T-Mobile has slotted the spangly new HTC Desire HD in near the top of its pyramid of mobile excellence, offering the Android 2.2 phone free on a hefty 24-month, £40 contract. If you don’t want to be stuck with it for that long, UK online retailer Mobile Fun is offering a SIM-free HTC Desire HD …

Samsung Electronics is expected to officially launch its new Android-based tablet PC on Thursday evening at an event in New York, likely naming three of the four major wireless operators in the United States as carrier partners. Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel had all reached agreements with Samsung to offer the …

One of the features that sets the Samsung Galaxy S smartphones apart from the sea of other Android phones is Media Hub–a gateway to downloading movies and TV shows to your phone. Unfortunately, the service wasn’t quite ready for prime time when the phones launched, but that’s about to change. At a press event in Manhattan today, Samsung announced that …

FetchTV’s SmartBox 8000 has the potential to change the way we watch TV. Not only is it a traditional Freeview PVR, it’s also one of the first boxes to offer Sky Player without the need for a laptop or Xbox 360. The box also allows access to BBC iPlayer, one of the first Freeview PVRs to offer this service. The …

Sky has announced three limited edition Sky+HD boxes. Designed by Wayne Hemingway, Gerald Scarfe and Phil Daniels, the 1TB HD+ PVRs celebrate the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup. Red or Dead head fashion designer Wayne Hemingway harks back to 1966 with his box, celebrating England’s only World Cup win. Illustrator Gerald Scarfe gives us a characteristically creepy football-headed fan, also …

When it comes to Nokia, I think my CNET colleague Stephen Shankland said it best in his article here: “It is hard to ignore the paradox at Nokia’s global partner and developer conference: the company sells more smartphones than anyone else in the industry but is fighting for its life.” If you take a look at the situation in the …

The rumours are true — a version of the HTC Desire with a Qwerty keyboard is being launched, and it’s got a Z in its name. The phone that started the HTC Android revolution — the G1 — had a Qwerty keyboard, and it returns with the HTC Desire Z. A ‘pop hinge’ opens the phone up and reveals it. …

We’ve teamed up with Vodafone to offer you a chance to win one of our favourite phones of the year, the HTC Desire. Winner of a CNET UK Editors’ Choice award, the Desire is the current champion of Android smart phones. With a 94mm (3.7-inch) capacitive touchscreen and 1GHz processor, it’s powerful enough to handle anything you can throw at …

Hot on the heels of the introduction of the Nokia E7, C7, and C6-01, Nokia announced a fourth device on Wednesday called the Nokia C3 Touch and Type. Sporting a design similar to the Nokia 6300, the Series 40 device features both a 2.4-inch touch screen and traditional keypad, all in a stainless steel case. The candy-bar-style handset also comes …

The HTC Desire HD has been launched, the eagerly awaited update to the original Desire, just as we predicted last month. It turns out the leak of the HTC Desire HD and Qwerty keyboard-toting HTC Desire Z in August was bang on, with the devices announced in London along with an update of HTC Sense. The HTC Desire HD has …