For those about to dock, we salute you. The long-awaited dock for the Google Nexus 7 is finally about to sail into shops, costing £25. The dock packs a micro-USB port and 3.5mm audio-out to plug in speakers and start pumping out your choons. The tablet sits at an angle, placed sideways in landscape orientation …

One of the best things about pure Android devices like the Nexus 7 is the ability to root them and replace the standard Android ROM, which opens up a whole world of customisable options and settings, tailoring your tablet to you. Navigating the Android developer world to choose the best custom ROM can be an overwhelming prospect. To help you, …

Nokia is so excited about its fourth-quarter performance that today it announced preliminary financial information to let shareholders know how well it performed. During the fourth quarter, Nokia’s Devices & Services operation not only exceeded expectations, but delivered “underlying profitability.” The struggling company said that the division’s mobile phones unit delivered better-than-expected results, with 86.3 million total unit sales. Nokia’s …

Samsung is already responding to Apple’s seeming desire to reduce its reliance on its chief competitor for the production of mobile processors. Stephen Woo, president of Samsung’s Systems LSI division, which is charged with producing mobile processors, told Reuters in an interview published yesterday that his company is looking to “diversify our customer base.” To do so, he said, Samsung …

The Samsung Galaxy S2 comes back to life in the shape of the Samsung Galaxy S2 Plus, complete with Jelly Bean — but not here in Britain. The S2 Plus comes loaded with Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean, the very latest version of Google’s Android software. Apart from that, not a great deal has changed. The S2 plus has the same 1.2GHz …

Nexus 7 owners will soon be able to pick up an Asus-made dock for their Asus-made tablet. Citing a “reliable source,” The Verge says that Asus will offer the dock in the U.S. within the next two weeks at a price tag of $39.99. Though the Nexus 7 is branded and sold under Google’s name, Asus is the actual manufacturer. …

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, so open wide and take an exploratory bite of tasty mobile data pudding with a free trial of 4G. Expansys is offering a month of 4G data on EE so you can see just how fast it really is without laying out a penny. Buy any data-guzzling tablet or dongle from …

Take a trip with Agora the explorer. The Kogan Agora is a new Android phone that costs just £119, with two SIM card slots to save you money when travelling. The Agora has a large 5-inch touchscreen, continuing the trend for large screens. The resolution is a blocky 480×800 pixels though, giving it 186 pixels per inch of detail — …

A new Galaxy S2 phone is coming to town, though it isn’t much different than its predecessor. Announced today by Samsung, the Galaxy S2 Plus builds upon the S2 by including Android 4.1.2, aka Jelly Bean. Initially outfitted with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the original S2 received an update to Android 4.0 last June and is finally due up for Android …

Family is the most important thing, but new episodes of Arrested Development are a close second. The long-awaited and hotly anticipated return of the Bluth family takes place on Netflix in May. Come on! The 14 new episodes of the cult series will all appear on Netflix at the same time. Word on the street is that they’ll debut on …

His Master’s Voice is singing a sad, sad song — the dog-tricking disc-flogger is selling off a huge amount of stock on the cheap, reportedly to raise quick money for creditors. Extending its ‘big sale’ for at least another month means a whole basement of bargains, but is the retailer in real trouble? Go to HMV.com today and you’ll see …

As it said it would, Google has removed a redirect that prevented Windows Phone users from accessing Google Maps via the mobile version of Internet Explorer and that instead sent them to Google.com. The redirect generated headlines last week, with various news outlets suggesting that it was not about poor functionality on the part of mobile IE (as Google maintained) …

Four cores just not cutting your smartphone mustard? Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa processor brings all the cores to the yard. A quad-core wafer. (Credit: AMD) Although, yes, the new processor designed for tablets and smartphones has eight whole cores, they don’t necessarily all run simultaneously. Instead, the processor is divided up into two lots of four cores: an ARM Cortex-A15 …

The next iPhone could be fantastic plastic, as new reports suggest a budget iPhone will arrive this year with a cheaper casing. The Wall Street Journal reports that a budget iPhone will launch this year, with a new design that cuts the cost. “People briefed on the matter” reckon Apple has plans for a cheaper iPhone made of polycarbonate instead of …

T-Mobile has finally made the big leagues. The wireless carrier has has signed a deal with Major League Baseball to beef up certain stadiums with its own brand of wireless technology. Coming up to bat will be a new wireless “on-field communication system” connecting managers in the dugouts with their coaches in the bullpen. The carrier will replace the old-fashioned …