The rough, tough, physically fit Samsung Galaxy S4 Active is set to make its debut here in the UK as soon as next month, according to reports. The waterproof smart phone will go on sale on 1 July, according to anonymous sources speaking to the reliable Samsung gossip blog SamMobile. It’s certain to be among …

ClubLocal, a company that contracts with merchants of home services like plumbing or handyman work, wants to make sure customers waiting to have their homes fixed know exactly when the repair guy (or gal) is showing up. The company, which expands to the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday after testing its service in Dallas, lets customers schedule a service …

Credits (clockwise from top left): Georgia Institute of Technology; Frank Wojciechowski; Alternative Limb Project; Geoffrey Morrison. It’s only a matter of time, really. Google Glass, Epson’s Movierio, the Oculus Rift, and similar technologies are at the cutting edge of wearable technologies. Sci-fi has certainly given us a glimpse at the potential future: internal links to the Internet, augmented eyesight and …

Roku’s industry-leading 750+ channel library is about to get one bigger. Redbox Instant announced today that its streaming-video service is headed to Roku’s set-top boxes this summer. Redbox Instant’s streaming catalog is relatively limited compared with its big-name competitors (8,000 titles on Redbox Instant compared with more than 33,000 for Amazon Instant by recent count), but makes up for it …

Is this the next iPhone? As rumours swirl around the coming of a cheaper, smaller Apple blower — which word on the street is calling iPhone 5S — new photos from China claim to show the hotly tipped phone in action. The pictures are from Chinese site Weibo and shared by Apple.pro, and if they’re real, show the back of …

Now playing: Watch this: Top 5 reasons people switch phone networks 2:43 Whether you love to hate them, or just plain hate them, phone networks — like all services that take your money — can be a real pain to deal with at times. Leaving them ain’t easy though — partly because it’s a right old faff if you want …

Not one, but two sources bubbled up photos on Wednesday of a Nokia Windows phone that could be the handset-maker’s next flagship, after its freshly-announced Lumia 925. Known as the Nokia EOS, photos from a GSM Arena tipster and from a new Twitter user going by ViziLeaks (via WP Central) both show a similar squared-off shape and tall dimensions. This …

Samsung Samsung’s long-rumored Galaxy S4 Active has entered the realm of officialdom at last, and will be out in the U.K. this summer, Samsung has confirmed. The S4 Active is a rugged version of the regular S4, aimed at outdoorsy types who don’t want a phone that’ll faint at the first sight of dust or water. The phone has a …

Now playing: Watch this: Huawei Ascend Y300 2:14 Huawei’s new Ascend Y300 might be the best value Android phone we’ve yet seen here in the UK. Carphone is flogging it from tomorrow for just £60 on pay as you go, or £70 if you’re a new customer, including £10 of top-up. It’s been on sale in Argos for a few …

We hear the patter of tiny phone feet: the HTC One could follow in the footsteps of the Samsung Galaxy S4 in getting a mini spin-off. Digitimes reports that a stripped-down version of HTC’s 4.7-inch flagship smart phone could be on the cards this summer, with a smaller 4.3-inch screen and lower specs alongside the latest Android and features borrowed …

While debate rages over whether Android devices, iPhones, BlackBerrys, or Windows Phones are better, there’s no question that people increasingly prefer smartphones to feature phones. And the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project just released the numbers to back that up. In the U.S., 56 percent of adults are now smartphone owners, according to a study published Wednesday …

Samsung is reportedly set to sign one of the biggest sponsorship deals in tech history by splurging $20m on rapper Jay-Z. Mr Knowles-Carter’s endorsement is due to be finalised in the next few weeks, according to anonymous sources quoted by Big Apple scandal rag the New York Post. The tipster reckons the man who calls himself J-Hova will tie in …

BlackBerry’s next flagship smartphone, the all-touchscreen BlackBerry A10, will launch during the holidays, CNET has learned. The BlackBerry A10 is the successor to the Z10, and further builds upon the company’s burgeoning lineup of devices. The A10 will occupy the highest tier, moving the Z10 and keyboard-equipped Q10 to the midtier. The lower-end Q5 will continue to occupy the lower, …

AT&T confirmed on Wednesday that another 22 markets have officially started seeing the network’s 4G LTE data speeds. The news arriving just one week after announcing network coverage for 200 million people, AT&T’s LTE footprint now tallies 261 markets across the country. The new markets are: Batesville, Ark. Blytheville, Ark. Forrest City, Ark. Colorado Springs, Colo. Clewiston, Fla. Blackfoot, Idaho …

HTC’s popular One smartphone might be getting squished a bit. Estonia-based site Forte.delfi.ee posted several pictures on Wednesday of what it claims is the long-rumored HTC One Mini. The device, it says (and the pictures corroborate), has the same basic design as the larger HTC One, but comes with a slightly smaller 720p HD screen measuring 4.3 inches. The standard …