There’s another player coming into the smart phone game. It’s time for HP to decide whether to adopt Android for a second crack at phones and tablets. “HP has to be in the game,” HP exec Yam Su Yin told the Indian Times, signalling a return to the market after the failure of HP’s first …

I watch, you watch, we watch the iWatch! Apple has registered ‘iWatch’ as a trademark in two more countries, speeding up the countdown towards the time of the smart watch. Apple has registered the iWatch name in Mexico and Taiwan, as well as in Japan as previously reported. It’s emerged that Apple filed for the trademarks last month, bagging the name …

If you’re on O2 and on the Tube, you’ll be able to get online before the end of the month. On 22 July O2 joins Virgin Media, Vodafone and EE in offering free Wi-Fi on the London Underground. From that date anyone registered with O2 Wi-Fi can connect underground at 120 stations, leaving Three as the only major network not …

Three is going back to basics with its new pay as you go deals, complete with decent data prices for PAYG customers. Cutting through the confusion of the hundreds of different PAYG options, Three has stripped things back to one flat rate: 3p a minute for calls, 2p to send a text, and 1p per MB of Internet use. There’s …

Here’s an unexpected item in the bagging area: Sainsbury’s is launching its own mobile phone network this summer, called Mobile by Sainsbury’s. Not Sainsbury’s Mobile, which is what everyone will call it, but Mobile by Sainsbury’s. The supermarket chain promises “great quality value-for-money mobile products” and “attractive offers”. Sainsbury’s Mobile — sorry, Mobile by Sainsbury’s — is an MVNO, which …

Almost half of the smart phones sold in Europe are now Samsung Galaxy phones, the latest figures reveal — but Sony may be staging a comeback. Industry measurementiser Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveals that in spring of this year, sales of phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S4 drove Android to dominate the European smart phone market yet again. And here …

The hotly tipped next iPhone could come in an apple-hued green, as new leaked photos reveal a cheaper, more colourful Apple smart phone. French technology site NoWhereElse shows off photos of the exterior purporting to be the rumoured cheaper iPhone Light, in a fetching green, as well as red and yellow. The plastic body casing appears in red, yellow and …

Apple’s latest adverts are proving to be a turn-off with viewers as they make a not-so-subtle dig at Samsung. Titled ‘Designed by Apple in California’, the adverts ask “If everyone is making everything, how can we perfect anything?” But the folks who measure the success of adverts have discovered that the latest Apple adverts score well below the average, and …

In a move that would make Gok Wan proud, Samsung is flaunting its curves: the new 55-inch OLED HDTV is also Samsung’s first curved TV. Why would you want a curved TV? Because when you watch a flat TV, the edges are further away from you than the middle. But sit in front of a curvacious TV, and all of …

The first day of the new Premier League football season will be free to watch on Sky Sports — even if you don’t own a dish. Unbelievable Jeff! If you’re not a Sky customer, or if you are but don’t fork out the extra moolah for the sports channels, you can still watch the opening day clashes unfold. The usual …