By 2014, Android will have stormed past BlackBerry OS and Apple’s iOS in terms of market share, becoming the second most popular mobile operating system behind Symbian, according to research firm IDC. IDC predicts Android’s market share will have grown by 51.2 per cent by 2014. As shown in the chart above, BlackBerry OS’ market share is expected to …

The HTC Desire HD, the iPhone 4 and the Nokia N8. We love the ones we own, and we badly want the ones we don’t. But which is best? In this three-way mobile mash-up we’ll be determining which of these smart phone behemoths deserves to wear the Imperial Sash of Victory. (Note: Imperial Sash of Victory not a real award, …

Samsung’s upcoming GT-i8700 handset, which runs Windows Phone 7, has been captured in a YouTube video. The video of the handset, which may eventually be called the Omnia 7, in accordance with the titles of Samsung’s previous Windows Mobile devices, runs for 13 minutes. There’s no sound, but you can see Windows Phone 7 in action, together with a demonstration of how the phone’s camera …

If you’ve bitten your fingernails to the quick waiting for the Nokia N8 to be released, then cut your digits some slack — the phone is now available to buy on the Finnish company’s website. The N8 goes on general release in the UK on 22 October, but you can buy it now from Nokia’s website SIM-free for £429. The website is also offering the phone …

Android’s incredible year continues, with sales from July to September making Android the world’s second most popular smart phone OS, catching up fast to Symbian in the number one spot. Android has cornered a quarter (25.5 per cent) of the world’s smart phone market, according to a worldwide smart phone sales report. It rocketed past iOS and BlackBerry in third …

Apple has made the lost-phone-locating service, Find My iPhone, available for free. Has it killed the £60-per-year Mobile Me service in the process? Apple updated the software for its mobile devices this week with iOS 4.2. At the same time, it made Find My iPhone free to anyone with an iPhone 4, iPad or a 4th generation iPod touch. Find My iPhone …

There’s only one way to settle this tablet question: fiiiight! The HP TouchPad has arrived, and that’s all the excuse we need to hurl it into pitched battle with the reigning champeen, the Apple iPad, and the hotly anticipated Motorola Xoom. This is obviously only a comparison based on first impressions, as it’s still very early days for the TouchPad …

Could the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 let you mix and match operators according to your location, making them true world-roaming devices? That’s what we’re wondering after finding out that the new Verizon iPhone 4 includes Qualcomm’s MDM6600 Gobi chip. Why? Let us explain. Apple is famously unwilling to cough up too much information on which chips are inside its …

Apple smashed through the 10 billion downloads mark for its App Store this weekend, and one lucky Brit played a key role in its magic milestone. Gail Davis, of Orpington, Kent, was the lucky iOS user who bagged the 10 billionth download, earning herself a $10,000 iTunes voucher. What’s more, the game she downloaded — Paper Glider — is the …

The big feature of this year’s iPhone and iPad updates may be Near Field Communication payments, according to the Envisioneering Group, a US consultancy. Its director, Richard Doherty, assured Bloomberg he’d been chatting to engineers who are working on the project. One of the key uses for NFC is to pay for real-world goods and services by touching a device …