Now playing: Watch this: Phone Week: Samsung phones unveiled, but ICS scarce 3:52 After ringing in the new year with a whole host of phone news, we find ourselves only a week later with a tonne more of the stuff to impart. Once again, we’ve cleverly squeezed all the latest rumours and announcements into one …

Now playing: Watch this: Fujitsu waterproof phone and tablet hands-on 1:10 Here at CES in Las Vegas we often find ourselves drenched in champagne poured by local beauty queens. Fujitsu came prepared for just such a soaking with the F07D smart phone and F01D tablet — two Android devices with waterproof skills. The F07D phone, while not exactly creatively named, …

If you’re desperate to pack ultimate power into your pockets, but don’t want to change out of your jeggings, the Huawei Ascend P1S will help you out by packing a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and Android Ice Cream Sandwich into a ridiculously thin body. Huawei has typically aimed its phones — such as the Blaze — at the …

Now playing: Watch this: Lenovo IdeaPad S2110 tablet hands-on 0:55 Fancy a look at the latest transforming tablet that thinks it’s a laptop that thinks it’s a tablet? Press play on our video to meet the Lenovo IdeaPad S2110, all the way from CES 2012 in Las Vegas. The IdeaPad S2110 appears at first glance to be a laptop, until, …

Android is so popular, its rivals are ganging up. Samsung wants to improve its non-Android phones by bringing together its own low-end operating system Bada with the successor to MeeGo, Tizen. Although most of Samsung’s phones, like the wildly successful Samsung Galaxy S2, oversized Samsung Galaxy Note and Ice Cream Sandwich-sporting Samsung Galaxy Nexus, are powered by Android, Forbes reports …

Now playing: Watch this: Lenovo IdeaPad U310 and IdeaPad U410 hands-on 0:49 CNET UK’s Luke Westaway got his mitts on Lenovo’s lovely pair of laptops at the CES 2012 show in Las Vegas this week. You’ll have to sit and watch the action for now, as the company’s latest ultrabooks await a spring release date in the UK. Then you …

We already knew the Nokia Lumia 710 was coming to Three, though we didn’t have a concrete price or release date. Well now we can tick one of those boxes, as Nokia has announced the 800’s little brother will hit shops on 1 February. It made the announcement via its Nokia UK Mobcast, NokNok reports. Though sadly there’s still no …

The iPad 3 will have a quad-core processor, and an HD screen that’s a higher resolution than some TVs, according to sources, Bloomberg reports. It’ll also come ready to play with LTE super-fast broadband, the sources say. We’ve heard these rumours before, but Bloomberg quotes three people who are familiar with the product, hinting that these could be the real …

Smart televisions I sort of get. But smart refrigerators and washers? If Samsung Electronics is right, developers may flock to smart appliances as the next opportunity. At the Consumer Electronics Show, the consumer electronic giant unveiled its vision for a wider range of smart appliances. That included music apps such as Pandora on the refrigerator and an app on the …

We knew the networks were eager to snap up the Xperia S. Everyone bar Virgin Mobile and Vodafone got on board with the first Sony-branded blower to hit these shores since Sony announced it was buying out Ericsson. But we didn’t know exactly when the handset would arrive, nor how much it’d cost. Well, those chaps over at Clove have priced …

Keen to splash out on a Samsung Galaxy S2 smart phone but just not digging all that boring black? It’s your lucky day, because the S2 is now available in pink — and it’s time to drop hints to your current squeeze, because if they order fast it arrives the day before Valentine’s Day. We wish that when it comes …

We’ve all been there: you’re walking down the street when a text arrives, which you read, and just as you’re giggling over that hilarious autocorrect from your friend — bam! You’ve fallen down a well. Fortunately, the link between mobile phone distraction and accidents is being investigated, using science. New Scientist reports a study in the Accident Analysis and Prevention …

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has dealt another blow to Apple’s legal challenge, by ruling that Motorola’s smart phones don’t violate the Cupertino company’s patents, CNET reports. It’s only a preliminary ruling, and needs to be approved by the ITC’s full six-member commission. But still, considering Google is planning to buy Motorola, it doesn’t bode well for Apple’s legal offensive …

Now playing: Watch this: Sony Google TV remote hands-on 1:15 2012 looks like being the year smart TVs lived up to their promise. The lurking threat of Apple on the horizon has made TV makers raise their game and in this video from CES we take a look at Sony’s quirky new remote for its Google TV devices. Hit play …

Steve Jobs coaxed John Sculley to join Apple from Pepsi by saying: “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?” Jobs and the ex-chief executive are said to have had a few run-ins in the past, but Sculley was keen to dispel the …