BT is jacking up the cost of a landline phone or Internet connection. Your monthly line rental will go up by 50p from the beginning of October, bringing the yearly cost of a landline to £160. The cost of a call will rise to 10.9p from 9.9p, or during the day up to to 6.4p …

Six months ago, we were all actually looking forward to the World Cup, bow ties weren’t cool, and the iPhone 4 was just a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye. Six months on the Web is even longer. Think what all you pay as you go phone owners have missed out on, not like those hoity-toity smart-phone owners with their la-di-dah …

Yee-haw! We’ve long complained that gadget names — especially home-cinema products — are incomprehensible strings of letters and numbers. Sony has taken our grousing to heart, and gone down the unexpected route of naming its latest surround-sound system after a redneck licence plate. Say howdy to the Sony HT-AS5. This fine piece of HT-AS5 has plenty of junk in its …

It’s all kicking off: Apple has called an emergency press conference to address the controversy surrounding the iPhone 4 and its incredible shrinking phone signal. iPhone 4 has been plagued with controversy since it first arrived in customers’ hands, and owners quickly discovered those very hands broke their new £500 phone. It may be the dog and bone everyone and …

We’re fickle followers of fashion here at Crave, and we find it seriously tiresome that most mobile phones give you so little choice of design. Black or white for the iPhone 4? Where’s the individuality, darling? Where’s the expression of personal creativity? We have a real soft spot, then, for the Modu 1, a long-awaited modular mobile now finally arriving …

We like a good tech dust-up, and it seems a new scrap is brewing — this time it’s video-calling VoIP services Fring and Skype apparently squaring off as we gather round chanting, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” No sooner has Fring 4 iPhone 4 brought 3G video calling to the latest Apple phone than the service loses Skype. Scrappy Fring reckons it …

YouTube now supports enormous 4K videos, heaven knows why. The video streaming site, in what can only be described as a display of audio-visual genital-measuring, is streaming video four times the size of HD. Videos can now be streamed at sizes up to 4,096×3,072 pixels, roughly four times the size of high-definition 1080p and twice the size of IMAX. For …

It’s always frustrating when the battery on your blower goes. Taking inspiration from the long-held nickname for the telephone, the Aeolus would let you breathe new life into your mobile phone‘s battery — by blowing on it. It’s not a real phone, unfortunately, existing only in concept form to show off some ideas for environmentally friendly designs. The mock-up includes …

Apple has worked out the reason for the iPhone 4 reception problems, and admitted it has been “totally wrong”. But the explanation, in an open letter on the Apple Web site, isn’t quite what we were expecting. Users quickly noticed that covering the seam on the left of the phone’s stainless steel antenna caused signal strength to drop four or …

Google is rolling out the latest version of Android to its very own Nexus One. Android 2.2, also known as Froyo, will be pushed out over the air to Nexus One owners over the course of this week. As always when installing new software, we recommend backing up your phone in readiness. Once you have the download, your Nexus One will …