Josh Miller/CNET The Google Nexus 6 is now available to pre-order in the UK, and Google’s Lollipop-packing phablet will set you back £499. The Nexus 6 is a 6-inch phablet built by Motorola. Along with the Nexus 9 tablet it’s one of the first devices to show off the new version of Android, Google Lollipop, …

Nokia has turned to Android and Intel for its N1 tablet. Nokia Nokia, reborn after the sale of its phone business to Microsoft, on Tuesday unveiled an Android tablet: the N1. Set to cost around $250, the 7.9-inch N1 tablet will be on sale in China before Chinese New Year — 19 February 2015. Prices and release dates for other …

Nokia Nokia is “up to something” — and it looks like that something is the Finnish company’s first major product launch since it stopped being a phone company. “Guess what?” says Nokia, tweeting a picture of a mysterious black box. What could the box be? We’ll find out tomorrow: Nokia has been teasing us with social media posts promising “an …

Camille Sanson/EE I like driving in my car. It’s not quite a Jaguar — but the Internet takes flight while you’re driving thanks to the new EE Buzzard 2 4G Wi-Fi dongle. The Buzzard 2 costs £80 up front or is free if you sign up to a mobile data contract of £15 or more. It comes with a free …

GiffGaff It’s the Giff that keeps on Giffing: budget network GiffGaff goes 4G today, at wallet-friendly prices and with contracts you can cancel any time. GiffGaff is a low-cost mobile network owned by O2 and using O2 masts and infrastructure, but run as a separate business. Costs are kept down by minimal advertising and customer support, with users encouraged to …

Microsoft’s promo image for the upcoming Lumia. Microsoft The first Microsoft Lumia smartphone is looming, with its unveiling set for Tuesday. The company posted late Thursday a teaser of a smartphone with #MoreLumia hashtag, showing off an orange frame around what is presumably the front of the camera. The new Lumia smartphone will mark the first time the product line …

Samsung ‘Ello ‘ello ‘ello, what’s all this then? Police in Yorkshire are ditching notebooks for Notes, with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 cutting out the paperwork to put bobbies back on the beat. West Yorkshire police has ordered 4,000 Note 3 mobile devices to record information while fighting crime. The Note line is Samsung’s range of phablets, with the Note …

CNET What a difference a year makes: HTC was able to turn a profit in the third quarter thanks to the HTC One M8 and Desire smartphones. The Taiwanese company posted a third-quarter net profit after tax of NT$600 million ($19 million). That’s roughly a quarter of the profit made in the previous three months, but a big improvement over …

Microsoft Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system has largely missed out on the smartwatch and fitness tracker fun, but with the new Microsoft Band it’s finally in the game. And what’s more, the Band actually works with more than just Windows-based mobiles: it syncs with your iPhone or Android phone too. In terms of features, the Microsoft Band covers the field. …

Now playing: Watch this: LG G3 has tons of pixels and a laser, too 1:50 Life’s good for LG: the Korean company has sold a record number of smartphones in its best quarter for five years as the LG G3 bites back at rivals. Announcing its financial results for the three months between July and September, LG identified the G …