The next Galaxy Note could come with a gigantic battery, if fresh rumours concerning Samsung’s next smart phone are to be believed. The Note 3 will pack a 3,450mAh battery, PhoneArena reports, citing an anonymous source who claims to have “seen the engineering sample of the phablet first hand”. While it’s always worth taking unconfirmed …

The white version of the Google Nexus 4 smart phone is back on sale in the UK, but if you want one, you’d better get your skates on. Expansys lists the white version as in stock, though it says it only has between one and five of them. Expect them to go like the proverbial hot cakes. The white Nexus …

I don’t want to make you paranoid or anything, but the bins are watching you. That’s right, ‘smart’ bins being trialled in London’s Cheapside are sniffing out passing Wi-Fi signals from mobile phones, and snaffling your data without you even knowing. And it’s happening on a mass scale. In a single week, the bins ‘captured’ 4,009,676 devices, The Independent reports. (For …

Proving that not everything belongs in the cloud, a recent publicity stunt for the LG G2 ended in nearly two dozen injuries. Related stories LG G2 review LG G2 smartphone launch event (pictures) A closer look at the G2 (pictures) Taking place in Seoul on Friday, the “G in the Cloud” event was designed to help generate interest in the …

Firefox OS will be making a more “global” debut quite soon. Mozilla and ZTE announced today that the ZTE Open running Firefox OS will be available “soon” on eBay. The companies didn’t specify exactly when the handset will hit the e-commerce site, but did say that it’ll come in the color orange and will be unlocked, allowing it to run …

HTC appears to have some manner of rebrand in mind, roping in Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr to promote a campaign about ‘change’. The ads — the first of which you can see embedded below — see Downey Jr reeling off alternative interpretations of the HTC acronym, such as “humongous tinfoil catamaran”, or “hold this cat” (pictured above, aww). …

Students often spend thousands of dollars on textbooks throughout their college years, but a new feature on Google Play may change that. On the Android Official Blog, Google announced an additional category of higher education digital textbooks that can be rented or purchased outright. The announcement comes at a time when technology is changing the education sector. A growing number …

And you thought all this patent nonsense was over. Or I did, anyway, what with Apple winning $1bn from Samsung, and just last week, the President himself stepping in and putting a ban on the bans. Now the International Trade Commission has issued a ruling that bans certain Samsung devices from sale in the US. The reason? They infringe on …

Would you like lime with that? New leaked photos apparently show the hotly tipped cheap iPhone 5C in lime green. The rumoured cheaper iPhone is widely rumoured to be the first Apple phone to come in colour. If this and other leaks are to be believed, the plastic case of the 5C is set to be decked out in an …

It’s official. The beleaguered BlackBerry is up for sale. On Monday, the company announced it had formed a special committee to explore “strategic alternatives” for itself. The company specifically said that it’s trying to “enhance value and increase scale in order to accelerate BlackBerry 10 deployment.” However, BlackBerry noted in the release that alternatives could range from joint ventures to …

BlackBerry is paving the way for a major change — perhaps even routing itself toward a sale of the company. The beleaguered smartphone maker said Monday that it has formed a special committee to explore “strategic alternatives” for its itself. The company specifically said that it’s trying to “enhance value and increase scale in order to accelerate BlackBerry 10 deployment.” …

Apple will announce the next iPhone on 10 September, anonymous sources have told AllThingsD. The company is expected to announce a budget handset — dubbed the iPhone Light or iPhone 5C — alongside the flagship. It’s said the Californian company is hoping to see off cheaper competition such as the Google Nexus 4. Usually, Apple just drops the price of its older …

Oi — I said oi! What you looking at? A live gig by Plan B to switch on O2 4G, that’s what. Chart-topper Plan B plays a launch gig at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire to celebrate O2’s new super-fast mobile network going live on 29 August. The rapper and Sweeney actor, who went to number one with albums The Defamation of …

Sony’s rumoured snap-on lenses for Android and iPhone will pack in an entirely separate image sensor, according to Sony Alpha Rumors. The DSC-QX10. (Credit: Sony Alpha Rumors) Two rumoured upcoming lenses from Sony will deliver an upgrade to your Android or iPhone camera, Sony Alpha Rumors has reported, by packing in its own image sensor and using your phone as …

The next Nexus smart phone will be made by Motorola and will be on sale in the last three months of the year. That’s according to prominent Android blogger Taylor Wimberly. Wimberly was the man behind a lot of the leaks concerning the Moto X, so when he makes a claim like this, it’s worth paying attention. He wrote on …