The costs of calling someone on their mobile phone are set to fall considerably over the next four years, thanks to a new ruling by the UK’s telecoms regulator Ofcom on the amount operators can charge one another for incoming calls. This is all to do with ‘mobile termination rates’, which are the key reason …

Apple may have sold as many as 1 million iPad 2 tablets over its launch weekend, although the company hasn’t yet announced an official milestone. Some early buyers are reporting issues with the hardware, however, with “bleeding backlight” issues leading some to seek replacements from Apple. How many iPad 2s were sold? Nobody knows for sure, and industry analyst estimates …

HTC unveiled its Flyer 7-inch Android tablet at Mobile World Congress in February, and has reportedly ordered more than one million of the devices to sell this year. It won’t be the only tablet on the way from the company though: a leaked list of devices from US retailer Staples reveals plans for a 10-inch model too. The list is …

Apple’s iPad 2 went on sale in the US on Friday, with technical experts already tearing the first models apart and benchmarking its new A5 processor to get a proper handle on the device. The results make for interesting reading. iFixit got in early with its teardown (pictured above), finding that the iPad 2’s battery is a 3.8V 25W-hour unit …

When Samsung took the wrappers off its Galaxy S II smart phone at Mobile World Congress, the Android 2.3 Gingerbread software was one of its key features. Worried that your older Galaxy S was being left out of the Gingerbread party? Fear not: the update is on its way to the latter handset this month. Well, it is in Romania. …

The iPad 2 is going to be a monster device for gaming, thanks to its A5 processor which, according to Apple, is twice as fast for CPU performance and nine times more powerful for graphics. Games developers are already taking advantage, with Infinity Blade and Real Racing 2 HD muscling up for today’s US iPad 2 launch. Epic Games’ Chair …

The iPad 2 goes on sale in the US tomorrow, although us Brits will have to wait a couple of weeks to get our hands on the device. Still, we can ooze livid green jealousy from across the ocean, as the big guns of American tech journalism publish their reviews of Apple’s updated tablet. So what do the people who’ve …

Waiting impatiently for the first proper Windows Phone 7 update to hit your handset? Join the crowds. The phone-bricking installation bugs that afflicted some users with the pre-update ‘update’ in February have delayed the launch of the full thing. Microsoft is referring to the next update as the ‘copy-and-paste update’, since that’s the major new feature, along with a better …

Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave rivals a verbal bashing at the iPad 2 launch earlier this month, but now they’re starting to hit back. Toshiba has put its head above the parapet, with one of its Australian execs promising that its upcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet will be superior to the new iPad. Here’s the exact quote from Toshiba’s Rob …

The wait goes on for Nokia’s first Windows Phone 7 smart phones to make their debut, but the company still has some other tricks up its capacious Finnish sleeves. The X1-00 is its latest music-focused handset, and while it’s unlikely to go on sale here in the UK, it still has some interesting features. Nokia says the orange phone is …