The screens display either one picture, divided by the hinge in the middle, or show something different on each …

Ice Cream Sandwich is now on 5 per cent of Android devices and rising — but Gingerbread is still the most popular version of Google’s mobile operating system. Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, is the latest software for Android phones and tablets. It’s been painfully slow to make its way into the world but is starting to …

Fancy bagging yourself Ice Cream Sandwich for just £150? That’s the promise made by the Disgo Tablet 8104, a new slate offering the latest version of Android for a sum that won’t break the bank. The 8104 sports a 10.1-inch touchscreen with a 1,024×600-pixel resolution. Inside there’s a 1.2GHz Boxchip Cortex A8 ARM processor and Mali-400 graphics chip, with 512MB …

I donned my superhero cape and 3D specs to check out Avengers Assemble, the new film featuring Earth’s mightiest heroes, The Avengers. Is it worth seeing in 3D? Based on the Marvel Comics characters, Avengers Assemble sees leather-coated Samuel L Jackson recruit a roll call of superheroes when a powerful energy source is stolen, or somesuch. The Avengers are supersoldier …

Samsung is breaking records with smart phone sales. The number of Samsung smart phones shipped has nearly tripled since last year, with the Samsung Galaxy S2 and its buddies even eclipsing Apple’s boffo business. New figures from industry-watchers IDC suggest Samsung has shipped an industry record of 42 million smart phones this year alone, a whopping rise of 267 per …

Wake Up! That’s the cryptic message for Apple fans from a bizarre mob swarming Apple Stores. Samsung was the prime suspect, but the perpetrator has now been revealed: BlackBerry. The strange stunt consisted of mysterious black-clad protestors swarming Australian Apple Stores in Sydney and Melbourne, waving signs and chanting “Wake up!” At first no-one claimed responsibility for the mystifying marketing …