There are many reasons to enjoy Wi-Fi calling, from starting video chats with family far and wide, to giving your old phone a new lease on life as a Wi-Fi-only device in little Johnny’s hands. However you want to use it, you still need to know which apps are best. There are quite a few …

Apple could be cooking up a dirt-cheap iPhone that would be perfectly at home in Action Man’s attack helicopter, if fresh rumours are to be believed. The rumoured budget iPhone is going to be made mostly from plastic, iLounge reports, citing “reliable sources”. Take any Apple rumours with a pinch or two of salt, but the article does detail purported design …

Binary suns have set on the planned 3D re-releases of Star Wars: Episode II and Episode III, with Lucasfilm saying it will focus instead on honing the JJ Abrams-directed Episode VII. 3D versions of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were due to be released this year, following last year’s 3D-altered Phantom Menace. Now, however, those rehashes …

Smart phones are getting bigger, there’s no denying it — but what if you don’t want a device that’s too big for your pocket? Buy a smaller phone? No, don’t be silly; HTC has a much better idea. The Taiwanese company has started bundling a second, smaller phone, named the HTC Mini, with its 5-inch Butterfly mobile in China, Unwired …

A new Samsung device has just shown up over at the FCC — the Federal Communications Commission, the bods responsible for greenlighting tech for sale in the US — and it could well be the Galaxy Note 8.0, Engadget reports. The device’s product code matches up with one spotted by SamMobile last year, which pegged the screen size as somewhere …

If you walked into a high street phone shop and asked which mobile was right for you, what do you think they’d recommend? The iPhone 5? Value-packed Nexus 4? Well the Samsung Galaxy S3 is the phone most recommended by British shops, along with the Galaxy Note 2, according to a survey carried out by Informa Telecoms and Media, the …

RIM is pulling out all the stops for the upcoming launch of its BB10 operating system. It’s punted out a press release saying it’ll be advertising the new OS during the Super Bowl, which is a pretty pricey spot to buy, from what I hear. The press release hints a BB10 tablet could be on the way as well. So …

LAS VEGAS — Alec Saunders needed a little bait. Soon after Saunders took over the developer relations team, he asked Research In Motion’s then co-CEO Mike Lazaridis in October 2011 for 25,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. When Lazaridis asked why, Saunders said he intended to give them away. “His jaw just dropped to the floor,” Saunders told CNET. “He stood there …

A price has popped up for one of the first handsets to arrive running RIM’s BB10 operating system. The Z10 will cost £479.95 SIM-free, according to what seems to be a leak from the Carphone Warehouse database, Engadget reports. The product code BLAZ10WHI matches a previous leak from the high street giant. If correct, it’s £30 cheaper than a 16GB …

Part of the iPad mini‘s appeal is its simplicity — just switch it on and go — but there’s plemty more to explore if you dig a little deeper. Whether you’ve treated yourself to a new iPad mini or came across one underneath the Christmas tree, you should find these tricks and tools useful in helping you get more out …