Weston-super-Mare is now Weston-super-Fast as EE brings 4G to 11 more towns. You can now benefit from extra-speedy Internet on your phone or tablet if you live in Aldershot, Basildon, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Hitchin, Horsham, Leatherhead, Letchworth, Stevenage, Warrington and Weston-super-Mare. That takes EE’s 4G LTE service to 85 towns and cities across Britain, reaching 55 …

Sony’s readying its own monster-megapixel photoblower, according to a new leak — a 20-megapixel camera phone called the Xperia i1. Brazilian gadget gossip site TechTudo bagged the above snap, which shows the white Xperia i1 sandwiched between the 6.4-inch Xperia Ultra Z and the 5-inch Xperia ZL (called the ZQ in Brazil). That would likely make the i1 about 5.3 …

T-Mobile issued invitations today for a media event in New York City on July 10. Exactly what the carrier has in store for the shindig remains a mystery, but T-Mobile promises that it will deliver its “boldest moves yet.” It all begins at 11:30 a.m. PT. Related stories: When Does My Phone Unlock? And How Can I Get My Carrier …

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 …

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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 …

We’ve all seen those arty videos of clouds moving at amazing speed over a landscape, or a clip in which plants grow before your eyes as several days pass in a matter of seconds. They’re called time-lapse videos, and when filmed correctly, can look truly stunning. Read on to find out how you can create similarly beautiful videos using only …

Now playing: Watch this: Mood glasses for your psyche: diving into PSiO 0:47 CE Week in New York is often about finding the oddball bits of CES all from the comfort of your Manhattan midtown event space. Winning the Oddball Award for me this year was the PSiO AVS MP3 Color System, a wearable “audiovisual stimulation” device aimed at wellness. …

Telefonica, one of the world’s largest carriers, has signed a deal with Microsoft to promote far more heavily the software giant’s Windows Phone 8 operating system and devices running it. The carrier said in a statement on Wednesday that over the next year, it will enhance its marketing efforts for Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices. The company …

The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini goes on sale on Saturday, for £365. The cheaper version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 is arriving this weekend both on contract and SIM-free. Although we were originally expecting the sawn-off S4 on 5 July, online shops now promise the Android smart phone in mere days. Retailer Unlocked Mobiles offers the phone SIM-free and unlocked …

India is now the third biggest smartphone market in the world. During the first quarter of 2013, smartphone sales in India jumped by 163 percent over the prior year’s quarter, Strategy Analytics said on Wednesday. In comparison, smartphone volume over the same period rose by 86 percent in China, 24 percent in Japan, and 19 percent in the United States. …

Nokia’s enormous new super-camera phone will be called the Lumia 1020, according to well-connected Twitter-based leak artist @evleaks. Up until now referred to as the Lumia EOS — an internal codename, apparently — the thoroughly leaked mobile is set to be the Windows Phone version of last year’s 41-megapixel 808 PureView, which my colleague Rich Trenholm memorably described as “a …

Please remain in your seats while the seatbelt light is illuminated — but y’know what? Feel free to whip out your phone. British Airways is the first European airline to let you switch on your phone straight after touching down. BA has decided to allow you to switch on your phones, tablets and other electrical kit as soon as your …

Dish Network said on Thursday that it was withdrawing its offer for Clearwire, ensuring that Clearwire will be acquired by Sprint Nextel. Dish and Sprint were embroiled in a furious back and forth over the 4G wireless provider, but Sprint had taken control after raising its offer above Dish’s own offer for a second time last week, winning the backing …

Virgin and O2 customers are some of the happiest around, while those of you on Orange, TalkTalk and BT Vision are tearing out your hair. That’s according to the latest complaints figures from telecoms watchdog Ofcom. Ofcom has totted up the number of recent complaints about the major telecoms services, Internet service providers, and pay-TV companies. Between January and March …