Samsung’s Ultra HDTV set, with its iconic style revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), will be priced in Korea at the equivalent of AU$36,000. Samsung’s TV on stage at CES 2013. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET Australia) They say “give an inch, take a mile”. In Samsung’s case, it’s “give an inch, add US$12,000”. The Ultra …

Remember that hard-hitting, fast-shooting, comic strip police detective Dick Tracy, who wore the wrist watch with a two-way radio? Now you can be like Dick Tracy too with your own smartwatch that lets you answer phone calls and keep track of how far you’ve walked. OK, I’ll admit I am far too young to remember when Dick Tracy sported his …

Are you the proud owner of a new iPhone 5? Or perhaps a slightly used iPhone 4? Heck, maybe you scored an unlocked 3GS on eBay. Whatever the case, you need apps. Ah, but which ones? Apple’s App Store is home to some 80 gazillion, I believe, and if you’re new to the iOS universe, you may have some trouble …

Cheapness will “never be the future of Apple products” — apparently putting paid to rumours of a cheaper iPhone or iPhone mini. Speaking to the Shanghai Evening News, Apple’s marketing boss Phil Schiller ruled out the possibility of a cheap phone from the Californian company. A budget version of the iPhone is heavily rumoured. The iPhone 5S or iPhone mini or …

Are you having problems with your BlackBerry? Some BlackBerry users today saw services cut off for a number of hours — and it’s all Vodafone’s fault. Vodafone owns up to a router error causing the problem, which is reported to have lasted around 5 hours and affected an unknown number of BlackBerry users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. …

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 so you can watch movies, …

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 …