HTC wants to take Android down a peg or two, and thinks a rival mobile operating system aimed at China is the way to do it. China is seen as one of the biggest potential markets for smart phone manufacturers, so HTC wants to develop new software specifically for Chinese phone fans that ties into …

The Nokia Lumia 625 Windows Phone enormoblower goes on sale earlier than expected on 28 August, for less than £200. The UK price and release date for the new phone have now been confirmed. SIM-free, the new Nokia will set you back £179, or it’s available for free on contracts starting around £21. The 625 hits shops shelves this month …

Stock up on popcorn, film fans, because choosing a movie is about to get a whole lot easier. Netflix has announced My List to keep track of all the movies and TV shows you want to watch later. No more endless scrolling through the banks of thumbnails trying to remember that flick you spotted the other day but weren’t in …

Apple has been at the bubbly, adding fizz to the iPhone 5S with a new champagne gold case — and it’s compared to the black and white models in new leaked photos. The snaps show the fizzy gold iPhone 5S side-by-side with the traditional black and white models, posted online by Japanese magazine ASCII Plus. When I first heard the …

Would you toss a Tesco tablet in your trolley? The supermarket slate challenging the Google Nexus 7 is reported to be called the Tesco Hudl, and could cost as little as £100. The Guardian reports that the Hudl will be a 7-inch slate built by a Chinese manufacturer. It’s expected to be on sale before Christmas. Industry experts believe the …

Samsung’s first Tizen phone could sport a 720p high definition screen. The SM-Z9005 is set to be the first smart phone to be powered by Tizen software to cut ties with Android. Dutch site TechTastic spotted the basic specs for the Tizen phone in a user agent profile, the document that lists specs for individual devices. Inside the Tizen phone …

Golden phone, texture like sun: Samsung has launched another Android flip phone, the Samsung Galaxy Golden, with not one but two touchscreens. That’s two 3.7-inch AMOLED screens, displaying Android 4.2. Inside is a 1.7GHz dual-core processor and an 8-megapixel camera with another 1.9 megapixel on the front. It’s only in South Korea though, so no reliving your Matrix fantasies here in …

More people are ditching Samsung for the Apple iPhone than the other way round, according to new figures from the US. The figures suggest Apple has poached three times as many new phone buyers from Samsung in the past year as Samsung has pinched from Apple. A survey of US customers by the numbercrunchers at Consumer Intelligence Research Partners checked …

The hotly-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Gear is about to wrap itself around the world’s wrists, and more details have come to light ahead of the smart watch’s expected unveiling in a couple of weeks. GigaOM reckons the Gear will definitely be announced on 4 September in both Berlin and New York. And it’s set to sport a 2.5-inch screen, the whole …

Time to take a leak. The latest HTC phone to appear ahead of its official release is the mid-range HTC Zara. The Zara appears in some pretty legit-looking images of the phone, leaked courtesy of the usually-trustworthy EVleaks, revealing a black plastic smart phone. Although nothing’s official yet, the Zara is rumoured to be an affordable 4.5-inch phone sporting an …