Dee-sii-ii-ii-ii-uhhh! HTC’s latest slice of smart phone wizardry is going where the bright lights and big city meet: um, Britain. Yes, the HTC Desire 500 is on its way to Blighty and it’ll set you back some moneymoneymoneymoneymoney — £230, in fact. Jauntily named phone flogger MobileFun is the first to offer the Taiwanese company’s …

Kids today typically get their first phone at the age of 7, according to new figures. Mobile Phone Checker‘s survey asked around 1,000 parents about the mobile habits of their children, discovering that most parents issue mobile phones to their offspring for safety reasons. Telecoms watchdog Ofcom recently found in a wider survey that anklebiters tend to get their first …

Virgin Mobile has undergone a brand refresh, with the new strategy focusing on the telco’s connection to the entire Virgin “family” of products and services. Virgin Mobile’s tweaked logo. (Credit: Virgin) This refresh has included a redesigned logo and a new “Irresistible Plan”, costing AU$140 per month. For that, customers will receive unlimited local calls and SMSes, AU$200 worth of …

Sony’s next smart phone will be frighteningly thin and painted a royal purple — if a leaked promo image is anything to go by. The image above, which was spied by XperiaBlog and surfaced at Chinese-language site digi-wo.com, appears to be a teaser for a new Sony smart phone. The date on the graphic teases a 4 September reveal in …

T-Mobile executives said the long-awaited iPhone helped boost subscriber growth in the second quarter of 2013. But it played only a small role in the overall success in attracting new customers and retaining old ones. During its earnings call with investors and analysts, T-Mobile executives said the company sold 900,000 iPhones during the second quarter. This accounted for 29 percent …

In the late 1980s and early 1990s tablets and electronic ink were going to be the next big thing, supplanting the keyboard with a stylus for the natural act of writing and drawing with your hands. There was the GridPad, Momenta Pentop, Apple Newton, EO Personal Communicator, Go Corp. PenPoint OS and the original IBM Thinkpad. They all rather quickly …

Archos is preparing to unveil no less than a dozen new Android devices at the annual IFA conference in early September. Related stories: Archos throws hat into Android smartphone ring Archos ChefPad tablet: Now you’re cooking with Android Simplifying Archos’ set of Elements tablets According to an (.PDF) detailing the company’s first half 2013 earnings, Archos will soon introduce five …

The Voco V-Spot is an audio/streamer and now accepts lossless Murfie streams. Voco For audiophiles and music fans, the dream of a lossless streaming service has been tantalizingly out of reach for some time. While Neil Young talked big about his still-mysterious Pono audio format, the closest we’ve had to a “true” hi-fi service is Spotify. That is until this …

Amazon is making it a bit easier for Web developers to bring their applications to mobile devices. The company on Wednesday announced that its Appstore now supports HTML5 Web apps. According to Amazon, Web developers can port their Web apps directly to Amazon’s Appstore without any additional coding. From there, the application is made available to Kindle Fire and Android …

PCs and laptops are at “make or break point” in the UK as sales continue to plummet, hitting nearly three years of freefall. That’s according to industry watcher Gartner, which records consumer sales of desktop PCs and laptops declining by a quarter this spring. In total, British PC shipments fell by 13 per cent between April and June — the …