Remember when Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t unveil an iPhone 5 at the company’s ‘Let’s Talk about iPhone’ event? Many frustrated tweets at the time suggested the iPhone 4S was a letdown, but one million pre-orders in its first 24 hours suggest that Apple, once again, has a firm handle on the demand for its …

HP’s TouchPad tablet will be available to buy this June, according to the company’s CEO Leo Apotheker. He was speaking at an event to unveil HP’s wider strategy around tablets, webOS and cloud services in the US. “The TouchPad will come out in June and from that date onwards there will be wave after wave of technology coming out to …

The growth of Android has been rapid and startling over the last year. We’re at the point where 200 million devices have now been activated, with 550,000 more flying off the shelves every day. What’s more, hundreds of thousands of apps are now available in the Android Market. So which ones deserve to have their icons nestling on your home …

Nokia’s Lumia 800 has given Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS a new lease of life, contributing to a definite boost in the number of good apps being released for the platform  in recent months. Here’s our choice of 16, although like our iPhone roundup, we’ve deliberately left out Facebook and Twitter, which are already likely to be on your mobile. But …

Nokia as the comeback kid of 2012? A year ago, it looked more likely that the formerly dominant mobile maker would have spiralled into irrelevance by that point. Nokia World 2010 was pretty funereal: the company had a new CEO in Stephen Elop and was still selling plenty of Symbian phones, but the atmosphere among the company’s execs and attendees …

Can anything beat the iPad? For the year and a half since the debut of Apple’s first iOS tablet, the answer has been a resounding no. Far from being iPad killers, many of Apple’s rivals have displayed more suicidal tendencies, from RIM’s decision to leave native email, calendar and contacts apps out of its BlackBerry PlayBook, through to HP’s now-infamous …

The biggest weapons in the smart phone and tablet wars of 2011 aren’t processors, touchscreens, operating systems or app stores. They’re patents. The last three years have been a blur of product and software innovation in the mobile industry, driven by the engineers at Apple, Google and numerous phone makers, as well as the talented developers making apps for their …

The Nokia E6-00 may struggle to get people excited, given Nokia’s decision to start making Windows Phones in the not-too-distant future. Still, it’s exciting enough to get its own spy-shot on a blog in Northern Cyprus — not a sentence we find ourselves writing often — which shows off its touchscreen and Qwerty keyboard combo. The E6-00 appears to be …

Information about the Nokia E6-00 just keeps on leaking out. New video footage of the Qwerty Symbian 3 handset has emerged, following on from last week’s spy shots. Alas, the video has been shot in proper blurryvision, if you’ll allow us to use that technical term. You can barely make out what the mysterious leaker is doing on the phone, let alone …

Apple may or may not release the iPhone 5 in June this year. Yes, the online jungle drums are beating once more, but this time there are conflicting reports about when Apple will launch its next handset. Korean site ETNews is placing its bets on June. In a report translated by Mac Rumors, it claims that the iPhone 5 will go on …