“Something BIG” is coming from Nokia. The Finnish phone firm is teasing us with a splash of orange, but we can only speculate what it’s all about. Nokia says all will be unpeeled at 9am tomorrow morning, 23 July. The teaser is accompanied by a Nokia logo on an background the colour of an extra …

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room. Say hello to the Ubuntu Edge, the first smartphone to use open-source Ubuntu Touch software as well as Android — and the people behind it want your help with a multimillion-dollar crowdfunding campaign. Ubuntu creator British company Canonical wants to bring the dual-booting Edge to fruition by …

When it comes to finding stuff on a map, Apple can’t find its bumcheeks with both hands in its back pockets. But it’s bought a company called Locationary to help with that. Apple has snapped up the company and its staff for an undisclosed sum.  Based in Toronto, Locationary is a crowdsourced location data company. It continuously verifies information on …

The next iPhone could read your fingerprint through the screen. A patent has come to light that shows a fingerprint sensor embedded beneath the screen of the phone, or in the bezel. This latest patent covers a fingerprint scanner that’s separate from the circuit that processes the print, so it can be placed under the screen.  Fingerprint readers have been …

There’s yet another version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 on the cards, and it’s even faster. Leaked benchmarks from Antutu show off the performance of a new version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 LTE-Advanced, which adds even faster 4G to the S4. The benchmarks register a Qualcomm quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.3 GHz. The model number is I9506. …

Calling a customer service line is so often a hassle — and a new ‘phone rage index’ reveals that phoning the taxman is the most taxing call of all. To continue to the next paragraph, please press 1. PleasePress1 compiles the menus of customer service lines so you can press ahead to quickly skip to the option you need. By …

Nokia sold 7.4 million Lumia phones in the second quarter, a 32 percent increase over the first quarter, the company said Thursday. Despite the jump in Lumia smartphone sales, the total number of Nokia phones sold declined, leading to an overall loss of 115 million euros ($150 million) and the possible axing of 440 jobs. The sales of Lumia Windows …

Is Android 4.3 coming next week? Google promises an announcement on Wednesday that could be the next generation of Android, and possibly a new Nexus too. Google has invited press to an event next Wednesday, 24 July, in San Francisco. The event will be attended by Sundar Pichai, the head of Android since former boss Andy Rubin moved to new …

LG has confirmed the long-awaited G2, in the process revealing it’s ditching the Optimus name for premium phones. LG confirmed the G2 would be its next flagship smart phone, and the first of a premium range to be branded with just a G. But the company for whom life is good stopped short of offering any details about the G2, …

Sky admits it’s “fallen short” on Sky Go for Android, but promises that bringing the app to 10-inch Android tablets is “the highest priority remaining issue to address.” “In response to the high level of interest shown by a number of forums customers regarding our Sky Go development on Android to date and our future plans, I wanted to update …