You don’t have to be rich to get one up on your friends — the HTC One V, that is, which is now up for grabs and very tastily priced too. It’s available for pre-order, which is a horrible word, but what can you do? After you order the phone, it’ll be sent to you …

Is your phone contract good value? Chances are it’s not, unfortunately, as new figures reveal we waste an eye-watering £5 billion a year by being on the wrong deal. That sounds like an improbably large number, but new figures from tariff comparison site Billmonitor and phone-flogger Carphone Warehouse suggest that each mobile user overpays an average of £194 each year. …

Ice Cream Sandwich is coming to the Samsung Galaxy S2 on Vodafone on Thursday. After a month — and more — of waiting, those of you on Vodafone only have a couple more days to hold out. The network says it will release the latest version of Android to S2-owning customers on 12 April — but be warned Vodafone says …

The Samsung Galaxy S3 is set to boast a physical home button — just like the Galaxy Note. The hotly tipped follow-up to the hugely succesful Galaxy S2 is still under tight wraps, but word on the street suggests both hardware and software will echo the Note. The latest rumour, from UnwiredView, is that the S3 will have a physical …

Ice Cream Sandwich isn’t worth the fuss, Sony says. The Japanese giant is desperate to convince us to stick with the “extreme stability” of Gingerbread rather than giving it a hard time about the latest update. Ice Cream Sandwich is the tasty name for version 4.0 of Android, Google’s software for mobile phones and tablets. It’s the latest version, but …

Meet Carla: the latest version of Nokia’s Symbian software is revealed for the first time in slinky screenshots, complete with Android-style unlocking. Carla includes a new onscreen Qwerty keyboard, improved browser and updated music player. An updated options screen draws on the design of MeeGo, the ill-fated software in the Nokia N9. The first shots of Carla appeared on Indonesian …

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and its Galaxy Tab buddies are the “only serious tablet competitor” to the new iPad, says the man who ran Apple for a decade. Former Apple boss John Sculley praises Samsung’s tablet in an interview with The Economist, in which he also hints that Windows 8 tablets will shake things up in the tablet market. …

Apple is offering refunds to people who bought a new iPad because they mistakenly thought it would net them super-fast 4G Internet connection when they’re out and about. The Australian consumer watchdog took Apple to court over the new iPad’s 4G billing, pointing out the small detail that it doesn’t in fact work with the Aussie 4G network. Apple has …

Regulator Ofcom has extended the time for networks to register their opposition to Orange and T-Mobile’s plan to create a 4G network, which would see them pip their rivals as they sit in wait for the government’s 4G spectrum sell-off. The pair merged to form Everything Everywhere in 2011, and in sharing their network, they’ve freed up a load of …

More movies will be streamed this year than DVDs or Blu-rays bought, according to a new report. As Netflix, Lovefilm and now Sky’s Now TV step up online streaming, could 2012 mark the end of the physical disc? Bloomberg reports that streaming will overtake physical discs this year in the US, increasing to 3.4bn titles watched online, up from 1.4bn …