Microsoft is in the family way with the new Kin range of phones. Based on the social network-tastic Project Pink, the Kin One and Kin Two are aimed at the all-networkin’, all-sharin’ generation. The phones are the first to offer the Zune experience for listening to music and watching videos. They also pack GPS and …

Microsoft, never a company to do anything the easy way, looks set to start a mobile operating system war next week — with itself. CNET’s Ina Fried has confirmed that a launch event on 12 April in San Francisco will see the debut of the Pure and the Turtle, the first phones to spring from Microsoft’s Project Pink. The Pure …

Apple has unveiled iPhone 4.0, showing off a hundred new features, including the long-awaited multitasking, improved email and dozens of other features — but what’s missing? We take a look at some of the features users have asked for, or are offered by other phones, that didn’t make it into Steve Jobs’ announcement. True multitasking Multitasking is the holy grail …

Apple insiders have confirmed that the iPad is in fact a “massive joke”. With only a couple of weeks to go before the multimedia tablet arrives in shops, the head of Apple’s design department has exclusively admitted to CNET UK that the iPad began as a silly in-joke — only for Apple chief executive Steve Jobs to think it was …

Sky has launched an online 3D pub finder to locate your nearest boozer showing this weekend’s football in three dimensions. The timing of the 3D launch couldn’t be better, the service debuting with Easter Saturday’s hotly contested top-of-the-table clash between Manchester United and Chelsea. With only a matter of weeks left in the campaign, Manchester United lead Chelsea by a …

The Galaxy Portal isn’t the latest Stargate spin-off, it’s Samsung’s new Android phone. Here is the first picture of the phone, available now from T-Mobile. We’re glad the Galaxy Portal gets a proper name — Galaxy Spica if you’re foreign — because it’s also called the i5700. That’s a reversal of the last Android phone the company made, the Samsung …

The first 4G mobile phone has been spotted in Las Vegas. The HTC Evo 4G makes its debut at the CTIA trade show in the States, and its list of features is eye-watering. The Evo 4G runs Android 2.1 with HTC’s Sense interface on top. It sports a massive 110mm (4.3-inch) LCD touchscreen, with four capacitive touch-sensitive buttons underneath. Inside …

With all-singing, all-dancing new operating system Windows Phone 7 grabbing the headlines, it looked like Windows 6.5 was a lame duck. Microsoft is desperately hoping to change that perception by rebranding WinMo 6.5 as Windows Phone Starter Edition. The boys and girls at Redmond made things clear as mud in an interview with our sister site ZDNet’s Microsoft maven Mary-Jo …

The Beeb is coming to your blower — the BBC has announced three mobile phone apps, to be launched this year. Like Sky, the BBC will offer separate news and sport apps. It will also serve up a dedicated iPlayer app. The apps will be available on assorted mobile platforms: iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian and Palm’s webOS were all mentioned. …

If you’re bored of 3G, it’s time to take things to the next level. Which is 4G, obviously. The Samsung N150 is the first 4G netbook, making it able to connect to the Web wherever you wander. 3G is the technology that lets you browse the Web at usable speeds over your mobile phone signal. 4G is even faster, allowing …